Tag: Travel
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Cupid awake and asleep
Reflections from a window provide a modern take on Morris Burke Parkinson’s late Victorian photogravures of four-year-old Josephine Anderson, copyrighted by the photographer in 1897. Parkinson’s work is highly stylized and dramatic with something of a staged effect, typical of Pictorialism, a style of photography made popular by Henry Peach Robinson in the 1860’s. The…
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Take time to notice: Native Iris
You need to have an eye for detail and look up close to appreciate the beauty of Australian flora such as this little jewell, a native iris called Patersonia sericea. Had I photographed the vista at Emu Mountain, the irises would have been lost, mere dots. Emu Mountian – a hill really – where whale researchers…
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Suspended sphere
Sadly I don’t know the name of the artist who created this beautiful sphere suspended outside the Australian National Gallery in Canberra.
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Home again
Landed at Maroochydore Airport to see the sun setting as we headed home along the David Low Way.
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Marimekko at Bendigo Art Gallery
How lucky to be in Bendigo just days before the close of the Marimekko exhibition at the Bendigo Art Gallery. The designers’ sketches and concept art interested me most, but the long swathes of cotton material hung on the wall had an art-like quality. Design was foremost in the ethos and dictated clothing shape and…
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Gentle Madness at the F Project Warrnambool
Wonderful to see this very original and inspirational exhibition of textile art by my sister Robyn Burns.
ART by Jude Tulloch 