Author: dave urquhart
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A walk by the Pacific Ocean
The other day I went for a walk from Coogee to Clovelly. These are two beaches along the Pacific Ocean coast of Sydney. We are fortunate to have about seventy beaches, approximately thirty-nine of these are ocean beaches. My walk started at Coogee, easily reached by bus from my home in Newtown. As well as…
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Artspeak didn’t satisfy but the trees did.
March is Art Month here in Sydney. There are gallery tours, studio tours and talks aplenty. Last evening I attended a debate in Kings Cross (as part of the Art Month program) called Contemporary Art Is A Joke. I have no view as to whether or not contemporary art, as a whole, is a joke.…
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I do like Cezanne
My life underwent a dramatic change of direction when I went to art college. I started at East Sydney Tech (now the National Art School). I was forty-one years old; the other students were pretty much straight from high school. I faced quite a deal of staff opposition to my enrolment because I had nothing…
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How I became a photographer
All images here were made by me and are an expression of my ‘way of seeing’, to borrow John Berger’s phrase. All images which identify people were made with their permission. My personal art practice is primarily photography, thoughI have a general interest in visual art. My primary creative commitment is to working in a…
David Urquhart: art and about 