Simon Richardson’s first exhibition in New Zealand for almost a decade, Southern Gothic, at Milford Galleries in Dunedin has finished earlier this month. It includes “Mila” which was chosen for the BP Portrait Award exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London .
Category: Art
Broad Bay artist Simon Richardson is looking forward to seeing some of America’s great works of art in Washington and New York after receiving a $12,500 Canadian grant for the second time in eight years.
Dunedin Artist Simon Richardson has won a $5000 US Scholarship to attend the New York Graduate School of Figurative Art.
Inspired by the work of Michelangelo and the Dutch old masters, a young Dunedin artist is making the grade as a new master of the art of portrait painting.
Dunedin artist Simon Richardson’s portrait of his seven-year-old daughter Mila is believed to be the first by a New Zealander to be chosen for the BP Portrait Award exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London.
A Broad Bay artist who painted former All Black Anton Oliver in the nude has had a portrait chosen for a prestigious art exhibition.
Encouraged by Grahame Sydney, Simon Richardson opted for solid observation over fashionable conceptual art and is now a sought-after portraitist.
Dunedin’s Chinese Garden provides the background to former mayor Peter Chin’s portrait, a choice Broad Bay artist Simon Richardson said indicated something about Dunedin’s former leader.
It was four years ago when former All Black Anton Oliver was struck by a painting of a cup of tea and a piece of toast by Dunedin artist Simon Richardson.
An announcement that Broad Bay artist Simon Richardson has been approached to paint Dunedin Mayor Peter Chin’s official portrait can only lead to one question: Will he be depicted nude?