Category: Journal

• Ethel Spowers

  

  This beautiful linocut, printed from seven blocks, manages to describe the light and shade of Tasmanian history.

  2011-05-24

• The Spirit of Tasmania

  

  Happened to be in Port Melbourne to witness this panel-van worthy sunset and the Spirit of Tasmania.

  2011-05-23

• Wolfgang Sievers

  

  In 1977 Wolfgang Sievers photographed excavations for an underground railway station beneath the State Parliament in Melbourne

  2011-05-20

• Verticals – warp

  

  Stripy things again.

  2011-05-19

• Alexander J Macdonald and the old South Yarra post office

  

  Every day as I walk past the old South Yarra post office in Toorak Road the work of A J Macdonald makes me smile

  2011-05-18

• Orange

  

  Orange is one of my favourite colours and things in orange boxes are always perfect.

  2011-05-17

• Liubov Popova part 2

  

  Back to one of the pioneers of Russian Constructivism – Liubov Popova.

  2011-05-16

• Liubov Popova

  

  Back to one of the pioneers of Russian Constructivism – Liubov Popova.

  2011-05-16

• Sky lights

  

  “On the day he is painting air, he may not be spoken to!”

  2011-05-13

• The Disquieting Muses

  

  Hadn’t realised how much repetition was part of Georgio de Chirico’s work until I came across this image from art historian Carlo Ragghianti’s, Critica d’Arte 1979 magazine.

  2011-05-12

• Delving into darkness

  

  Joanne Ritson has been working with darkness for a while.

  2011-05-11

• Horizontals – weft

  

  Thinking about stripy things in textiles, home wares, and architecture.

  2011-05-10

• Man with a Blue Scarf or Lucian Freud

  

  Man with a Blue Scarf by Martin Gayford was published last year.

  2011-05-09

• Eugene von Guérard

  

  Finally arrived to see the major Eugene von Guérard exhibition at NGV.

  2011-05-06

• Margaret Preston

  

  The pleasure of this orange on the beautiful harbour.

  2011-05-05

• Russell Drysdale

  

  Distracted again on the way to von Guérard by this gem of a painting by Russell Drysdale.

  2011-05-04

• Lina Bryans

  

  This babe is wise.

  2011-05-03

• Grace Crowley

  

  Distracted by favourite Grace Crowley painting

  2011-05-02

• Alexander Girard

  

  Girard was the head of the fabric and textiles division at Herman Miller in the 1950s.

  2011-04-28

• Issey Miyake 1996 Spring/Summer catalogue

  

  There is something about this concertina format catalogue.

  2011-04-27