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.

Home - Dr Jennifer Minter

home - Alexandria (Fri 05 Feb 2016)

Dr Jennifer Minter on Home:

Home is .. a place of prospective happiness and security, but also the place of loss and disappointment

via Brooklyn by Colm Toibin | English Works by Dr Jennifer Minter.

Place - John McDonald (Sat 23 Jan 2016)

untilted - St Peters (Tue 26 Jan 2016)

John McDonald on Place:

We all become complacent about the place where we live

via Destination Sydney review: Harbour takes pride of place in artistic tribute by John McDonald.

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.

Edges - John Olsen (Sat 23 Jan 2016)

Horizon - Carruthers Peak / Main Range / Snowy Mountains (Fri 22 Jan 2016)

John Olsen on Edges:

I love edges – the edge of the coast, the edge of the void. So much happens on the edges.

via Spirit of place by Janet Hawley.

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.