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11 Stories from the River DyarubbinSTREETON LOOKOUT AUDIO WALK : 11 Stories from the River DyarubbinListen to stories of Dyarubbin / The Hawkesbury River at Streeton Lookout and original music & song they have inspired as you look out over the river at Freeman’s Reach, NSW, Australia...or from the comfort of wherever you are.
Dharug educator Rhiannon Wright is our guide as we take in the glorious view over Dyarubbin & her vast floodplain, contemplate Dyarubbin’s formation and how the river's dreaming, the rainbow serpent, Gurangady, reflects the rivers geology.
We learn how the Dharug cared for the resources of Waradya / Lagoons and the Richmond floodplain, about the impact of colonisation & land grants along the...2024-08-311h 04
Sarau do Conto Surreal*9 – Brasil de Londrina (Maurício Arruda Mendonça)*Episódio especial Autores Londrinenses
A história de hoje é: Brasil de Londrina.
Escrita por Maurício Arruda Mendonça: poeta, dramaturgo e tradutor. Publicou os livros de poemas Luzes de Outono (2021) que reúne toda a sua poesia. Seus contos foram publicados no livro Londrinenses (2010) publicado pela Editora Kan. Recebeu os prêmios Shell-RJ de Melhor Autor Teatral em 2008 e 2012 pelas peças Inveja dos Anjos e A Marca da Água. Em 2013 e 2014 recebeu por duas vezes o prêmio Fringe First Award concedido durante o Festival de Teatro de Edimburgo, pelas peças A Marca da...2023-04-0409 min
Gretchen Miller | HomegroundTiny blooms - the art of Christine JohnsonGardens, flowers and the creative process—today we explore all three as we meet flower painter Christine Johnson, and follow the threads of inspiration leading to a new art exhibition entirely of Australian native flowers. Christine's work over the past decades has focussed on gardens and flowers—most recently massive oil paintings that blow up the size of the flower to fill the picture frame. Until recently one of her primary sources has been her childhood garden, filled with exotics - roses, camellias, and the like. But when she moved to Melbourne's Lower Plenty region, Christine moved closer to the bush...2022-06-0750 min
Two Chairs TalkingEpisode 49: Delving Down UnderDavid and Perry look at Australian literature, ranging from a book about bushrangers written in serial form in 1882 to modern science fiction.
Reading overload (00:30)
Comfort reads (01:50)
Hugo Award nominations (02:47)
Nebula Awards short list (07:58)
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (00:05)
The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin (00:17)
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (00:22)
The Midnight Bargain by C. L. Polk (00:42)
Black Sun by Rebecca Rowanhorse (00:22)
Network Effect by Martha Wells (01:22)
Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark (03:35)
Such is Life by Joseph Furphy (04:42)
The Watch Tower by Elizabeth Harrower (08:12)
Robbery Under Arms by Rolf Boldrewood (08:47)
Dispersion by Greg Egan (05:59)
The Black Opal by Ka...2021-03-301h 19
blndIo NoThere was a time when I thought that mixing as many genres as possible in one tune was the way forward. This track is from that era.
(The painting is 'The purple noon's transparent might' by Arthur Streeton)2021-01-1003 min.jpeg)
Talking with PaintersEp 98: Wayne Tunnicliffe, curator of ‘Streeton’In the late 19th century, impressionism swept through the art world. In Australia, a group of young artists embraced the new movement – they would meet in artist’s camps and paint en plein air. Among them was a young Arthur Streeton who would in due course become one of Australia’s most loved and respected artists.
Wayne Tunnicliffe has curated an outstanding retrospective of Streeton’s work. Wayne is Head Curator of Australian art at the Art Gallery of NSW, and the retrospective gathers together over 150 of Streeton’s works, some not seen in public in over 100 years. This i...2020-10-1152 min
Quiz and HersS5 E9 - Justin and Hallie Go Down UnderThis week, Hallie has one more chance to build up a lead before the end of the season, and Justin brings six bonzer trivia questions about the land down under, Australia. We talk Aussie current events, geography, art, and more!3:29: Q1 (Everything Else): Since the end of John Howard’s term in December 2007, Australia has had five different prime ministers, none of whom has served a full three-year term, but one of whom served two nonconsecutive, partial terms. Name any of them.12:03: Q2 (Sports & Games): The Ashes is the unusual name of the biannual Test ser...2019-09-0959 min
The Five Minute Art Show: A Podcast About Art by an Art LoverPassing Shower - Arthur StreetonAfter five decades in storage this art prize finalist is restored to it's former glory2019-08-2204 min
Artful PainterAndrew Tischler - Pursuing Artistic TruthAndrew Tischler pursues artistic truth in his painting. Currently residing in New Zealand, Andrew was born in Texas. Later, his family immigrated to Australia when he was a young child. The son of sculpturer, Andrew loved to look at his father’s art books. He became enthralled with American wildlife painter Carl Rungius. Moved by the paintings he saw, Andrew began painting at a young age, and quickly progressed to become a professional, full-time artist by the time he was 21 years of age. Early in his career, Andrew strove to create quality paintings. In order to do th...2018-10-172h 19Talking with PaintersEp 52: Gina KalabishisGina Kalabishis’s work is about relationships and connection; connecting with nature and connecting with each other.
Her recent show at Flinders Lane Gallery, ‘Bundanon Floor to Sky’, drew on her time spent within the landscape of Bundanon, the gift that artist Arthur Boyd and his wife Yvonne gave to the Australian people. Bundanon is a property of over 1000 hectares on the Shoalhaven river in NSW which offers residencies to artists and writers, an extensive education program and much more.
From her time at Bundanon, Kalabishis has produced an astonishing body of work. Her triptych ‘Bundanon...2018-08-1254 minTalking with PaintersEp 44: Tim AllenImagine you’re out in the wilderness at least an hour’s walk from any sign of human life. It could be very hot, it could be freezing, and in front of you lies a canyon or a snow bank or a river glittering in the sun. Just you, the landscape and your paints. This is how Tim Allen often starts off his expressive landscapes and it’s become an important part of his practice.
Allen won one of Australia’s most watched landscape prizes last year; the Paddington Art prize. He has also won the Kedumba drawing...2018-04-1756 min
A Virtual Treasure TroveTreasure Trove: Arthur Streeton's Golden Summer, EaglemontArthur Streeton's masterpiece Golden Summer, Eaglemont is back at the National Gallery after going on show in London.2017-07-0406 min
NGVextra: NGV Australian Collection TourArthur Streeton: the artist2012-04-2403 minNGVextra: NGV Australian Collection TourArthur Streeton: The purple noon’s transparent might2011-07-2505 min
National Gallery of Australia | Collection Video Tour | Nineteenth-century Australian artArthur Streeton, Golden summer, Eaglemont 1889Arthur Streeton (Australia 1867–1943), Golden summer, Eaglemont 1889. Oil on canvas, 81.3 x 152.6 cm. Purchased 1995.2011-06-0901 minNational Gallery of Australia | Collection Video Tour | Nineteenth-century Australian artArthur Streeton, The selector’s hut (Whelan on the log) 1890Arthur Streeton (Australia 1867–1943), The selector’s hut (Whelan on the log) 1890. Oil on canvas, 76.7 x 51.2 cm. Purchased 1961.2011-06-0901 min
National Gallery of Australia | Audio Tour | Turner to Monet: the triumph of landscapeArthur STREETON, Fire's on [also known as 'Fire's on' (Lapstone Tunnel)] 1891It is astonishing to think that Streeton was only twenty-four years old when he painted ‘Fire’s on’, a work that remains one of the great icons of Australian landscape painting. When Streeton wrote to his friend Frederick McCubbin (1855–1917) about the work he was undertaking in the Blue Mountains, his excitement and ambition were palpable. It was the quintessentially Australian landscape and light that inspired him: ‘the vast hill of bright sandstone’ crowned by bush and the ‘deep blue azure heaven’.1Streeton was also taken with the fact that this landscape was the location of one of the engineering feats of the late nine...2008-08-1901 min
National Gallery of Australia | Audio Tour | Ocean to Outback: Australian Landscape Painting 1850–1950Tom ROBERTS, A Sunday afternoon [A Sunday afternoon picnic at Box Hill] c.1886By 1882 a railway had been constructed between Melbourne and the township of Box Hill, and in 1885 Tom Roberts, Frederick McCubbin and Louis Abrahams first visited the area to paint. The artists set up camp on land owned by a local farmer and friend to the artists, David Houston.1 Along with other artists, including Arthur Streeton and Jane Sutherland, the group painted the local bushland. Roberts made a number of works in this area, such as his well known The artist’s camp 1886, while Streeton painted Evening with bathers 1888 (both in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne).
In A...2007-09-2100 minNational Gallery of Australia | Audio Tour | Ocean to Outback: Australian Landscape Painting 1850–1950Harry GARLICK, The drover 1906Harry Garlick painted The drover in response to the ‘Federation drought’, which began in 1895 and reached its climax in the summer of 1901–02. Officially lasting until 1903, the drought had a devastating effect on the sheep, cattle and wheat-farming industries throughout much of Australia. Garlick had painted earlier responses to the drought, such as Drought stricken1902 (present whereabouts unknown). It is possible that The drover was painted in the Orange or Bathurst regions of western New South Wales where Garlick was born and lived until 1896. In the heat of the midday sun a drover leads his flock along an arid stock route, the ar...2007-09-2100 minNational Gallery of Australia | Audio Tour | Ocean to Outback: Australian Landscape Painting 1850–1950Arthur STREETON, The selector's hut (Whelan on the log) [The selector's hut] 1890The selector’s hut (Whelan on the log) is an iconic image of the ‘pioneering spirit’ that underpinned Australian nationalist attitudes of the late nineteenth century. Although most Australians lived in coastal cities and towns, it was the bush that was used as a symbol of Australian sentiment. In The selector’s hut (Whelan on the log) Arthur Streeton depicted these iconic elements of the land. The ‘blue and gold’ of sky and earth are encapsulated by the great scale of the sky, the golden grass and shimmering light, a slender silhouetted gum tree and a bush pioneer.
By 1888 a railway had...2007-09-2100 minNational Gallery of Australia | Audio Tour | Ocean to Outback: Australian Landscape Painting 1850–1950Charles CONDER, Ricketts Point, Beaumaris [Sandringham] 1890Charles Conder would have sat right by the water’s edge when he painted this joyous impression of Melbourne bay-side activity. Much of the scene is dominated by water – the reflective shallows of the foreground comprising a significant portion of the composition. Behind the strip of sand and rock a band of ocean stretches to the horizon.1 In this scene Conder explores the elements of light and colour and depicts the activity of visitors to the beach. Women in long dresses search for seashells, a small group watches a sailboat travel across the bay and a child paddles in the fore...2007-09-2100 min
Collection highlights tourFire's onArthur Streeton's visions of the landscape have defined an image of Australia. 'Fire's on' in particular is considered his greatest evocation of the country's heat and sunlight. Painted a year after the artist left Melbourne for Sydney, it constitutes a radical new type of landscape in his oeuvre. Its vertical composition and the high horizon line bring focus to the steep terrain with precarious rocks and dead tree-trunks.The painting captures a critical moment during the construction of a railway line across the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney: the death of a railway worker in an explosion. 'Fire's on' was...1970-01-0102 min
Curator insights - Australian galleriesThe dancerBertram Mackennal was one of the most successful Australian artists working internationally in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His profile and performance in Britain, where he lived as an expatriate, substantially outshone that of his Australian peers such as Tom Roberts and Arthur Streeton. ‘The dancer’, acquired by the Art Gallery of NSW in 1910, was the first work by Mackennal to be purchased by an Australian public gallery (the National Gallery of Victoria bought his ‘Circe’ later the same year).
Mackennal was born in 1863 at Fitzroy, Melbourne. His first training was with his father, John Simpson Mackennal, a locally...1970-01-0100 minCurator insights - Australian galleriesFire's onArthur Streeton's visions of the landscape have defined an image of Australia. 'Fire's on' in particular is considered his greatest evocation of the country's heat and sunlight. Painted a year after the artist left Melbourne for Sydney, it constitutes a radical new type of landscape in his oeuvre. Its vertical composition and the high horizon line bring focus to the steep terrain with precarious rocks and dead tree-trunks.
The painting captures a critical moment during the construction of a railway line across the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney: the death of a railway worker in an explosion. 'Fire's on' was...1970-01-0100 min
Collection highlights tourFire's onArthur Streeton's visions of the landscape have defined an image of Australia. 'Fire’s on' in particular is considered his greatest evocation of the country's heat and sunlight. Painted a year after the artist left Melbourne for Sydney, it constitutes a radical new type of landscape in his oeuvre. Its vertical composition and the high horizon line bring focus to the steep terrain with precarious rocks and dead tree-trunks.
The painting captures a critical moment during the construction of a railway line across the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney: the death of a railway worker in an explosion. 'Fire's on' wa...1970-01-0100 min