Tag: Australia
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City Girl Escapes to the Australian Outback to Capture Images of Amazingness
Imagine leaving it all behind – leaving your boring city job and failed relationship behind to escape into the wild Australian outback and embrace your dreams. That’s exactly what nature and landscape photographer Julie Fletcher did 12 years ago when she left Sydney to take absolutely stunning photos of the Australian outback. Fletcher’s photography captures…
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The Archibald Prize 2014 Winner is Fiona Lowry!
Congrats to Fiona Lowry who is the winner of the 2014 Archibald Prize with their portrait of architect Penelope Seidler. Is this a worthy winner? See all the entries HERE. Give us your thoughts in the comments section below! The winners of the other prizes on offer at the Art Gallery of NSW were: Wynne…
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Here are your 2014 Archibald Prize Finalists…
The 2014 Archibald Prize finalists have just been announced by the Art Gallery of NSW and here they are. As per usual, there are some more traditional portraits, so unusual ones, and some even more unusual ones. Which is your favourite? Click on the image for a larger version. Abdul Abdullah I wanted to paint…
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Artist Luke Cornish Stencils a HUGE Rhino On Melbourne Tram
Forget looking at a timetable while you’re waiting for your tram in Melbourne, Australia. You can instead check out this HUGE rhinoceros stenciled all over the exterior of a tram coming to a stop near you. The work is by award-winning stencil artist Luke Cornish (aka E.L.K), whose 2012 layered portrait of Father Bob Maguire…
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Beautiful Sydney Transformed by Light for ‘Vivid Sydney’
Starting yesterday through June 9th, the city of Sydney is hosting an annual exhibition of light and music called Vivid Sydney. Dozens of light sculptures and projections will be viewable throughout the downtown area as well as in the Sydney Harbour in an event that is completely free to the public. Looks like a lot of…
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Bringing Mozart to the Kids… Spectacular Costumes and Props in the Magic Flute
Costume and effects guru Julie Taymor has outdone herself with Opera Australia’s latest production… Mozart’s “The Magic Flute”. With a particular focus of entertaining the kids as well as their parents, Taymor (who was previously the director of the Lion King on Broadway), brings together a nine-metre serpent, towering polar bears and hundreds of paintstakingly hand-crafted props…
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We Thought These People Looked Weird. A Closer Look Left Us Absolutely Speechless
OK well the title of this blog is a little misleading as we’ve known about Australian ex-pat Ron Mueck‘s works for some time and have been speechless every time we’ve had the opportunity to see them in “the flesh”. Ron continues to amaze with his sculptures. He used to be a model maker and puppeteer for…
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The World’s First Fully Sized Lego Car That Actually Drives!
A 20-year-old mastermind from Romania has built the world’s first full-size Lego car, with a compressed air-powered Lego engine. It has space for two passengers and can hit a top speed of around 30 kph (18.6 mph). Watch this amazing clip to see it drive for yourself! Dubbed the Super Awesome Micro Project, the Lego…
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40 Candid Mugshots of Dapper Criminals from the 1920s
Between 1910 and 1930, a series of 2500 ‘special photographs’ were taken by the New South Wales Police Department. As curator Peter Doyle of the Justice & Police Museum in Sydney explains: These ‘special photographs’ were mostly taken in the cells at the Central Police Station in Sydney and are of men and women recently plucked from…
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Melbourne’s Famous Street Art Lane Covered in Blue Paint in the Name of Art?
As we’ve previously written HERE, street art in Melbourne, Australia, has come a long way since the days of “zero tolerance” where street artists were considered vandals and fines and arrests for perpetrators were commonplace. As Melbourne’s street art culture has evolved and street art has become a major tourist attraction for the city, however,…