Hazel Dooney isn’t for everybody and that’s what I always liked about her.
– Wired.com, USA, 2012
…her work has become some of Australia’s most coveted. At once confronting, thought-provoking and unabashedly voyeuristic, her works flirt between the genres of pop, punk, erotica and just a hint of manga.
– Map, Australia, 2011
Her work… has been the cause of much controversy, and her outspoken persona and direct involvement often blur the line between artist and art.
– Stated, USA, 2011
Hazel personifies an alluring, punk rock, mischievous, genius artist… She is the outsider that everyone wants to be connected with.
– Obvious Magazine, USA, 2011
Her provocative work has captured the attention of many of the trendsetters of our time. The subject matter is intensely sexual yet it evokes a kind of girlie openness that is refreshing. Nothing about her work or her nature is compromised. The work is pivotal and it strikes a chord within the viewer and makes them succumb to an inner dialogue with themselves… Her art is a deep conversation of the roots of emotion, of memory, of passion and the exploration of the human body.
– Obvious Magazine, USA, 2011
Hazel Dooney grabs life by the shoulders and headbutts it… She is utterly uncompromising.
– The Zone, from The Age, Australia, 2010
I cannot imagine exposing myself in this way. The subjective and conceptual experience she shares with the audience is very powerful.
– Fitzroyalty, Australia, 2008
Hard-edge, erotic Pop meets Tank Girl.
– Gaping Void, USA, 2008
Dooney has both extraordinary depth as an artist and a sound painterly technique.
– Vogue Australia, Australia, 2007
Hazel Dooney walks the razor’s edge between respect and celebrity in today’s artworld.
– Australian Financial Review, Australia, 2006
Hazel Dooney found considerable commercial success early in her career with self-portraits rendered in tight graphic lines and highly charged colours. With a strong nod to pop art, these works were very much about surface… With her current show, however, Dooney has ripped the surface asunder, revealing a troubled and troubling potpourri of psychological self-investigation and an obsessive fascination with arcane ritual.
- The Sunday Age’s Preview, Australia, 2006
These works carry the subversive and slick trademarks of contemporary consumer culture. Her work comes across as an intense exploration of personal eroticism filtered through a candy-coloured palette.
– The Sunday Age’s Agenda, Australia, 2004
Peter Booth, Hazel Dooney… Jeffrey Smart are all members of a select breed of artist who, for the benefit of all concerned, cast a somewhat critical and even destructive eye over their artwork. These artists do not turn out bad art.
– The Weekend Australian, Australia, 2003