Hilary Talbot’s passing interests and activities
Posted in art, photography on Jun 23rd, 2008
Tim Raupach’s first photography exhibition is now at The God’s Cafe at ANU. It opened last Thursday and runs until mid July. Tim is my son. He takes both urban and country scenes and landscapes, with a finely observed sense of colour and composition. Walls, bicycles, mountains, grasses and pattern are some of the recurring […]
Posted in art, music, photography, video, visual art on Jun 2nd, 2008
Now playing - strange trajectories, the 2007 ANU School of Art Emerging Artist Support Theme (EASS) award exhibition currently on at the Alliance Francaise in Canberra, is featuring the work of Michal Glickson (painting) and Anna Madeleine (photomedia). Anna is my daughter. She has two cool new video art pieces in this exhibition. She has […]
Posted in environment, photography, politics on May 10th, 2007
Murdoch turning his empire green: ‘Although some of his newspapers were once sceptical about global warming, he said that although he was no scientist, he knew how to assess a risk. “This one is clear. Climate change poses clear,
catastrophic threats. We may not agree on the extent, but we certainly can’t afford the risk of […]
Posted in make, mask, photographs, photography, politics, portfolio on Feb 16th, 2007
An action shot of Joh Bjelke-Peterson welcoming guests to the launch of the Campaign - Federal Elections exhibition at Old Parliament House yesterday! Here is a slightly clearer one of him with Malcolm Fraser. Old Parliament House had a collection of the photographic masks of politicians, but I was asked to make the cartoon Joh […]
Posted in art, photographs, photography on Mar 6th, 2006
This wonderful photo of a hill somewhere near Omarama, South Island, Aotearoa/New Zealand is from Cutflat, Tim Raupach’s new photoblog site. His photos were previously here.
Tim takes some breathtakingly beautiful shots, as well as looking at things from unusual angles and with a humorous eye. He is also a rockclimber, and - a disclaimer! […]
Posted in canberra, photographs, photography on Nov 9th, 2005
A bunch of local tertiary students had an installation of dovecots at Floriade this year. I was really happy with this photo of one of the dovecots.
It reminds me of that lovely William Carlos Williams poem, ‘The Red Wheelbarrow’:
so much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
chickens.
Or even Dylan’s ‘Buckets of Rain’:
Little red wagon
Little red […]
Posted in make, photographs, photography, portfolio on Aug 27th, 2005
Posted in photographs, photography on Aug 11th, 2005
A pile of rag rugs outside a shop in Tilba, NSW:
Posted in photographs, photography on Jul 29th, 2005
Green Cape Lighthouse in Ben Boyd National Park, on the south coast of New South Wales. Built in 1883.
Two other photos here and here.