The likeness in us
In this clip PETER CHURCHER AND PETER HYLANDS discuss the idea of capturing a likeness and we come to understand how intangible this process can be. There is a sense that there is more to capturing a likeness in an oil painting than meets the eye, there seems to be something more than the image itself. We go beyond the image.
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KIAF and Seoul
In September 2012 ANDREA and I visited Korea to attend the Korean International Art Fair (KIAF). As always the numbers of Koreans attending events was huge and again the vast halls at COEX filled rapidly.
Sid Bruce Short Joe
The road to Pormpuraaw
Photography by ANDREA HYLANDS
Looking at the landscape from the air can tell you a lot but there is nothing better than driving on bush tracks and dirt roads if you really want to get to know a place.
Sid Bruce Short Joe
SID BRUCE SHORT JOE and his friend and mentor, American artist and art centre manager PAUL JAKUBOWSKI, had invited ANDREA and I to visit the art centre at Pormpuraaw. It was about a year later that Read more …
Shanghai moon, city states
PETER HYLANDS reflects upon the city state. Photography by ANDREA HYLANDS
What cities are, how they imagine themselves, how their cultures devolve or merge, how they contribute to the world, is changing. It is worth stopping for one moment to consider the growing importance of design in the development of increasingly large cities. This growth fuelled by rapid urbanisation around the world. As cities grow these centres of human population will continue to increase their influence, both nationally and internationally, this Read more …
In Durrell’s footsteps
PETER HYLANDS writes about a recent trip to the Greek island of Corfu (May 2012). Photography by ANDREA HYLANDS.
“July had been blown out like a candle by a biting wind that ushered in a leaden August sky. A sharp, stinging drizzle fell, billowing into opaque grey sheets when the wind caught it. Along the Bournemouth sea-front the beach huts turned blank wooden faces towards a greeny-grey, froth-chained sea that leaped eagerly at the cement bulwark of the shore. The Read more …
Who cares for me?
Who cares for me?
In the Creative cowboy film Changing times a group of young Maasai girls; JOYLYN NASAU, SUSAN SISIAN, AGNES KINTA, ELIZABETH MPONINO and ALICE LANTOI, recite a poem written by EMMANUEL PARSIMEI SUPARE called Who cares for me? In their reading the Maasai girls capture the dreams and hopes of a young Maasai woman. You can now watch the clip.
Here is EMMANUEL’S poem.