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For Art's Sake - Grahame Sydney
Television (Full Length) – 1996
It's really a process of images creeping up on me and reminding me that they are there, worthy of consideration...– Artist Grahame Sydney on choosing his subject matter
I couldn’t possibly live elsewhere. Today is grey — a dull day — but normally it is beautiful. We live with the Hawkduns on one horizon — that’s the signature range for me – and I built here so I could see them every day. Mount St Bathans is to the north, with its head in the clouds at the moment. It is like living in a theatre.– Listener interview with Grahame Sydney at his remote Otago home, 20 May 2017
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