Last week was incredibly stressful. My brother-in-law, Richard Hillard, died the previous week while I was in England and I abandoned my Belgian conference to rush back to Australia to be with my wife, Dot, and attend Dick's funeral on Tuesday. So, instead of taking the Eurostar express from St Pancras in London to Liege in Belgium through the channel tunnel in Saturday, I found myself in the air on Friday evening heading to Dubai and Sydney. The funeral was on Tuesday and went smoothly, and we collected Dick's ashes on Thursday from the crematorium prior to flying back to Armidale on Friday afternoon. For much of the week we were staying in his Sydney apartment and trying to administer some of his affairs, also a harrowing experience.
The only glimmer of light relief was a visit to the NSW Art Gallery to see the exhibition of the winning entries for the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman prizes. These are annual awards for (i) portraits, (ii) landscapes (or figurative sculpture), and (iii) 'subject', 'genre' or mural paintings respectively. I found it very therapeutic to wander through the exhibits on Wednesday afternoon, admiring some and critiquing other exhibits And it's been something both Dot and I have long wanted to do.
And the winners were ... according to judges, not ourselves ... the following exhibits, which we were able to photograph freely:
Archibald -
Wynne -
Sulman -
Other entries:
However, I might add that I found some of the entries rather strange and confronting! And, overall the exhibits were not as good as I was hoping. Nevertheless, viewing art-works can release stress and divert the mind pleasurably.
AS
The only glimmer of light relief was a visit to the NSW Art Gallery to see the exhibition of the winning entries for the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman prizes. These are annual awards for (i) portraits, (ii) landscapes (or figurative sculpture), and (iii) 'subject', 'genre' or mural paintings respectively. I found it very therapeutic to wander through the exhibits on Wednesday afternoon, admiring some and critiquing other exhibits And it's been something both Dot and I have long wanted to do.
And the winners were ... according to judges, not ourselves ... the following exhibits, which we were able to photograph freely:
Archibald -
Wynne -
Sulman -
Other entries:
However, I might add that I found some of the entries rather strange and confronting! And, overall the exhibits were not as good as I was hoping. Nevertheless, viewing art-works can release stress and divert the mind pleasurably.
AS
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