Directors Iain Knight and Nick Garner
Score 4/6

Looby is the story of what happens when an artist chooses to speak out. For Australian painter Keith Looby, it cost him almost everything. Winner of prestigious art prizes and collected by major galleries at home and abroad, Keith’s addiction to speaking his mind has left a string of failed business relationships, marriages and friendships. Bludgeoned into coherence by the film-makers, assessed by dealers, curators, critics and fellow artists, Looby is a chance to look at a brilliant artist who had his moment in the sun, and to ask whether he should have another.

I am not entirely if I would be able to speak intelligently about an artist like Keith Looby, considering that until I watched this documentary, I had never heard of him and that’s it been more then a few years since I have last been in an art gallery and as far as I know I have never come across any of his artwork. While I was watching Looby I noted that I was not sure what to make of his artwork. While I am sitting here writing my review I’m still not sure what to make of his work, though I would like to note that of his work that was featured in the documentary where the portraits he did in his pursuit of the Archibald prize and his Black and white history of Australia drawings. I would also like to note that the drawing of Tim Storrier although it was disrespectful the drawing seemed to be an Australian thing to do from a tall poppy perspective.
What I enjoyed about watching Looby was the history lesson that the filmmakers gave about Keith Looby.