Hilary Talbot’s passing interests and activities
Posted in creatures, illustration, visual art on Apr 19th, 2005
This green parrot is one of the many lovely animal illustrations catalogued on The Medieval Bestiary: Animals in the Middle Ages. Its a nicely organized site, with alphabetical ordering and cross-referencing, and information about the beasts from manuscripts. For each beast there is usually a gallery of different images from different sources.
Did you know, for [...]
Posted in canberra, fun, politics, street art, visual art on Apr 16th, 2005
Canberra has been convulsed over the naughtiness of one of the local government’s staffers who was caught doing a spot of anti-Howard stencil graffiti. You have to hand it to local politics for making mountains out of mole hills!
If you are interested in street art, take a look at The Wooster Collective: A Celebration of [...]
Posted in books, canberra, sculpture, visual art on Mar 3rd, 2005
This is a dawn picture of one of my favourite sculptures in Canberra, on Ellery Crescent outside the School of Art. Its by a Finnish artist, Olavi Lanu, and was made in 1982.
You can see it enlarged and from a few different angles here.
At first I really did think it was group of real granite [...]
Posted in craft, visual art on Feb 21st, 2005
Finding Loobylu, and a very pleasant morning at Tilley’s last week, spent drinking coffee and sorting through a friend’s collection of fabrics, has made me dig out a picture of the quilt I made for my daughter about 8 years ago now. Its still loved and in use, but getting worn in places, particularly the [...]
Posted in books, visual art on Feb 13th, 2005
This year I ordered a Georgia O’Keefe 2005 Calendar online, having been a slowcoach and letting January slip by without getting a new calendar for the year. It arrived last Friday, and it’s beautiful:
I do love her paintings, particularly her later more abstract landscapes.I used to like getting a UNICEF wall calendar each year, the [...]
Posted in canberra, creatures, puppetry, puppets, sculpture, street theatre, visual art on Oct 17th, 2004
Here are some pictures of a few other things that took my fancy at Floriade - I like the roving entertainment more than the massed European flowers.
There was a rainbow serpent swimming in Nerang Pool, designed and created by Aeon Mortimer. Its a big inflatable, and apparently it can spray a fine mist of water [...]
Posted in arts, politics, visual art on Jun 25th, 2004
World Refugee Day 2004 was held last Sunday, June 20th. In Canberra the day was celebrated with the installation of a Field of Hearts on the lawns outside Parliament House. The hearts had been sent in from all over Australia, and with messages of support for refugees written on them, were symbolic of a [...]
Posted in books, visual art on Jun 23rd, 2004
I’ve always had a feeling that the time around 1860 was a watershed in many ways. Apart from anything else it was when Darwin published his revolutionary ‘Origin of the Species’.
Earlier this year Scott Draves released a rendering of some of the beautiful images in Ernst Haeckel’s Kunstformen der Natur (Artforms of Nature). In these [...]
Posted in books, sculpture, visual art on Jun 5th, 2004
Amazon UK has a couple of copies of the book ‘Ron Mueck: Boy’ by the photographer Gautier Deblonde. This is a photographic diary of the nine months it took to construct, ship and assemble the sculpture in Venice. It was the ‘Art in Photo Essays’ award recipient in the World Press Photo of the Year, [...]
Posted in make, technology, visual art on Jun 5th, 2004
Katinka Matson makes stunning images of flowers and other natural objects, using a flatbed scanner and other new technologies:
“The process involves scanning flowers and other natural objects on an open-top scanner from underneath the objects with a slo-moving sensor. This technique allows for unusual opportunities to explore new ideas involving light, time, and rhythm.
It is [...]