David Hockney

December 1, 2016 | Posted by Peter Jakobsen | ART |

(National Gallery of Victoria, December 2016) An extensive selection of the later Hockney excluded his Californian scenes* of young men in swimming pools (à la Gods and Monsters) but featured a curiously enticing mix of media, from multi-layered tracing paper (by which he gets an almost phosphorescent effect in flowers or clouds hovering over Yosemite): …to mobile phone etchings and ‘joiners’ in bite-sized pastels: To cite the well-known phrase about Trollope, Hockney is the “chronicler of small beer,” and a post-pop artist to boot, but he does it with a fair dash of style: And his local landscapes of Yorkshire, where he…

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The Judges

October 15, 2016 | Posted by Peter Jakobsen | ART, AUSTRALIANIA |

Arthur Boyd’s The Judges, Adelaide University, October 2016. During the International Criminal Law Conference’s 30th anniversary (1985 being a banner year in many ways, like 1986) in Adelaide this year, the extremely hip organisers arranged, in their wisdom, a private viewing of Boyd’s series commissioned in 1967 by the Adelaide University.  Originally to be a series of mosaics, this proved too expensive and time-consuming, so Boyd submitted his 12 pieces of oils on board, with lead frames to add ballast. As the lovely people from the University Collections apparatus told us, Boyd heightened his regular theme of frailty and shame in the hope…

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This is Our Room

September 30, 2016 | Posted by Guest Reviewer | ART, CRAFT |

Or at least, it would be, were we made of sugar, icing and cinnamon!  And it even features Peter’s drinks cabinet, disguised as a globe!  Good one, Lesley!

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Spring Crafts

September 28, 2016 | Posted by Guest Reviewer | ART, CRAFT |

Spring means butterflies…bees, and sun:  

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Quilt-Edged

September 24, 2016 | Posted by Lesley Jakobsen | ART, CRAFT |

Some of our quilting and stitching… We’re running out of wall room, so someone will have to put their foot down:

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