The Arcadia Tables 1 & 2

The Arcadia Tables are an ongoing series of tables that I have been building over the last few years, furniture that is also memento mori based on the Latin phrase "et in Arcadia ego", the knowledge that even in the happiness of Arcadia there is still always mortality. The first two were exhibited in my [...]

Synthetics

Stephen Jones' book Synthetics : Aspects of Art and Technology in Australia 1956 - 1975 was launched last week at the AGNSW. For someone like me who has complained for decades now about the way Australian art history of that period was being written this book is a real breath of fresh air. So I'll [...]

Darwin and the art of evolution

The Darwin and the Art of Evolution Conference was held at the Art Gallery of NSW in September 2010. It was convened by Fay Brauer of the University of NSW  and Tony Bond of AGNSW. Speakers at the two day conference covered a range of material both popular and scientific that developed around  Charles Darwin's [...]

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