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From Archibald to Argentina

Source: The Weekend Australian Financial Review
by Katrina Strickland 28-29 November 2009

Craig Ruddy fled the controversy over his Gulpilil portrait to find inspiration in South America, writes Katrina Strickland
William Dobell retreated to his sisters farm on Lake Macquarie in the mid-1940s after the infamous court battle over whether his 1943 Archibald Prize winning portrait of fellow artist Joshua Smith was a portrait or a caricature....sixty years later another artist, Craig Ruddy, was taken to court over his 2004 Archibald prize-winning portrait of actor David Gulpilil, this time weather it was a painting or a drawing.

... I wanted to capture the beauty of the environment but also the danger, poverty and struggle in Rio, where people say you need 10 eyes in the back of your head.
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Impressive portrait of a £10 Pom

Source: The Sydney Morning Herald
by Lynne Cairncross October 15, 2009

Fred Cress, 1938-2009.
Fred Cress arrived in Melbourne in 1962, one of many migrants who chose to take up the £10 fare to Australia. In Britain he had worked as an art teacher, a tennis coach and a guitar player in a band, the Sutton Chicago Jazz Group. He had a passion for fast cars, and it was on one wet and miserable night, when he wrapped one of those cars around a light pole, that he first had visions of Australia and playing tennis in the sunshine.

Pictured right, signing 'Bluffers' at his Annandale studio.
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Sydney's Design Leaders enjoy a colourful evening at Berkeley Editions

Source: Newsletter
by Janise Beaumont November 2008

The clever use of colour is of course at the heart of both great art and great style - and these two worlds came together last week, at a night hosted jointly by Berkeley Editions and the Design Institute of Australia (DIA).

Right: Elisabeth VanDyk and Karinna Gobbo of the Design Institute of Australia (NSW), artist Craig Ruddy and Robyn Berkeley of Berkeley Editions.
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