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Artistic response to Covid
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Artistic response to Covid

Darwin lockdown inspires metal artI am a metal artist living in rapid creek and I made a sculpture that represents Corona Virus. I was inspired by the aggressive images of covid 19, if you get covid you may need oxygen from tanks to stay alive and sadly some do not make it, the cross represents the…

Dom's Bar "Metal Art" Exhibition
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Dom's Bar "Metal Art" Exhibition

Metal Art exhibition will be on at Dom's Bar 23 July, Aralia street Nightcliff.  James Gorrie creates metal art and is inspired by the bushland around Darwin.  The machine age is dumped on the urban fringe, car parts, metal machinery, the industrial revolution is found in the bush, dumped, burnt…

Art work from welding course on display
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Art work from welding course on display

Heavy Metal Art Show On Display at Darwin Visual Arts“Heavy Metal” is about the intersection of urban living clashing with the bush, the expended machine age is dumped on the urban fringe where the two meet and chaos is the outcome or some would say urban hell. Car parts, metal machinery, the industrial…

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Plant Identification in Darwin

Did you know this is the floral emblem for the city of Darwin?  Red Flowering Kurrajong.  Genus: Brachychiton species: megaphyllusDescription: The Red-flowering Kurrajong is a small tree to 6 m tall. The bark is dark grey-brown, slightly fissured, and tessellated. The leaves are alternate, large, and…

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Red tailed black cockatoos

Red tailed black cockatoos make allot of noise when they are singing or playing or fighting, beautiful birds great to listen too and watch.  In the Northen suburds of Darwin the cockatoos were going crazy with excitement, I could not work out what make the birds sing, they were chasing each other or…