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Meteorological Abstracts Index: Royal Society Collection
Get PDFMeteorological data, 1841 - 1854
- Abstracts of meteorological data for Hobarton taken at the
Observatory, noting: thermometer (mean maximum & minimum
and highest and lowest, dry and wet bulb), humidity, barometer,
wind, rain, clouds, remarks.
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Van Sowerwine and Isobel Knowles (Art Forum)
No full textTo coincide with Experimenta Utopia Now: International Biennial of Media Art at MONA participating artists Knowles & Sowerwine will be discussing their individual & collaborative artworks. Expanding on their ideas, inspirations, processes & techniques.
Their work has been exhibited nationally & internationally. In 2010 their installation You Were In My Dream, commissioned by Experimenta Media Arts, won the 2010 Premier of Queensland's National New Media Art Award, Australia's most significant prize for new media art. They also won the People’s Choice Award.
In 2008 their animated film Doll Stories: Mary was shown as part of the International Digital Art exhibition in Beijing. In 2006 their installation Expecting was exhibited at the Institute for Contemporary Art, London & FACT, Liverpool. Expecting toured around Australia in 2004/2005 as part of the Experimenta: House of Tomorrow exhibition.
In 2004 Van & Isobel made the film Clara, a 7-minute stop-motion animation. It premiered at the Cannes Film Festival as one of nine short films in the Official Selection, where it won a Special Mention. Clara went on to win a Golden Hugo for Best Animation at the 2005 Chicago Film Festival. In January 2006 Clara screened at the Sundance Film Festival.
Their first collaboration, the stop-motion animation Gillian, was highly commended in the 2001 Dendy Awards as part of the Sydney Film Festival, and screened at NewFest 2003 in New York
Proclamation to Aborigines Index: Royal Society Collection
Get PDFCopies of Governor Davey's pictorial proclamation to the
aborigines, promising equal justice for whites and natives,
with modern tracing (Davey altered to Arthur in a modern hand)
and another copy with a different heading.
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Jan Guy (Art Forum)
No full textCeramic Surgery (March - April 2010) was the first exhibition in an ongoing collaborative project between Adam Geczy and Jan Guy. It radically alters the perception of bone china in a way that comments on genetic engineering, myths of perfectibility and humanity's mediation of the natural world.
As the phrase suggests, bone china contains animal bones whose calcite lends the ceramic its translucency. In this series of works the kinds of bones that are used are specifically chosen. Here exotic and endangered Australian species have been cast out of the bones of kitchen poultry: a chicken, a turkey and some quail. Thus these birds have been extracted from their inauspicious origins, and in a process that humorously calls to mind a welter of stories of recreation from the frog prince to Frankenstein, they are remade into rare birds of great beauty. But the birds are white and frozen in time - the consolation of such a process (a comment on Botox perhaps?).
In their immaculate hand-made glass domes, these specimens are also engaged in a language of museology. But in no overly critical way – rather they suggest that museums are the melancholy storehouses of what have become increasingly rare and extinct objects, the last places where we can go to imagine the world that was and could have been.
Jan Guy is an artist and writer who graduated from Queensland College of Art and gained an MVA from Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney. Guy maintains a broad practice and interest in ceramics with a specific focus on sculptural and installed works. Her personal research is presently concerned with relationships between the haptic senses and virtual spaces.
Guy has been the recipient of a National Craft Acquisition Award and her work is in the collection of the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory. In 2009 Guy was a member of the organising committee for the 1st Australian Ceramics Triennale. She also curated Young Guns, an exhibition of emerging international ceramics artists and established CELSIUS, an online journal for the crafts and design
Orchestral Union 1866 - 1872 Index: Royal Society Collection
Get PDFMinutes 1866 - 1872
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Minutes of a musical society known as the Orchestral Union
(originally proposed as the Symphony Society) including
musicians' and singers.
(quarto vol., half bound leather and green paper)
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Eric D B Hortin Bequest Index: Royal Society Collection
Get PDFEric Dudley Babington Hortin, ca. 1875 - ca. 1953, won a Tasmanian Public School Exhibition in 1887, entered the Public Service in 1897, and was Chief Clerk in the Education Department in 1920. Royal Society RS.
Library Index. Royal Society Collection
Get PDFLibrary Royal Society of Tasmania - accessions, books periodicals, loans, reports, correspondence.
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Fiji Times, & Bulawayo Sketch Newspaper Index. Royal Society Collection
Get PDFTwo issues of the "The Fiji Times" dated 6 & 10 January, 1877. The Fiji Times was the main regional newspaper of Samoa, first published on 4th September 1869 by George Lyttleton Griffiths in Levuka and from 1887 onward in Suva
Also "The Bulawayo Sketch" Vol. 1 no. 1 Saturday, 21 July 1894. Price sixpence, Quarterly sub 5 shillings.
Mock? cyclostyled paper on a fold of ruled account paper (double sided spread)
Contains - humourous sketches and advertisements. Note ms. at top
"byrne (6 )" also small piece of printed white paper stuck to top T.M. 9353 - note title appear to be (spelling) Buluwayo Sketch. One of the prime newspapers, the Bulawayo Sketch was full of dark humor about both the course of the war and the actions its citizens. The Sketch was created by Alexander Davis and Joseph Boam on July 21, 1894 and ceased production on July 24, 1897 and has the distinction of being the first newspaper in the Rhodesia to be regularly illustrated. An uncommon piece of early Rhodesiana ephemera. The Cyclostyle duplicating process is a form of stencil copying invented by David Gestetner in London in 1890. A stencil is cut with the help of small toothed wheels on a special paper underlaid with carbon paper which serves as a printing form. Gestetner named the Cyclostyle after a drawing tool he used.
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Oldham papers Index: Royal Society Collection
Get PDFFive volumes of press cuttings. Nos.1 & 2 specifically
relate to old Hobart hotels, the others to general
historical matters. No.5 not marked or indexed, but is
presumed to be part of this collection
Two note books relating to Hobart buildings, particularly
hotels. Alphabetically arranged.
Index to Press cuttings
Miscellaneous papers of Nathan Oldham including: Letter
from Nathaniel Oldham Manager of Union Bank, 4 Feb. 1845; notes
about the "Spotted Cow" and the "Bricklayers Arms" and letter
from Sarah E. Mitchell about John Burnett, 1938
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Miscellaneous Manuscripts Index: Royal Society Collection
Get PDFMiscellaneous single items received from various
donors. William Parsons, Thomas Devine, James Morrisby, James Mitchell, George Smith, James Belbin, Henry James Marsh, Mary Ann Marsh, Thomas George Gregson, William Morley, Jane Purcell etc.
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