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Sense of Place

A collection of 16 posts

Urban Landscape

Urban Scenes Around the World

The remarkable scenes of urban and city scapes we bring you today from "Unsplash" are a timely reminder how beautiful the world is and how incredibly talented humans are. Take a moment to look around you at your immediate environment and notice the beauty no matter how small or large.

Urban Landscape

Kevin McKay - Towers and Spires: Vaucluse Paintings - Part Two

Urban landscape artist Kevin McKay is very gifted and able "to juxtapose the domestic and contemporary with the historical and herioc". We are very privileged to have a front seat at his current exhibition showcasing buidlings along Sydney's South Head Peninsula.

Urban Landscape

Kevin McKay - Towers and Spires: Vaucluse Paintings - Part One

This post takes you on a visual and historic journey with urban landscape artist Kevin McKay as we showcase the paintings which make up his exhibition of "Sydney's South Head Peninsula" occurring at May▲Space Online until the end of November.

Peru

Chaposos Huamanguinos: Excursion Homeland Peru

Rebeca Dorich is a Peruvian artist with a great passion to preserve Peruvian identity and culture through a participatory project called "Chaposos Huamanguinos". Meet the Chaposos who are setting out to promote what it means to be Peruvian.

Realism

George Wesley Bellows

George Bellows is a second generation Ashcan School painter who created the most amazing evocative paintings of urban landscapes and seascapes.

America

The Ashcan School, New York

Today we learn a little about the "Ashcan School," a group of painters who pioneered Urban Realism in New York in the early 1900s. Image: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.

Photography

Mount Melbourne Majestic

Mount Melbourne, an extinct volcano in Antarctica is our next stop in visiting places called Melbourne. It's a wonderland of ice which abounds with shapes and shades to delight an artist's eye. Image credit: en.wikipedia.org

Dynasty

William Dexter from Melbourne Derbyshire stands with the Bendigo Diggers

What binds Melbourne Victoria Australia with Melbourne England? Read this post to discover some known links plus the remarkable story of English artist William Dexter. Image: Red Ribbon Banner designed by William Dexter (eurekapedia.org)

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"Picnic Train in the Desert" by John Wylie - Landscape Ambiguous

Through the John Wylie painting "Picnic Train in the Desert" focusing on Broken Hill you will learn the tragic story of the "Picnic Train". John Wylie and I join to highlight the importance of embracing difference and learning tolerance. Image: Railway Town by John Wylie

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Igloos in coastal Eastern Eyre Peninsula, South Australia

Showcasing some strange "igloo type buildings" in outback South Australia which were built during WWII as air raid shelters and a Radar Station 203. Photo credit: Rob Nankivell

Sense of Place

A Sense of Place: Part Two - Through the Eyes and Mind of Marc Chagall

Sharing my thoughts on "a sense of place" and how this arose in Marc Chagall and influenced his works throughout his life.

Sense of Place

A Sense of Place: Part One

To understand an artist & their works you need to understand their "sense of place". The first post on this topic contains information about Anne Newman. Included information about Marc Chagall & his sense of place.

Sense of Place

Escaping to Another World

Sharing some "other worlds" where we can escape to at the moment as illustrated by Louis Maniquet, SGR, Asif Nahas, Alexander Andrews. Includes a link to podcasts from Beth Erikson of Artists Network.

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Trees

Sharing some images from the National Arboretum Canberra. Also publicising an exhibition by poet and artist Belinda Broughton who lost her home in Lobethal (Adelaide Hills), South Australia. Announcing an exhibition on the relationship of trees to us being held at the Hayward Gallery, London

Relaxation

Your Favourite Place

Your Favourite Place might be a river or a mountain. Let's explore some of these. Image: Mount Cook New Zealand Photo: Anne Newman

Buildings and Structures

A Place to Call Home

Examining the concept of "Home" from the humble miner's cottage upwards. Includes Alina Cohen's article about "Rachel Whiteread's 'House' was Unlivable, Controversial, and Unforgettable". Image: My family home, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia