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Dear Sun - Letters of Joy Hester and Sunday Reed by BURKE Janine (ed)
Category: Biography
Correspondence between Joy Hester and Sunday Reed. Love's intention and the reverse of love's inention slowly mark my life...and on the banks of these dark rivers we become - become what we are to each other and become what we are to ourselves. Sunday Reed I am so conscious of my own limitations that I' ...Show more
Heart Garden - Sunday Reed & Heide by Janine Burke
Category: Biography
"Born into one of Melbourne's most prominent establishment families, Sunday Baillieu was expected to become a society princess. But this passionate individualist turned her back on upper-class privilege and created a life wholly her own. With her husband, John Reed, Sunday established Heide - a home and ...Show more
Joy Hester by Janine Burke
Category: Biography
A highly talented artist in her own right, Joy Hester's fame also derives from her marriage to Albert Tucker and her close friendship with John and Sunday Reed, arguably Australia's most influential art patrons. Dead at the age of forty, Joy Hester's life was intense and controversial. At a time when wo ...Show more
Kiffy Rubbo: Curating the 1970s by Janine Burke; Helen Hughes
Category: Biography
"How one woman helped shape the Australian art world. Kiffy Rubbo was a dynamic and unique force in Australian art in the 1970s. It was the time of 'the personal is political', of the Vietnam War and the draft, of Indigenous rights and feminism. It was under Kiffy Rubbo's leadership - and at a time when ...Show more
My Forests: Travels with Trees by Janine Burke
Category: Gardening
The narratives in My Forests are a pleasure to read; like strolling down a meandering track through the trees, you never quite know what you'll discover around that next bend.Travel the ancient Incense Road with the Biblical Magi. Enjoy the dancing Olive groves of Tuscany and read of 'sleeping' Silver B ...Show more
Nest: The Art of Birds by Janine Burke
Category: Nature
We tend to take birds for granted, in the landscape or in our neighbourhoods. The presence of birds communicates the health of a place. When they're gone, it's as though there's a hole in the sky, in the air, an absence of beauty and grace, and vivid chatter or haunting cries are replaced with eerie sil ...Show more
Nest: The art of birds by Janine Burke
Category: Nature
As an amateur naturalist and nature lover, Janine Burke, art historian and author, has spent many years observing birds. Nest: The Art of Birds is the story of her passion, a personal, wide-ranging and intimate book - part natural history, part folklore, part exploration of art and aesthetics, part memo ...Show more
Source: Nature's Healing Role in Art and Writing by Janine Burke
Category: Non-Fiction
Explores how art and landscape, love and companionship, home and garden are entwined. Nature is culture, and its most insistent inspiration.
Source: Nature's Healing Role in Art and Writing by Janine Burke
Category: Biography
Creativity is a place. Memory is an image. The artistic process itself is a journey, a specific one, the return to a lost and cherished childhood realm, the original source of inspiration and identity. For the artists and writers in this book - Claude Monet, Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Karen Blixen, E ...Show more
The Heart Garden - Sunday Reed and Heide by Janine Burke
Category: Biography
"Born into one of Melbourne's most prominent establishment families, Sunday Baillieu was expected to become a society princess. But this passionate individualist turned her back on upper-class privilege and created a life wholly her own. With her husband, John Reed, Sunday established Heide - a home and ...Show more
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