Hilary Talbot’s passing interests and activities
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 puppetry, puppets, street theatre, visual art on Oct 13th, 2007
(Photo credit: Cheryl Lawrie)
I’m kicking myself for missing Born in a Taxi’s The Boat of Faith street theatre act at Floriade. It was created for the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games and is based on Michael Leunig’s whimsical cartoon characters Mr Curly and his direction finding duck, old favourites of mine. Bryony Anderson was the […]
Posted in animation, visual art on Oct 10th, 2007
My daughter, Anna Raupach, has put some of her cool animations online! They belong to a body of work focusing on youth and music culture which she has been developing during her honours year at the ANU School of Art. As a finished piece, these and others will show on 9 big screens, flowing and […]
Posted in sculpture, visual art on Oct 9th, 2007
I had a few days in Sydney last week, and made a point of visiting the National Maritime Museum, not to clamber on old ships or warships like everyone else, but to see Timothy Horn’s jellyfish chandelier sculpture, Discomedusae (in the Jellyfish - nature inspires art exhibit). It’s quite amazing: about 2 metres across, based […]
Posted in photographs, street art, visual art on May 31st, 2007
A cool mural on the side of the Middleton pub in South Australia. These Southern Right whales used to be hunted nearby at Victor Harbor, just out to sea from the place we often stay at at Christmas time. They are endangered, but have been coming back in recent years. I’ve seen humpback whales […]
Posted in art, design, sculpture, visual art on May 15th, 2007
A 1956 family in model aeroplane kit form, Guy Bottroff’s cool sculpture The Model Family, at the Helpmann Academy Graduate Exhibition in Adelaide this last March. A few more photos here.
Posted in books, visual art on Apr 3rd, 2006
This is a cool idea: the Rejoice Giant Comb! According to How advertising spoiled me it was devised by Somak Chaudhury, an art director from Leo Burnett in Bangkok.
It makes me think of Rohinson Mistry’s novel, A Fine Balance, because the story starts with a vivid image of one of the protagonists buying a comb […]
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 art, design, illustration, make, street art, visual art on Nov 13th, 2005
At the moment I am painting two traffic control boxes in the Urban Services project ‘Colour-in Canberra’. The first one, The Suburban Duck, is on the corner of Yamba Drive and Kitchener St in Garran, just across the road from the Canberra Hospital. It tells a story from my back garden: about how foxes are […]
Posted in art, make, visual art on Oct 15th, 2005
The cost of painting a king salmon on the fuselage of an Alaskan Airlines 373 has been roundly criticized, but the image is pretty cool. The designer was Mark Boyle, a Seattle-based wildlife artist who is also a recognized leader in the livery design of commercial aircraft. Alaskan Airlines has some pictures that show […]