FYI

This no standing sign in the city has become something of a haven for stickers and general randomness on an otherwise mural-ised wall. Confined to the sign only, I like the respect shown to the artwork.

Facades

Outside the NGA

Head in the Clouds

Walking through a tunnel of plastic shopping bags at the Soft Sculpture exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia. It possessed a surprisingly ethereal beauty.

Peachy Keen

Inspired lighting, NGA gift shop

Intergalactic, planetary (part 2)

In more detail. Two today because I forgot yesterday!

Intergalactic, planetary (part 1) (Monday)

Supersonic graffiti art, Salvation Army carpark, Phillip

Lucky?

Horseshoe sculpture spied on previously mentioned aborted breakfast journey to Pialligo. I'd be buying myself a lottery ticket if I had that many horseshoes!

Abstraction

Foyer, National Gallery of Australia

Designed in the Brutalist architectural style, the angular structure of the NGA is based around the triangular form. This manifests itself most strikingly in the triangular grids of the gallery's ceilings. I'm not a big one for monotonous patterns, but whenever I'm at the NGA I always find myself looking up.

Hanging by a thread

Foyer, National Gallery of Australia

Caught in the headlights?

Pialligo Plant Farm, Pialligo

Last Wednesday I set off early-ish in the morning to take a friend of mine to my (current) favourite eatery: Podfood. However, on the way there we went through a number of traffic lights which had blacked out. When we arrived we were told that a blackout had wiped out power to the entire Pialligo area and we would have to forgo (an extremely delicious) breakfast. Wandering into the gallery next door (the name of which I did not have the presence of mind to enquire of), I spied these awesome, demented looking ceramic rabbits I thought would be equally at home in Donnie Darko. Pity I couldn't take them home!

Everything old is new again

Having the distinguished honour of being the oldest building in Canberra (being built in 1913), the now refurbished Kingston Powerhouse is home to a dedicated contemporary glass arts centre. The strikingly atmospheric building ebbs seamlessly between its historic industrial architectural features and the contemporary art it houses. Especially comforting on cold, windy winter mornings!

Through the side streets and the alleyway

Off Jardine Street, Kingston

Far to Here

Far to Here exhibition, Parliament House

from the exhibition website: "How do refugees bridge the divide between memories of conflict and loss, knowledge of ongoing violence in their homeland, and beginning a new life in Australia? How has the journey from Africa to Australia affected them? And what do they think of their new home?

Far To Here is a photographic exhibition that attempts to answer some of these questions. In part one Kabir Dhanji documents the lives of Darfuri people who fled the conflict in Sudan and are now residing in Australia. In part two, Darfuri youth capture their own experiences, photographing their day to day surroundings. The result is a suite of images that spans the chasms between continents, cultures and generations."

Bus stop, Holder Shops (part 2)

Because once is never enough.

Bus stop, Holder Shops (part 1)

Awesome bird mural on the bus stop at Holder Shops

Public Art

On the wall opposite the bus stop outside Cooleman Court in Weston.