Sunday, June 9, 2024

Tyssen - Binns - Wedgwood - Wight

Ingeborg Tyssen
People Series 4
1977
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Ingeborg Tyssen
Hollywood 2
1982
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Ingeborg Tyssen
People (Pitt Street)
1979
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Ingeborg Tyssen
People Series 3
1977
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Vivienne Binns
Childhood Fabric
1991
 acrylic on canvas
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Vivienne Binns
Tapa over Japan 'one'
1993
acrylic on paper
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Vivienne Binns
Mothers' Memories - Others' Memories
1979
screenprint (poster)
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Vivienne Binns
Experiments in Vitreous Enamel
1976
screenprint (exhibition poster)
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Wedgwood & Bentley
Urns imitating Porphyry
ca. 1770-80
glazed earthenware with gilt-metal fittings
Newport Mansions Preservation Society, Rhode Island

Josiah Wedgwood & Sons 
Writing Case (lid)
c1860-
calamander wood veneer, jasperware medallion
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto

Josiah Wedgwood & Sons
Bust of Mercury
late 19th century
black basalt
Newport Mansions Preservation Society, Rhode Island

Josiah Wedgwood & Sons
Egyptian Revival Sugar Bowl
1835
stoneware
Newport Mansions Preservation Society, Rhode Island

Normana Wight
Cake
ca. 1979
screenprint (postcard)
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Normana Wight
UK Postage Stamps
ca. 1975
screenprint (postcard)
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Normana Wight
Souvenir of Scotland
1981
screenprint (postcard)
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Normana Wight
Mimmo's Shirt
1976
screenprint (postcard)
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

from The Quest

Two friends who met here and embraced are gone,
Each to his own mistake; one flashes on
To fame and ruin in a rowdy lie,
A village torpor holds the other one,
Some local wrong where it takes time to die:
This empty junction glitters in the sun. 

So at all quays and crossroads: who can tell
These places of decision and farewell
To what dishonour all adventure leads,
What parting gift could give that friend protection,
So oriented his vocation needs
The Bad Lands and the sinister direction?

All landscapes and all weathers freeze with fear,
But none have ever thought, the legends say,
The time allowed made it impossible;
For even the most pessimistic set
The limit of their errors at a year.
What friends could there be left then to betray,
What joy take longer to atone for; yet
Who would complete without the extra day
The journey that should take no time at all? 

– W.H. Auden (1940)