Category: Journal

• Ellsworth Kelly’s Facade

  

  Shape, line and color in their purest forms.

  2012-06-04

• Activating Surfaces

  

  Looking and hiding.

  2012-06-01

• Cézanne and Kelly

  

  ‘The most pleasurable thing in the world for me is to see something and then translate how I see it.’

  2012-05-30

• Cézanne Seeing

  

  When Ellsworth Kelly was a young boy, he put a print of this chesnut tree painting of Cezanne’s on his wall.

  2012-05-28

• Sophie Tauber-Arp

  

  ‘The intrinsic decorative urge should not be eradicated, it is one of humankind’s deep-rooted, primordial urges.’

  2012-05-26

• Godfrey Miller’s Counterpoint

  

  ‘Through the counterpoint of line and colour plane, the rhythmic themes and their inversions, we see the transmuted colour rhythms of the landscape shorn of superficiality.’

  2012-05-25

• Godfrey Miller’s Counterspace

  

  “If I had my time over again I would paint still life.”

  2012-05-23

• Anchorite Godfrey Miller

  

  From a vigorous, athletic boy to a reclusive painter.

  2012-05-21

• Iona House Green

  

  Iona House was surrounded by our busy dairy and potato farm.

  2012-04-26

• Iona House Red and Blue

  

  Iona House in all its glorious Kodak Instamatic colour

  2012-04-24

• Iona House Features

  

  In the black and white days of the Iona House at 2060 Main Drain Road, Iona, family and possessions were falling gently into place.

  2012-04-23

• Iona House Family

  

  I contacted architect John Davidson last week and he kindly corresponded with me about the “Carlowrie” house at Iona.

  2012-04-20

• Iona House Beginnings

  

  As the grand-daughter of a Koo-We-Rup East Iona pioneer, my mother Hayden Ritson (Kavanagh) inherited all sorts of land around Iona. In the late 1950s, my parents decided to build a brand new house in the modern style. It would be right next door to the Iona Post Office. They called it “Carlowrie” after the […]

  2012-04-18

• Kavanagh and Featherstone

  

  My great-grandparents, Owen Kavanagh and Catherine Featherstone, were early pioneers of Iona.

  2012-04-16

• Swampland

  

  I’ve always had a uneasy relationship with Australian land.

  2012-04-13

• Fitzpatrick’s Drouin

  

  Photographer Jim Fitzpatrick was an official war photographer for the Australian Information Service.

  2012-04-11

• Drouin Drinkers

  

  I spent my early years in Gippsland. The Swamp District.

  2012-04-09

• Lina Bryans Richmond

  

  Lina Bryans met a lovely architect Alex Jelinek in the 1950s and found a really large house at 39 Erin Street, Richmond.

  2012-04-06

• Lina Bryans’ Pink Colony

  

  Artists’ Colonies seem a particularly Melbourne thing in the early part of the 20th century. A dog bite was responsible for Bryans’ Colony. Lina Bryans knocked on the door of Ada May Plante (a painter friend of Jock Frater) for some help and the reclusive artist offered Lina a room to stay for the night which […]

  2012-04-04

• Young Lina Bryans

  

  Lina Bryans was born in Europe but her parents were Australian. Bryans was a Hallenstein whose family had made their money from a successful tannery and leather business in Melbourne. Her maternal great-grandfather, Sir Benjamin Benjamin, had been Lord Mayor of Melbourne in the 1880s. The family moved from St Kilda to South Yarra in the […]

  2012-04-02