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Category Archives: Sculpture
The Seedlings of Nature
Fiona Murphy is a Melbourne-based contemporary artist and ceramicist. She graduated with a Dip. Art & Design (1980); Grad. Dip. Fine Art (1985); Grad. Dip. Ed. (1993) and Master of Fine Art (2007) from Monash University, Melbourne. She was the … Continue reading
Posted in Ceramics, Gallery Art, Sculpture
Tagged #Artist, biomorphic vessels, ceramacist, Fiona Murphy, Sculpture
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Who gives a Hoot?
Australian sculptor, Thomas Dwyer Bass aka Tom Bass, was born in Lithgow, New South Wales, on 6th June 1916. He studied at the Dattilo Rubbo Art School and the National Art School. After his graduation, Tom developed a philosophy of … Continue reading
A sacred and safe home for all living creatures
The Fairies Tree is a red gum carving by Ola Cohn, MBE, ARCA which stands in Melbourne’s Fitzroy Gardens. Born in Bendigo in 1892, Ola excelled in art an early age. She studied at Melbourne’s Swinburne Technical College before winning a … Continue reading
Dickie Lewis – the statue ‘so exceedingly bare’
‘Liverpool Resurgent’ is the name of this statue by Sir Jacob Epstein, born in New York on 10th November 1880 and died 19th August 1959. This statue used to sit over the entrance of the former Lewis’ department store in … Continue reading
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Tagged #Liverpool, Jacob Epstein, Lewis stores, Liverool Resurgent, Liverpudlians, Scousers
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To quaff from the trough is well good enough
This is a Bill’s Trough which is also known as – a Bill’s Horse Trough. These watering troughs were built for working horses who helped us during the first half of the 20th C. In recognition and respect for the fine … Continue reading
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A Gossamer connection between Shearwaters and the Rings of Jupiter
Inge King sculptures: Shearwater, Rings of Jupiter and Sun Ribbon sculpture (University of Melbourne) Respected and prolific German-born Australian sculptor Inge King, was born on 26th November 1918. Inge’s extensive commissions are prominent throughout Victoria. The Shearwater sculpture (see left) can be … Continue reading
“The Eagle Will Rise Again…”
Eagle, a 25 meter-high sculpture by Bruce Armstrong has been keeping a watchful eye from his perch in Wurundjeri Way, in the Docklands precinct of Melbourne for over a decade. Majestic in his stature, the timber, aluminium and glass statue … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Parsons Project, Bunjil, Docklands, Eagle will rise again, Wurundjeri
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…and yes; I said yes,… I will Yes.
Happy Bloomsday everyone! This is the James Joyce statue which sits on North Earl Street, Dublin. Each year on 16th June, “Joyceans”, celebrate “Bloomsday”. James Joyce was an Irish 20th Century modernist and avant-garde novelist and poet born on 2nd … Continue reading
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Tagged #Dublin, Bloomsday, Homer, Howth Head, James Joyce, Leopold Bloom, Molly Bloom, Odyssey, Stephen Dedalus, Ulysses
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Put a “Tiger in Your Tank”
In 1943, as a build-up to the D-Day escalation, the British Government set up a training ground at Slapton Sands in Devon, for the Exercise Tiger campaign, which was the “code name” for one in many a series of large-scale … Continue reading
Compare the Pair – #4 – 101 inspirations from a wine bladder
A Wine bladder – is also known as box wine, boxy, bladder, cask-wine bag, or goon bag, (coll. for flagon). It refers to any wine packaged as a bag-in-the-box, or cask wine. Such packages usually contain a plastic bladder protected … Continue reading
Posted in QuestionableArt, Sculpture, StreetArt, StreetFurniture, TheBad
Tagged box wine, goon, wine bladder
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Sticks & Stones may break my bones…whilst birds sing willow, tit-willow, tit-willow
‘BallRoom‘ by Patrick Dougherty, took more than 3 weeks to build with the help of 70 volunteers. Patrick, a US artist, (born in Oklahoma in 1945 and raised in North Carolina), bends, and weaves bracken to create natural escapist artwork. … Continue reading
Pup-arazzi Freeze-Framers
These are called ‘Paparazzi Dogs’ but I reckon they are a pack of puparazzi’s. If you want to find them, it’s too late. They have been and gone, as good puparazzi’s would, with the shout of “Which way did they … Continue reading
Lady of St.Kilda
Lady of St.Kilda was a schooner which served from 1834 before being shipwrecked at Tahiti after sailing from Sydney sometime shortly after 1843. She was built in Dartmouth, Devon, England to carry fruit from the Mediterranean countries to London. The … Continue reading
Has anyone here seen Larry? – Part 2
Larry LaTrobe – by Pamela Irving. Larry is a bronze sculpture (c.a.) 1992-1996. He is still alive and resembles a life-size dingo-like dog in bronze. The first “Larry” launched in 1992, disappeared in August 1995. He was never found. His … Continue reading
Do You Want to Know a Secret?…Do You Promise Not to Tell?…
(ooh, aah, ooh,)…Did you want to know that a certain band first played at the Cavern Club in Liverpool on this day, 52 years ago? The Cavern Club, first opened in Matthew Street, Liverpool on Wednesday16th January, 1957. It was … Continue reading