Design - Jane McConnell (Tue 01 Mar 2016)

chair - NGA / Canberra (Sun 11 Jan 2016)

Jane McConnell on Design:

the most successful interior design projects are bespoke solutions that don’t follow fads

via Jane McConnell, Conrad Gargett principal by Stephanie McDonald.

Australia - Nisha Shrestha (Fri 11 Mar 2016)

painting (Fred Williams) - NGA / Canberra (Sun 10 Jan 2016)

Nisha Shrestha on Australia:

Australia is a wonderful place to be but we all shared the same fears. Uncertainty about a new land, leaving family in our homeland.

But we all also share the same hope for a better future. To strive and work hard for our children.

via Western Sydney migrant women find bonds in Mother's Spice at ICE in Parramatta by Lenny Ann Low.

Australia - Elizabeth Farrelly (Thu 03 Mar 2016)

water - Lake Burley Griffin / Canberra (Sat 23 Jan 2016)

Elizabeth Farrelly on Australia:

I've always loved how Australia – real Australia – is comprised of immense, aching absences; dry rivers, empty lakes, flat mountains, vanished seas.

via Indifference to water doesn't wash by Elizabeth Farrelly.

Minor Things - Stuart Kahn (Mon 22 Feb 2016)

water - Canberra (Sun 24 Jan 2016)

Stuart Khan on Minor Things:

When minor things go wrong they will turn into major disruptions

via 'Worst thing ... in decades': Fears for Sydney's drinking water by James Robertson.

Simple - Mindaugas Kavaliauskas (Tue 16 Feb 2016)

water - Canberra (Sun 24 Jan 2016)

Mindaugas Kavaliauskas on Simple:

My most favorite pictures are very simple ones

via A Frequent Flyer's Photos of Air Travel by Eric Nagourney.

Architecture - Elizabeth Farrelly (Fri 05 Feb 2016)

untitled - Canberra (Mon 25 Jan 2016)

Elizabeth Farrelly on Architecture (e):

architecture is our dance with nature

via Pholeros the fearless architect's low-key, empowering, incremental model spurned in the Intervention by Elizabeth Farrelly.

Grief - Gail O'Brien (Mon 01 Feb 2016)

sky - Canberra (Sat 23 Jan 2016)

Gail O'Brien on Grief:

Grief strips you of everything. You don't give a damn what anybody thinks of you.

via Gail O'Brien biography This Is Gail reveals spiritual journey after death of surgeon Chris O'Brien by Phoebe Moloney.

Love - Jane Lynch (Mon 25 Jan 2016)

untitled - Canberra (Sun 24 Jan 2016)

Jane Lynch on Love:

I think there's a lot of love around us, and if we open our hearts to it, we can be guided

via Jane Lynch falls to earth with angelic new comedy by Michael Idato.

Australia - Paul Byrnes (Fri 30 Jan 2016)

Burnt Tree - Canberra (Mon 25 Jan 2016)

Paul Byrnes on Australia:

It was as if God had made the place [Australia] to scare us: black swans, hot Christmases, fires and snakes and spiders ..

via How Australia's landscape sears into our movies and inspires Looking for Grace by Paul Byrnes.

Light - Sue Brooks (Thu 28 Jan 2016)

Light - NGA / Canberra (Mon 25 Jan 2016)

Sue Brooks on Light:

This is what the light looks that at this time of day.

via Looking for Grace: sadness, comedy and the spaces between by Philippa Hawker.

Now - Seth Godin (Mon 25 Jan 2016)

Tree - Canberra (Sun 24 Jan 2016)

Seth Godin on Now:

now is better than later

via Eventually, snow melts by Seth Godin.

Small - Benjamin Hardy (Dec 2015)

Untitled (Shoalhaven Landscape) (Tapestry) - APH / Canberra (Sun 10 Jan 2016)

Benjamin Hardy on Small:

Small things - if not corrected - become big things, always.

via If You're Too Busy For These 5 Things: Your Life Is More Off-Course Than You Think by Benjamin Hardy.

Art - Arthur Boyd (Dec 1995)

Untitled (Shoalhaven Landscape) (Detail) - APH / Canberra (Sun 10 Jan 2016)

Arthur Boyd on Art:

Art doesn't alter things. It points things out, but it doesn't alter them. It can't, no matter what a painter wants to do.

via Beneath the Landscape, Independent Monthly, Dec 1995/Jan 1996 by David Langsam.

Design - Alejandro Aravena (Oct 2014)

Shadows - Canberra (Sat 09 Jan 2016)

Alejandro Aravena on Design:

The more complex the problem, the more the need for simplicity.

via My architectural philosophy? Bring the community into the process (TEDGlobal 2014) by Alejandro Aravena.

Art - Bill Hensen (Thu 10 Jul 2008)

Untitled (Shoalhaven Landscape) (Detail) - APH / Canberra (Sun 10 Jan 2016)

Bill Hensen on Art:

The greatness of art comes from the ambiguities ... it stops us from knowing what to think

via The greatness of art comes from the ambiguities (Thu 10 Jul 2008) by Bill Hensen.

Art - Micheal Leunig (Fri 18 Jul 2008)

Untitled (Shoalhaven Landscape) (Detail) - APH / Canberra (Sun 10 Jan 2016)

Michael Leunig on Art:

Art is about the messy and marvellous business of coming to your senses and also, to the senses of the world

via A brush with Arthur Boyd by Michael Leunig.

Australia - Marcus Clarke (1893)

landscape - NGA / Canberra (Sun 10 Jan 2016)

Marcus Clarke on Australia:

In Australia alone is to be found the Grotesque, the Weird,
the strange scribblings of Nature learning how to write. Some
see no beauty in our trees without shade, our flowers without
perfume, our birds who cannot fly, and our beasts who have
not yet learned to walk on all fours. But the dweller in the
wilderness acknowledges the subtle charm of this fantastic land
of monstrosities. He becomes familiar with the beauty of
loneliness. Whispered to by the myriad tongues of the wilderness,
he learns the language of the barren and the uncouth, and can
read the hieroglyphics of haggard gum-trees, blown into odd
shapes, distorted with fierce hot winds, or cramped with cold
nights, when the Southern Cross freezes in a cloudless sky of icy
blue. The phantasmagoria of that wild dreamland termed the
Bush interprets itself, and the Poet of our desolation begins to
comprehend why free Esau loved his heritage of desert sand
better than all the bountiful richness of Egypt.

via Poems, by Adam Lindsay Gordon - Preface (1893 Edition) by Marcus Clarke (Displayed at the Entrance to the Great Hall at Parliament House, Canberra).

Art - Tom Roberts (Tue 08 July 1890)

Untitled - NGA / Canberra (Sun 10 Jan 2016)

Tom Roberts on Art:

by making art the perfect expression of one time and one place, it becomes art for all times and all places

via Tom Roberts, Letter to the Editor - The Argus, 4 July 1890, p. 10 by Tom Roberts.

Write - Flannery O'Connor (Thu 07 Jan 2016)

Fog Sculpture - Sculpture Garden / Canberra (Sat 09 Jan 2016)

Flannery OConnor on Habits:

I don't know what I think until I write it down

via Your Goals Are Overrated by Mark Manson.