SUBSCRIBE FOR THE LATEST EXHIBITIONS, NEWS, INTERVIEWS AND HAPPENINGS INSIDE THE ART GALLERY OF NSW. http://bit.ly/SubscribeAGNSWFor information visit http:/...

Jenny Sages - encaustic artist

A SELF-portrait by Sydney artist Jenny Sages which reveals her intense grief after losing her husband of 55 years has today won the People's Choice in the Archibald Prize at the Art Gallery of NSW.

Jenny Sages made these drawings as she sat with Emily Kngwarreye and her friend Lily under their 'talking tree'. Emily thought Jenny was as old as she was, and Sages recalls that they sat and talked 'as two 83-year-olds do'. The fifteen works in the series, recording the changing expressions on the Anmatyerre woman's face and her shifts between lively and impassive postures, work together like the storyboard of a film of Emily Kngwarreye. Caption: Sarah Engledow, National Portrait Gallery

Visit the post for more.

Jenny Sages’s beloved husband, Jack Sages, died on 1 October 2010. ‘For our 55-year marriage I was his woman and he facilitated my need to work in every possible way,’ she says.

The exhibition Sages examines the process of portrait making through four large-scale portraits of women by Jenny Sages, paired with intimate preparatory drawings.

Jenny Sages made these drawings as she sat with Emily Kngwarreye and her friend Lily under their 'talking tree'. Emily thought Jenny was as old as she was, and Sages recalls that they sat and talked 'as two 83-year-olds do'. The fifteen works in the series, recording the changing expressions on the Anmatyerre woman's face and her shifts between lively and impassive postures, work together like the storyboard of a film of Emily Kngwarreye. Caption: Sarah Engledow, National Portrait Gallery

jenny sages

Kate Grenville (b. 1950), novelist, studied in Sydney and worked as a film editor before spending several years in the UK and Europe, where she began to write. After completing an MA in creative writing at the University of Colorado, she returned to Australia in 1983 and worked at SBS Television’s subtitling unit. In 1984 she published the collection of stories Bearded Ladies. Her novels Lilian's Story (1985) – loosely based on the life of Bea Miles – and Dreamhouse (1986) were both made…

Gloria Tamere Petyarre is an acclaimed artist. She was born around 1938 on Atnangker land 270 kilometres north-east of Alice Springs where her father and grandfather were born.

jenny sages

Anthony Hopkins has painted and drawn all his life and exhibits regularly in Sydney and New York. ‘He sees and feels lights and colour in his head, translating them into organic shapes that ultimately become luminous works of art on paper,’ says Jenny Sages.