Category: Art
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Displaced Flora Master Class: Artistic Responses to Climate Change
Recently I participated in the Displaced Flora master class at the Noosa Regional Gallery. Conducted by artist Donna Davis and botanist Professor Darren Cray, it bought together two of my passions – ecology and art. Donna and Darren asked six artists to respond creatively to a scientific project that translocated of tropical plants from their…
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A painting & a photo celebrating Spring
Spring blooming in the Botanical Gardens, Melbourne, Australia
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On the Edinburgh Fringe Festival: cars, women, gender and litter
Litter bin in Edinburgh with Graffiti
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The light shifts in the Inner Hebrides
My artist’s eye marvels at how the light constantly shifts across the tableau in the the Lochs of the Inner Hebrides. A plein-air painter’s nightmare, the effect of light on the sea and the landscape can change in the instance of a shutter click, making it even challenging for photographers, especially when on board a…
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Sculpture: Queen Victoria and St Elvis
A life sized sculpture of Elvis Presley projects towards visitors in the gallery on the first floor of the Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery, while on the ground floor, Queen Victoria presides over the East Wing. One hundred and eight years elapsed between Francis Williamson’s beautifully detailed refined marble rendition of Her Majesty and Sean…
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Art, Artefact, or Design?
: Art, Artefact, or Design? In the East Wing of the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum I tilted my iPhone upwards to capture the floating heads suspended from the ceiling. I wasn’t alone. Have you noticed how tourists and visitors always take photos of the same things? Clearly these faces suspended above the exhibits…
ART by Jude Tulloch 