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Tuesday, December 15, 2009 - 17:52
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It has been totally fascinating to witness senior textile conservator, Elizabeth-Anne Haldane's meticulous conservation of this beautiful piece over the last year or so. In this short film she describes some of the processes involved. The images below give a little more detail.
In recent history, small remedial patches (some taken from the original tunic) had been stitched to the inside of the...
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 - 11:18
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The opening to the public of the new Medieval and Renaissance Galleries is imminent! A suite of ten galleries will house a sumptuous array of nearly two thousand objects including this stunning Egyptian Tunic (detail above) in Gallery 8: Faiths and Empires 300-1250. I have been invited to run a short tapestry course drawing inspiration from this piece and the other fabulous tapestries that are to...
Monday, November 23, 2009 - 18:28
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A selection of drawings and designs from the weekend workshop at Birmingham Art Gallery… done by all ages - mostly at the younger end of the spectrum; from age 2 (!) to adult.
Friday, November 13, 2009 - 17:29
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I’ll be in Birmingham this weekend running a drop in workshop for families as part of the Taking Time programme of events (see post below).
Each living thing has specific individual characteristics and qualities of form, colour and texture. Here, ash stalks.
We will be working with these and other natural found marks from fields, woods and heath to explore rhythm and pattern....
Friday, November 13, 2009 - 16:19
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Calculus
2009
2 x 3 m
natural stone on gesso
(photo credit: John Coombes)
Calculus
“…To see a World in a Grain of Sand…” William Blake
I wanted to take something tiny & insignificant; very small stones unnoticed underfoot on a beach, out of context… and through repetition and scale of work, subject the viewer to be made small in their presence.
Each tiny...
Friday, November 13, 2009 - 13:53
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The artists of Northeast Arnhem Land are famous for the quality of their fine bark paintings. In my search to find images on the Yirrkala.com website I kept being drawn to the hauntingly beautiful work of Gulumbu Yunupingu.
Her painting is actually atypical in that the compositions lack any figurative element and I think it is perhaps in this abstract quality, where the mind is untethered...
Thursday, November 12, 2009 - 17:56
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Of Time ‐ Place ‐ History ‐ Geography ‐ Geology ‐ Life ‐ Links ‐ Web Community ‐ Commerce ... and Art So. Eastern Arnhem Land. I carried on zooming over the map, compelled to explore deeper. Flying as the girl in my childhood dreams, above the red earth tracks and trails, ridges and bluffs, inlets and promontories of this ancient land. And then a few miles to the west of Nhulunbuy, among the...
Thursday, November 5, 2009 - 12:50
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There has been a wealth of really interesting World Beach submissions recently… including a small cluster from a remote region in Northeast Arnhem Land at the top end of Australia. I wonder did they hear the Radio Australia broadcast? I don’t know.
I find maps generally, supremely engrossing and the World Beach map particularly so. Each entry stimulates a strong desire to zoom in to...
Thursday, September 24, 2009 - 15:39
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I was there (so early) this morning.
Darkness. Stab of the alarm. Hot tea. Ringing phone….
…. and a warm welcome to Radio Australia from the soft accented Barbara Heggen and Isabelle Genoux. Then immediately transported to the Pacific through a lively track from the New Caledonian Islands. And straight into the interview.
You can listen to it here:
Sue Lawty / World Beach Project...
Wednesday, September 23, 2009 - 15:43
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UPDATE: The World Beach Video is now LIVE on YouTube and Vimeo !