It's becoming more apparent quite how much and to what extent my smartphone's presence has changed my interaction with the world. Perhaps this is less about my experience of landscape and more about how I negotiate every interaction. I have installed cameras in my home,...
Artists like Luc Tymans, Gerhard Richter, Alex Katz, use photographs, sometimes found photographs as references for paintings. The work seems to have spaces. Absences that perhaps the viewer can fill in with their own memories or readings. Spaces the viewer can inhabit. They speak of...
I’m reading The Artist in the Machine (Arthur, L. Miller, 2019), and it strikes me as a little inconceivable that it was in fact written in 2019. In the first 4 chapters on creativity and genius, it appears this is only something for white men....
My training in painting was quite traditional. Oil paint had not only its own material rules but rules associated with what makes a good painting. What is right. Paintings should be painterly and broad, not too tight and fiddly. Contrast should be high, almost chiaroscuro...
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Hobart has long been the setting for the picturesque. A European eye finding the sublime. It isn’t strange I suppose. It must have felt like the ends of the earth. The landscape overpowering on its own rendered even more by its distance from home. A...
The film will be playing on a loop in the Seminar room for the day, from 8:30 until we leave for the day (4pm at HBC?). It is projected directly onto the wall in the space. I would like the room to be darker, and...
How you experience landscape changes through the filter of your own perception. Through the last year, I have had increasing migraines. They change how I respond to a landscape - I dislike the sea in the sun because it's sparkly, I like the rain, the...
