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Fiona Lowry
Fiona Lowry (born 1974, Sydney) is an Australian painter who airbrushes pale colours to portray landscapes with people in them. The landscapes are beautiful and ambiguous, provoking the dangerous side of wilderness. Lowry also paints portraits and won the 2014 Archibald Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales with a portrait of Penelope Seidler. She is represented in the National Gallery of Australia, as well as the state galleries of Australia and in private collections. Early life Lowry was born in Sydney (1974) and continues to work in Sydney. As a child she continually watched people and drew. Lowry had a religious upbringing, and has told interviewers that she see the beauty and the foreboding in nature. This is reflected in her artworks. Lowry completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts, Honours, at the Sydney College of the Arts. Career Since 2001, Lowry has airbrushed her canvases in pale, monochromatic colours that create a sense of ambiguity with the harshness of som ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sydney, Australia
Sydney ( ) is the capital city of the States and territories of Australia, state of New South Wales, and the most populous city in both Australia and List of cities in Oceania by population, Oceania. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about towards the Blue Mountains (New South Wales), Blue Mountains to the west, City of Hawkesbury, Hawkesbury to the north, the Royal National Park to the south and Macarthur, New South Wales, Macarthur to the south-west. Sydney is made up of 658 suburbs, spread across 33 local government areas. Residents of the city are known as "Sydneysiders". The 2021 census recorded the population of Greater Sydney as 5,231,150, meaning the city is home to approximately 66% of the state's population. Estimated resident population, 30 June 2017. Nicknames of the city include the 'Emerald City' and the 'Harbour City'. Indigenous Australians, Aboriginal Australians have inhabited the Greater Sydney region for a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Archibald Prize 2013 Finalists
This is a list of finalists for the 2013 Archibald Prize for portraiture. As the images are copyrighted, an external link to an image has been listed where available (listed is Artist – ''Title''). *Abdul Abdullah – ''The man'' (Portrait of Anthony Mundine(Image)*Giles Alexander – ''Simulations'' (Portrait of Lily Serna(Image)*Del Kathryn Barton – ''hugo'' (Portrait of Hugo Weaving) (Winner of the 2013 Archibald Prize)''(Image)* Jason Benjamin – ''Fight Club'' (Portrait of McLean Edwards(Image)* Natasha Bieniek – ''Application'' (Self-portrait(Image)* Mitch Cairns – ''Self-portrait'(Image)*Marcus Callum – ''Portrait of the artist as a young man'' (Portrait of his son Sebastian(Image)* Julia Ciccarone – ''Portrait of Nicholas Jones'(Image)* Peter Daverington – ''The patriot: self-portrait with Albino Joey'(Image)* Julie Dowling – ''Wilfred Hicks'(Image)* McLean Edwards – ''Glenn Barkley, curator'(Image)*John Emmerig – '' Gageler'(Image)*Vincent Fantauzzo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archibald Prize Winners
Archibald is a masculine given name, composed of the Germanic name, Germanic elements '':wikt:erchan, erchan'' (with an original meaning of "genuine" or "precious") and '':wikt:bold, bald'' meaning "bold". Medieval forms include Old High German and Old English, Anglo-Saxon . Erkanbald, bishop of Strasbourg (d. 991) was also rendered in Old French. There is also a secondary association of its first element with the Greek prefix '':wikt:arch-, archi-'' meaning "chief, master", to Norman England in the high medieval period. The form ''Archibald'' became particularly popular among Peerage of Scotland, Scottish nobility in the later medieval to early modern periods, whence usage as a surname is derived by the 18th century, found especially in Scottish surname, Scotland and later Nova Scotia. Given name English diminutives or hypocorisms include ''Arch (name), Arch, Archy, Archie, and Baldie (nickname)''. Variants include French ''Archambault, Archaimbaud, Archenbaud, Archimbaud'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doug Moran National Portrait Prize Winners
Doug is a male personal name (or, depending on which definition of "personal name" one uses, part of a personal name). It is sometimes a given name (or "first name"), but more often it is hypocorism (affectionate variation of a personal name) which takes the place of a given name, usually Douglas. Notable people with the name include: Douglas Grosch, ex. People A–C * Doug Allison (1846–1916), American baseball player * Doug Anderson (other), multiple people * Doug Applegate (other), multiple people * Doug Armstrong (born 1964), Canadian National Hockey League team general manager * Doug Armstrong (broadcaster) (1931–2015), New Zealand cricketer, television sports broadcaster and politician * Doug Baldwin (born 1988), American football player * Doug Baldwin (ice hockey) (1922–2007), Canadian ice hockey player * Doug Bennett (other), multiple people * Doug Bereuter (born 1939), American former politician * Doug Bing (born 1950/51), Canadian polit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Sydney Alumni
A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, the designation is reserved for colleges that have a graduate school. The word ''university'' is derived from the Latin ''universitas magistrorum et scholarium'', which roughly means "community of teachers and scholars". The first universities were created in Europe by Catholic Church monks. The University of Bologna (''Università di Bologna''), founded in 1088, is the first university in the sense of: *Being a high degree-awarding institute. *Having independence from the ecclesiastic schools, although conducted by both clergy and non-clergy. *Using the word ''universitas'' (which was coined at its foundation). *Issuing secular and non-secular degrees: grammar, rhetoric, logic, theology, canon law, notarial law.Hunt Janin: "The university ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Women Painters
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Australian Painters
Australian(s) may refer to: Australia * Australia, a country * Australians, citizens of the Commonwealth of Australia ** European Australians ** Anglo-Celtic Australians, Australians descended principally from British colonists ** Aboriginal Australians, indigenous peoples of Australia as identified and defined within Australian law * Australia (continent) ** Indigenous Australians * Australian English, the dialect of the English language spoken in Australia * Australian Aboriginal languages * ''The Australian'', a newspaper * Australiana, things of Australian origins Other uses * Australian (horse), a racehorse * Australian, British Columbia, an unincorporated community in Canada See also * The Australian (other) * Australia (other) Australia is a country in the Southern Hemisphere. Australia may also refer to: Places * Name of Australia relates the history of the term, as applied to various places. Oceania *Australia (continent), or Sahul, the landmasses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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1974 Births
Major events in 1974 include the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis and the resignation of President of the United States, United States President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal. In the Middle East, the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War determined politics; following List of Prime Ministers of Israel, Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir's resignation in response to high Israeli casualties, she was succeeded by Yitzhak Rabin. In Europe, the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, invasion and occupation of northern Cyprus by Turkey, Turkish troops initiated the Cyprus dispute, the Carnation Revolution took place in Portugal, and Chancellor of Germany, Chancellor of West Germany Willy Brandt resigned following an Guillaume affair, espionage scandal surrounding his secretary Günter Guillaume. In sports, the year was primarily dominated by the 1974 FIFA World Cup, FIFA World Cup in West Germany, in which the Germany national football team, German national team won the championshi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nigel Milsom
Nigel Milsom is an Australian painter. Early life Milsom was born in 1975 in the southern New South Wales city of Albury. He completed a Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts) at the University of Newcastle in 1998, and then undertook postgraduate studies at the College of Fine Arts of the University of New South Wales, gaining a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) in 1999 and a Master of Fine Arts in 2002. Milsom worked at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in the early 2000s as a Gallery Services officer and credits this experience as another part of his art education. In 2014, Milsom was convicted and sentenced to a maximum six-and-a-half years imprisonment for the April 2012 armed robbery, while under the influence of drugs and alcohol, of a 7-Eleven in Glebe, an inner neighbourhood of Sydney. The sentence was reduced on appeal to two years and four months’ imprisonment. Milsom was released from Cessnock Correctional Centre on parole in April 2015. Career His painting ''Judo house ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Del Kathryn Barton
Del Kathryn Barton (born 11 December 1972) is an Australian artist who began drawing at a young age, and studied at UNSW Art & Design (formerly the College of Fine Arts) at the University of New South Wales. She soon became known for her psychedelic fantasy works which she has shown in solo and group exhibitions across Australia and overseas. In 2008 and 2013 she won the Archibald Prizes for portraiture presented by the Art Gallery of New South Wales. In 2015 her animated film ''Oscar Wilde’s The Nightingale and the Rose'' won the Film Victoria Erwin Rado Award for Best Australian Short Film. Early life Barton grew up in the bush-land of the lower Blue Mountains west of Sydney Australia, often living in sheds or tents with her hippie-like parents. Barton suffered depression as a child, and art became her therapy. She drew obsessively from an early age and lived in her imagination. Her early subjects included fairies, animals, nature, and maps. She also drew the female fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Archibald Prize Winners
This is a list of winners of the annual Archibald Prize for portraiture, first awarded in 1921. List of winners Gallery File:1922 Archibald McInnes Moore.jpg , 1922 (McInnes) File:1923 Archibald McInnes Lady.jpg , 1923 (McInnes) File:1925 Archibald Longstaff Moscovitch.jpg , 1925 (Longstaff) File:1926 Archibald McInnes Paterson.jpg , 1926 (McInnes) File:1929 Archibald Longstaff Holman.jpg , 1929 (Longstaff) File:1930 Archibald McInnes McClelland.jpg , 1930 (McInnes) File:1931 Archibald Longstaff Sulman.jpg , 1931 (Longstaff) File:John Longstaff - Banjo Paterson, 1935.jpg , 1935 (Longstaff) File:1936 Archibald McInnes Smith.jpg , 1936 (McInnes) File:1937 Archibald Baker.jpg , 1937 (Baker) File:SLNSW 24327 Portrait submitt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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