Category: Journal

• Light Eric Thake

  

  Back to happier times for Eric Thake.

  2012-02-23

• Dark Eric Thake

  

  The National Gallery of Victoria has this lovely Eric Thake watercolour, pastel, and charcoal drawing in their collection.

  2012-02-22

• Wartime Eric Thake

  

  War gave Eric Thake the opportunity to travel.

  2012-02-21

• Witty Eric Thake

  

  Many Australian artists have taken to the outback.

  2012-02-20

• Upper Middle Class Women

  

  Progressive, unmarried, upper middle class women like Violet Teague and Una Teague were expected to get on with things.

  2012-02-17

• Desert Ladies

  

  As Violet and Una Teague get closer to Central Australia, Violet creates some stunning abstractions using the colours and shapes around her.

  2012-02-16

• Outback Ladies

  

  As Una and Violet Teague motored further into the outback, Violet continues to sketch.

  2012-02-15

• Violet and Una Teague Set Off

  

  In 1933, a year before Albert Namatjira met artist Rex Battarbee, the “can do” artist Violet Teague set out to visit Central Australia with her sister, Una.

  2012-02-14

• Violet Teague 1872-1951

  

  When I was reading about Albert Namatjira, I found Victorian artist Violet Teague had a close connection to him.

  2012-02-13

• Namatjira’s Sorrow

  

  Outlawed, outcast

  2012-02-10

• Never Paint Again

  

  Unless aboriginal artist Albert Namatjira overcomes his worries over white men he will never paint again.

  2012-02-09

• Albert Namatjira’s Ghosts

  

  My favourite Albert Namatjira’s paintings are the Ghosts Gum watercolours.

  2012-02-08

• Albert Namatjira’s Chasms

  

  One of the residents of the Hermannsburg mission in central Australia was Albert Namatjira. He showed a keen interest in Rex Battarbee’s watercolours. Rex taught him all he knew, including how to sign his name in the white man’s way, and the Namatjira show began. When I look back at my photos of central Australia…

  2012-02-07

• Central Australia

  

  My niece and nephew’s writing about their time in the USA got me thinking about our own central Australia.

  2012-02-06

• American Dream by Claudia Brennan

  

  When the pilgrims arrived on the shore of the new world, they found a secularization of the Garden of Eden;

  2012-02-03

• Visiting America by Joseph Brennan

  

  If there’s one thing that visiting America will teach you, it’s that there’s simply no other place like it.

  2012-02-02

• Sleeping Cowboys by Claudia Brennan

  

  Architects often favor incongruity with the surrounding environment in order to imbue their work with gravitas.

  2012-02-01

• True Western by Joseph Brennan

  

  Along the Arizona-Utah border, just off Highway 163 and deep within the Navajo reservation there lies a series of stratified plateaus, which sit like great fists of rock, pounding a docile plain.  It looks like something out of a movie, and it is. | Glen Canyon, Arizona-Utah, image by Joseph Brennan 2012 | The imagery…

  2012-01-31

• Utah Minutiae by Joseph Brennan

  

  There’s something brewing in Utah’s deserts.

  2012-01-30

• New York High by Claudia Brennan

  

  There is a stanza in Emily Dickinson’s “I died for beauty” that examines the inevitable supremacy the natural world holds over the follies of mankind.

  2012-01-27