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.

Photography - Marja Skotheim Folde (Tue 26 Jan 2016)

untitled - St Peters (Tue 26 Jan 2016)

Marja Skotheim Folde on Photography:

My photographs are my thoughts on people that exist in a landscape and The Landscape. For me, this is a way of being present…

via iN PUBLiC talks with Marja Skotheim Folde by Charalampos Kydonakis.

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.

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 - 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.

Tim Winton - Mark Johnson (Thu 24 Mar 2016)

iron landscape - Alexandria (Fri 18 Mar 2016)

Mark Johnson on Tim Winton:

I'd never been to Western Australia .. Winton describes it with such love and respect and is so protective of the land that I felt like I had already known it

via Breath producer on Simon Baker tears and Tim Winton's "extraordinary" book by Harry Windsor.

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.

Framing - Mike Johnstone (Wed 27 Apr 2016)

Landscape - Wilpena / South Australia (Tue 12 April 2016)

Michael Johnston on Frame:

The name of the game is to fill the frame

via Key Thoughts and The Zen of Fishing by Michael Johnston.

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.