By the time Kevin “Pro” Hart died in 2006, he had become Australia’s most commercially successful artist, proclaimed “The Father of the Australian Outback Art Movement”, was a famous TV commercial star. Yet Pro Hart was never accepted by the art establishment; to this day, his work has still not been hung in Australia’s National Gallery.Why would an artist collected by Kings and Queens, by movie stars, even by presidents, who was awarded the MBE and considered the father of an entire art movement be dismissed by the art world at large? Perhaps it was his populist artistic style and…
Author: Matt Ferro
First a word from our sponsor, Time: In every sense, filmmaking is all about time. Not just the time it takes to conceptualize, write, pitch, fund, produce and release a film, let alone the time it’s taken me to get this article to CWB…no, I mean Time in its most abstract state of self. There is no single definition for time that isn’t fuzzy and indefinite. Even the word “indefinite” seems to pop up in many of these definitions. A bit circular, really…but if we accept that events happen in the universe with or without us–that things are constantly changing…