The Herald reports that Dunedin artist Simon Richardson has won a lucrative international grant.
Category: Art
The artist who created a stir with his nude portrait of All Black Anton Oliver has won a lucrative international grant.
New Zealand rugby, which prefers its top players to be stoic and reserved, has been shaken by news former All Blacks captain Anton Oliver has posed nude for an oil portrait.
Simon Richardson is something of an anomaly in today’s artistic climate. In deciding to bypass the abstract in favour of realism, this young painter- a man seemingly unaffected by todays artistic trends- has blazed a trail that seperates him from the majority of his art school-trained peers.
A New painting of one of the country’s literary greats Hone Tuwhare, will be exhibited in Dunedin next month.
“Not 21st century enough” was how Simon Richardson felt in the company of his peers and tutors at Otago Polytechnic School of Art in the 1990s.
Months of painting alone were rewarded when Dunedin artist Simon Richardson won the 15th annual Mainland Art Awards on Saturday night.
The Shining star in this weeks line up is Simon Richardson whose works are now showing at the Marshall Seifert Annex.
Young Artist Simon Richardson has received international recognition twice in the past year but he is still struggling for support in New Zealand.