Indicate brings together a group of artists whose practices consider the multiplicity of conditions under which their work is exhibited. It investigates the communicative power of perception, illusion and spatial variation in abstraction, whereby the potency of each work is wholly contingent upon the audience's engagement with, experience of, or situation within the space in which it is being viewed." -- publisher's website.
Arthouse Gallery is proud to present a dazzling selection of new artworks by Australian artist Joshua Yeldham. 'Surrender Tree' marks his first solo show in Sydney for almost three years. 2013 has already been a highly significant year for the artist, having been selected as a finalist in both the Archibald and Wynne Prizes (Art Gallery of New South Wales). In this much-anticipated show, Yeldham yet again demonstrates his virtuosity across a number of different and complementary mediums, encompassing oils on board, works on paper and sculptural assemblages. New to this show is a collection of unique carved photographic images featuring the eerily beautiful mangrove systems of the Hawkesbury River. These artworks reveal his unique treatment of the medium whereby he is effectively piercing and carving into the delicate paper surface of the photographic print. These works will first be glimpsed at the new Sydney Contemporary Fair in late September. Among his peers Nicholas Harding, Guy Maestri, and the actor Richard Roxburgh, it's considered that Yeldham has made the Hawkesbury/Pittwater region his own, in much the same way Lloyd Rees is synonymous with Sydney Harbour. The artist has created a distinctive visual language that fuses the physical characteristics of the landscape with metaphysical stratas of history and mythology - indigenous and colonial - and of the artist's own imaginings. "This body of work is the result of my exploration through the Hawkesbury River and Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park," says the artist. "I have carved into photographs of mangrove trees, digging through the pigment to reveal its underbelly. A scarification of lines that build a bridge over the void of landscape towards my inner world." With inspiration drawn from a deeply spiritual connection with the landscape, Yeldham's paintings form an interplay between his rich imagination and experience. His abstract landscapes and figurative works contain recurrent symbolic motifs, fusing the landscape and everyday historical icons with narrative and myth.
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An Ecological Approach to International Law shows that international environmental law is fundamentally flawed and not equipped to meet global challenges. The book examines international legal responses to global climate change by analysing key concepts such as the doctrine of state sovereignty, the law on state responsibility, environmental rights and common heritage of mankind.
This report is currently available in an electronic format only. To view the report and others published by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), please visit IUCN's website. Governance for sustainability is defined as the set of written and unwritten rules that link ecological citizenship with institutions and norms of governance. It is a complex topic because it addresses the three issues of globalization, democracy and sustainability. No form of governance can succeed if there is no common bond between those who govern and those who are being governed. The real issue is whether the common good, that is, the sustainability of life, can be pursued through democratic forms of governance. This publication compiles information, evaluations and case studies to enable the reader to explore and reflect upon governance for sustainability.
Why should we continue to draw by hand when computers and photography can do it for us? Freehand drawing is currently enjoying a widespread renaissance. In this path-breaking study, the act of drawing is explored as a way to foster epistemic development and wise thinking skills. Drawing exposes the connecting processes of perception, by which we make sense of the world, creating and using systems of classification which ultimately create boundaries. By exploring the relationships between metaphor, the mental activity fundamental to language, and the coordination of hand and eye essential for drawing, such categories can be dissolved through the development of visual intelligence. This book discusses approaches to epistemic development in relation to experiential learning, citing students’ descriptions of their encounters with ways of knowing based on value judgments rather than the perceived safety of facts. Chapters on prehistoric cave art and early medieval practices of the art of memory provide further insights into what it means to draw, and what a drawing is. A chapter on the history of engineering education discusses the narrowing effects of abstract and theoretical approaches to knowledge at the expense of practical skill and experience. The study was developed in the setting of a postgraduate industrial design course for engineers at the Royal College of Art, London, but its concerns and recommendations, including a wealth of teaching ideas, apply wherever professional practitioners have to make judgments involving conflicting ideas. Its insights hint at a deeper role for the university, taking postgraduates beyond the narrow instrumentalist training agendas favoured by current government policies, to a larger vision of the meaning of professional development.
Life is full of challenges, from the mundane to the difficult and dangerous. The Benefits of a Light Heart is a book which contains a recipe for action, from which you can reframe your problems using the dog metaphor. Dogs, after all, are like our problems - they range from small and innocuous to full-blown, raving monsters. Rather than be too serious, linger awhile and laugh with Dr Prue Millear, PhD (and her alter ego, a cat called Professor Hilary Doodlebug), and discover the Barking Dog Index of Problems. Will you find that you have a Red Kelpie (sensible problems), a Poodle (somewhat annoying ones), or something more challenging, like a Blue Healer (getting really difficult) or the top end, the Hounds of Hell (when civil society has been lost) Once you've identified your Dog and found ways to get your Problem Dog to sit nicely and behave, you can deal with the FLEAS (Fears, Lies, Exaggerations, Absolutes, and Silences) that make any Dog worse than need be.
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