Perth artist Straker paints murals that look like fluorescent light installations.

https://allthoseshapes.com/straker_graffiti_street-art/

She deserves a thread of her own.

Brilliant!

Visited the Kandinsky exhibition at the Art Galley of NSW the other day. Here are a few examples…

Now make it anamorphic and that’ll really screw with people’s minds.

This exists

dv said:

This exists

That’s one sick puppy.

dv said:

This exists

I don’t think it can reproduce though.

Ken I pet that DAWG

dv said:

Ken I pet that DAWG

LOL.

dv said:

This exists

Where?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m88kgA7rGsU

dv said:

This exists

Talking of things that look weird …

dv said:

This exists

Talking of things that look weird …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJVLyuk2cxI
That mongrel Turner, don’t get me started on Turner , the wastrel.

sarahs mum said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m88kgA7rGsU

Yeah.

We didn’t say anthropomorphic;

Found these salt and pepper shakers

https://www.kullillaart.com.au/warlukurlangu-aboriginal-art-fine-bone-china-salt

Tau.Neutrino said:

Found these salt and pepper shakers

https://www.kullillaart.com.au/warlukurlangu-aboriginal-art-fine-bone-china-salt

Ta, the ex-Ross sister might like those.

https://www.beesbellsandwhistles.com.au/products/alperstein-teddy-gibson-salt-pepper-set

Bubblecar said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Found these salt and pepper shakers

https://www.kullillaart.com.au/warlukurlangu-aboriginal-art-fine-bone-china-salt

Ta, the ex-Ross sister might like those.

Very colourful.

“Late Night” a woodcut made by Attri Chetan from India.
Late Night
Woodcut on Paper
23.5 × 14.5 inches

sarahs mum said:

“Late Night” a woodcut made by Attri Chetan from India.
Late Night
Woodcut on Paper
23.5 × 14.5 inches

That’s pleasing.

Despite being heralded as a visionary of Australian art, Clarice Beckett led a small life. She never married, caring for her invalid mother in the Bayside suburb of Beaumaris before her premature death at age forty-eight. Posthumously, her father destroyed 200 of her works that he considered unfinished or “not good enough”. The remaining 2000 were stored in an open-sided shed near Benalla, only to be discovered decades later; by then only 379 were salvageable, the rest laid to rest by bad weather and possums. For critic John McDonald, this was “among the great disasters of Australian art history”.
Indeed, Beckett’s work represents some of the most poignant in Australia’s art canon. Favouring early morning and evening, she painted Melbourne’s suburbs as though they contained a universe of meaning. Works like ‘Bay Road, Beaumaris’ are hazy and immediate – a reflection of how it feels to succumb to one’s senses. While aesthetically minimal, a metaphysical dimension lingers, a quiet depth of feeling that is nothing short of miraculous.
In 2021, the Art Gallery of South Australia held a major retrospective of Beckett’s work. McDonald visited three times, irrevocably moved. He wrote that if the same exhibition was at the Tate Modern or the Museum of Modern Art, Beckett would be “hailed as a figure of world renown”. If only it wasn’t for her family disapproval. What her work teaches however, in its assiduous reverence of the everyday, is that dignity exists even in the smallest lives. She caught the eternal in the temporal.
Clarice BECKETT (1887 – 1935)
‘Bay Road, Beaumaris’
screenprint on paper
Edition of 75
Image Size: 50 × 65 cm
Dimensions: 56 × 76 cm
Signed: Titled and editioned below image; inscribed with Clarice Beckett Images seal

sarahs mum said:

Despite being heralded as a visionary of Australian art, Clarice Beckett led a small life. She never married, caring for her invalid mother in the Bayside suburb of Beaumaris before her premature death at age forty-eight. Posthumously, her father destroyed 200 of her works that he considered unfinished or “not good enough”. The remaining 2000 were stored in an open-sided shed near Benalla, only to be discovered decades later; by then only 379 were salvageable, the rest laid to rest by bad weather and possums. For critic John McDonald, this was “among the great disasters of Australian art history”.
Indeed, Beckett’s work represents some of the most poignant in Australia’s art canon. Favouring early morning and evening, she painted Melbourne’s suburbs as though they contained a universe of meaning. Works like ‘Bay Road, Beaumaris’ are hazy and immediate – a reflection of how it feels to succumb to one’s senses. While aesthetically minimal, a metaphysical dimension lingers, a quiet depth of feeling that is nothing short of miraculous.
In 2021, the Art Gallery of South Australia held a major retrospective of Beckett’s work. McDonald visited three times, irrevocably moved. He wrote that if the same exhibition was at the Tate Modern or the Museum of Modern Art, Beckett would be “hailed as a figure of world renown”. If only it wasn’t for her family disapproval. What her work teaches however, in its assiduous reverence of the everyday, is that dignity exists even in the smallest lives. She caught the eternal in the temporal.
Clarice BECKETT (1887 – 1935)
‘Bay Road, Beaumaris’
screenprint on paper
Edition of 75
Image Size: 50 × 65 cm
Dimensions: 56 × 76 cm
Signed: Titled and editioned below image; inscribed with Clarice Beckett Images seal

sarahs mum said:

Despite being heralded as a visionary of Australian art, Clarice Beckett led a small life. She never married, caring for her invalid mother in the Bayside suburb of Beaumaris before her premature death at age forty-eight. Posthumously, her father destroyed 200 of her works that he considered unfinished or “not good enough”. The remaining 2000 were stored in an open-sided shed near Benalla, only to be discovered decades later; by then only 379 were salvageable, the rest laid to rest by bad weather and possums. For critic John McDonald, this was “among the great disasters of Australian art history”.
Indeed, Beckett’s work represents some of the most poignant in Australia’s art canon. Favouring early morning and evening, she painted Melbourne’s suburbs as though they contained a universe of meaning. Works like ‘Bay Road, Beaumaris’ are hazy and immediate – a reflection of how it feels to succumb to one’s senses. While aesthetically minimal, a metaphysical dimension lingers, a quiet depth of feeling that is nothing short of miraculous.
In 2021, the Art Gallery of South Australia held a major retrospective of Beckett’s work. McDonald visited three times, irrevocably moved. He wrote that if the same exhibition was at the Tate Modern or the Museum of Modern Art, Beckett would be “hailed as a figure of world renown”. If only it wasn’t for her family disapproval. What her work teaches however, in its assiduous reverence of the everyday, is that dignity exists even in the smallest lives. She caught the eternal in the temporal.
Clarice BECKETT (1887 – 1935)
‘Bay Road, Beaumaris’
screenprint on paper
Edition of 75
Image Size: 50 × 65 cm
Dimensions: 56 × 76 cm
Signed: Titled and editioned below image; inscribed with Clarice Beckett Images seal

She did some very atmospheric work. Such a pity that much was lost.

Jusepe de Ribera, Acrobats on a High Wire, c. 1634-35, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid.

You know who didn’t fail Expressive Arts?

Hayley Welsh, who has created a nice mural near here, some 70 metres long.

Sorry for the poor photography, it’s in an alley and the lighting is variable but it looks cool IRL.

Sally Rees
19 h ·
I’ve posted several times about luciennerickard and her ‘Extinction Studies’ project that has been taking place in the TMAG foyer for the last 4 years. On a large piece of paper (3 sheets across the last four years) she has repeatedly drawn an endangered species endemic to Tasmania (with exquisite skill and considerable labour) and then erased it. I admire this project a great deal and Lucienne as an artist and human very much. Today the project ended. Across the last week. as a change from the usual single monolithic creature, Lucienne had rendered 100 Red Handfish. The Precise number known to be left. And in another routine change, understandably weary of showing us through literal action how things disappear, those present were invited to help erase them. It was an emotional time with many tears of genuine sorrow shed (*raises hand* guilty) and a great deal of love and gratitude for the artist, her eloquence and her stamina. Arthur and I name most of the animals we encounter, and as I wiped out the tail of my chosen fish I realised, for my kid, I should give it a name. I may have misgendered this fish but I called her ‘Joyce’ and then she was gone. Thank you so much to Luc, Penny Clive who commissioned this work and to tasmuseum for hosting it all this time. And thanks dear @saintgabbee for catching me working the eraser (and having a grizzle).

sarahs mum said:

Sally Rees
19 h ·
I’ve posted several times about luciennerickard and her ‘Extinction Studies’ project that has been taking place in the TMAG foyer for the last 4 years. On a large piece of paper (3 sheets across the last four years) she has repeatedly drawn an endangered species endemic to Tasmania (with exquisite skill and considerable labour) and then erased it. I admire this project a great deal and Lucienne as an artist and human very much. Today the project ended. Across the last week. as a change from the usual single monolithic creature, Lucienne had rendered 100 Red Handfish. The Precise number known to be left. And in another routine change, understandably weary of showing us through literal action how things disappear, those present were invited to help erase them. It was an emotional time with many tears of genuine sorrow shed (*raises hand* guilty) and a great deal of love and gratitude for the artist, her eloquence and her stamina. Arthur and I name most of the animals we encounter, and as I wiped out the tail of my chosen fish I realised, for my kid, I should give it a name. I may have misgendered this fish but I called her ‘Joyce’ and then she was gone. Thank you so much to Luc, Penny Clive who commissioned this work and to tasmuseum for hosting it all this time. And thanks dear @saintgabbee for catching me working the eraser (and having a grizzle).

Certainly a shame having to rub out those drawings, but I suppose that’s the point.

Bubblecar said:

sarahs mum said:

Sally Rees
19 h ·
I’ve posted several times about luciennerickard and her ‘Extinction Studies’ project that has been taking place in the TMAG foyer for the last 4 years. On a large piece of paper (3 sheets across the last four years) she has repeatedly drawn an endangered species endemic to Tasmania (with exquisite skill and considerable labour) and then erased it. I admire this project a great deal and Lucienne as an artist and human very much. Today the project ended. Across the last week. as a change from the usual single monolithic creature, Lucienne had rendered 100 Red Handfish. The Precise number known to be left. And in another routine change, understandably weary of showing us through literal action how things disappear, those present were invited to help erase them. It was an emotional time with many tears of genuine sorrow shed (*raises hand* guilty) and a great deal of love and gratitude for the artist, her eloquence and her stamina. Arthur and I name most of the animals we encounter, and as I wiped out the tail of my chosen fish I realised, for my kid, I should give it a name. I may have misgendered this fish but I called her ‘Joyce’ and then she was gone. Thank you so much to Luc, Penny Clive who commissioned this work and to tasmuseum for hosting it all this time. And thanks dear @saintgabbee for catching me working the eraser (and having a grizzle).

Certainly a shame having to rub out those drawings, but I suppose that’s the point.

Like those ornate sand sculptures.

Monotype, 44cm x 61cm, Akua ink on Hahnemuhle paper

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I’ve been thinking about monotypes and wondering if I should not waste some paper and do some. But then all that work for just one print is what puts me off. Why not just paint?

sarahs mum said:

Monotype, 44cm x 61cm, Akua ink on Hahnemuhle paper

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I’ve been thinking about monotypes and wondering if I should not waste some paper and do some. But then all that work for just one print is what puts me off. Why not just paint?

The fence is good.

Peak Warming Man said:

sarahs mum said:

Monotype, 44cm x 61cm, Akua ink on Hahnemuhle paper

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I’ve been thinking about monotypes and wondering if I should not waste some paper and do some. But then all that work for just one print is what puts me off. Why not just paint?

The fence is good.

I was thinking the fence is awful tricky.

sarahs mum said:

Monotype, 44cm x 61cm, Akua ink on Hahnemuhle paper

——

I’ve been thinking about monotypes and wondering if I should not waste some paper and do some. But then all that work for just one print is what puts me off. Why not just paint?

Whose work is that?

Actually reminds me of one of the views over the fence outside the old cottage at South Mole Creek, perched just above where the karst valley really dips.

Bubblecar said:

sarahs mum said:

Monotype, 44cm x 61cm, Akua ink on Hahnemuhle paper

——

I’ve been thinking about monotypes and wondering if I should not waste some paper and do some. But then all that work for just one print is what puts me off. Why not just paint?

Whose work is that?

Actually reminds me of one of the views over the fence outside the old cottage at South Mole Creek, perched just above where the karst valley really dips.

Nigel Gray. I do not know of them.

Apparently the sky was wiped back with crushed tissue paper.

sarahs mum said:

Bubblecar said:

sarahs mum said:

Monotype, 44cm x 61cm, Akua ink on Hahnemuhle paper

——

I’ve been thinking about monotypes and wondering if I should not waste some paper and do some. But then all that work for just one print is what puts me off. Why not just paint?

Whose work is that?

Actually reminds me of one of the views over the fence outside the old cottage at South Mole Creek, perched just above where the karst valley really dips.

Nigel Gray. I do not know of them.

Apparently the sky was wiped back with crushed tissue paper.

The grass looks like an awful lot of work. And as you say, threading the fence wire through it must have been tricky.

Bubblecar said:

sarahs mum said:

Bubblecar said:

Whose work is that?

Actually reminds me of one of the views over the fence outside the old cottage at South Mole Creek, perched just above where the karst valley really dips.

Nigel Gray. I do not know of them.

Apparently the sky was wiped back with crushed tissue paper.

The grass looks like an awful lot of work. And as you say, threading the fence wire through it must have been tricky.

so you start by inking up the plate blackly. then wiping off ink and reapplying ink and wiping off ink again. the fencing wire is probably done by dragging a needle across. I reckon it was one of the last actions.

Keith Davis
1 d ·
An entry in my local place-based nature journal from yesterday’s walk in the Hartz Mountains National Park to see the Tasmanian Waratahs in flower.

sarahs mum said:

Keith Davis
1 d ·
An entry in my local place-based nature journal from yesterday’s walk in the Hartz Mountains National Park to see the Tasmanian Waratahs in flower.

:)

Unique, prehistoric rock art drawings have been discovered in the Andriamamelo Cave in western Madagascar.

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/unique-cave-art-discovered-in-madagascar-hints-at-connections-with-ancient-egypt-and-borneo

I was part of a team that discovered and described these ancient treasures. They’re the first truly pictorial art, depicting images of nature with human-like and animal-like figures, to be seen on the island. Until recently, rock art in Madagascar had only yielded a few sites with basic symbols.

The dramatic discoveries contained several surprises, including hints at some remarkable cultural connections.

More…

Louis Wain (1860-1939) English artist best known for his drawings which consistently featured anthropomorphised large-eyed cats and kittens. “Carol Singing” Water colour, gouache, pen and pencil on paper.

Air pollution increase visible through the paintings of 19th-century artists
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-air-pollution-visible-19th-century-artists.html

Some 19th-century works by artists such as Turner and Monet hold a record of air pollution from the Industrial Revolution, according to a study.

More…

Discovery of ‘calendar’ rock carvings from Ancestral Pueblo in US Southwest surpasses ‘wildest expectations’
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/discovery-of-calendar-rock-carvings-from-ancestral-pueblo-in-us-southwest-surpasses-wildest-expectations

Spiral petroglyphs carved into a canyon wall on the Colorado-Utah border may have been used as a calendar by the Ancestral Pueblo.

More…

another monoprint by Nigel Gray.

sarahs mum said:

another monoprint by Nigel Gray.

That’s another evocative one. Which corner of the globe is he working in?

Bubblecar said:

sarahs mum said:

another monoprint by Nigel Gray.

That’s another evocative one. Which corner of the globe is he working in?

Sydney.

John GLOVER – Bridge of River Nile, Tasmania
Medium ink and wash
Credit line Purchased 1970
The State Art Collection, The Art Gallery of Western Australia
Accession number 1970/00D3

sarahs mum said:

John GLOVER – Bridge of River Nile, Tasmania
Medium ink and wash
Credit line Purchased 1970
The State Art Collection, The Art Gallery of Western Australia
Accession number 1970/00D3

Where even is the river Nile in Tasmanian?

dv said:

sarahs mum said:

John GLOVER – Bridge of River Nile, Tasmania
Medium ink and wash
Credit line Purchased 1970
The State Art Collection, The Art Gallery of Western Australia
Accession number 1970/00D3

Where even is the river Nile in Tasmanian?

If you don’t think it exists, you’re in it.

dv said:

sarahs mum said:

John GLOVER – Bridge of River Nile, Tasmania
Medium ink and wash
Credit line Purchased 1970
The State Art Collection, The Art Gallery of Western Australia
Accession number 1970/00D3

Where even is the river Nile in Tasmanian?

northern midlands

things you learn when you translate sharp knife into latvian.

Deddington is a village on the Nile River and lies in the foothills of Ben Lomond near Evandale. There not a lot at Deddington, and were its name spelt slightly differently, one could say it was appropriately named, however Deddington was a hotspot of the Black Wars; its early pioneers played a role not only in the development of present day Central North Tasmania, but the city of Melbourne also. For these reasons, its story warrants telling.

more..

https://www.ourtasmania.com.au/launceston/deddington.html

Bogsnorkler said:

things you learn when you translate sharp knife into latvian.

Okay

kii said:

I posted this the other day, because I thought it was an amazing bit of work. I was looking for the Art thread that I think was made a while ago.
Anyway, now I can add the description of the art and the name of the artist.

Step on fresh snow (2021) by Japanese embroidery artist, Narumi Takada (date of birth unlisted)
Footprints painstakingly executed in straight stitch, satin stitch, and backstitch; snow created with punch needle and cut loops.

Now it is in the Art Thread.

:)

Michael V said:

kii said:

I posted this the other day, because I thought it was an amazing bit of work. I was looking for the Art thread that I think was made a while ago.
Anyway, now I can add the description of the art and the name of the artist.

Step on fresh snow (2021) by Japanese embroidery artist, Narumi Takada (date of birth unlisted)
Footprints painstakingly executed in straight stitch, satin stitch, and backstitch; snow created with punch needle and cut loops.

Now it is in the Art Thread.

:)

Well done good sir.

More Hayley Welsh Street art around here

Michael V said:

kii said:

I posted this the other day, because I thought it was an amazing bit of work. I was looking for the Art thread that I think was made a while ago.
Anyway, now I can add the description of the art and the name of the artist.

Step on fresh snow (2021) by Japanese embroidery artist, Narumi Takada (date of birth unlisted)
Footprints painstakingly executed in straight stitch, satin stitch, and backstitch; snow created with punch needle and cut loops.

Now it is in the Art Thread.

:)

Thanks 😊

Alternative photographic processes
Frans de Heer · 4 h ·
Night Vision
Cyanotype on Hahnemühle Smooth Fine Art Paper

sarahs mum said:

Alternative photographic processes
Frans de Heer · 4 h ·
Night Vision
Cyanotype on Hahnemühle Smooth Fine Art Paper

Reminds me of my song Night Train to Port Sorrow.

Bubblecar said:

sarahs mum said:

Alternative photographic processes
Frans de Heer · 4 h ·
Night Vision
Cyanotype on Hahnemühle Smooth Fine Art Paper

Reminds me of my song Night Train to Port Sorrow.

Ripper song title.

Bubblecar said:

sarahs mum said:

Alternative photographic processes
Frans de Heer · 4 h ·
Night Vision
Cyanotype on Hahnemühle Smooth Fine Art Paper

Reminds me of my song Night Train to Port Sorrow.

Was that a feel-good hit of the Summer in the Car household?

Witty Rejoinder said:

Bubblecar said:

sarahs mum said:

Alternative photographic processes
Frans de Heer · 4 h ·
Night Vision
Cyanotype on Hahnemühle Smooth Fine Art Paper

Reminds me of my song Night Train to Port Sorrow.

Was that a feel-good hit of the Summer in the Car household?

It’s more feel-good than not, in the end. One of my songs from my singer-songwriter era that has been revised in various versions over the years :)

It’s not a bad little number, I’ll do a definitive recording one day.

David Frazer Artist
5 h ·
“The Crooked Tree (study)” 2024 #woodengraving #tomwaits 7.2×9.5cm

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(They take the straight trees.)

sarahs mum said:

David Frazer Artist
5 h ·
“The Crooked Tree (study)” 2024 #woodengraving #tomwaits 7.2×9.5cm

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(They take the straight trees.)

We are breeding the crooked ones.

It’s the same here.

Sarah Ross-Thompson Artist/Printmaker
44 m ·
A Year in Galloway
Having completed this session on my new seascapes I thought I would make this little montage of a few of the older and new collagraphs inspired by the coastline and bays within easy walking of my front door in Portpatrick.
With my recent flurry of videos and process shots hopefully you will now have a better idea of what goes into the creation of these images and understand the meaning of the words Collagraph and Original Print.
Every image which goes out to a gallery or customer is hand inked by me and no two can ever be identical, hence the term ‘Original’. Thank you so much for your positive response to my tutorials…which I have now posted onto my YouTube channel…and now for a few, well-earned days off.
No snow as yet in Edinburgh so I might head to a gallery and do some retail therapy on Princes Street.

(My friend Sarah- the Scottish printmaker.)

Portrait of Ernest Thesiger by his bro-in-law William Ranken, 1917, Manchester City Galleries.

Thesiger was a fine character actor and embroiderer, who appeared in a number of noted films including The Old Dark House (1932) and Bride of Frankenstein (1935).

He’s also in the Ealing comedy I’m currently watching, The Man in the White Suit (1951).

Not etched yet. but that is the bottom and top of the plate.

sarahs mum said:

Not etched yet. but that is the bottom and top of the plate.

I think your onto a winner, not that art is about winning.

Peak Warming Man said:

sarahs mum said:

Not etched yet. but that is the bottom and top of the plate.

I think your onto a winner, not that art is about winning.

I’m trying to rehabilitate the species.

sarahs mum said:

Peak Warming Man said:

sarahs mum said:

Not etched yet. but that is the bottom and top of the plate.

I think your onto a winner, not that art is about winning.

I’m trying to rehabilitate the species.

If only they’d had skateboards, they may have escaped extinction?

ROYAL ACADEMY

A talented elderly artist tries to get her painting accepted into the prestigious Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition in London. The documentary was screened at 26 film festivals worldwide and was broadcast multiple times on PBS. It won Best Documentary at several festivals and won 2 Emmy Awards

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=339im_YOfaA

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This was delightful.

sarahs mum said:

ROYAL ACADEMY

A talented elderly artist tries to get her painting accepted into the prestigious Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition in London. The documentary was screened at 26 film festivals worldwide and was broadcast multiple times on PBS. It won Best Documentary at several festivals and won 2 Emmy Awards

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=339im_YOfaA

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This was delightful.

Might watch later

sarahs mum said:

ROYAL ACADEMY

A talented elderly artist tries to get her painting accepted into the prestigious Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition in London. The documentary was screened at 26 film festivals worldwide and was broadcast multiple times on PBS. It won Best Documentary at several festivals and won 2 Emmy Awards

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=339im_YOfaA

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This was delightful.

Nice, tomorrow’s reward. I was thinking about my huge lack of creativity today. Painful to be packing up a studio that I always longed for.

kii said:

sarahs mum said:

ROYAL ACADEMY

A talented elderly artist tries to get her painting accepted into the prestigious Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition in London. The documentary was screened at 26 film festivals worldwide and was broadcast multiple times on PBS. It won Best Documentary at several festivals and won 2 Emmy Awards

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=339im_YOfaA

——
This was delightful.

Nice, tomorrow’s reward. I was thinking about my huge lack of creativity today. Painful to be packing up a studio that I always longed for.

It’s definitely a nice rest for your head. I think you will really like her and her son’s commentary. I can imagine Car or some others enjoying the ‘placedness’.

How to draw a realistic dog nose with PASTELS – Drawing tutorial | Pet portrait Artist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG-9IQnT4FE

April 1942. “Madison, Wisconsin. Members of the University of Wisconsin’s Blue Shield Country Life Club visiting the studio of John Steuart Curry, university artist-in-residence.
One of the aims of the club is to bring about greater participation in cultural activities among farm people.”

i should have posted the glover post here.

Sigh.

This matchstick carpet called ‘Fragile Balance’ designed by Hadi Rahnaward displayed at Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France as part of an exhibition called ‘Dislocation’.

Ray Arnold.

Glover prize. Highly commended.

sarahs mum said:

Ray Arnold.

Glover prize. Highly commended.

He’s got the detail right, even down to the little fillet in the channel section.

This painting, by an unknown Flemish artist, depicts the conception of Alexander the Great.

I think it is kind of hilarious though.

sarahs mum said:

Well it is certainly a nice painting

Glover Prize
6 h ·
Each year, the school students and children who visit the exhibition vote for their favourite artwork.
We are pleased to announce Brad Quinn as the winner of the 2024 Children’s Choice Award for his work titled ‘Tamar Street’.
The Children’s Choice award is proudly sponsored by Victoria’s Cosmetic Medical Clinic
Tamar Street
Oil on panel
100 × 118 cm
From the artist:
“This painting shows one of my favourite views of Launceston – in the rain.
I am drawn to painting and recording what I see around me. Changeable moments in the landscape – rain, mist, twilight, traffic on a city street – are what catch my eye.
I am sometimes told that urban scenes are not ’real landscapes’ but I see the visual beauty in the ever-changing light and constant movement.
Our surroundings become less visible as they become more familiar.
The challenge is to take a view that might be considered commonplace, and be able to communicate a different aspect to the viewer who, while recognising its familiarity, will see it anew.”

sarahs mum said:

Glover Prize
6 h ·
Each year, the school students and children who visit the exhibition vote for their favourite artwork.
We are pleased to announce Brad Quinn as the winner of the 2024 Children’s Choice Award for his work titled ‘Tamar Street’.
The Children’s Choice award is proudly sponsored by Victoria’s Cosmetic Medical Clinic
Tamar Street
Oil on panel
100 × 118 cm
From the artist:
“This painting shows one of my favourite views of Launceston – in the rain.
I am drawn to painting and recording what I see around me. Changeable moments in the landscape – rain, mist, twilight, traffic on a city street – are what catch my eye.
I am sometimes told that urban scenes are not ’real landscapes’ but I see the visual beauty in the ever-changing light and constant movement.
Our surroundings become less visible as they become more familiar.
The challenge is to take a view that might be considered commonplace, and be able to communicate a different aspect to the viewer who, while recognising its familiarity, will see it anew.”

Certainly captured the rainy Launnie mood.

https://secretmelbourne.com/melbhenge-solar-phenomenon/

Melbhenge is arty too. I haven’t caught it before but hopefully will this year.

OCDC said:

https://secretmelbourne.com/melbhenge-solar-phenomenon/

Melbhenge is arty too. I haven’t caught it before but hopefully will this year.

Try not to get run over.

sarahs mum said:

Glover Prize
6 h ·
Each year, the school students and children who visit the exhibition vote for their favourite artwork.
We are pleased to announce Brad Quinn as the winner of the 2024 Children’s Choice Award for his work titled ‘Tamar Street’.
The Children’s Choice award is proudly sponsored by Victoria’s Cosmetic Medical Clinic
Tamar Street
Oil on panel
100 × 118 cm
From the artist:
“This painting shows one of my favourite views of Launceston – in the rain.
I am drawn to painting and recording what I see around me. Changeable moments in the landscape – rain, mist, twilight, traffic on a city street – are what catch my eye.
I am sometimes told that urban scenes are not ’real landscapes’ but I see the visual beauty in the ever-changing light and constant movement.
Our surroundings become less visible as they become more familiar.
The challenge is to take a view that might be considered commonplace, and be able to communicate a different aspect to the viewer who, while recognising its familiarity, will see it anew.”

It looks like a photograph.

Bubblecar said:

OCDC said:

https://secretmelbourne.com/melbhenge-solar-phenomenon/

Melbhenge is arty too. I haven’t caught it before but hopefully will this year.

Try not to get run over.

I’ll probably stick to the steps of Parliament.

Peak Warming Man said:

sarahs mum said:

Glover Prize
6 h ·
Each year, the school students and children who visit the exhibition vote for their favourite artwork.
We are pleased to announce Brad Quinn as the winner of the 2024 Children’s Choice Award for his work titled ‘Tamar Street’.
The Children’s Choice award is proudly sponsored by Victoria’s Cosmetic Medical Clinic
Tamar Street
Oil on panel
100 × 118 cm
From the artist:
“This painting shows one of my favourite views of Launceston – in the rain.
I am drawn to painting and recording what I see around me. Changeable moments in the landscape – rain, mist, twilight, traffic on a city street – are what catch my eye.
I am sometimes told that urban scenes are not ’real landscapes’ but I see the visual beauty in the ever-changing light and constant movement.
Our surroundings become less visible as they become more familiar.
The challenge is to take a view that might be considered commonplace, and be able to communicate a different aspect to the viewer who, while recognising its familiarity, will see it anew.”

It looks like a photograph.

Seems to be the current thing.

Post post post-modernism, probably.

The Rev Dodgson said:

Peak Warming Man said:

sarahs mum said:

Glover Prize
6 h ·
Each year, the school students and children who visit the exhibition vote for their favourite artwork.
We are pleased to announce Brad Quinn as the winner of the 2024 Children’s Choice Award for his work titled ‘Tamar Street’.
The Children’s Choice award is proudly sponsored by Victoria’s Cosmetic Medical Clinic
Tamar Street
Oil on panel
100 × 118 cm
From the artist:
“This painting shows one of my favourite views of Launceston – in the rain.
I am drawn to painting and recording what I see around me. Changeable moments in the landscape – rain, mist, twilight, traffic on a city street – are what catch my eye.
I am sometimes told that urban scenes are not ’real landscapes’ but I see the visual beauty in the ever-changing light and constant movement.
Our surroundings become less visible as they become more familiar.
The challenge is to take a view that might be considered commonplace, and be able to communicate a different aspect to the viewer who, while recognising its familiarity, will see it anew.”

It looks like a photograph.

Seems to be the current thing.

Post post post-modernism, probably.

realism and hyper-realism.

sarahs mum said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Peak Warming Man said:

It looks like a photograph.

Seems to be the current thing.

Post post post-modernism, probably.

realism and hyper-realism.

Quotes Maria. “We are definitely in post post modernism. We just haven’t defined it fully yet.”

Peak Warming Man said:

sarahs mum said:

Glover Prize
6 h ·
Each year, the school students and children who visit the exhibition vote for their favourite artwork.
We are pleased to announce Brad Quinn as the winner of the 2024 Children’s Choice Award for his work titled ‘Tamar Street’.
The Children’s Choice award is proudly sponsored by Victoria’s Cosmetic Medical Clinic
Tamar Street
Oil on panel
100 × 118 cm
From the artist:
“This painting shows one of my favourite views of Launceston – in the rain.
I am drawn to painting and recording what I see around me. Changeable moments in the landscape – rain, mist, twilight, traffic on a city street – are what catch my eye.
I am sometimes told that urban scenes are not ’real landscapes’ but I see the visual beauty in the ever-changing light and constant movement.
Our surroundings become less visible as they become more familiar.
The challenge is to take a view that might be considered commonplace, and be able to communicate a different aspect to the viewer who, while recognising its familiarity, will see it anew.”

It looks like a photograph.

Shopped

sarahs mum said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Peak Warming Man said:

It looks like a photograph.

Seems to be the current thing.

Post post post-modernism, probably.

realism and hyper-realism.

Well he’s not going to stand in the middle of the road in the rain with an easel, paints and beret.

So it’s presumably an expressive interpretation of a quick phone snap while crossing the road.

sarahs mum said:

sarahs mum said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Seems to be the current thing.

Post post post-modernism, probably.

realism and hyper-realism.

Quotes Maria. “We are definitely in post post modernism. We just haven’t defined it fully yet.”

I’m my own species of neo-symbolist.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-18/backyard-bird-quiz-how-well-do-you-know-magpies-bin-chicken/103114312?utm_campaign=abc_news_web&utm_content=link&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_source=abc_news_web

I got 4/10.

Peak Warming Man said:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-18/backyard-bird-quiz-how-well-do-you-know-magpies-bin-chicken/103114312?utm_campaign=abc_news_web&utm_content=link&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_source=abc_news_web

I got 4/10.

I looked at a couple of questions and wondered how I was supposed to know what that bloke thinks birds are thinking or which ones amused him.

Jamin is in Launceston, TAS.
3 h ·
All done on this wall for the City of Launceston, just as the rain rolls in! It’s been five and a half days of painting in very warm and summery conditions, matched only by the warm vibes I’ve received from the people of Launceston.

Oh I like that!

OCDC said:

Oh I like that!

Me too.

sarahs mum said:

Jamin is in Launceston, TAS.
3 h ·
All done on this wall for the City of Launceston, just as the rain rolls in! It’s been five and a half days of painting in very warm and summery conditions, matched only by the warm vibes I’ve received from the people of Launceston.

Good

sarahs mum said:

Jamin is in Launceston, TAS.
3 h ·
All done on this wall for the City of Launceston, just as the rain rolls in! It’s been five and a half days of painting in very warm and summery conditions, matched only by the warm vibes I’ve received from the people of Launceston.

I like that.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/mar/20/artist-behind-monas-ladies-only-lounge-absolutely-delighted-man-is-suing-for-gender-discrimination

Link

ChrispenEvan said:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/mar/20/artist-behind-monas-ladies-only-lounge-absolutely-delighted-man-is-suing-for-gender-discrimination

Link

I only recognised two of the women. Strange.

I quite like the way the courtroom got subverted with blue suits.

She made an artwork that excluded men. A man sued for discrimination.

By Frances Vinall
March 20, 2024 at 6:56 a.m. EDT

At the Ladies Lounge of Australia’s Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) on the island of Tasmania, only one man is allowed inside: a butler, who serves the women.

The lounge, a conceptual artwork, is decorated with Picassos and other expensive adornments and is separated from the rest of the museum with opulent green curtains. A staff member is posted outside to prevent the entry of any visitor who does not identify as a woman, and guests can indulge in a $325 high tea service featuring fancy finger food.

On Tuesday, one of those excluded men, Jason Lau, argued before the state’s civil and administrative tribunal that the lounge violated anti-discrimination laws by keeping him and the rest of his gender out. He submitted that it should cease operating as it currently does.

Catherine Scott, a lawyer representing MONA’s parent company, told the tribunal in her written submission that Lau’s exclusion was “part of the art itself.”

The American artist behind the lounge, Kirsha Kaechele, who is married to the private museum’s owner, told the tribunal that the practice of requiring women to drink in ladies lounges rather than public bars only ended in parts of Australia in 1970 and that in practice, exclusion of women in public spaces continues.

“It was only recently suggested to me in a pub on Flinders Island that I might prefer to sit in the ladies lounge,” she wrote in her witness statement, referring to an island near Tasmania. “Over history, women have seen significantly fewer interiors.”

Scott wrote that discrimination was legally permitted when it was “designed to promote equal opportunity for a group of people (women) who are disadvantaged.”

Kaechele said in a phone interview that she will appeal to the state’s Supreme Court if the tribunal finds against her work and that she might move it to a venue elsewhere. “We won’t let men in,” she said. “That’s not happening.”

But she said she “got a rise” out of the discrimination complaint and was “pretty excited” when she learned it had been filed over her work. “It carries it out of the museum and into the real world.”

MONA is owned by David Walsh, an eccentric collector who came from a working-class background in Hobart, Tasmania, and made a fortune through gambling.

The museum has made a habit of provocation. MONA and its associated festivals have been protested by Christians, animal rights groups and Indigenous people over various planned works, and its controversial exhibits include a wall of sculpted vulvas based on real women, as well as a machine that mimics digestion and defecates daily.

Kaechele attended the tribunal Tuesday flanked by 25 female supporters dressed in pointedly court-appropriate attire — think pearls, suits and stockings — and carrying literature on feminism, art and history, she said. When testifying, she read a poem by the Guerrilla Girls, a collective founded in New York in the 1980s that protests sexism in the art world, she added.

“I don’t consider myself a feminist artist, but this particular work is part of a continuum of that type of work,” she said. “So that’s new territory for me as well, and I’m really enjoying it.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/03/20/mona-tasmania-ladies-lounge-discrimination/?

Witty Rejoinder said:

She made an artwork that excluded men. A man sued for discrimination.

By Frances Vinall
March 20, 2024 at 6:56 a.m. EDT

At the Ladies Lounge of Australia’s Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) on the island of Tasmania, only one man is allowed inside: a butler, who serves the women.

The lounge, a conceptual artwork, is decorated with Picassos and other expensive adornments and is separated from the rest of the museum with opulent green curtains. A staff member is posted outside to prevent the entry of any visitor who does not identify as a woman, and guests can indulge in a $325 high tea service featuring fancy finger food.

On Tuesday, one of those excluded men, Jason Lau, argued before the state’s civil and administrative tribunal that the lounge violated anti-discrimination laws by keeping him and the rest of his gender out. He submitted that it should cease operating as it currently does.

Catherine Scott, a lawyer representing MONA’s parent company, told the tribunal in her written submission that Lau’s exclusion was “part of the art itself.”

The American artist behind the lounge, Kirsha Kaechele, who is married to the private museum’s owner, told the tribunal that the practice of requiring women to drink in ladies lounges rather than public bars only ended in parts of Australia in 1970 and that in practice, exclusion of women in public spaces continues.

“It was only recently suggested to me in a pub on Flinders Island that I might prefer to sit in the ladies lounge,” she wrote in her witness statement, referring to an island near Tasmania. “Over history, women have seen significantly fewer interiors.”

Scott wrote that discrimination was legally permitted when it was “designed to promote equal opportunity for a group of people (women) who are disadvantaged.”

Kaechele said in a phone interview that she will appeal to the state’s Supreme Court if the tribunal finds against her work and that she might move it to a venue elsewhere. “We won’t let men in,” she said. “That’s not happening.”

But she said she “got a rise” out of the discrimination complaint and was “pretty excited” when she learned it had been filed over her work. “It carries it out of the museum and into the real world.”

MONA is owned by David Walsh, an eccentric collector who came from a working-class background in Hobart, Tasmania, and made a fortune through gambling.

The museum has made a habit of provocation. MONA and its associated festivals have been protested by Christians, animal rights groups and Indigenous people over various planned works, and its controversial exhibits include a wall of sculpted vulvas based on real women, as well as a machine that mimics digestion and defecates daily.

Kaechele attended the tribunal Tuesday flanked by 25 female supporters dressed in pointedly court-appropriate attire — think pearls, suits and stockings — and carrying literature on feminism, art and history, she said. When testifying, she read a poem by the Guerrilla Girls, a collective founded in New York in the 1980s that protests sexism in the art world, she added.

“I don’t consider myself a feminist artist, but this particular work is part of a continuum of that type of work,” she said. “So that’s new territory for me as well, and I’m really enjoying it.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/03/20/mona-tasmania-ladies-lounge-discrimination/?

Good on her.

:)

Statuette of Standing Hermaphroditus – 70 C.E

Douglas Tempest postcard from the Great War (slight foxing)

Commander H.A. Adams of the Perry Expedition to Japan, 1854

dv said:

Commander H.A. Adams of the Perry Expedition to Japan, 1854

Fierce.

Perry himself (top and right), Adams (his second-in-command) below.

Richard Serra, the sculptor whose grand steel works defined the Minimalist art movement, has died at 85. The New York Times reported that Serra died on Tuesday at in his home in Orient, New York; the artist’s lawyer said that Serra had been battling pneumonia.

Serra’s sculptures defined a generation of art-making. Working on an unusually large scale, Serra crafted gigantic artworks that enlisted spirals, cubes, and cones of steel. These works loom over viewers, threatening to squash them.

But despite their menacing quality, Serra’s sculptures have enraptured viewers across the globe. They have been seen across the world, in venues ranging from Dia:Beacon in Upstate New York to the deserts of Qatar.
——

I hadn’t realised that his works were killers.

‘Although the Tilted Arc debacle has continued to follow any discussion of Serra’s art, it did not keep him from sculpting increasingly large steel works. Installing these works has not always been a safe endeavor. In 1971, a Serra sculpture weighing more than 5,000 pounds fell on an installer at the Walker Art Center, killing him. And in 1988, two workers were pinned for several minutes beneath a 32-ton Serra sculpture that they had been deinstalling.’

more…

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/richard-serra-minimalist-sculptor-dead-1234701117/

sarahs mum said:

Richard Serra, the sculptor whose grand steel works defined the Minimalist art movement, has died at 85. The New York Times reported that Serra died on Tuesday at in his home in Orient, New York; the artist’s lawyer said that Serra had been battling pneumonia.

Serra’s sculptures defined a generation of art-making. Working on an unusually large scale, Serra crafted gigantic artworks that enlisted spirals, cubes, and cones of steel. These works loom over viewers, threatening to squash them.

But despite their menacing quality, Serra’s sculptures have enraptured viewers across the globe. They have been seen across the world, in venues ranging from Dia:Beacon in Upstate New York to the deserts of Qatar.
——

I hadn’t realised that his works were killers.

‘Although the Tilted Arc debacle has continued to follow any discussion of Serra’s art, it did not keep him from sculpting increasingly large steel works. Installing these works has not always been a safe endeavor. In 1971, a Serra sculpture weighing more than 5,000 pounds fell on an installer at the Walker Art Center, killing him. And in 1988, two workers were pinned for several minutes beneath a 32-ton Serra sculpture that they had been deinstalling.’

more…

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/richard-serra-minimalist-sculptor-dead-1234701117/

All a bit nothing if you ask me, apart from the scale.

Bubblecar said:

sarahs mum said:

Richard Serra, the sculptor whose grand steel works defined the Minimalist art movement, has died at 85. The New York Times reported that Serra died on Tuesday at in his home in Orient, New York; the artist’s lawyer said that Serra had been battling pneumonia.

Serra’s sculptures defined a generation of art-making. Working on an unusually large scale, Serra crafted gigantic artworks that enlisted spirals, cubes, and cones of steel. These works loom over viewers, threatening to squash them.

But despite their menacing quality, Serra’s sculptures have enraptured viewers across the globe. They have been seen across the world, in venues ranging from Dia:Beacon in Upstate New York to the deserts of Qatar.
——

I hadn’t realised that his works were killers.

‘Although the Tilted Arc debacle has continued to follow any discussion of Serra’s art, it did not keep him from sculpting increasingly large steel works. Installing these works has not always been a safe endeavor. In 1971, a Serra sculpture weighing more than 5,000 pounds fell on an installer at the Walker Art Center, killing him. And in 1988, two workers were pinned for several minutes beneath a 32-ton Serra sculpture that they had been deinstalling.’

more…

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/richard-serra-minimalist-sculptor-dead-1234701117/

All a bit nothing if you ask me, apart from the scale.

On one hand you have the Situationalists who looked at how people traversed the environment and made works to respond and then you have Serra….I’m going to stick this mass of steel just where everybody wants to go.

sarahs mum said:

Bubblecar said:

sarahs mum said:

Richard Serra, the sculptor whose grand steel works defined the Minimalist art movement, has died at 85. The New York Times reported that Serra died on Tuesday at in his home in Orient, New York; the artist’s lawyer said that Serra had been battling pneumonia.

Serra’s sculptures defined a generation of art-making. Working on an unusually large scale, Serra crafted gigantic artworks that enlisted spirals, cubes, and cones of steel. These works loom over viewers, threatening to squash them.

But despite their menacing quality, Serra’s sculptures have enraptured viewers across the globe. They have been seen across the world, in venues ranging from Dia:Beacon in Upstate New York to the deserts of Qatar.
——

I hadn’t realised that his works were killers.

‘Although the Tilted Arc debacle has continued to follow any discussion of Serra’s art, it did not keep him from sculpting increasingly large steel works. Installing these works has not always been a safe endeavor. In 1971, a Serra sculpture weighing more than 5,000 pounds fell on an installer at the Walker Art Center, killing him. And in 1988, two workers were pinned for several minutes beneath a 32-ton Serra sculpture that they had been deinstalling.’

more…

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/richard-serra-minimalist-sculptor-dead-1234701117/

All a bit nothing if you ask me, apart from the scale.

On one hand you have the Situationalists who looked at how people traversed the environment and made works to respond and then you have Serra….I’m going to stick this mass of steel just where everybody wants to go.

Yeah, not just nothing, more-or-less deliberately annoying.

Quite a striking painted Italian cupboard that looks rather “modern geometric” but is actually 19th century.

Another example from Tuscany, 19th century.

Asking price: AUD $41,668 and 10c. So I imagine it pays to be wary of forgeries.

Another fine early 19th century Italian painted armoire.

Cheap pine cabinet enriched with a nicely painted geometric pattern. And no longer cheap.

The Vessel. An online magazine about crafts and material culture, published by Norwegian Crafts.

There doesn’t seem to be a book thread, but books are art, so this will do.

Finished reading “Lessons in Chemistry” with literally a tear in my eye and a smile on my lips. Highly recommended.

I wasn’t keen on some aspects of the writing at first, but I really got into it in the second half.

Lessons in Chemistry

The Rev Dodgson said:

There doesn’t seem to be a book thread, but books are art, so this will do.

Finished reading “Lessons in Chemistry” with literally a tear in my eye and a smile on my lips. Highly recommended.

I wasn’t keen on some aspects of the writing at first, but I really got into it in the second half.

Lessons in Chemistry

Sounds interesting, I’ll order a copy.

Bubblecar said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

There doesn’t seem to be a book thread, but books are art, so this will do.

Finished reading “Lessons in Chemistry” with literally a tear in my eye and a smile on my lips. Highly recommended.

I wasn’t keen on some aspects of the writing at first, but I really got into it in the second half.

Lessons in Chemistry

Sounds interesting, I’ll order a copy.

….only $12 at Booktopia:

https://www.booktopia.com.au/lessons-in-chemistry-bonnie-garmus/book/9781804990926.html

Bubblecar said:

Bubblecar said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

There doesn’t seem to be a book thread, but books are art, so this will do.

Finished reading “Lessons in Chemistry” with literally a tear in my eye and a smile on my lips. Highly recommended.

I wasn’t keen on some aspects of the writing at first, but I really got into it in the second half.

Lessons in Chemistry

Sounds interesting, I’ll order a copy.

….only $12 at Booktopia:

https://www.booktopia.com.au/lessons-in-chemistry-bonnie-garmus/book/9781804990926.html

I got myself Fallen Dragon for $3 from Good Sammies
I haven’t read an actual novel in many years, forgot how nice and peaceful it is

Bubblecar said:

Bubblecar said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

There doesn’t seem to be a book thread, but books are art, so this will do.

Finished reading “Lessons in Chemistry” with literally a tear in my eye and a smile on my lips. Highly recommended.

I wasn’t keen on some aspects of the writing at first, but I really got into it in the second half.

Lessons in Chemistry

Sounds interesting, I’ll order a copy.

….only $12 at Booktopia:

https://www.booktopia.com.au/lessons-in-chemistry-bonnie-garmus/book/9781804990926.html

There’s a Book Reviews thread which might be close enough.

dv said:

Bubblecar said:

Bubblecar said:

Sounds interesting, I’ll order a copy.

….only $12 at Booktopia:

https://www.booktopia.com.au/lessons-in-chemistry-bonnie-garmus/book/9781804990926.html

There’s a Book Reviews thread which might be close enough.

Not on your index though.

The Rev Dodgson said:

dv said:

Bubblecar said:

….only $12 at Booktopia:

https://www.booktopia.com.au/lessons-in-chemistry-bonnie-garmus/book/9781804990926.html

There’s a Book Reviews thread which might be close enough.

Not on your index though.

Insert shrug emoticon.

dv said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

dv said:

There’s a Book Reviews thread which might be close enough.

Not on your index though.

Insert shrug emoticon.

I meant it’s not on the “main thread list”.

The Rev Dodgson said:

dv said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Not on your index though.

Insert shrug emoticon.

I meant it’s not on the “main thread list”.

Well that’s true enough.

Conduct during the hearing

There is one further matter that I should address. Ms Kaechele was accompanied to the Tribunal by a group of about 20 supporters, all of whom were dressed similarly to her in a conservative business style of similar colour. They sat in the back of the hearing room during the hearing, largely very still. Although not observed by me during the hearing, I understand that that stillness was punctuated every few minutes by the group shifting their posture in common and in unison in a coordinated manner. The electronic edition of The Age newspaper on 19 March reported that one of the group was pointedly reading feminist texts. After I retired at the conclusion of the hearing the group left the Tribunal in a single line in a slow march led by Ms Kaechele to the sounds of a Robert Palmer song. I understand that attempts were made to film that procession, contrary to s 11 of the Court Security Act 2017. The conduct was widely reported in the press.

http://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/cases/tas/TASCAT/2024/58.html

Art for takayna
Peter Mead · 4 h ·
Tasmania’s biggest myrtle – near Waratah -Tarkine – Still unprotected being outside any reserve.

sarahs mum said:

Art for takayna
Peter Mead · 4 h ·
Tasmania’s biggest myrtle – near Waratah -Tarkine – Still unprotected being outside any reserve.

Lovely.

Stingray sand ‘sculpture’ in South Africa may be oldest example of humans creating an image of another creature

https://phys.org/news/2024-04-stingray-sand-sculpture-south-africa.html

Tau.Neutrino said:

Stingray sand ‘sculpture’ in South Africa may be oldest example of humans creating an image of another creature

https://phys.org/news/2024-04-stingray-sand-sculpture-south-africa.html

>We believe that the sculpture might have begun with tracing a specimen in the sand.

I wonder if that might have occurred by accidental means. Sand building up around a dead ray etc.

Bubblecar said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Stingray sand ‘sculpture’ in South Africa may be oldest example of humans creating an image of another creature

https://phys.org/news/2024-04-stingray-sand-sculpture-south-africa.html

>We believe that the sculpture might have begun with tracing a specimen in the sand.

I wonder if that might have occurred by accidental means. Sand building up around a dead ray etc.

Maybe, they have looked at thousands of rocks and that’s their best guess.

Paper
A PURPORTED PLEISTOCENE SANDSCULPTURE FROM SOUTH AFRICA

https://rockartresearch.com/index.php/rock/article/view/272/268

sarahs mum said:

Art for takayna
Peter Mead · 4 h ·
Tasmania’s biggest myrtle – near Waratah -Tarkine – Still unprotected being outside any reserve.

Wonder how old she is? Looks ancient.

PermeateFree said:

sarahs mum said:

Art for takayna
Peter Mead · 4 h ·
Tasmania’s biggest myrtle – near Waratah -Tarkine – Still unprotected being outside any reserve.

Wonder how old she is? Looks ancient.

google suggests old ones are around 500 years.

sarahs mum said:

PermeateFree said:

sarahs mum said:

Art for takayna
Peter Mead · 4 h ·
Tasmania’s biggest myrtle – near Waratah -Tarkine – Still unprotected being outside any reserve.

Wonder how old she is? Looks ancient.

google suggests old ones are around 500 years.

does look older.

sarahs mum said:

sarahs mum said:

PermeateFree said:

Wonder how old she is? Looks ancient.

google suggests old ones are around 500 years.

does look older.

The days of Henry VII.

PermeateFree said:

sarahs mum said:

sarahs mum said:

google suggests old ones are around 500 years.

does look older.

The days of Henry VII.

No, make that Henry VIII.

PermeateFree said:

sarahs mum said:

Art for takayna
Peter Mead · 4 h ·
Tasmania’s biggest myrtle – near Waratah -Tarkine – Still unprotected being outside any reserve.

Wonder how old she is? Looks ancient.

When they say Myrtle, is it a Eucalypt or is it a Beech?

sarahs mum said:

PermeateFree said:

sarahs mum said:

Art for takayna
Peter Mead · 4 h ·
Tasmania’s biggest myrtle – near Waratah -Tarkine – Still unprotected being outside any reserve.

Wonder how old she is? Looks ancient.

google suggests old ones are around 500 years.

Who is google when it comes to dating trees?

roughbarked said:

PermeateFree said:

sarahs mum said:

Art for takayna
Peter Mead · 4 h ·
Tasmania’s biggest myrtle – near Waratah -Tarkine – Still unprotected being outside any reserve.

Wonder how old she is? Looks ancient.

When they say Myrtle, is it a Eucalypt or is it a Beech?

Nothofagus cunninghamii, commonly known as myrtle beech or Tasmanian myrtle

Laura Kennedy.

sarahs mum said:

Laura Kennedy.

Heh. Is that braille on the frames?

sarahs mum said:

Laura Kennedy.

Nice.

Bubblecar said:

sarahs mum said:

Laura Kennedy.

Heh. Is that braille on the frames?

I know she prints the frames…

sarahs mum said:

Bubblecar said:

sarahs mum said:

Laura Kennedy.

Heh. Is that braille on the frames?

I know she prints the frames…

After a fairly frantic few days over the Easter weekend it was delightful to get to have a bit of time to experiment with my Braille label maker in the studio yesterday 🤩 when I came up with the idea of using braille on my frames I was immediately hooked on all of the contradictory concepts as well as the aesthetic 😊 but true to form I had to come up with a layout that related to the work… even if no one ever actually “reads it”

https://www.instagram.com/laura.e.kennedy/p/Cq4UDkVLBgp/?img_index=1

Bubblecar said:

sarahs mum said:

Bubblecar said:

Heh. Is that braille on the frames?

I know she prints the frames…

After a fairly frantic few days over the Easter weekend it was delightful to get to have a bit of time to experiment with my Braille label maker in the studio yesterday 🤩 when I came up with the idea of using braille on my frames I was immediately hooked on all of the contradictory concepts as well as the aesthetic 😊 but true to form I had to come up with a layout that related to the work… even if no one ever actually “reads it”

https://www.instagram.com/laura.e.kennedy/p/Cq4UDkVLBgp/?img_index=1

well spottoed.

Design Tasmania
1 d ·
Contemporary artist Tricky Walsh was curated by Design Tasmania with Waverley Mills to work with the mill’s specialist dyers and weavers, on a machine-produced, experimental fabric as a feature work for the Waverley Mills 150+ exhibition.
In signature brights, an overscale tartan wool fashion fabric was produced, to represent their community – the first fashion fabric to be produced by Waverley Mills since the 1980s.
‘There is something interesting conceptually about making a fabric which represents a people. Which displays their commonality. It’s an essence of solidarity without the nationalism, without a feeling of exclusion. When someone wears a tartan, they’re drawing attention to a lineage. Which is to draw a connection to people. Not the idea of people but people with names and habits and identities whose contributions cumulate in the one wearing the fabric’

sarahs mum said:

roughbarked said:

PermeateFree said:

Wonder how old she is? Looks ancient.

When they say Myrtle, is it a Eucalypt or is it a Beech?

Nothofagus cunninghamii, commonly known as myrtle beech or Tasmanian myrtle

Thanks. It is said to be the mother of all the flowering trees.

Old etching of St Botolph’s Church, Boston, UK, by Kerr Eby. Below that, a similar view today.

Bubblecar said:

Old etching of St Botolph’s Church, Boston, UK, by Kerr Eby. Below that, a similar view today.

An impressive bell tower.

Peak Warming Man said:

Bubblecar said:

Old etching of St Botolph’s Church, Boston, UK, by Kerr Eby. Below that, a similar view today.

An impressive bell tower.

That’s what she said

Cymek said:

Peak Warming Man said:

Bubblecar said:

Old etching of St Botolph’s Church, Boston, UK, by Kerr Eby. Below that, a similar view today.

An impressive bell tower.

That’s what she said

Boom tish.

Peak Warming Man said:

Cymek said:

Peak Warming Man said:

An impressive bell tower.

That’s what she said

Boom tish.

The leaning tower of Pisa as one gets older

Bubblecar said:

Old etching of St Botolph’s Church, Boston, UK, by Kerr Eby. Below that, a similar view today.

Not changed a lot, other than all the a’s floating around nowadays.

The Rev Dodgson said:

Bubblecar said:

Old etching of St Botolph’s Church, Boston, UK, by Kerr Eby. Below that, a similar view today.

Not changed a lot, other than all the a’s floating around nowadays.

Heh.

Bubblecar said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Bubblecar said:

Old etching of St Botolph’s Church, Boston, UK, by Kerr Eby. Below that, a similar view today.

Not changed a lot, other than all the a’s floating around nowadays.

Heh.

That’s part of the defences.

The AA guns.

Australia has won gold at the Venice Biennale, the world’s oldest international art biennial, and “the Olympics of the art world”.

First Nations artist Archie Moore was named the recipient of the coveted Golden Lion for best national pavilion, marking the first time in history that an Australian has received the accolade.

The 54-year-old Kamilaroi and Bigambul artist, who lives and works in Brisbane, won for his monumental hand-drawn installation, kith and kin.

First Nations art unveiled in Venice
Archie Moore makes an indelible mark on the Australia pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale.

A large table covered with reams of documents sits above black reflective flooring in a room with black walls covered in chalk.
Read more
Over the past two months, Moore has transformed the archetypal white cube of the Australia pavilion into a giant, sprawling family tree, using blackboard paint and chalk.

The family tree, which is the centrepiece of the work, has been inscribed by hand and details the names of Moore’s real and speculative ancestors in an expansive genealogical chart spanning the estimated 65,000 years that Aboriginal people have lived on the Australian continent.

In awarding the Golden Lion, the Biennale jury commended Moore’s “quietly powerful” work, saying it “stands out for its strong aesthetic, its lyricism and its invocation of shared loss”, while also offering “a glimmer of possibility for recuperation”.

The title of the installation, kith and kin, draws on Old English terms for family and countrymen and extends the Aboriginal notion of kinship systems to include the “kith” of all humankind.

The artwork was commissioned by Creative Australia and its most senior Indigenous representative congratulated Moore and curator Ellie Buttrose on receiving what she describes as a “historic accolade”.

The executive director of First Nations Arts and Culture, Franchesca Cubillo, hailed kith and kin as an “extraordinary history painting” in which the artist “asserts Indigenous sovereignty and celebrates the ongoing vitality of First Nations knowledge systems and kinship”.

kith and kin covers all four walls of the pavilion, extending to the ceiling, and includes a floor work: a shallow reflection pool with an altar-like platform designed by Meriam Mir and Kaurareg architect Kevin O’Brien.

Above the water sits a waist-high platform on stilts — much like the city of Venice itself.

On top, are columns of gleaming white paper, which from above appear tessellated like a mosaic.

They include hundreds of de-identified coronial reports into the deaths of more than 560 First Nations people in custody since the watershed Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody was handed down in 1991.

If the work itself could speak, it might echo one of the key recommendations of the royal commission: that arrest be used as the last resort in dealing with Indigenous offenders.

In describing the work, Moore emphasised that despite a raft of diversionary measures recommended by the royal commission, Indigenous incarceration rates remain disturbingly high.

As if to illustrate the point, among the official documents platformed in the floor work are records pertaining to the incarceration of Moore’s own family. (A great-uncle was imprisoned in Brisbane’s notorious Boggo Road jail after he tragically, and accidentally, killed his own father in a dispute over wages.)

Visitors to the pavilion during vernissage — the official preview — repeatedly described the work as “moving”.

Arts Minister Tony Burke was no less complimentary.

“Archie’s work kith and kin shows the power of Australian art and storytelling going right back to the first sunrise”, he said in a statement.

“Australian stories help us to understand ourselves, know more about each other, and let the world get to know us. That’s exactly what this artwork does.”

The installation will be restaged at QAGOMA in Brisbane when the Biennale closes in November.
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There are more than 500 reams of documents included in the exhibition.(Supplied: Venice Biennale/Andrea Rossetti)

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-21/venice-biennale-2024-archie-moore-australia-wins-golden-lion/103750620

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sarahs mum said:

Australia has won gold at the Venice Biennale, the world’s oldest international art biennial, and “the Olympics of the art world”.

First Nations artist Archie Moore was named the recipient of the coveted Golden Lion for best national pavilion, marking the first time in history that an Australian has received the accolade.

The 54-year-old Kamilaroi and Bigambul artist, who lives and works in Brisbane, won for his monumental hand-drawn installation, kith and kin.

First Nations art unveiled in Venice
Archie Moore makes an indelible mark on the Australia pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale.

A large table covered with reams of documents sits above black reflective flooring in a room with black walls covered in chalk.
Read more
Over the past two months, Moore has transformed the archetypal white cube of the Australia pavilion into a giant, sprawling family tree, using blackboard paint and chalk.

The family tree, which is the centrepiece of the work, has been inscribed by hand and details the names of Moore’s real and speculative ancestors in an expansive genealogical chart spanning the estimated 65,000 years that Aboriginal people have lived on the Australian continent.

In awarding the Golden Lion, the Biennale jury commended Moore’s “quietly powerful” work, saying it “stands out for its strong aesthetic, its lyricism and its invocation of shared loss”, while also offering “a glimmer of possibility for recuperation”.

The title of the installation, kith and kin, draws on Old English terms for family and countrymen and extends the Aboriginal notion of kinship systems to include the “kith” of all humankind.

The artwork was commissioned by Creative Australia and its most senior Indigenous representative congratulated Moore and curator Ellie Buttrose on receiving what she describes as a “historic accolade”.

The executive director of First Nations Arts and Culture, Franchesca Cubillo, hailed kith and kin as an “extraordinary history painting” in which the artist “asserts Indigenous sovereignty and celebrates the ongoing vitality of First Nations knowledge systems and kinship”.

kith and kin covers all four walls of the pavilion, extending to the ceiling, and includes a floor work: a shallow reflection pool with an altar-like platform designed by Meriam Mir and Kaurareg architect Kevin O’Brien.

Above the water sits a waist-high platform on stilts — much like the city of Venice itself.

On top, are columns of gleaming white paper, which from above appear tessellated like a mosaic.

They include hundreds of de-identified coronial reports into the deaths of more than 560 First Nations people in custody since the watershed Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody was handed down in 1991.

If the work itself could speak, it might echo one of the key recommendations of the royal commission: that arrest be used as the last resort in dealing with Indigenous offenders.

In describing the work, Moore emphasised that despite a raft of diversionary measures recommended by the royal commission, Indigenous incarceration rates remain disturbingly high.

As if to illustrate the point, among the official documents platformed in the floor work are records pertaining to the incarceration of Moore’s own family. (A great-uncle was imprisoned in Brisbane’s notorious Boggo Road jail after he tragically, and accidentally, killed his own father in a dispute over wages.)

Visitors to the pavilion during vernissage — the official preview — repeatedly described the work as “moving”.

Arts Minister Tony Burke was no less complimentary.

“Archie’s work kith and kin shows the power of Australian art and storytelling going right back to the first sunrise”, he said in a statement.

“Australian stories help us to understand ourselves, know more about each other, and let the world get to know us. That’s exactly what this artwork does.”

The installation will be restaged at QAGOMA in Brisbane when the Biennale closes in November.
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There are more than 500 reams of documents included in the exhibition.(Supplied: Venice Biennale/Andrea Rossetti)

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-21/venice-biennale-2024-archie-moore-australia-wins-golden-lion/103750620

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Does look a very effective (and affective) work.

Five people have been arrested over an alleged attempt to smuggle 30 kilograms of cocaine into Melbourne on board a flight from the Los Angeles. Authorities say the drugs were worth nearly $10 million on the streets where they could have facilitated 30,000 drug deals.

Fuck CHINA ¡

SCIENCE said:

Five people have been arrested over an alleged attempt to smuggle 30 kilograms of cocaine into Melbourne on board a flight from the Los Angeles. Authorities say the drugs were worth nearly $10 million on the streets where they could have facilitated 30,000 drug deals.

Fuck CHINA ¡

what? all of it?!

Bogsnorkler said:

SCIENCE said:

Five people have been arrested over an alleged attempt to smuggle 30 kilograms of cocaine into Melbourne on board a flight from the Los Angeles. Authorities say the drugs were worth nearly $10 million on the streets where they could have facilitated 30,000 drug deals.

Fuck CHINA ¡

what? all of it?!

We apologise, we know there are jokes about their demographic crisis all the time but since Australia’s birth numbers are like 1.6 now too we should be fucking AUSTRALIA first, we’ll get to it shortly.

Wayne is rejected by Gould.

sarahs mum said:

Wayne is rejected by Gould.

I don’t get it.

Michael V said:

sarahs mum said:

Wayne is rejected by Gould.

I don’t get it.

maybe the selection committee didn’t either.

Box of old china with landscapes by glover on them.

I don’t know why I wrote Gould..

sarahs mum said:

Michael V said:

sarahs mum said:

Wayne is rejected by Gould.

I don’t get it.

maybe the selection committee didn’t either.

Box of old china with landscapes by glover on them.

I don’t know why I wrote Gould..

Ah the not-Gould committee.

I looked but couldn’t see any beautiful birds.

Michael V said:

sarahs mum said:

Michael V said:

I don’t get it.

maybe the selection committee didn’t either.

Box of old china with landscapes by glover on them.

I don’t know why I wrote Gould..

Ah the not-Gould committee.

I looked but couldn’t see any beautiful birds.

What about?

Michael V said:

sarahs mum said:

Michael V said:

I don’t get it.

maybe the selection committee didn’t either.

Box of old china with landscapes by glover on them.

I don’t know why I wrote Gould..

Ah the not-Gould committee.

I looked but couldn’t see any beautiful birds.

sorry.

but it is a beautifully rendered cardboard box.

The Rev Dodgson said:

Michael V said:

sarahs mum said:

maybe the selection committee didn’t either.

Box of old china with landscapes by glover on them.

I don’t know why I wrote Gould..

Ah the not-Gould committee.

I looked but couldn’t see any beautiful birds.

What about?

Nup, can’t see it.

sarahs mum said:

Michael V said:

sarahs mum said:

maybe the selection committee didn’t either.

Box of old china with landscapes by glover on them.

I don’t know why I wrote Gould..

Ah the not-Gould committee.

I looked but couldn’t see any beautiful birds.

sorry.

but it is a beautifully rendered cardboard box.

Absolutely!

The Mercury Newspaper
6 h ·
“There is a fabulous toilet coming to the Ladies Lounge … and men won’t be allowed to see it,” Mona’s Kirsha Kaechele said of her strategy to keep the female-only Ladies Lounge alive.

sarahs mum said:

Wayne is rejected by Gould.

It’s one of his better ones though, well done.

Sergio Odeith is a Portuguese graffiti artist known for his highly realistic and three-dimensional murals.

There is no rope in this sculpture. It is carved from a single block of marble.

The Release from Deception (1754) by Francesco Queirolo

dv said:

There is no rope in this sculpture. It is carved from a single block of marble.

The Release from Deception (1754) by Francesco Queirolo

Wouldn’t want to sneeze.

OCDC said:

dv said:

There is no rope in this sculpture. It is carved from a single block of marble.

The Release from Deception (1754) by Francesco Queirolo

Wouldn’t want to sneeze.

Should’ve used asbestos, like NSW schools did.

dv said:

There is no rope in this sculpture. It is carved from a single block of marble.

The Release from Deception (1754) by Francesco Queirolo

Gosh!

dv said:

There is no rope in this sculpture. It is carved from a single block of marble.

The Release from Deception (1754) by Francesco Queirolo

That’s a surprise.

I thought it was a recent adaption of an old work, as a protest against marine garbage.

https://youtu.be/EY69-S7O9Mo?si=3BXwdul1_ihNbEEE

Dancing Pig (1907 film)

Bump for sarahs mum.

Choosing frames for sarahs mum’s Coo prints, including this one “Coo II”

Could go with plain black but one of these fancier ones might work better. Which would you choose?

(Print is not properly centred in frames ‘cos it’s just an uploaded snap, using their software to try out frames).

Bubblecar said:

Bump for sarahs mum.

Choosing frames for sarahs mum’s Coo prints, including this one “Coo II”

Could go with plain black but one of these fancier ones might work better. Which would you choose?

(Print is not properly centred in frames ‘cos it’s just an uploaded snap, using their software to try out frames).

i think i like the second last one too. :)

sarahs mum said:

Bubblecar said:

Bump for sarahs mum.

Choosing frames for sarahs mum’s Coo prints, including this one “Coo II”

Could go with plain black but one of these fancier ones might work better. Which would you choose?

(Print is not properly centred in frames ‘cos it’s just an uploaded snap, using their software to try out frames).

i think i like the second last one too. :)

It does seem to go with the slightly broken border within the print itself.

I’m not sure about it though because it’s one of those that I’d prefer to first see in real life, because of the 3D bamboo effect.

sarahs mum said:

Bubblecar said:

Bump for sarahs mum.

Choosing frames for sarahs mum’s Coo prints, including this one “Coo II”

Could go with plain black but one of these fancier ones might work better. Which would you choose?

(Print is not properly centred in frames ‘cos it’s just an uploaded snap, using their software to try out frames).

i think i like the second last one too. :)

Difficult decisions.
I would go with the 3rd one down as it more closely matches the inner frame in the artwork.

King Charles Reveals His First Official Portrait Since the Coronation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oljcE714JOs

sarahs mum said:

King Charles Reveals His First Official Portrait Since the Coronation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oljcE714JOs

Well it’s an improvement on Rolf Harris’s Queen.

Bubblecar said:

sarahs mum said:

King Charles Reveals His First Official Portrait Since the Coronation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oljcE714JOs

Well it’s an improvement on Rolf Harris’s Queen.

What a peice of crap.

Tau.Neutrino said:

Bubblecar said:

sarahs mum said:

King Charles Reveals His First Official Portrait Since the Coronation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oljcE714JOs

Well it’s an improvement on Rolf Harris’s Queen.

What a peice of crap.

The face is well done, but he probably should have got Wayne Brookes to do the background.

Tau.Neutrino said:

Bubblecar said:

sarahs mum said:

King Charles Reveals His First Official Portrait Since the Coronation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oljcE714JOs

Well it’s an improvement on Rolf Harris’s Queen.

What a peice of crap.

I like it..

Arts said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Bubblecar said:

Well it’s an improvement on Rolf Harris’s Queen.

What a peice of crap.

I like it..

Strangely enough, so do I.

Arts said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Bubblecar said:

Well it’s an improvement on Rolf Harris’s Queen.

What a peice of crap.

I like it..

+1.

And pink and red is a tricky colour scheme. But it does bring him to life some..

sarahs mum said:

Arts said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

What a peice of crap.

I like it..

+1.

And pink and red is a tricky colour scheme. But it does bring him to life some..

Ooooo. Well, it’s going to get talked about, that’s for sure.

ruby said:

sarahs mum said:

Arts said:

I like it..

+1.

And pink and red is a tricky colour scheme. But it does bring him to life some..

Ooooo. Well, it’s going to get talked about, that’s for sure.

It already is. :)

sarahs mum said:

Arts said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

What a peice of crap.

I like it..

+1.

And pink and red is a tricky colour scheme. But it does bring him to life some..

People are calling it Camilla’s Tampon.

Gina Rinehart demands National Gallery of Australia remove her portrait

NGA rebuffs efforts by billionaire to take down painting by award-winning artist Vincent Namatjira

The mining billionaire Gina Rinehart has demanded the National Gallery of Australia remove her portrait from an exhibition by the award-winning artist Vincent Namatjira.

The image, arguably an unflattering picture of Australia’s richest woman, is one of many portraits unveiled at the Canberra gallery as part of the Archibald prize-winning artist’s first major survey exhibition.

The National Gallery has rebuffed efforts to have the picture taken down and said in a statement that it welcomed public dialogue on its collection and displays.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/15/gina-rinehart-demands-national-gallery-of-australia-remove-her-portrait

Bubblecar said:

Gina Rinehart demands National Gallery of Australia remove her portrait

NGA rebuffs efforts by billionaire to take down painting by award-winning artist Vincent Namatjira

The mining billionaire Gina Rinehart has demanded the National Gallery of Australia remove her portrait from an exhibition by the award-winning artist Vincent Namatjira.

The image, arguably an unflattering picture of Australia’s richest woman, is one of many portraits unveiled at the Canberra gallery as part of the Archibald prize-winning artist’s first major survey exhibition.

The National Gallery has rebuffed efforts to have the picture taken down and said in a statement that it welcomed public dialogue on its collection and displays.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/15/gina-rinehart-demands-national-gallery-of-australia-remove-her-portrait

Has a “Portrait Of Dorian Grey” vibe to it.

Another piece of art in the news. Rinehart wants her portrait removed from the NGA.

kii said:

sarahs mum said:

Arts said:

I like it..

+1.

And pink and red is a tricky colour scheme. But it does bring him to life some..

People are calling it Camilla’s Tampon.

Bubblecar said:

Gina Rinehart demands National Gallery of Australia remove her portrait

NGA rebuffs efforts by billionaire to take down painting by award-winning artist Vincent Namatjira

The mining billionaire Gina Rinehart has demanded the National Gallery of Australia remove her portrait from an exhibition by the award-winning artist Vincent Namatjira.

The image, arguably an unflattering picture of Australia’s richest woman, is one of many portraits unveiled at the Canberra gallery as part of the Archibald prize-winning artist’s first major survey exhibition.

The National Gallery has rebuffed efforts to have the picture taken down and said in a statement that it welcomed public dialogue on its collection and displays.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/15/gina-rinehart-demands-national-gallery-of-australia-remove-her-portrait

Good.

Michael V said:

Bubblecar said:

Gina Rinehart demands National Gallery of Australia remove her portrait

NGA rebuffs efforts by billionaire to take down painting by award-winning artist Vincent Namatjira

The mining billionaire Gina Rinehart has demanded the National Gallery of Australia remove her portrait from an exhibition by the award-winning artist Vincent Namatjira.

The image, arguably an unflattering picture of Australia’s richest woman, is one of many portraits unveiled at the Canberra gallery as part of the Archibald prize-winning artist’s first major survey exhibition.

The National Gallery has rebuffed efforts to have the picture taken down and said in a statement that it welcomed public dialogue on its collection and displays.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/15/gina-rinehart-demands-national-gallery-of-australia-remove-her-portrait

Good.

agree.

kii said:

kii said:

sarahs mum said:

+1.

And pink and red is a tricky colour scheme. But it does bring him to life some..

People are calling it Camilla’s Tampon.

bit old for this surely

SCIENCE said:

kii said:

kii said:

People are calling it Camilla’s Tampon.

bit old for this surely

It’s a reference to a phone call that he made when they were younger. The phoneline was tapped.

roughbarked said:

Michael V said:

Bubblecar said:

Gina Rinehart demands National Gallery of Australia remove her portrait

NGA rebuffs efforts by billionaire to take down painting by award-winning artist Vincent Namatjira

The mining billionaire Gina Rinehart has demanded the National Gallery of Australia remove her portrait from an exhibition by the award-winning artist Vincent Namatjira.

The image, arguably an unflattering picture of Australia’s richest woman, is one of many portraits unveiled at the Canberra gallery as part of the Archibald prize-winning artist’s first major survey exhibition.

The National Gallery has rebuffed efforts to have the picture taken down and said in a statement that it welcomed public dialogue on its collection and displays.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/15/gina-rinehart-demands-national-gallery-of-australia-remove-her-portrait

Good.

agree.

Barbara Streisand Would Be Proud

At home with the Duttons.

The world’s 10 most ridiculous statues

Is there a law against producing an ugly image of someone and publishing it¿

SCIENCE said:

Is there a law against producing an ugly image of someone and publishing it¿

It would be very hard for me to paint a beautiful self-portrait without making the paint tell lies.

So if I ever do such a work I’ll go for maximum ugliness, as Ivan Albright used to do.

SCIENCE said:

Is there a law against producing an ugly image of someone and publishing it¿

No, but Gina’s point is that she is a major donor to the museum and in the long term it was cost them money to continue to host his piece.

dv said:

SCIENCE said:

Is there a law against producing an ugly image of someone and publishing it¿

No, but Gina’s point is that she is a major donor to the museum and in the long term it was cost them money to continue to host his piece.

She’s a very minor donor, according to the Guardian.

>Rinehart is listed as a friend of the National Gallery after donating between $4,999 and $9,999 to the institution.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/15/gina-rinehart-demands-national-gallery-of-australia-remove-her-portrait

you know when you stop a video of an interview and the person has their mouth open and the eyes weird and askew?

i saw a series of paintings done with those images as source material.

dv said:

SCIENCE said:

Is there a law against producing an ugly image of someone and publishing it¿

No, but Gina’s point is that she is a major donor to the museum and in the long term it was cost them money to continue to host his piece.

Sounds like something for which a nice sit down and pleasant chat over coffee would be appropriate, not shadow funding fascist hit persons to do some standing over.

dv said:

SCIENCE said:

Is there a law against producing an ugly image of someone and publishing it¿

No, but Gina’s point is that she is a major donor to the museum and in the long term it was cost them money to continue to host his piece.

is it true philanthropy if there are arbitrary conditions?

Bogsnorkler said:

dv said:

SCIENCE said:

Is there a law against producing an ugly image of someone and publishing it¿

No, but Gina’s point is that she is a major donor to the museum and in the long term it was cost them money to continue to host his piece.

is it true philanthropy if there are arbitrary conditions?

early 17th century: via late Latin from Greek philanthrōpia, from philanthrōpos ‘man-loving’ (see philanthrope).

Hey there’s no law against loving oneself¡

“An exhibit by American artist Kirsha Kaechele, titled “Ladies Lounge” at the Museum of Old and New Art (Mona) in Tasmania, was previously open only to those who identify as women.
It was closed after a man, New South Wales resident Jason Lau, sued the museum for denying him entry in April 2023.”
“Inside the lounge, women are served champagne by male butlers while they have a private view of the displayed artworks by the likes of Pablo Picasso and Sidney Nolan…
“There is a fabulous toilet coming to the Ladies Lounge, and so in that sense the Ladies Lounge will operate as a ladies’ room,” said Ms Kaechele.”
“Some of the more notable artwork will be moved into the existing women’s toilet to ensure “uninterrupted viewing”.
However, men who want to enter will be allowed to do so on Sundays – to learn how to iron and fold laundry.
“Women can bring in all their clean laundry and the men can go through a series of graceful movements (designed by a Rinpoche and refined by tai chi masters) to fold them,” she said, in an interview published by the museum on Tuesday.”

Yvette Watt Ⓥ
7 h ·
31 years ago toward the end of my 4 years living in Albany I produced this painting, that I titled “Woman in a Whirl (hello and Goodbye)”. It was bought by the University of WA for their collection and as far as I understand it it has sat in the vaults ever since.
Then in late January I received a lovely email from the Curator of UWA’s Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery telling me my painting was getting an outing in a forthcoming exhibition called “The End of History”, which opened last Friday. She included a delightful note about how “Woman in a whirl… is also a personal favourite of mine from the collection – it’s a secret ritual to go and spend time with her in the collection store when I’m also feeling in a whirl. Sometimes she seems at peace, and sometimes she seems resigned, and sometimes she has a poker face disguising some level of internal turmoil. It helps to revisit and to notice how that shifts.”
I was delighted to then be informed that “Woman in a Whirl” was to feature on the exhibition banner.
It was also a very lovely thing to see a pic of some of the fam at the opening!
I’m in a bit of a “am I coming or going?” whirl now too, so seeing this kind of self-portrait from all those years ago is a lovely reminder of how change can be unsettling, but also ultimately rewarding.
https://www.uwa.edu.au/lwag/exhibitions/the-end-of-history
Image credits: banner photos Lee Kinsella, Woman in a Whirl Painting: Robert Frith.

sarahs mum said:

Yvette Watt Ⓥ
7 h ·
31 years ago toward the end of my 4 years living in Albany I produced this painting, that I titled “Woman in a Whirl (hello and Goodbye)”. It was bought by the University of WA for their collection and as far as I understand it it has sat in the vaults ever since.
Then in late January I received a lovely email from the Curator of UWA’s Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery telling me my painting was getting an outing in a forthcoming exhibition called “The End of History”, which opened last Friday. She included a delightful note about how “Woman in a whirl… is also a personal favourite of mine from the collection – it’s a secret ritual to go and spend time with her in the collection store when I’m also feeling in a whirl. Sometimes she seems at peace, and sometimes she seems resigned, and sometimes she has a poker face disguising some level of internal turmoil. It helps to revisit and to notice how that shifts.”
I was delighted to then be informed that “Woman in a Whirl” was to feature on the exhibition banner.
It was also a very lovely thing to see a pic of some of the fam at the opening!
I’m in a bit of a “am I coming or going?” whirl now too, so seeing this kind of self-portrait from all those years ago is a lovely reminder of how change can be unsettling, but also ultimately rewarding.
https://www.uwa.edu.au/lwag/exhibitions/the-end-of-history
Image credits: banner photos Lee Kinsella, Woman in a Whirl Painting: Robert Frith.

:)

Bubblecar said:

sarahs mum said:

Yvette Watt Ⓥ
7 h ·
31 years ago toward the end of my 4 years living in Albany I produced this painting, that I titled “Woman in a Whirl (hello and Goodbye)”. It was bought by the University of WA for their collection and as far as I understand it it has sat in the vaults ever since.
Then in late January I received a lovely email from the Curator of UWA’s Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery telling me my painting was getting an outing in a forthcoming exhibition called “The End of History”, which opened last Friday. She included a delightful note about how “Woman in a whirl… is also a personal favourite of mine from the collection – it’s a secret ritual to go and spend time with her in the collection store when I’m also feeling in a whirl. Sometimes she seems at peace, and sometimes she seems resigned, and sometimes she has a poker face disguising some level of internal turmoil. It helps to revisit and to notice how that shifts.”
I was delighted to then be informed that “Woman in a Whirl” was to feature on the exhibition banner.
It was also a very lovely thing to see a pic of some of the fam at the opening!
I’m in a bit of a “am I coming or going?” whirl now too, so seeing this kind of self-portrait from all those years ago is a lovely reminder of how change can be unsettling, but also ultimately rewarding.
https://www.uwa.edu.au/lwag/exhibitions/the-end-of-history
Image credits: banner photos Lee Kinsella, Woman in a Whirl Painting: Robert Frith.

:)

Yvette was one of my Master’s supers.

sarahs mum said:

Can we get AI to do this?

party_pants said:

sarahs mum said:

Can we get AI to do this?

Probably.

dv said:

Where was this truly ancient vehicle discovered?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-23/doctor-who-tardis-bus-stop-western-australia-wheatbelt/103867124

Link

JudgeMental said:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-23/doctor-who-tardis-bus-stop-western-australia-wheatbelt/103867124

Link

Apparently now a tourist stop.
Must go and have a look.

The Rev Dodgson said:

dv said:

Where was this truly ancient vehicle discovered?

Sparta

Milan Milojevic – Return Of The Great White Hunter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=Ck1rrCJIHEo&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR1EWm2ZkwGoxalMB57TqlRWwH1pIy8CPS4Wf8nqKwoh50eGLeYoGXK74Ec_aem_AZZVLNRVmhHn6XFxYALZW53IDszbewkqUCR2FqX92paCGV-_cwxN_F8XYBPdwQFgimirk1YXeXvE58h0WoW8baPU

Ecce Salmo

SCIENCE said:

Ecce Salmo

Adaminibinibiby.

Melbourne’s controversial sculpture vaults its way to heritage listing

By Stephen Brook
May 26, 2024 — 5.00am

For years it was debated, scorned, mocked, graffitied, disassembled, relocated and even urinated on.

But now Vault, Melbourne’s infamous and most controversial sculpture – nicknamed the “Yellow Peril” – is on its way to being honoured with inclusion on the Victorian Heritage Register.

The five-metre tall metal sculpture of angled steel plates, which caused a 1980s culture war when it became the centrepiece of the City Square redevelopment on Swanston Street, is of “state-level cultural heritage significance”, according to Heritage Victoria, which recommended it be added to the register.

In 1980, City of Melbourne councillors tasked with approving the 40-tonne sculpture said it looked like “abandoned farm machinery” and “left-over air-conditioning equipment”. In the furious public debate, it was derided as a “monstrosity” that “laughed at the statue of Burke and Wills” and was a “trick by Sydneysiders to make a joke of Melbourne”.

Someone dubbed Vault the “Yellow Peril” – a derogatory term referencing fears Australia would be overrun by Asians – and the name stuck.

“Lots of ridiculous things were said about it,” said the sculpture’s creator, Ron Robertson-Swann, 83. “ it scared small children and horses, and perverts hid under it.”

“It went on and on it was unspeakably ridiculous. I got tougher as a result of that. In the beginning, it was indeed confronting and hurtful.”

Heritage Victoria executive director Steven Avery recommended in a submission this month that the Heritage Council of Victoria include the public artwork on the Victorian Heritage Register. The council will decide on the proposal after public consultation.

“Vault is historically significant as Victoria’s most well-known and controversial example of art commissioned for a public place,” Avery said in his submission.

Four decades on, the controversial Vault has won hearts

“It generated an unprecedented public debate about the role of contemporary and abstract art.”

The area south of Melbourne Town Hall was first earmarked in the 1950s as a site for open public space, and in the 1970s architects Denton Corker Marshall won a competition to design City Square. A large abstract sculpture was central to its vision to be a point of focus linking the town hall and St Paul’s Cathedral.

Vault was commissioned as the result of a design competition which satisfied the criteria: the work had to be by a local artist, was unable to be vandalised, cost about $70,000 and be “representative of the 1970s”.

The City of Melbourne approved the sculpture, and it was installed in May 1980, with BHP offering to pay half the costs. But the battle spilled out from council chambers across Melbourne between “traditional” and “modern” art and their respective supporters.

Even the Queen, who opened City Square, was said to have been drawn into the fuss, and reportedly mused that Vault could have been painted in “a more agreeable colour”.

It was a regular target of late-night drunks and graffiti, even if one sympathiser wrote poignantly on one of its panels: “I am not an animal”.

Then, during a five-hour council meeting in July 1980, the councillors voted to move Vault away from the square. It was the sixth vote in six months.

After the outcry, the council moved the sculpture from City Square out of the way to Batman Park on the Yarra’s northern bank at a cost of $20,000.

Cartoonists had a field day, and the issue was a front-page staple for months, fuelled by opponents including the Australian Guild of Realist Artists. Then-premier Rupert Hamer voiced his opinion: “I believe it is a fine sculpture in the wrong place.”

Even union leader Norm Gallagher and his Builders Labourers Federation said they would ban dismantling it.

Angry readers flooded the letters pages. One reader wrote to The Age: “The sculpture should stay, the council must go.”

And so it came to pass, Hamer’s government dismissed the council in December 1980 and appointed administrators.

Architect John Denton, the co-founder of Denton Corker Marshall, supported the push for Vault’s addition to the register.

“It’s a fantastic piece of public art and should absolutely be on the heritage register,” Denton said.

“Ron Robertson-Swann’s sculpture was selected because it met every element of the brief. It was perfect.”

In 2002, the sculpture was moved from Batman Park to 111 Sturt Street, Southbank, outside the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) and Malthouse Theatre.

“Hopefully this assures its safety,” Robertson-Swann said.

“That ACCA building is complementary to the architecture. I thought, finally it had found a safe home.

“It’s a big bloody thing, so they would have trouble moving it yet again. Every time they move it costs far more than I was ever paid for it.”

Robertson-Swann is still producing works and plans to submit one to Sydney’s Sculpture By The Sea exhibition.

“I get some very positive responses from people that meet me when I am in Melbourne,” he said.

“People even apologise to me that those councillors behaved badly. It seemed to be only a small elite in the council and the community that thought it wasn’t an appropriate work.”

The sculpture has continued to be influential.

National Gallery of Victoria director Tony Ellwood told The Age: “Its story has become part of Melbourne’s modern-day cultural history. It is so often a sign of great public art that it creates controversy when unveiled.”

In 2018, Ray Edgar in The Sydney Morning Herald, wrote that “in the cultural philistinism it unearthed, Vault is Melbourne’s Blue Poles, its Sydney Opera House”.

Indeed, Denton Corker Marshall’s Melbourne International Gateway design on CityLink – dubbed “the cheesestick” – referenced Vault with its design and bright yellow colour.

“Over the years Denton Corker Marshall have embraced the colour yellow in our work not only in solidarity with Ron, but also as a ‘f—- you’ to the bad decisions made by mediocre politicians,” Denton said.

https://amp.theage.com.au/national/victoria/melbourne-s-controversial-sculpture-vaults-its-way-to-heritage-listing-20240521-p5jfad.html

Laura E Kennedy
3 h ·
I can now formally announce that I am a finalist in the Archibald Prize this year 🤯 The profound shock continues 🤯🤯🤯 @artgalleryofnsw

—-

she was in my honours class.

sarahs mum said:

Makes me think of one of ‘Beachcomber’s’ characters: Big White Carstairs.

sarahs mum said:

:)

Might be worth a peep if I’m down that way next month.

all the selected works>>>>

https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/prizes/archibald/2024/

sarahs mum said:

all the selected works>>>>

https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/prizes/archibald/2024/

^

packing room prize

sarahs mum said:

sarahs mum said:

all the selected works>>>>

https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/prizes/archibald/2024/

^

packing room prize

Mia Boe
Toe Knee Arm Strong

Made me laugh.

Michael V said:

sarahs mum said:

sarahs mum said:

all the selected works>>>>

https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/prizes/archibald/2024/

^

packing room prize

Mia Boe
Toe Knee Arm Strong

Made me laugh.

I liked the picture too.

Morning punters.
Weather rain, track a soft 5.

Peak Warming Man said:

Morning punters.
Weather rain, track a soft 5.

you have made posting in the wrong thread an artform. well done.

Peak Warming Man said:

Morning punters.
Weather rain, track a soft 5.

Woops

JudgeMental said:

Peak Warming Man said:

Morning punters.
Weather rain, track a soft 5.

you have made posting in the wrong thread an artform. well done.

You beat me to it.

Wynne Prize 2024
Entries: 738 (41 selected)
Presenting partner: ANZ
Exhibition dates: 8 June – 8 September 2024

For the first time, there are more works by Aboriginal artists than non-Aboriginal artists in the Wynne, with 21 works by Aboriginal artists among the finalists.

https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/prizes/wynne/2024/

sarahs mum said:

Wynne Prize 2024
Entries: 738 (41 selected)
Presenting partner: ANZ
Exhibition dates: 8 June – 8 September 2024

For the first time, there are more works by Aboriginal artists than non-Aboriginal artists in the Wynne, with 21 works by Aboriginal artists among the finalists.

https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/prizes/wynne/2024/

Some interesting stuff in there.

Research brings together humans, robots and generative AI to create art

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute (RI) have developed a robotic system that interactively co-paints with people. Collaborative FRIDA (CoFRIDA) can work with users of any artistic ability, inviting collaboration to create art in the real world.

More…

Michael V said:

sarahs mum said:

Wynne Prize 2024
Entries: 738 (41 selected)
Presenting partner: ANZ
Exhibition dates: 8 June – 8 September 2024

For the first time, there are more works by Aboriginal artists than non-Aboriginal artists in the Wynne, with 21 works by Aboriginal artists among the finalists.

https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/prizes/wynne/2024/

Some interesting stuff in there.

Yes.

The replica brigantines Lady Nelson and Windeward Bound coming about under half sail in high winds and rough waters on the River Derwent, the Tasman Bridge in the distance. As glimpsed from afar but then re-imagined by the artist

Betty Nolan
1 d ·
It’s our NOMO MOFO group show soon so here’s a detail from Keith Lanes extraordinary painting featuring the Lady Nelson and the Windeward Bound on the River Derwent. Grand in size the work has an equally grand (and lengthy) title appropriate to Neo Romanticism in its full blown form. What a painting!

sarahs mum said:

The replica brigantines Lady Nelson and Windeward Bound coming about under half sail in high winds and rough waters on the River Derwent, the Tasman Bridge in the distance. As glimpsed from afar but then re-imagined by the artist

Betty Nolan
1 d ·
It’s our NOMO MOFO group show soon so here’s a detail from Keith Lanes extraordinary painting featuring the Lady Nelson and the Windeward Bound on the River Derwent. Grand in size the work has an equally grand (and lengthy) title appropriate to Neo Romanticism in its full blown form. What a painting!

That prompted me to go and listen to
A Sailor’s Life
again.

sarahs mum said:

The replica brigantines Lady Nelson and Windeward Bound coming about under half sail in high winds and rough waters on the River Derwent, the Tasman Bridge in the distance. As glimpsed from afar but then re-imagined by the artist

Betty Nolan
1 d ·
It’s our NOMO MOFO group show soon so here’s a detail from Keith Lanes extraordinary painting featuring the Lady Nelson and the Windeward Bound on the River Derwent. Grand in size the work has an equally grand (and lengthy) title appropriate to Neo Romanticism in its full blown form. What a painting!

:)

The Rev Dodgson said:

sarahs mum said:

The replica brigantines Lady Nelson and Windeward Bound coming about under half sail in high winds and rough waters on the River Derwent, the Tasman Bridge in the distance. As glimpsed from afar but then re-imagined by the artist

Betty Nolan
1 d ·
It’s our NOMO MOFO group show soon so here’s a detail from Keith Lanes extraordinary painting featuring the Lady Nelson and the Windeward Bound on the River Derwent. Grand in size the work has an equally grand (and lengthy) title appropriate to Neo Romanticism in its full blown form. What a painting!

That prompted me to go and listen to
A Sailor’s Life
again.

I recall the extended jam on that one, more rock-folk than folk-rock :)

Bubblecar said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

sarahs mum said:

The replica brigantines Lady Nelson and Windeward Bound coming about under half sail in high winds and rough waters on the River Derwent, the Tasman Bridge in the distance. As glimpsed from afar but then re-imagined by the artist

Betty Nolan
1 d ·
It’s our NOMO MOFO group show soon so here’s a detail from Keith Lanes extraordinary painting featuring the Lady Nelson and the Windeward Bound on the River Derwent. Grand in size the work has an equally grand (and lengthy) title appropriate to Neo Romanticism in its full blown form. What a painting!

That prompted me to go and listen to
A Sailor’s Life
again.

I recall the extended jam on that one, more rock-folk than folk-rock :)

I love both halves of that rendition, and some great images in the video as well :)

Jedda Daisy Culley
I’m not a butterfly, I’m your haunted fairy, I’m your soul trapped inside your chit-chatting cage body

there is a bit of strange stuff in the Sulman.

https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/prizes/sulman/2024/

sarahs mum said:

Jedda Daisy Culley
I’m not a butterfly, I’m your haunted fairy, I’m your soul trapped inside your chit-chatting cage body

there is a bit of strange stuff in the Sulman.

https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/prizes/sulman/2024/

I’ll say.

kii said:

Cute, clean cats, and a bird with a death-wish.

captain_spalding said:

kii said:

Cute, clean cats, and a bird with a death-wish.

Said bird is also drinking soap suds.

Tamb said:

captain_spalding said:

kii said:

Cute, clean cats, and a bird with a death-wish.

Said bird is also drinking soap suds.

Thought the kittens had lost their mittens

Tamb said:

captain_spalding said:

kii said:

Cute, clean cats, and a bird with a death-wish.

Said bird is also drinking soap suds.

No, that’s bleach that it’s drinking.

Been listening to Trump.

kii said:

That reminds me of the Royal Dalton bowl that I had as an infant, except the animals were rabbits.

Michael V said:

kii said:

That reminds me of the Royal Dalton bowl that I had as an infant, except the animals were rabbits.

The bunnykins bowls. We had them. I don’t know where they ended up. Probably with my sister when she started having children. I can’t remember which ones we had, but they were a stabilized shape for kids.

buffy said:

Michael V said:

kii said:

That reminds me of the Royal Dalton bowl that I had as an infant, except the animals were rabbits.

The bunnykins bowls. We had them. I don’t know where they ended up. Probably with my sister when she started having children. I can’t remember which ones we had, but they were a stabilized shape for kids.

Mine ended up with me and was used by both Matthew and Brendan. Matthew was given another by his maternal grandmother. So we had two of them. They did end up with Matthew, so I suppose his kids used them.

The Kiss
By Inna Ruda
Ukraine

I like this one with all the peanut people.

Elder Naomi Kantjuriny from Tjala Arts in the Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY Lands) won the $40,000 Sulman Prize for a mural or genre or subject painting, for her painting of mamu, or good and bad spirits.

Bubblecar said:

I like this one with all the peanut people.

Elder Naomi Kantjuriny from Tjala Arts in the Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY Lands) won the $40,000 Sulman Prize for a mural or genre or subject painting, for her painting of mamu, or good and bad spirits.

:)

Wayne starts new series.

dv said:

like.

I’ve thought about it a lot and I don’t like the Tim Winton portrait.

kii said:

I’ve thought about it a lot and I don’t like the Tim Winton portrait.

Ask for your money back

kii said:

I’ve thought about it a lot and I don’t like the Tim Winton portrait.

Why?

19 shillings said:

kii said:

I’ve thought about it a lot and I don’t like the Tim Winton portrait.

Why?

The angle he is standing at. Makes me feel uneasy.

kii said:

19 shillings said:

kii said:

I’ve thought about it a lot and I don’t like the Tim Winton portrait.

Why?

The angle he is standing at. Makes me feel uneasy.

Too much to the right for you but very much left for him.

sarahs mum said:

dv said:

like.

I should’ve mentioned the artist, Brad Spencer.

sarahs mum said:

Wayne starts new series.

sarahs mum said:

sarahs mum said:

Wayne starts new series.

Virtuoso rendering of the woodwork there, especially the polished surface reflecting the wallpaper.

Got myself some bargain easy to cook dinners up until Wednesday

Shop often have those premade precooked meals for one half price.

$5 a dinner is reasonable as they are usually pretty tasty

19 shillings said:

kii said:

19 shillings said:

Why?

The angle he is standing at. Makes me feel uneasy.

Too much to the right for you but very much left for him.

The lower part of the painting feels unsettling. Like it’s unfinished. The standing at a “kitty-corner” to the bottom edge.
Personally I would have drawn the focus in further, trimmed it down to a more contained space.

I have been playing with lamps and lighting. I have posted up photos of a prototype “Galaxy Lamp” a number of months ago and I have since played with fluid densities and it looks even better but it only does so for a week or so before the iridescent flakes eventually fall from suspension and stick to the glass. (I will need a breakthrough on how to prevent that before continuing)

My new project is a 600mm vase picked up from Vinnies that I filled with a thick sugar solution. Lit from the bottom with a polarised light, the chiral properties of the sugar twist the light at a rate depending on frequency.

The result?

A barber-pole effect of all the colours of the rainbow. (Well, all the colours produced by the LED lamp I am using) Strangely enough, the light coming out the top is white, but a second polarising filter on top of the vase will change the colour depending on its alignment.

In addition, I wondered what would happen if I mixed in some pearlescent powder, and this happens:

The diagonals are less pronounced and there are more like bands. I like it.

Pretty pleased with the result on the first try, so now to mount the LED into the outside table for its final home.

A set of clues to who they are’: artists and authors on their marvellous mantlepieces

Wayne Brookes
1 h ·
And now for something completely different…

sarahs mum said:

Wayne Brookes
1 h ·
And now for something completely different…

That’ll be colourful.

Bubblecar said:

sarahs mum said:

Wayne Brookes
1 h ·
And now for something completely different…

That’ll be colourful.

he does have a thing for deadly chillis.

The Baldishol Tapestry, Norway, c.1180.

This large tapestry fragment (118 × 203 cm) from the 12th century was found beneath the floorboards of Baldishol Church during its demolition in 1879.

The tapestry is far older than the church (a wooden structure built in 1613) but it was some time before its significance was understood.

In vividly preserved colours, it depicts the months April and May, and may be a surviving fragment of a much larger tapestry depicting the whole year.

The knight depicted in May closely resembles the knights on the Bayeux Tapestry, from the previous century.

Bubblecar said:

The Baldishol Tapestry, Norway, c.1180.

This large tapestry fragment (118 × 203 cm) from the 12th century was found beneath the floorboards of Baldishol Church during its demolition in 1879.

The tapestry is far older than the church (a wooden structure built in 1613) but it was some time before its significance was understood.

In vividly preserved colours, it depicts the months April and May, and may be a surviving fragment of a much larger tapestry depicting the whole year.

The knight depicted in May closely resembles the knights on the Bayeux Tapestry, from the previous century.

That would be worth a pretty speciedaler.

Swiss artist Pippilotti Rist

sarahs mum said:

Swiss artist Pippilotti Rist

A sort of knicker box-kite or hot air balloon. Wonder if it could fly, in favourable winds.

Bubblecar said:

sarahs mum said:

Swiss artist Pippilotti Rist

A sort of knicker box-kite or hot air balloon. Wonder if it could fly, in favourable winds.

Maybe if you pumped it full of flatus.

Bubblecar said:

The Baldishol Tapestry, Norway, c.1180.

This large tapestry fragment (118 × 203 cm) from the 12th century was found beneath the floorboards of Baldishol Church during its demolition in 1879.

The tapestry is far older than the church (a wooden structure built in 1613) but it was some time before its significance was understood.

In vividly preserved colours, it depicts the months April and May, and may be a surviving fragment of a much larger tapestry depicting the whole year.

The knight depicted in May closely resembles the knights on the Bayeux Tapestry, from the previous century.

Nice. Thanks.

Yūji Moriguchi

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/article/2024/jun/24/mona-picasso-painting-womens-toilets-ladies-lounge-exhibition-ruling

ruby said:

yeah.

ruby said:

:)

Well done.

:)

sarahs mum said:

That’s going to be impressive.

Michael V said:

ruby said:

:)

Well done.

:)

Beanz Meanz Heanz The Goodies

Bubblecar said:

Michael V said:

ruby said:

:)

Well done.

:)

Beanz Meanz Heanz The Goodies

A short song lurking in my brain since my school days:

A million housewives every day,
Pick up a tin of beans and say,

Oh no, not beans again!

The Rev Dodgson said:

Bubblecar said:

Michael V said:

:)

Well done.

:)

Beanz Meanz Heanz The Goodies

A short song lurking in my brain since my school days:

A million housewives every day,
Pick up a tin of beans and say,

Oh no, not beans again!

String string string string everybody loves string

dv said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Bubblecar said:

Beanz Meanz Heanz The Goodies

A short song lurking in my brain since my school days:

A million housewives every day,
Pick up a tin of beans and say,

Oh no, not beans again!

String string string string everybody loves string

fab

Johnathan Harris presents his painting, Critical Race Theory

Bubblecar said:

Michael V said:

ruby said:

:)

Well done.

:)

Beanz Meanz Heanz The Goodies

What’s for tea darling?

dv said:

Johnathan Harris presents his painting, Critical Race Theory

Good work.

https://medicalmuseum.health.mil/assets/documents/blog/St_Elizabeths_Lace_Descriptions.pdf

Link

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-27/jasmine-crisp-adelaide-artist-italy-mural/104025962

Ukrainian artist Dariya Alyoshkina takes folk tradition of paper-cutting to monumental levels

Here she is with the whole family, and here’s one of the hurdy gurdies that her husband Gordiy Starukh makes, played by Scott Marshall

Bubblecar said:

Ukrainian artist Dariya Alyoshkina takes folk tradition of paper-cutting to monumental levels

Here she is with the whole family, and here’s one of the hurdy gurdies that her husband Gordiy Starukh makes, played by Scott Marshall

They’re gigantic

Jamin is at Salamanca Arts Centre.
3h · Hobart, TAS ·
Panting #2 for the TasmanAi project tasmania. The brief / prompt for this painting was: An adventuring Tasmanian Devil on a snack break, hiking deep within takayna/ Tarkine. This series is painted in watercolour on Stonehenge paper (thanks adartsupplies and @artery_hobart for material advice!)
The works are pure imaginative responses to the brief, with little or no reference material. I had a few looks at different animal photos to remind myself of distinctive features.

Pierre Monestier

drypoint on tetrapak.

Lillemor Olsson Gustafsson

sarahs mum said:

drypoint on tetrapak.

Lillemor Olsson Gustafsson

Nice.

Can you explain the technique?

Michael V said:

sarahs mum said:

drypoint on tetrapak.

Lillemor Olsson Gustafsson

Nice.

Can you explain the technique?

cut a piece out of a milk carton. draw an image on it. scratch it out with an etching needle. ink it up and clean off the bits to remain white in the print. put a piece of damp paper on it and run it under the press.

sarahs mum said:

Michael V said:

sarahs mum said:

drypoint on tetrapak.

Lillemor Olsson Gustafsson

Nice.

Can you explain the technique?

cut a piece out of a milk carton. draw an image on it. scratch it out with an etching needle. ink it up and clean off the bits to remain white in the print. put a piece of damp paper on it and run it under the press.

Ta.

I read a few pages. This one doesn’t even use a press!

https://harmonythoughts.com/blog/printmaking/intaglio-drypoint-print-using-tetra-pak

Michael V said:

sarahs mum said:

Michael V said:

Nice.

Can you explain the technique?

cut a piece out of a milk carton. draw an image on it. scratch it out with an etching needle. ink it up and clean off the bits to remain white in the print. put a piece of damp paper on it and run it under the press.

Ta.

I read a few pages. This one doesn’t even use a press!

https://harmonythoughts.com/blog/printmaking/intaglio-drypoint-print-using-tetra-pak

be better with a press though. I know someone who does a lot of large-scale wood engravings by hand. But he is fit, and wood takes more pressure before the plate loses it’s crispness. .

sarahs mum said:

Michael V said:

sarahs mum said:

cut a piece out of a milk carton. draw an image on it. scratch it out with an etching needle. ink it up and clean off the bits to remain white in the print. put a piece of damp paper on it and run it under the press.

Ta.

I read a few pages. This one doesn’t even use a press!

https://harmonythoughts.com/blog/printmaking/intaglio-drypoint-print-using-tetra-pak

be better with a press though. I know someone who does a lot of large-scale wood engravings by hand. But he is fit, and wood takes more pressure before the plate loses it’s crispness. .

OK. Unfortunately I don’t have the artistic talent to carry it off. I wish I did.

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Artwork featuring Christ overlaid with Looney Tunes characters removed by Sydney council after threats of violence

Ian said:

Artwork featuring Christ overlaid with Looney Tunes characters removed by Sydney council after threats of violence

I don’t like religion, it’s a waste of time.

Some people cannot control their emotions.

People who believe in nothing, and emotionally connect to religious things that don’t exist are more likely to be emotionally unintelligent.

Violence comes from being unable to control emotions.

Unable to control emotions is a sign of being emotionally unintelligent.

People with emotional intelligence are less likely to become violent.

People with intelligence are less likely to connect to things that don’t exist.

The people threatening violence really need to look at themselves.

Maybe counselling to sort out reality and strengthen their emotional control .