Hans Silvester, and the plight of the Omo River Valley Tribespeople
Those of us who love the arts know that the thought of life without art is a pitiful one. Some of us, myself included, would even go so far as to say that our lives [...]
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Beautiful Mourning
About six years ago, my mother and I were lunching in a restaurant in London’s Primrose Hill when an unbelievably beautiful funeral procession came past. Two dappled grey [...]
Through a Glass Darkly: the art of Belinda Sinclair and Clairy Laurence
It was short and sweet and over so quickly I almost missed seeing it altogether, but fate intervened and thus it came about that I made it in to Jugglers Art Space for [...]
The Value of Shadows: Judith Wright’s Desire
“One realized all sorts of things. The value of an illusion, for instance, and that the shadow can be more important than the substance.” Jean Rhys, Quartet Back in [...]
The Divine Work of Amelia Fais Harnas
There is a word in Greek, parea, meaning a group of friends who gather together purely for the enjoyment of each other’s company, to share their stories, their ideas [...]
Planet Red Earth
In honour of World Earth Day, I thought I’d take you on a wander through the work of Red Earth, an international environmental art group whose core practice revolves [...]
A Primitive View of Art
What came first – the craftsman or the artist? It’s a question I seem to be constantly returning to at the moment. The words seem obvious and intertwined – [...]
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