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Archive for the ‘art’ Category

John Langdon

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

My late father-in-law John Langdon was a potter who made sculptures using a wood fired kiln and ingredients he sourced locally on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. The site is made by his daughter, my partner Linden, to commemorate his work.

sculpture by the late John Langdon of Queensland, Australia

Nate Williams

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Nate Williams

Republicrat - Purple State by Nate Williams

Michael Schlitz

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Michael Schlitz

Time Boy, 2004, by Michael Schlitz

Cloaca Makes Art Poo

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

Cloaca Makes Art Poo in very bad taste for an artist with limited interests - entertaining, shocking and contemporary. Don’t watch this installation with a weak stomach.

The Artful Brain

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

Neuroscientist Vilayanur S. Ramachandran, Director of the Centre for Brain and Cognition at the University of California (San Diego), has some interesting insight into how the we perceive the brain in his Lecture 3: the Artful Brain - available as text and as a podcast. This series of lectures explains a lot about perception and how we interpret the world around us. Why does Picasso stimulate our brains just so…?

Yang Yi

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

Yang Yi

Uprooted 12 by Yang Yi

Barnaby Whitfield

Friday, March 21st, 2008

Barnaby Whitfield

Little Deaths, All The Same (The Artist As An Expiring European HoneyBee), 2007, Pastel on paper by Barnaby Whitfield

Janice Luckman

Monday, March 17th, 2008

Janice Luckman

Bottled Sunshine by Janice Luckman