I spent a few moments in the bookshop of an art gallery today and came across a book on contemporary Artists of the Diaspora.

I know art is a very person thing, however I wanted to share the works of this artist, Wosene Kosrof, from Ethiopia. I found the pictures of his paintings absolutely beautiful and did a quick google on him. There was other wonderful work - sculptures etc. but I really liked these paintings.

I like all his work, in particular "My Ethiopia, 2001"

http://www.wosene.com/

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Originally posted by FireFly:
I spent a few moments in the bookshop of an art gallery today and came across a book on contemporary Artists of the Diaspora.

I know art is a very person thing, however I wanted to share the works of this artist, Wosene Kosrof, from Ethiopia. I found the pictures of his paintings absolutely beautiful and did a quick google on him. There was other wonderful work - sculptures etc. but I really liked these paintings.

I like all his work, in particular "My Ethiopia, 2001"

http://www.wosene.com/

Enjoy.
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Very nice, FireFly.

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I'M AN ELITIST TOO.

I carry model releases with me in my camera bag. You should never photograph people without their permission (strangers anyway). Not only can that be seen as rude or as unwelcome attention, but even if you get a really great photo with no one noticing, you can't publish the photo without opening yourself to all types of legal issues (especially with minors).

When I first started, I made the mistake of shooting people without their knowledge and without signed releases. Now I have some really top notch GREAT photos that I have to sit on and can't do anything with them except put in my portfolio ... I didn't know any better ...

Also, if you shoot on private property, you should have the consent of the owner and maybe even a signed property release.

I've worked on photoshoots and also done a lot of travelling and am always aware of people's sensitivities about being photographed - both on a personal level and a copyright level. I always ask permission.

I've missed out on a lot of fantastic photographs - particulary of children - because it was not the 'right' moment - it felt intrusive - or I asked and someone said "no". Which is fair enough.

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A mark of respect to Bronwyn Oliver.

Sadly, last week one of Sydney's creative sculptors, Bronwyn Oliver was found dead in her studio - weeks before she was to hold her 11th solo exhibition.

Oliver's distinctive organic metal sculptures, often inspired by nature, are highly sought after. Her most famous works include Magnolia and Palm, both of which sit in the Botanic Gardens (where in fact I celebrated my birthday). The Hilton Hotel, Sydney, commissioned the $350,000 work Vine, a 380 kg aluminium creation that stretches 16.5 metres. It is among the longest sculptures in the country and the biggest single piece Olver created.

Oliver was an intensely private person with a strict work ethic broken only for exercise and meals. Sadly, Oliver, 47, took her own life.

Life is too short - embrace it and celebrate it, and stay connected and loving as well as conscious.

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bronwyn-oliver R.I.P.



Moon from her posthumous exhibition

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"La Sirene with Fruit"
by Haitian Artist: Jacques Enguerrand Gourgue

"La Sirene and Agoue"
Artist: Madsen Monpremier

a very nice sketch of Miles Davis ~



from a German Blues website: http://www.kind-of-blue.de/

By Keith Mallett



For Keith Mallett painting is a spiritual journey. It is a journey that started in childhood and continues to this day. Keith has worked as a painter, etcher and ceramic artist. His subject matter ranges from figurative to still life and abstracts.

Born in Pennsylvania in 1948, Keith studied painting at the Art Students League and Hunter College in New York City and LA Valley College in Los Angeles. His work has been exhibited around the world and is in corporate and private collections. His paintings have appeared in films and television shows. A number of books and magazines have featured his art.

A partial list of Keith’s clients include: Random House, Lenox China, Franklin Mint, New York Graphic Society, Springs Industries, and Canadian Art Prints, Varietyartshop.com and Afrocentricgifts.com




Woman with Blue Vase


Diva


Piano Man


In A Sentimental Mood

from Newcastle, Australia:

Tribal
JULIAN LEAH
sculpture - All Untitled welded steel



"Indigenous communities have often represented their cultural identity through totems. Traditionally totems express the indigenous way of life and the surrounding environment. Throughout my work I investigate the fusion of modern sub-cultures that create cultural identity and this is achieved through the use of the totem." - Julian Leah




[detail]

A Poem by Jennifer Marteniello

WOMEN'S ANCESTRAL HAND

i am the pattern of life within the seed
in the palm of the hand of the Ancestor
that created my Women's Law
the tongue that spoke it the song
that sang it the feet that danced it
i am the dust danced up from my
mother's body in the dance i am
the ochred herstory that painted the journeys
in the deep earth of remembering
i am the mind that remembers
i have no ending time i am
continuous as the long search i am the shoot
sprung from the soil after the fire has passed
i am its spirit
that has not forgotten its roots
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Gold processing centre found in ancient Kush (Sudan)



afrol News, 27 June - Archaeologists have discovered a gold processing centre in Sudan, along the middle Nile, an installation that produced the precious metal sometime between 2000 and 1500 BC. The centre, along with a cemetery they discovered, documents extensive control by the first sub-Saharan kingdom, the kingdom of Kush.

A team from the US University of Chicago's Oriental Institute has found more than 55 grinding stones made of granite-like gneiss along the Nile at the site of Hosh el-Geruf, about 360 kilometres north of Khartoum, Sudan. The region was also known as Nubia in ancient times and probably formed part of the ancient African kingdom of Kush.

According to the Chicago archaeologists, groups of similar grinding stones have been found on desert sites, mostly in Egypt, where they were used to grind ore to recover the precious metal. The ground ore was likely washed with water nearby to separate the gold flakes.

"This large number of grinding stones and other tools used to crush and grind ore shows that the site was a centre for organised gold production," said Geoff Emberling, Director of the Oriental Institute Museum and a co-leader of the expedition.

"Even today, panning for gold is a traditional activity in the area," said Bruce Williams, a Research Associate at the Oriental Institute and also a co-leader of the expedition. "Water is a key ingredient for the production of gold and it is possible that bits of gold ore were found in gravel deposits nearby in wadis [dry river beds] and crushed on the site."

The team also excavated a cemetery where they uncovered burials with artefacts that suggest the region was part of the kingdom of Kush, which would have ruled an area much larger than previously believed. The discoveries thus indicate that the kingdom, the first in sub-Saharan Africa, controlled a territory as much as 1,200 kilometres in length.

"This work is extremely exciting because it can give us our first look at the economic organisation of this very important, but little known ancient African state," said Gil Stein, Director of the Oriental Institute. "Until now, virtually all that we have known about Kush came from the historical records of their Egyptian neighbours, and from limited explorations of monumental architecture at the Kushite capital city Kerma." He hoped the excavations would allow scholars to "understand the rural sources of the riches of Kush."

The expedition is part of an international recovery project underway intended to find artefacts related to Kush and other civilisations that flourished in the area before archaeological sites are covered by a steadily rising Nile. The area is being flooded by the Hamdab or Merowe Dam, located at the downstream end of the Fourth Cataract.

The lake to be formed by this dam will flood about 160 kilometres of the Nile Valley in an area that had previously seen no archaeological work. "Surveys suggest that there are as many as 2,500 archaeological sites to be investigated in the area," Mr Emberling said. Fortunately, Sudanese and foreign archaeologists have been working in the area since 1996.

The area will probably be flooded next year, but the Chicago team says it hopes to return for another season of exploration. The sites studied by the team was said to "provide important new information on the ancient Kingdom of Kush," which flourished from about 2000 to 1500 BC.

"The Kingdom of Kush was unusual in that it was able to use the tools of power-military and governance - without having a system of writing, an extensive bureaucracy or numerous urban centres," Mr Emberling said. "Studying Kush helps scholars have a better idea of what statehood meant in an ancient context outside such established power centres of Egypt and Mesopotamia," he added.

Among the artefacts found in burials nearby at the site al-Widay were pottery vessels that appear to have been made in the centre of the kingdom, a city called Kerma, some 360 kilometres downstream.

The graves for the cemetery, which were for elite members of the community, included 90 closely-packed, roughly constructed stone circles covered shafts that were circular and lined with stones, a feature noted in the so-called Pan Graves of Lower Nubia and Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period, about 1700 BC., said Mr Emberling. "These, and the broad-bottomed black-topped cups they contained, are generally assigned to the Medjay, people of the Eastern Desert, who at times served as soldiers and police in Egypt."

"A few of the tombs had the rectangular shafts of the later Classic Kerma burials, graceful tulip-shaped beakers and jars of Kerma type and even imported vessels from Egypt, as well as scarabs and faience and carnelian beads, and there were even several beds or biers," he said.

"Finds of Kerma material at the Fourth Cataract was one of the major surprises of the salvage effort and suggests the leaders of Kush were able to expand their influence much further than was previously known, possibly including as much as 1,200 kilometres along the banks of the Nile," added Mr Williams.

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ABOUT TRUE STORIES

Frances Rings
Photo: Greg Barrett

Bangarra's reputation as one of the most exciting contemporary dance companies in Australia and one of our country's leading performing arts exports, takes yet another leap forward with their brand new work True Stories. Exploring the unending inspiration of Australia's Indigenous culture, the company enters new theatrical territory with the choreographic originality of award-winning Frances Rings and with Elma Kris making her main stage debut.

X300

In the 1950's a series of Atomic explosions were conducted on Maralinga Tjarutja traditional lands. The code name of the test site was X300. Frances Rings' new work powerfully and spectacularly explores a landscape assumed vacant and cleared of occupation but which in reality became a contaminated desert which poisoned the people. Rings' work is known for its theatricality and inventiveness. X300 will bring Australian audiences a memorable evening of lasting imagery.

EMERET LU ("Very Old Things")

Elma Kris

The passion and energy of the traditional people of the Torres Straits fuel this exhilarating new work by choreographer, Elma Kris. She explores her people's love of the land, the sea and of each other with an exuberance handed down from generation to generation. The power and excitement of dances celebrating rain, wind, the hunt, desire and pleasure mingle with the charm of the spiritual to create an uplifting work of lasting imagery and a thrilling experience of a fascinating and little-known culture.

From the stages of New York, Washington and London, Bangarra has been heralded as an exciting dance ensemble bringing audiences theatre experiences unique in the language of movement. True Stories takes that reputation to a new and thrilling level!