Just a ghost in the machine
Whoohoo! Another of my pieces sold at the Incognito Art Show! Which means I can show you it now.
Also don't forget to buy some art, it's for a good cause and original art makes a great Christmas present.
Double Nation: A History of Australian Art (2023) by Ian McLean
This was a serendipitous find on display at my local library. I have an interest in and this book gave me a much broader insight. (Dont let the academese of the Introduction put you off as the rest of the book is very accessible.)
It is a sequel to the authors Rattling Spears: A History of Indigenous Australian Art (2016).
More on Eileen Mayo:
Speaking of the Incognito Art Show, my second order arrived. Whoo!
The frog is by Katie Howard (watercolour and gouache) and the Huntsman is by Maureen Young (Watercolour and ink).
They sat in my wishlist for so long, I took advantage of the artist discount and snaffled them.
The Incognito Art Show is now offering Bundle Deals - buy 3, 1 free. Buy 8 6 free! Buy 10 or more 50% off (other deals too I just couldn't be bothered typing them all in).
"Evening, St. Kilda Road," Clarice Beckett, c. 1930.
Beckett (1887-1935) was a key figure of the Australian tonalist movement. A very busy painter, she left behind a few thousand works. However, she was sadly disregarded during her lifetime and never exhibited anywhere. In the latter half of the 20th century her work began to be rediscovered, but by then over a thousand of her paintings had been destroyed some in a fire, some by her father (thinking they were unfinished and were to be scrapped) and many by sheer neglect. Now she is regarded as one of Australia's greatest artists.
Beckett loved to paint in the early morning or late evening, capturing the misty half-light of those times....although arguments continue if this was a statement on her part or just relishing the challenge. Here, as with many of her works, she depicts a street in Melbourne, seemingly on a misty evening...kind of like what I'm having here, with drizzling rain. Even the brightest thing here, the neon sign, can't be read because the mist distorts it too much. It's an atmospheric painting.
From the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.
2 Nov: The guided tour will trace the history of Australian Art from early colonial paintings to Australian Impressionism.
Three things with Abdul Abdullah: I saw a TikTok that said if youre a grown man who uses a backpack, youve made some poor life choices
Gum trees in morning light, Australian landscape painting.
Three things with Kate Ceberano: Ive never seen one like it for sale I should probably patent it
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, 90cm
from the 'Echidna and Fish' site at West Head in Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, NSW, Australia
via Australian Museum:
These are so varied and all excellent
For , two from the National Gallery of Victoria collection:
1. Lena Djamarayku (Rembarrnga, NT, b. c.1948)
Echidna, 1998
earth pigments on Paperbark (Melaleuca sp.), wood & pandanus (Pandanus sp.) fibre, echidna quills
25.580.021.0cm
2. Yvonne Koolmatrie (Ngarrindjeri, SA, b. 1944)
Echidna, 1999
sedge (Carex sp.), echidna quills
14.347.428.3cm
I'm going to come back to this article, which looks as though it might address the my curiosity about interwar art in Australia.
Just glancing at it, I fell in love with Thea Proctor's woodcut "The Rose".
The Australian Interwar Years: A Palette For New Cultural Imagination Collage
I'd like to learn more about Australian art between the wars.
Atalanta's eclipse - Charles Meere Google Arts & Culture
Groundbreaking research has identified that levels of genetic diversity among Indigenous Australians may be among the highest in the world.
First Nations people first arrived on the Australian continent more than 65,000 years ago and dispersed to every corner of the country, where both strong cultural and genetic diversity developed between groups.
Discover how understanding this diversity can improve First Nations health
Brooke Sutton Contemporary Indigenous Artist
Lucy Culliton, contemporary Australian artist, known for her paintings of landscapes and still life
Also, would anyone be interested in a set of Don Sheil metal collectible homewares - a designer from Mornington, Australia
Would be happy to accept just postage (from Germany) for the lot.
All with the design of a flowering gum:
1. Bley bowl (fruit bowl)
2. 2 coasters -
3. Small square tray -
4. Medium square tray -
Boosts appreciated.
Portrait of Aboriginal Artist Linda Syddick Napaltjarri
Linda's Dreaming Paintings were inspired by her nomadic life in the desert, and the Dreaming of her father and stepfather. Linda's father died when Linda was about 18 months old her stepfather, artist Lankata Shorty Tjungurrayi, raised her and before he died in 1985, he asked Linda to carry on his work and paint his Dreaming.
Robert Hannaford is an Australian artist known for his realist paintings, portraits and sculptures
I'm finding the opacity of my acrylic paints to be a continuing issue. Being an artist is the eternal struggle of being able to sell your work so you can afford better materials. And like, living expenses. I need to fix my teeth. Oh god this life is hard, no wonder my parents didn't want me to be an artist!
Anyway. I dream of being able to lay down flat fields of colour. Do I need to move to enamel paint I kind of don't want to for the uh, health concerns.
Please enjoy this visual bubblegum.
We went to an art gallery opening and then had dinner out and then I had to get back to my painting or else I would simply combust. I need an easel.
The Convalescent, 1938
Australian Artist Jack Kilgour (1900-1987)
So pleased my favorite painting by a lovely person matches the colour of my walls perfectly!
Painting by shrubnaik on Instagram
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Peter Wadaymu Ganambarr (1930-1997) - Yolngu, Ngaymil clan, Dhuwa moiety
Bark Painting showing Wititj at Garrimala, c.1968-71
Galiwin'Ku, Australia
Bark, pigments 56 x 23.8 x 0.8 cm
On display at Baltimore Museum of Art
Wititj = the sacred rainbow serpent (olive python)
I love that you noticed! These are works by an artist called Julian Laffan. I bought them about 15 years ago - they were part of a large wall installation that was comprised of all sorts of tools. Each is the matrix of a woodcut with various scenes carved on the surface and inked up - but not printed.
I watched You Can Go Now, this hilarious, fierce and brilliant documentary by world renowned, but unknown to white Australia, artist, Richard Bell. Its directed by the much acclaimed, in every field she turns her attention to, Prof Larissa Behrendt.
An important watch for everyone living in a country that dispossessed its First Nations people.
Review: You Can Go Now is a scorching documentary about Indigenous artist Richard Bell
What an interesting story about creating art for the sake of it. It resonates. Most of my photography is unseen by others as I cant be bothered with curation on sharing sites. Flickr, Unsplash and Glass just feel like work.
This is not rubbish: retired Australian teacher painted thousands of works in secret
Here's a little preview of my Coastal Twist Festival piece for 2023!
Full reveal coming soon
The exhibition is on Sep 26 - Oct 1 at Fun Haus Factory, Gosford
Work by Australian artist Sydney Long. For more images, links & info, see my Lines and Colors post:
I have a solo exhibition opening here on Tamborine Mountain at the end of October. Hope to see some of you there!
This person walks past my daughters house most days, about mid-morning. This is how they walk. This is what they wear every single day. Sometimes there are the red mittens on. Sometimes not.
I just love the fact that they exist. I have painted them so I wont ever forget.
The humans who help me to feel like were all around, and we are all sort of on our own, but maybe were never particularly alone.
Watched a programme about Australian art and it depressed me so much. Much wonderful art, (few female!) spoken of, but it 's the whole ethos of a country's 'identity' in its appropriation of certain art to suit it's political and geographical position. So little about the spirit of the artist and art, much of its 'official' cultural appropriation. Artist's struggle enough but they're really bottom of the pile, if they're lucky, buried if not.
My dad came to Australia as a skilled migrant in the 70s, when that was a cool and accepted thing to do. He is now moving back home (Norway) and I am being gifted some very incredible items from his time here (not his work but people he has worked with).
Yesterday I saw the finalists for the , & prizes. This is what I later wrote
NEW ARTICLE: 'One Hundred Years of the Archibald Prize Australias Most Prestigious Art Award
'The Archie 100 exhibition chronicles both how Australias artistic temperament and the country itself have evolved over the past century.
Read here:
An older artwork -2007- inspired by a photo taken by when a bushfire threatened his home. Soft chalk pastel on A1 paper.
Changes are coming to the voting process used to select the winner of the Packing Room Prize, usually the first award made in the annual Archibald Prize for Australian portraiture
Hi Australian artists - this is VERY last minute, but it totally doable. is having its very first gay pride event and SPACE gallery is supporting the event with an exhibition.
Please boost :D