Blake Prize and Sydney Life

September 24, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Psychedelic Reconstruction by Jacqueline Drinkall

I spent the day visiting two of my favourite annual art exhibitions in Sydney "Sydney Life" and "The Blake Prize". "Sydney Life" is a photographic competition and exhibition held each year in Hyde Park. "The Blake Prize" is a spiritual/religious themed art competition and exhibition held each year at the National Art School. They're exhibitions I enjoy because they both challenge and entertain. The Blake Prize, in particular, is a favourite. It began as an art prize for "religious art" in a … [Read more...]

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St Patrick’s Day

March 17, 2011 By 2 Comments
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Let me first of all wish my sister, Pat, a very happy birthday. Although she wasn't born and christened "Pat" that's what we've always called her. In fact, we call her "Patsy" a lot of the time and "Pat" on other occasions. The only time anyone ever uses her real name is on an official letter of some type. And why not? I come from a family with strong Irish Catholic roots. We may not have been regular church-goers, but we've always identified as Catholic, and we've always identified as … [Read more...]

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Talkin’ about God

July 23, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Duncan Young, Pamela Jikiemi and Robert Alexander

Colin, Peter and I crossed the bridge tonight to see "The God Committee" at The Ensemble which was a really enjoyable, interesting play. The setting for the play is a hospital meeting room in an American city somewhere, where a committee must make decisions about candidates for transplant surgery. They have a set of "independant criteria" such as the candidates not being drug users, having a good support network and so on. But the play demonstrates the apparent greyness of these … [Read more...]

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Lieber Gott

December 17, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Lieber Gott

With all this Copenhagen stuff going on, I thought this was an interesting contribution to the discussion. It's a song by Frida from ABBA (of course) which is a "prayer" about peace, the environment and everything. Here's the translation that's on Youtube. Shout out to Matt for the music :) English Translation (courtesy of Matt): "Dear God" Tell me, dear God, do you hear me? This prayer is for you Oh, do not let the world go down Let us be responsible for each other Why do we … [Read more...]

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Holy Pictures

September 3, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Blake Prize 2009

As a child our house was full of "holy pictures" (as my mum called them). In fact, aside from my sister's wedding photographs, and my ABBA posters, the only pieces of art that adorned our walls were pieces of Catholic iconography. "The Crucifixion", "The Last Supper", "Mary's Assumption into Heaven": that kind of thing. While some Christians really freak out at this kind of iconography - equating it to idol worship, seeing it as something which gets in the way of a relationship with God … [Read more...]

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Spong

August 18, 2007 By 3 Comments
I was given it at work yesterday and, having gone to work without a tie yesterday, I immediately put it on. That is quite a nice tie, a colleague said, though she recoiled in horror when I told her what it was.

As I walked through the streets of Glebe last night I wondered how many people would recognise my tie. Was I from the CIA or the FBI or was I a member of another unknown unit in Sydney for just a couple of weeks. As I sat down in a small cocktail bar on Glebe Point Road and drank a glass of Pinot Grigio, I wondered if people would look at me as if I was a member of the Federal Police. In case you hadn't recognised it, it's the official APEC tie. I was in Glebe last night to see Bishop John … [Read more...]

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