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Category Archives: Art
Here Comes the Bride
Australian crepe wedding dress (1953) made by Violet Cocking (nee Dowey) who had resided in North Street, Castlemaine, prior to her marriage to Stanley Cocking in 1924. The dress was inspired by the gown worn by Queen Elizabeth II upon … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Gallery Art, OilPainting, Oriental Art, Paintings, Textiles
Tagged Arthur Boyd, Bride series, Bridegroom series, brides, Castlemaine Museum, Chinese wedding outfit, Edmund Blair Leighton, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Kit Lee, Melbourne Chinese Museum, Violet Cocking, wedding dresses
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What Are We Hanging Around For?
[Sea Country Spirits (2015-2016) consists of 32 sculptures of spirits, of takorra (sky) beeyak (land) and warri (sea); from Wathaurong country, which Jenny presents as a rhythmical dance of animated spirit forms of different scales, made from copper wire, tree … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Sculpture
Tagged Australian artists, Indigenous Australian art, Sea Country Spirits
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Hey, Flick That Chip Off Your Shoulder
[“Flick That Chip off Your shoulder” street art mural by Indonesian artist Eko Nugroho in Hosier Lane and “Dilema Generasai #2″, oil & synthetic polymer paint on fiberglass steel, at National Gallery of Victoria]. Eko Nugroho (b. 1977 in Jogyakarta, … Continue reading
The Village Life of Hendra Gunawan
Hendra Gunawan was an Indonesian artist, poet, sculptor and guerilla fighter who was born in Bandung, the capital of West Java, (former Dutch East Indies), on June 11, 1918 and died in Bali on July 17, 1983. Gunawan was best … Continue reading
Successfully Sensitive | Emotionally Unstable
Brit D’Argaville’s ‘Political Problem’ [Neon transparent synthetic polymer resin, 39.8 x 122.6 x 6.4 cm. Exhibited at Start Up – Top Arts 2015 National Gallery of Victoria (NGV)] Using specific colour and font, Brit D’Argaville’s ‘Political Problem‘ draws on gender … Continue reading
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Compare the Pair #20 | Every Picture Tells A Story
Original Luncheon of the Boating Party by Pierre-August Renoir. Other, modern day representation and replication of the event by unknown photographer recreating image for The Age Good Weekend prize. Pierre-August Renoir’s (1841-1919) Luncheon of the Boating Party stands as a … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Artists A-Z, Gallery Art, Paintings, QuestionableArt
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Heads Will Roll…
Here is a “Heads Up” on three different artists who have headed-up in the name of art. Sarah McConnell ‘Dropped Heads‘ (2008) [Ceramic 140 x 80 x 18 cm overall] from Access Gallery exhibition, Bayside Arts & Cultural Centre in … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Ceramics, DarkArt, Gallery Art, Sculpture
Tagged art installations, Ron Mueck, Rosemary Laing, Sarah McConnell, student art
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In the Room and Around the ‘Bend
[Above left: Fisherman’s Bend (1963) and above right: The Room] Australian artist Victor George O’Connor was born in Preston, Melbourne on 21 December, 1918. He studied at the prestigious Melbourne High School and studied law at Melbourne University where in late … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Paintings
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Ex Libris: To Library of Congress Subject Headings
Gil McKenzie – Ex Libris. McKenzie describes this artwork: “Essentially my aim was to bring new life to old objects. In my sculpture, Ex libris, I used old books which I sourced from op shops, my own home, and those … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Sculpture
Tagged Ian Potter Centre, Sculpture, start up, student art, top arts, wabi-sabi
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I Found it at the Dock
Barbara Rowe artist and Melburnian Docklands resident, uses material found throughout the Docklands area for her art. Rowe has also taken inspiration from the immediate surrounds to produce these woven forms. Harbour Ball (2012-13) palm inflorescence. Found: Harbour Esplanade. Technique: … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Sculpture, Textiles
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Fictitious Realities are No Hi-Jinks
Above: Untitled “Babies” (2012), silicone, pigment, resin and human hair. (36 cm x 36 cm x1 8 cm) Courtesy of artist and Sullivan + Strumpf, Sydney. Also: “The Hanging Man” (2005), silicone, fibreglass, aluminium, human hair, pigments (140 cm x … Continue reading
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All the Camp Dogs Sing This Song
Ku (2012) [Natural ochres with acrylic binder on milkwood] by Garry Namponan; and Ku (2012) [Natural ochres and charcoal with acrylic binder on milkwood] by Roderick Yunkaporta. Garry Namponan (born 1960+) is a Ku (camp dog) sculpture artist, home is … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Gallery Art, Sculpture, Textiles
Tagged #Indigenous artists, a, Camp dogs, Garry Namponan, Indigenous art, Jamu, Ku, Lena Yarinkura, Roderick Yunkporta
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Suggett | I’m Going Down the Corridor via an Ex-Goods Repository
Colin Suggett (Born 1945 in Warrnambool) is a mixed media artist who manipulates perceptions of reality with his miniaturized mixed-media models and tableaux that epitomize and parody contemporary technology and its intrusion into modern culture. Working since the 197os, Suggett … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Gallery Art, Performing Art
Tagged Animations, Corridor, Ex Goods Repository, Fictitious Realities, Going Down, Kinetic art
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A Swine Young Family
“The Young Family” (silicone, acrylic, human hair, leather and timber) by Patricia Piccinini. (Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria.) “The Young Family” features an aged, sow-like mother laying on her side with a litter of suckling pups; as an archetypal maternal scene. … Continue reading
