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Ken Done

May 2022

  • artist Ken Done in his studio

    The very nice Ken Done: ‘I’ll never be as good as a five-year-old’

    The Australian artist’s relationship with Sydney only deepened during lockdown. He hopes his Vivid festival debut will remind the city how to play

October 2017

  • Indian journey, 2011, oil and acrylic on board, 92 x 122cm I've been fortunate enough to be travelling most of my life. Nowhere do you find the patterns and colours as vivid and as dramatic as India. This painting comes from my memory of a number of sari-clad women, walking into an elaborate temple.

    Ken Done: the paintings you probably haven't seen – in pictures

    Done’s more recent work shows his practice continues to develop – but his love of colour, beaches and the ocean has remained a constant

March 2016

  • Chinamans in Summer (1987). Ken Done: A Life Coloured In, released on 21 March, is an impressionistic and exuberant memoir by one of Australia's best-loved artists.

    'Art to eat with your eyes': Ken Done on 10 of his artworks – in pictures

  • Ken Done on his book A Life Coloured In: ‘It’s a memoir; it’s not a confessional.’

    Ken Done: sell-out, one-hit wonder, or Australia’s most underrated artist?

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