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Christopher Hodges (legal Scholar)
Christopher Hodges is an artist and director of Utopia Art Sydney, a contemporary art gallery in Australia. Artistic career Hodges studied art at the Alexander Mackie CAE, graduating with a Dip Art (Ed), and first began exhibiting his work in the late 1970s.Anne Sanders, 'Profile: Christopher Hodges', ''Artist Profile'', Issue 22, 2013 His first solo exhibition was at Coventry Gallery, Sydney, in 1979, and he has held over 30 solo exhibitions since then. Over his career, Hodges has worked in painting, drawing, printing, and sculpture. Much of his work, across mediums, has been interested in organic geometry: "I have done a lot of works that use geometry, but at the same time I have done a lot of works with what looks like repeated forms when, in fact, every curve is different. So I guess a kind of organic geometry is actually what I am aiming at, sort of like nature." Major public sculpture commissions include 'Flower for a Friend' (2010) at St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coventry Gallery
Coventry ( or ) is a city in the West Midlands, England. It is on the River Sherbourne. Coventry has been a large settlement for centuries, although it was not founded and given its city status until the Middle Ages. The city is governed by Coventry City Council. Formerly part of Warwickshire until 1451, Coventry had a population of 345,328 at the 2021 census, making it the tenth largest city in England and the 12th largest in the United Kingdom. It is the second largest city in the West Midlands region, after Birmingham, from which it is separated by an area of green belt known as the Meriden Gap, and the third largest in the wider Midlands after Birmingham and Leicester. The city is part of a larger conurbation known as the Coventry and Bedworth Urban Area, which in 2021 had a population of 389,603. Coventry is east-south-east of Birmingham, south-west of Leicester, north of Warwick and north-west of London. Coventry is also the most central city in England, be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney
St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney is a leading tertiary referral hospital and research facility located in Darlinghurst, Sydney. Though funded and integrated into the New South Wales state public health system, it is operated by St Vincent's Health Australia (which also operates St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne). It is affiliated with the University of Tasmania College of Health and Medicine and the University of New South Wales Medical School. History Foundation of initial hospital St Vincent's Hospital was established in 1857 by five Irish Sisters of Charity, who had migrated to Sydney in 1838 with a mission to help the poor and disadvantaged. Some of their early work included helping victims of the 1853 influenza outbreak and families of prisoners in the nearby Darlinghurst Gaol. Three of the hospital's founding sisters had trained as professional nurses in France, and they brought their knowledge to the colony; they established a hospital that was free for all people but foun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emily Kame Kngwarreye
Emily Kame Kngwarreye (or Emily Kam Ngwarray) (1910 – 3 September 1996) was an Aboriginal Australian artist from the Utopia community in the Northern Territory. She is one of the most prominent and successful artists in the history of Australian art. Life and family Kngwarreye was born 1910 in Alhalkere in the Utopia Homelands, an Aboriginal community located approximately 250 kilometres north-east of Alice Springs. Her family was Anmatyerre. She was the youngest of three, with no biological children of her own. She was the sister-in-law of the artist Minnie Pwerle and the aunt of Pwerle's daughter, artist Barbara Weir. Kngwarreye was a parental custodian of Weir for seven years until Weir was forcibly removed from her homeland under a government program to assimilate mixed race children (see Stolen Generations). Kngwarreye's great niece is the painter Jeannie Pwerle. Her brother's children are Gloria Pitjana Mills and Dolly Pitjana Mills. Kngwarreye grew up working on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Makinti Napanangka
Makinti Napanangka ( 1930 – 9 January 2011) was a Pintupi language, Pintupi-speaking Indigenous Australians, Indigenous Australian artist from Australia's Western Desert cultural bloc, Western Desert region. She was referred to posthumously as Kumentje. The term Kumentje was used instead of her personal name as it is customary among many indigenous communities not to refer to deceased people by their original given names for some time after their deaths. She lived in the communities of Haasts Bluff, Papunya, and later at Kintore, Northern Territory, Kintore, about north-east of the Lake Macdonald, Queensland, Lake MacDonald region where she was born, on the border of the Northern Territory and Western Australia. Makinti Australian Aboriginal kinship#Pintupi, Napanangka began painting Contemporary Indigenous Australian art at Kintore in the mid-1990s, encouraged by a community art project. Interest in her work developed quickly, and she is now represented in most significant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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