Landscapology is a big fan and long time resident of Spring Hill.
On 25 February, UDAL, the Urban Design Alliance, presents its first event of the year, a forum discussing the opportunities and challenges of development in the historic suburb, particularly in light of Brisbane City Council's planning updates.
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"We wanted it to feel like the landscape came right into the building."
Tired of that old chestnut?
I reckon if anyone could get away with it, it would be Alexandra Kehayoglou, who hand-crafts exquisite walls and floor textiles inspired by meadows, fields and other landscapes.
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Running 2-27 February, this exhibition at Philip Bacon Galleries stars works by Australian superstar painters, including Hans Heysen, Sidney Nolan, Fred Williams, Sam Fullbrook, William Robinson and Albert Namatjira. A detail from his Ghost gums (1952) is shown above.
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Artists Jill Pelto creates gorgeous watercolours inspired by the natural world.
The kicker?
Each one also includes a hidden, graphic representation of climate change data, including sea level rise and aquatic systems affected by ocean acidification.
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Artist Jaume Plensa believes "all objects, people and elements moving in space have an aura and an energy that just goes on and on" - enough energy to completely fill a space.
His large-scale public works incorporate both the human form and letter forms, and has appeared in public spaces from Antibes to New York.
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Dutch artist Gerco de Ruijter noticed an odd thing when driving through the US countryside.
He dug deeper and discovered the process that was used to adjust the strict national Jefferson Grid system to the curve of the Earth's surface, using a system of periodic 'grid corrections'.
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