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November 25th 2009 07:58
Recommend an artist, or ask a question about the arts.

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Every email will be answered comprehensively in a post on the Artist Quirk blog here on Orble. Send in info about openings, festivals, websites, images and press releases. Enquire about opinion or fact. Promote your own art or share to work of artists you love.

Including visual arts, graphic arts, stage, screen, literature, music, dance, performance art, body art . . . anything creative.


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This Is Not Art

September 21st 2009 10:24
This Is Not Art festival Newcastle, NSW.

October 1st - 5th, 2009.

this is not art newcastle



The graffiti that inspired This Is Not Art:

this is not art graffiti newcastle
the graffiti that inspired the This Is Not Art festival in Newcastle, NSW



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CT Scan Art

July 22nd 2009 15:53
Radiologist Kai-hung Fung makes beautiful and informative art from the CT (computed tomography) scans of his patients, digitally manipulating them to look more appealing.

This collection of images was orginally published in New Scientist.


Image: Kai-hung Fung
'What lies behind our nose?'


This is the winning image of the 2007 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge. The image looks upward through nasal passages from beneath the head. The bones, soft tissue and fat have been removed from the image, leaving just the cast of the sinuses.





Image: Kai-hung Fung
'Network'


This image looks directly down through the top of the head. The complex network of arteries and veins in the brain can be seen in shades of dark blue and the skull base is shown in green in the background.


Image: Kai-hung Fung
'Spoke wheel'


This is a human skull. The red ring-like pattern is cancer of the thyroid which has become detached from the thyroid and deposited itself on the skull bone, shown as rainbow-coloured layers. The yellow area shows where the surgeons have cut open the skull. The cancer has caused the bones of the skull to expand.


Image: Kai-hung Fung
'Within one's heart'


The human heart from a vantage point at the left lower chamber, peeping upwards through the columns of papillary muscles.


Image: Kai-hung Fung
'Nose from the inside'


This shows the inside of the nose. The nostrils are the dark area. The nasal septum is overlaid with radiating blue lines. The bones are shown in red.


Image: Kai-hung Fung
'Sound track'


The inside of a human ear canal. The two tiny bones hanging down the ear canal are shown in blue.


All images by Kai-hung Fung.


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Mathew Reed: photography and drawing

July 1st 2009 23:58
Narrative. Expressionistic. Surrealistic. Eclectic. Grunge. Raw. Dark.

Drawing - Photography - Sculpture

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Watch Robbie Jay on BlogTV!

June 24th 2009 18:31
You have entered the robbiejayy's show, he is from United Kingdom.

He wrote on his BlogTV minibio


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Scott Wade's Dirty Car Art

June 12th 2009 07:46
Take a look at Scott Wade's Dirty Car Art Gallery.

Scott lives on a mile and a half of dirt road. The road base is a blend of limestone dust, gravel, and clay. Driving along Scott's road causes a fine white dust to billow up behind the vehicle and cover the rear windscreen


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The Archibald Prize 2009

May 11th 2009 16:20
I was moving in March so I forgot to report on the 2009 Arichibald Prize.

The winning artist was Guy Maestri with his portrait of blind Aboriginal singer Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu. The work beat 708 entries and 39 finalists to take the $50,000 prize


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Sara Watson: Invisible Car Art

May 6th 2009 13:07
Sara Watson, from Lanchashire in the UK has taken a battered old Skoda Fabia and painted it to merge with the surrounding car park. It took Sara three weeks to transform the car's appearance.

Sara is a second year student of drawing and design at the University of Central Lancashire (Uclan). She created the illusion in the car park outside her studio at Uclan's Hanover Building in Preston. The car is now being used for advertising by the local recycling firm (Recycling Lives) that donated the vehicle


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Creative Sydney

May 4th 2009 14:27
CREATIVE SYDNEY is a series of free, public events that celebrate the wealth and diversity of Sydney’s creative talent.

Running for three weeks at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Circular Quay, with an additional event at The Roxy in Parramatta, CREATIVE SYDNEY offers a provocative discussion abd events program showcasing the city’s creative talents - from the leading lights that have made their name on the world stage, to the next generation of creative talent


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Harnessing Nature Kosak-Style

April 17th 2009 00:20
Craig Kosak - Seattle USA

I recently discovered the work of Craig Kosak - and it was an invigorating experience


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