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Hawkesbury One Exhibition Launch
For at least a year, we’ve been anticipating the showing at Newcastle Region Art Gallery of the Hawkesbury One Collection. This is the art collectors group that I’ve been involved in for almost ten years now. In short, we are a group of friends and family members from Sydney and Newcastle who have combined our [...]
New Art Work
There’s something very exciting about getting one of those “Australia Post Cards” in your letterbox, isn’t there? Sometimes you know what’s arrived at the post office, other times you don’t. This morning, as I went to the post office, it was a combination of both. I was pretty sure it was an artwork from 4A [...]
Love This City – Vivid Festival
Sometimes the Opera Bar can be frustratingly crowded. In contrast to the “old days” when Opera Bar only attracted a handful of theatre-goers prior to an opening night, these days it’s usually very, very busy, especially on weekends, and particularly during summer. Although my friend Colin and I had agreed to meet at four-thirty, circumstances [...]
Hawkesbury Exhibition & Video
Despite the fact I’m feeling a little crappy at the moment – health issues forced me to take a day off work – there was a bright spot in my day. I took “delivery” of a video made about the art collecting group, Hawkesbury One, that I’m a member of. I mentioned the group a [...]
Hawkesbury One
Even though I’ve spent most of my career reading, writing and speaking, I realised today how hard it can be to get the words “just right”. I spent a few hours today with @JanneRyan working on an invitation for an exhibition opening we’re both involved in at the Newcastle Region Art Gallery. Since 2002, we’ve [...]
Attracting Crowds
As I wasn’t in Sydney for World Youth Day in 2008, I somehow missed the erection of a statue of Pope John Paul The Great (he used to be just JP2) in an area of St Mary’s Cathedral in Sydney. According to the inscription, it was a gift from the Italian community of Sydney. I’m [...]
Hard Sleeper in Sydney
A few months ago when I went to China to visit my friend Kate, she was hosting a group of Australian artists. At the time, they were based in Beijing, but they had been travelling around the country ahead of a group exhibition called Hard Sleeper at Beijing’s Red Gate Gallery. Tonight, I was so [...]
Edge of Elsewhere
I’d highly recommend an exhibition Kate and I attended the opening of tonight, at Sydney’s 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art. It’s a gallery space which mostly features work by Australian artists who have an Asian cultural background, but often in collaboration with people from other cultural backgrounds. As you enter the downstairs part of [...]
Beautiful Sunday
Twelve months ago in Sydney we were recovering from the dust storm. Twelve months later it remains a topic for conversation in Sydney. And it’s an event which has influenced two of the photographs in this year’s Sydney Life art exhibition in Hyde Park. One is a reasonably straightforward representation of the storm taken on [...]
Visually Spectacular
Work is abuzz at the moment with the new twenty-four hour news channel, ABC News24 which, no doubt, you’ve read about or have seen advertised on television. And all the buzz is happening at my end of the big building. As I go up and down from my office on the second floor to the [...]
SMH Article
As mentioned in my previous post, the art collectors group I’m involved in has been profiled in today’s Sydney Morning Herald in “Spectrum”. I can’t find the actual article online, but here’s an online image at least. I’m sure that when I return to Sydney, I’ll have a chance to look at the story in [...]
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