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News
On the way to an ambush is now a 40-image exhibition, May 1 - July 31, 2008, at War Photo Ltd, Dubrovnik, Croatia (www.warphotoltd.com) . . . see NEWS |
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Thoughts
On the way to and from Singapore late last year, I spent time in Sydney, where, on Thursday evening, November 29, 2007, I attended the opening, at the well-regarded Sherman Galleries, of an exhibition of the latest work by Australian artist, Shaun Gladwell - his video work Storm Sequence (left) was in Robert Storr’s exhibition at the 2007 Venice Biennale. Elton John was at the Sherman Galleries opening. Earlier in the week, I’m told, he had bought much of the work. Panic spread, and people began telephoning the gallery to find out whether there was anything left. A good friend, who left the well-attended opening early and missed Elton, sent a text explaining he had heard Elton was wearing “track pants and a helmet of hair”, which was a fair description. I could have touched him, but he had four bodyguards. Elton also bought a wad of New Zealand artist Laurence Aberhart's magnificent and important northern churches series, and, I'm told too, he scrambled ravenously through Kaliman Gallery's stock room.
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