Hilary Talbot’s passing interests and activities
Posted in books, design, illustration on Feb 13th, 2006
Lucy Tartan’s review of Margaret Atwood’s novel Alias Grace over at Sorrow at Sills Bend this morning prompted me to go hunting for my sketch of all the quilt square patterns that were used as chapter illustrations. I liked how the motif worked in with the story and themes of each chapter much better than […]
Posted in miscellaneous on Feb 5th, 2006
This is my absolute favourite cake. I like it best when it’s completely cooled down, and without any icing. It’s also really good buttered like bread. It always has interesting little dark specks in it, though I have known people to make banana cake that doesn’t - but that’s just weird!
Banana Bread
2 cups SR flour
125 […]
Posted in art, craft, creatures, make, sculpture, visual art on Feb 4th, 2006
I love the look of the sculptures that the Finnish visual artist Oona Tikkaoja makes, in particular her wolf creature and lizard robot killer. They are soft sculpture.
I also think her wooden horses are spectacular. They are beautifully jointed, and immediately conjure up thoughts of the mythical Trojan Horse. Take a look at the […]
Posted in fun on Feb 4th, 2006
Four of us in turn in the queue at the supermarket last night had multiples of bright yellow things: a bottle of detergent and a stack of sponges, a bunch of soup packets, bottles of lemon juice, and my hand of bananas. I felt very colour co-ordinated! Wouldn’t it be funny if you had to […]
There are only 3 days left to catch all-mother, a play presented by barb barnett’s serious theatre and eRTH Visual and Physical at the Street Theatre in Canberra. I’m seeing the last performance, and looking forward to it.
“all-mother combines rigging and harness technology with puppetry, movement and music to re-imagine and re-tell the Lilith myth. […]
Posted in books, illustration, puppetry, puppets, street theatre on Feb 1st, 2006
Shaun Tan now has his own website. It looks relatively new. It’s great to see a number of illustrations under each picture book listing, and read his thoughtful and friendly commentary. I was also delighted to see some images from the puppetry-based theatre production of The Red Tree, which was produced as part of […]