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Steve Dow @dowsteve.bsky.social · 4h

Just seen Dangerously Modern at Art Gallery of NSW, presenting the art of 50 Australian women artists who pursued their passions in Europe between 1890 and 1940

Here, I talk to the curators about Bessie Davidson and Agnes Goodsir and their works made against the odds artguide.com.au/cultural-exc...

Cultural exchange on the international stage

Dangerously Modern: Australian Women Artists in Europe 1890–1940, co-curated by the Art Gallery of South Australia and the Art Gallery of New South Wales, celebrates 50 Australian women artists who tr...

artguide.com.au

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Jane O'Sullivan @sightlined.bsky.social · 4h

My review of Josephine Rowe's strange, shimmering novella 'Little World' is now up online with @adroitjournal.bsky.social A joy to write about Australian literature #auslit #bookreview #novella

A Review of Josephine Rowe’s LITTLE WORLD

The saint arrives in a horse trailer, packed in a box made from tamanu wood. She has no name, her age is uncertain, and there is no sign of death or decay. Orrin Bird is reluctant to take her. A ha…

theadroitjournal.org

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Jane O'Sullivan @sightlined.bsky.social · 5h

👀 Launch exhibition just announced for the new Powerhouse Parramatta in Sydney. Not dates yet but it's about flight. Exhibition design inspired by Ted Chiang’s science fiction short story The Tower of Babylon. Also a newly commissioned essay by Chiang. We like.
powerhouse.com.au/stories/task...

Task Eternal - Announcement

Powerhouse Parramatta will launch with Task Eternal in 2026, one of the world’s most ambitious aerospace exhibitions

powerhouse.com.au

Jane O'Sullivan @sightlined.bsky.social · 23h

Oh gosh! I guess the underside of a deck makes a pretty good home 😳

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Jane O'Sullivan @sightlined.bsky.social · 1d

The kids have spent all school holidays calling each other Timothy

(Neither of them are called Timothy)

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Jane O'Sullivan @sightlined.bsky.social · 1d

they were cruising close this morning 🐋

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Michael Winkler @micwink.bsky.social · 2d

Exactly. Imagine if they took this as a chance to reset and create an amazing arts, culture, history museum on an appropriate site with appropriate funding - as per the original vision. We can dream

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Jane O'Sullivan @sightlined.bsky.social · 2d

and it's not like they haven't had time to get out right, this has been going on since 2017

Michael Winkler @micwink.bsky.social · 2d

Great news for Traditional Owners who always said it was the wrong site, NTG will be happy not to spend money on culture, Feds don't need to stump up for a diminished project certain to have cost overruns. But $15m spent, all for nothing, due to political expediency.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Federal support for national Aboriginal art gallery in Alice Springs in doubt

The Northern Territory treasurer says the federal government will not support the proposed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art gallery in Alice Springs in its current form.

www.abc.net.au

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Jane O'Sullivan @sightlined.bsky.social · 2d

Congrats! This is really cool

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Catriona Menzies-Pike @catrionamp.bsky.social · 3d

What’s this? Yet more research concluding that robust public investment in the arts yields economic benefits?

A great outcome for Ireland, and a rebuke to all those tired cliches about freeloading artists sapping the resources of the state.

But also, art enriches us all, economic benefits or no.

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 3d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Jane O'Sullivan @sightlined.bsky.social · 5d

tea is just a never ending loop of oh look here's one I prepared earlier

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Jane O'Sullivan @sightlined.bsky.social · 5d

Visiting mum's. She has a frog in her watering can, long term resident, her name is Constance

Macro photo of frog wedged tight in the spout of a plastic watering can, eyes only just visible

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Jane O'Sullivan @sightlined.bsky.social · 5d

cannot tell you how good it was to get in the water today

beach at dusk with a little pink to the clouds

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Laura Harding @lhsyd.bsky.social · 6d

Mike Hewson’s The Key is Under the Mat - occupying the Tank at AGNSW for the next year - water, play, steam, sauna, bbq…in the gallery…

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Jane O'Sullivan @sightlined.bsky.social · 7d

Everytime I come across Ian Fairweather's story I'm just

Screenshot of the AGNSW artist bio for abstract painter Ian Fairweather:

"A turning point in Fairweather’s life and work occurred in 1952 when he undertook a sixteen-day journey by raft from Darwin to Roti, Indonesia, during which he nearly perished. Held by Indonesian authorities for three months, he was deported to Singapore and then to England, where he dug ditches to raise money to return to Australia, settling on Bribie Island off the coast of Queensland.

On Bribie Island Fairweather built a thatched hut and, living as a hermit, continued to paint until his death in 1974, producing some of the most significant works of his idiosyncratic career."

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Jane O'Sullivan @sightlined.bsky.social · 7d

Ok that is cool, little lit goes big 🔥

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Jane O'Sullivan @sightlined.bsky.social · 7d

It's been a good week. Nothing big, just small good things. Making pizzas with the kids. Kindness from others. Watching the whales go by 💙

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Jane O'Sullivan @sightlined.bsky.social · 7d

Jeez good there are still nice people in the world. Fingers crossed it is an easy fix

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Jane O'Sullivan @sightlined.bsky.social · 7d

Urf what a pain. Hope you weren't too far from town when that happened, and that a mechanic can get you back on the road soon

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Jane O'Sullivan @sightlined.bsky.social · 7d

Oh no!

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Jane O'Sullivan @sightlined.bsky.social · 9d

Madeline Pfull, The Twist I, 2024 ❤️📚

Exhibited in 'Disturbances' at Chalkhorse, Sydney
www.chalkhorse.com.au/artists/made...

Madeline Pfull's The Twist I is a cartoonish, exagerrated painting of a middle aged woman in an embroidered jacket smoking a cigarette and reading an Agatha Christie novel

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Jane O'Sullivan @sightlined.bsky.social · 9d

I'm so sorry 💔

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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 10d

“Most writers are not really sold—they’re told, implicitly or explicitly, to sell themselves.” (@ilanaslightly.bsky.social)

Artists Shouldn’t Need to Become Content Creators to Get Fair Pay - Electric Literature

Under capitalism, those of us who want a career in the arts feel pressured to sell ourselves. But making art and marketing it are very different skills

buff.ly

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Jane O'Sullivan @sightlined.bsky.social · 11d

Ah that's interesting thanks Michelle, you're right. Looks like launched in 2016 with s&s as partners. And 2024 was the first global anthology

I do remember seeing that anthology in Big W. Maybe it does get sales??

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Jane O'Sullivan @sightlined.bsky.social · 11d

I'm not sure what to make of The Hope Prize. Run by Simon & Shuster, 100% of royalties from the anthology are donated to charity... but how do they calculate their own royalties? Would it not have been more transparent to just commit a percentage of the (very steep!) $30 entry fee??

Our 2025 Charity Partner is CAMFED — The Hope Prize

The Hope Prize is a global short story prize that connects great storytelling with real-world impact. Shortlisted stories are published in an anthology by Simon & Schuster Australia, with royalties do...

www.thehopeprize.com

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