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25.01.2022 See our website to find out more about ADFAS Societies, our donations and scholarships within the Young Arts Program, future travel/lecture tour opportunities, School of Arts/Mechanics Institute studies, and much much more ... at https://www.adfas.org.au/

24.01.2022 A beautiful ode to Vincent van Gogh and to Don McLean. Huge thanks go to Carolyn Michell for sending us this wonderful link!

23.01.2022 COLLONA PALACE - ROME (ITALY)

23.01.2022 Exciting news for our Victorian friends!

21.01.2022 It’s official! Lazy Daisy is now complete and today she kicked off on a tour of Bellata. Meanwhile local Georgia Kirkby gave the children at Bellata School an... insight into the Australian dairy industry and the handling of dairy cows, with the help of Blossom and her 5 day old calf. The children had plenty of questions to ask, including where did the calf come from! There’s no doubt about it, the children and teachers have done a magnificent job with their painting. The next stage will be entering the 2020 Picasso Cows competition - and we wish them the best of luck! ADFAS Narrabri are proud to have been able to fund such an exciting project with our 2020 Young Arts donation to the school. See more

21.01.2022 Two new coins have been released by the Royal Australian Mint to celebrate the astronomical knowledge and traditions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

21.01.2022 ADFAS, through the Patricia Robertson Fund was able to contribute towards the restoration and hanging of the Coburn curtains in 2019 and very privileged to be able to attend the event. Thank you Felicity Mauger for tagging us in this!

21.01.2022 In this unusual year of uncertainty, Sean Moran, chairman of The Arts Society Nadder Valley, UK has VERY kindly offered to present a free lecture on Holbein’s ‘The Ambassadors’ to all ADFAS members in the spirit of solidarity and friendship. This Monday (28 Sept) at 5.30pm EST members of ADFAS Australia-wide will be able to access this webinar. What a generous offer from Sean and we cannot thank you enough! The Ambassadors is one of the most popular of the National Gallery’...s paintings. It was painted during an extraordinarily turbulent period of English, indeed European, history that saw a revolution in religion and politics that would shake England to its core. That revolution led the northern renaissance artist, Johannes Holbein to England where he lifted portraiture from coins and tomb effigies to create some of the most memorable and lifelike portraits ever seen, even to this day. Sean is a retired banker, and in retirement is a lecturer for Context (a major US travel company). He is a freeman of the City of London, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Steward of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers, one of London’s Livery Companies. Sean is also a London Blue Badge Guide. Sean has a close connection to Australia as his oldest friends live in Sydney and he has visited Australia many times and has grown to love our country and people.

21.01.2022 Absolutely beautiful! What a feat!

20.01.2022 If Hans Holbein were alive today, there is no doubt he would have been absolutely delighted with Sean Moran’s intricate insights into The Ambassadors. Holbein, a German painter and printmaker, worked in a Northern Renaissance style and is considered one of the greatest portraitists of the 16th century. He delved into religious art, satire and Reformation propaganda. Thank you Sean, for such a fascinating and beautifully presented online lecture. @asnaddervalley #arts #culture #learning #generosityfromacrosstheworld

20.01.2022 The 2020 #WynnePrize finalists have been announced start exploring the extraordinary landscapes and sculptures in this year's exhibition with this first loo...k, and all works on our website: https://bit.ly/2FKlkbx The Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prize exhibition opens next Saturday 26 September, and you can join us at 12pm next Friday when we declare the winners via livestream. Pictured: Wynne Prize 2020 finalists Nyunmiti Burton 'Seven sisters'; Nicholas Blowers 'Savage entropy in Payne's grey'; Natasha Bieniek 'Lalla'; Gareth Sansom 'No man is an island'; Hubert Pareroultja 'Tjoritja (West MacDonnell Ranges, NT)'. the artists.

17.01.2022 From free unlimited visits to world-leading exhibitions, to exclusive content and events, becoming a V&A member means that you can support the museum while enjoying fantastic benefits. Find out more: https://fal.cn/3bKMw

17.01.2022 Vincent Namatjira, great-grandson of acclaimed artist Albert Namatjira, has become the first Indigenous Australian to win the Archibald Prize. His self-portrait with Adam Goodes is entitled Stand Strong for Who You Are.

16.01.2022 Young Arts news from Society Chairman Helen Meddings, ADFAS Ku-ring-gai: For the third year we have sponsored the ADFAS Emerging Artist Award in conjunction with Eramboo, a leading independent arts organisation located right on the edge of the Ku-ring-gai National Park in Terrey Hills. The Committee thought it even more essential to provide this support in 2020 as the Arts community generally has suffered such a collapse in funding due to COVID-19. This year the winning you...ng artist is Madison Baird, aged 20, from Balgowlah. Madi has an impressive CV already and is just completing her studies at RMIT in Melbourne. Because of the lockdown in Victoria, Madi returned to Sydney and is thus available to take up her month-long residency at Eramboo in October where she will prepare for her first solo exhibition in December. We look forward to it. It is uplifting to witness the enthusiasm, talent, inspiration and dedication from young artists like Madi. It is especially pleasing to know that we at ADFAS Ku-ring-gai have contributed to her future success, despite the travails experienced during the pandemic. Pictured, Madison Baird in her studio surrounded by some of her works of art. Madi's art practice is deeply intertwined with the Australian landscape and during her Eramboo residency she plans en plein air sketching/painting in the bush surrounds which she will resolve into completed works back in the studio. This practice and immediacy enhances her work's freshness and liveliness. Madi is looking forward to interacting with and learning from her mentors and creative colleagues during her intensive month at Eramboo. Support our ADFAS Emerging Artist by attending Madi's Exhibition. Opening night (12 Dec) will be restricted by Covid numbers but please enquire or visit from 13 until 20 December 2020 at Eramboo Artist Environment, 304 McCarrs Creek Road, Terrey Hills if you are in the area!

16.01.2022 QAGOMA has recommended this presentation by Judy Watson, a much loved Queensland artist. Judy’s contemplative, original, seductive art exposes suppressed histories. A frequent traveller with 20 years of exhibiting internationally including Europe, Britain, North America and Asia, Watson uses inspiration from her connection to specific places and situations to recall concealed pasts. Accessing her Aboriginal culture, and strongly anchored to drawing and printmaking practices, her aesthetic has expanded to painting and public art. https://youtu.be/HDmH8gme2XU

15.01.2022 Arts and Crafts tiles designed by William de Morgan for William Morris. www.italialiberty.it #theworldartnouveau

14.01.2022 Located in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, Mehrangarh is one of India's largest castles. Built around 1459 by Rao Jodha, the castle is located 410 meters above the city and is surrounded by thick walls. Within its borders are several palaces known for their intricate carvings and large courtyards.

13.01.2022 Alex Hagan (Chair, ADFAS Adelaide) is thrilled that longtime friend Julianne Allcorn has been nominated as a finalist in the 2020 Wynne prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Julianne's work has been awarded many prizes. She also won an artist in residency in Paris last year, and recently joined up at ADFAS Ku-ring-gai (at Alex's insistence!). Julianne's friends sport many wonderful pieces of her art in their homes, and we wish her well with fingers crossed for the final results!

13.01.2022 Marion Pescud, ADFAS Byron Bay presents their 2020 Young Arts Award to local Young Musician of the Year concert pianist Francis Atkins, with an achievement certificate and $500 cheque. Congratulations to Byron Bay with the acknowledgment and well deserved accolade to Francis! #Repost @adfasbyronbay #arts #culture #adfasyoungarts

13.01.2022 In a remarkable discovery by our Conservation team that has solved a hundred-year-long mystery, x-ray analysis has revealed that Frederick McCubbin’s long-lost ...painting Found, 1892, is actually hidden beneath the layers of paint of his iconic work, The pioneer, 1904, one of the masterpieces of Australian Impressionism. In a uniquely 2020 moment, the painting was only discovered when NGV’s Head of Conservation Michael Varcoe-Cocks, was on his rounds checking artworks in the Gallery during the closure. When he shone his torch on The Pioneer, he noticed a curved line through the lower half, not visible in standard gallery lighting. Long thought to have been lost or destroyed, the revelation that McCubbin’s major composition Found was in fact overpainted and partly incorporated into The pioneer is one of the most important and unexpected art historical discoveries made by our Conservation team in recent years, offering a new, fascinating insight into the artistic process of this significant Australian artist and his much-loved masterpiece. Book your free timed-entry tickets to see this masterpiece in person --> https://fal.cn/3bK1o Michael Varcoe-Cocks, Head of NGV Conservation with The Pioneer 1904 by Frederick McCubbin Frederick McCubbin The pioneer 1904 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Felton Bequest, 1906

12.01.2022 Some of the wonderful street art found at Tumby Bay, South Australia. (Near Port Lincoln and just down the road from Coffin Bay, home of some magnificent oysters!). Thank you ADFAS Adelaide for sending this through!

11.01.2022 Congratulations to ADFAS Yarra for their win of the Pauline Hopkins Cup award! This cup is awarded each year to an ADFAS Society for outstanding contributions to the ADFAS Young Arts program. A few words from Yarra Chair, Dr Carol Johnston: The Young Arts Program at ADFAS Yarra forms an important part of our activities for the year and one that we would hope to expand in future years. We have some young arts organisations that we regularly support, such as the Australian N...ational Academy of Music and Craft Victoria, and some to which we provide funds for particular projects like the Chinese Tea project at the Chinese museum or the Dance scholarship at University College. We aim to spread our funds widely as we recognise that even small amounts can make the difference to individuals and programs and that this strategy spreads the word about ADFAS more broadly. Often, we are invited to see the outcomes of projects. One that was particularly rewarding this year was an exhibition of art works by young artists with disabilities. The $200 prize money provided by the Pauline Hopkins Cup prize will of course go back into the program to support other young and emerging artists in 2021 when the need may well be greater than it ever has been before. We rely on donations from our members who actively support this program and we are very grateful for their continuing generosity. Importantly we have had the benefit of the work of committee members Berres Thom and Norma Sullivan who have worked so hard and expertly to make this program such a success. Pictured: Dr Carol Johnston, finally in possession of the Pauline Hopkins Cup, a feat which has been rather delayed by Covid, and consequently missing out on an official presentation of the award, which would normally take place at our Sydney conference in March. (Image supplied).

10.01.2022 ADFAS Cairns held a very successful Book Stall at Gordonvale Markets last Saturday to raise money for their society. Great idea Cairns, in what has been a very different year!

10.01.2022 You may not recognise it at first glance, but this is London, and it's the earliest photograph ever taken of the city. The photo was taken by M. de Ste Croix in 1839 and shows that the city has always been magical.

09.01.2022 Make sure to have a listen to @theartssociety lecturer Leslie Primo’s discussions with Richard Stemp and Prof Gretchen Gerzina all about Jan Gossaert’s ‘The Adoration of the Kings’ from the National Gallery collection, on your favoured podcast platform! The BP2 Podcast comes from the Black Presence in British Portraiture network of scholars, museum professionals and collectors who have a passion for discovering, understanding, and presenting the black African presence in British portraiture from 1500 to 1800. In each episode a portrait will be discussed by members from the network. #repost @artfirstprimo @thebp2podcast #theadorationofthekings

09.01.2022 Berezniki, Russia's sylvinite mine. The rainbow walls are created by potassium-rich sylvinite deposits that formed millions of years ago, when ancient undergrou...nd oceans dried up, leaving beind rock and salts. Sylvinite is found on every continent except for Australia and Antarctica, National Geographic reported. See more

08.01.2022 Australia loses two legends within weeks of each other senior Aboriginal artists, Michael Jagamara and Kunmanara Lewis. Both of these senior artists made a phenomenal contribution to the landscape of Australian art, and have been incredible ambassadors for the Aboriginal Art Sector and its development.

07.01.2022 A Young Arts award with a difference! The Picasso Cows project is progressing well...

06.01.2022 ADFAS Hobart Chair, Lorraine Polglase recently handed over their 2020 Young Arts donation to Tasmanian artist Lucienne Rickard, an artist who was at the time drawing extinct animals at TMAG (Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery) each day for a week. One of the most significant art projects in Hobart for some years, Lucienne’s wonderful Extinction Series Project is a must visit. After the animals are drawn, she then partly erases them to depict the extinction of so many Australian ...species. The eraser rubbings are left at the workspace covering the floor, serving as a reminder to viewers of the remnants of extinct species. Extinction Studies is a twelve-month durational performance. As an artist, Lucienne has crafted a career through drawing and demonstrates her concern for the future of biodiversity and the natural world. The impetus for the project came when Lucienne saw a documentary about extinct species and decided to add her talents to the biodiversity cause. Daily over the course of a year, she is drawing representations of a recently extinct species, only to erase the drawing and go on to draw another example of a different extinct species on the same sheet of paper. She erases the carefully drawn image again with the ghost of the last species remaining on the paper. This process of drawing and erasure, or evolution and extinction, is repeated in awareness that the paper will deteriorate, and eraser shavings will accumulate. Now more than three quarters through the process, thousands of passers-by have seen the art process and marvelled at the courage of an artist erasing her work and understanding the obvious parallels with nature itself being erased. Lucienne uses the Red List of Threatened Species, the International Union of Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) authority on endangered and extinct species, as her reference for drawing. She commenced the project drawing a rodent from the Torres Strait, moved on to a bush wren from New Zealand and her third subject was a Malaysian snail. Acknowledging that she could have concentrated purely on local extinct species Lucienne’s choices demonstrate that issues such as extinction and climate change are beyond parochialism and are supranational on a global scale.

05.01.2022 https://apple.news/AjbbZwcvbQNurVuE4-_R-lw

05.01.2022 Good to see this Adelaide arts festival will go ahead next year - we need some positivity ahead! https://adelaidefringe.com.au//2021-adelaide-fringe-poster

04.01.2022 Susannah is adding several new online talks over the next few months. You might find something tempting...

03.01.2022 Judy Watson's work is deeply connected to concealed histories, the significance of objects and the power of memory and loss. She was born in Mundubbera in south-east Queensland but the spirit of much of her work stems from the Waanyi homeland of her grandmother and great-grandmother in north-west Queensland. In 'tow row', Judy Watson has responded to this site close to the Brisbane River by referencing woven nets used by Aboriginal people of the area, acknowledging the tradit...ional owners of the site and their everyday fishing activities on the river and local saltwater waterways. Judy Watson's 'tow row' was realised as a Queensland Indigenous Artist Public Art Commission. This QAGOMA initiative, part of the GOMA's tenth anniversary celebrations, aimed to visibly acknowledge the contribution of Queensland Indigenous artists and the continuous role played by Indigenous Australians in the cultural life of this country.

03.01.2022 Blood moon Eclipse over Stonehenge, Wiltshire UK - took approximately 35 images combined to create this (my pic)

02.01.2022 Congratulations to Julianne Ross Allcorn (member of ADFAS Ku-ring-gai) who has recently been featured with her art entry becoming a finalist in the Wynne Prize at the Art Gallery of NSW. This week it has been announced that she is the winner of the Wynne ‘Trustees Watercolour Prize’ 2020. Well done Julianne! A little info about this painting: ‘Mollitium 2’ (triptych: watercolour, pencil, charcoal on 21 birch wood panels) Size: 185.5 x 329 cm Mollitium means ‘resilience’ i...n Latin. Resilience is the Australian bush; she embraces and forgives. This work travels from right to left from the threat of fire, to escape and regrowth. I’ve drawn wattle, banksia, grevillea, waratah, gumnuts, gum blossoms, seeds and leaves from different native plants, the Gymea lily and the wildlife of the bush. Last summer’s fires were stopped 20 minutes from our family getaway at Burralong Valley, near Laguna in the lower Hunter Valley, NSW. I spend much of my time there, drawing from all that surrounds me. When I walk through the valley, the scents, sounds, textures and colours envelop me, and I lose myself. When you are in nature, I encourage you to stop, stand still, close your eyes and listen, then open your eyes and try to find what you saw, smelt and heard. Julianne has been kept busy with several new artworks being created in the studio and others being kept back for a solo exhibition to be held next March at the Purple Noon Gallery, Freeman’s Reach, Hawkesbury. She also has an invitation to be part of a Group Exhibition at the Dickerson Gallery with fellow artists from Art Class Italy in late October next year. Juli (as she is known to friends) runs Artists in the Garden Grove Workshops and Unique School Reunion Art Workshops, where you can create an art journal to remember the day and at the same time enjoy each other’s company over long luncheons. Juli is also hoping to be able to take up offered Artist/ Teaching Residencies in Todi, Italy with Art Class Italy, and at La Porte Peinte Gallery in Burgundy, France next year. For more information, catch up with Julianne Ross Allcorn on her Facebook and Instagram pages.

01.01.2022 These incredibly lifelike portraits were made in Roman-period Egypt around the second century AD, when realistic paintings of faces on wooden panels mummy por...traits were the trend for burials. In her blog post, scientist Caroline Cartwright reveals how these personal objects were made, and explores what they can tell us about the people they portray. Read all about Caroline’s research here: http://ow.ly/uypk30rh828 Lime wood portrait of a young man with curly hair. Roman period Egypt, AD 80120. Lime wood portrait of a young man, with a gilded stucco frame. Roman period Egypt, AD 150170.

01.01.2022 Opening this weekend at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the annual Archibald Prize is eagerly anticipated by artists and audiences alike. The touring exhibition dates are listed below, a great opportunity to see all the finalists in the Archibald Prize 2020: 22 January 2021 7 March 2021 TWEED Regional Gallery and Margaret Olley Art Centre 19 March 2021 2 May 2021 CAIRNS Art Gallery... 14 May 2021 27 June 2021 GRIFFITH Regional Art Gallery 9 July 2021 22 August 2021 BROKEN HILL Regional Art Gallery 3 September 2021 17 October 2021 SHOALHAVEN Regional Gallery 29 October 2021 5 December 2021 PENRITH Regional Gallery