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Prominent Sydney artist Peter Sharp and MAG&M present forty ‘plein air’ paintings selected from Sharp’s practice over the past thirty years. About this event
These works reflect the artist’s travels around regional and remote Australia and have become part of his ‘toolkit’ for larger abstract works. Photographs of the painted view in situ illuminate the artist’s process of capturing the essence of the landscapes with which he engages.
With subject locations as diverse as Fowlers Gap Broken Hill, Dog Fence near Tibooburra, Darling River Western NSW, Bay of Fires Tasmania, Royal National Park and Sydney’s Northern Beaches, Sharp hones in on the textures, objects and colours that make give these places unique character, and explores the very notion of landscape.
Producer Profile: Penny Jones
April 28th, 2021
Born and bred in Hobart, Tasmania, a passion for food and wine has always been in Penny’s blood.
After graduating as Dux of Oenology in 2004 at Adelaide University, Penny stayed on in the Adelaide Hills for nine and a half years to work her way through the ranks to winemaker at Petaluma winery. Penny returned to her home state of Tasmania and is now focusing her passion for cool climate wines as winemaker for Bay of Fires.
How did you get your start in wine?
I have a hospitality background, so I love all things food and wine. One particular Hobart underground restaurant and it’s owners (French chef, Aussie Maître D) really got me hooked on wine, and eventually I realised it was time to put my brain to work at university. I was pretty excited to learn I could actually study winemaking there, so I packed up the car and drove to Adelaide! The rest is history.
In search of the Indigenous history Australian schools didn t teach
Fiona McIntosh gets a fresh take on the past while on a trek through Tasmania with an Aboriginal guide
26 April 2021 • 11:59am
Fiona and a friend relax at the visually striking ‘krakani lumi’ eco camp after a day’s trek in the Tasmanian bush
Credit: Rob Burnett
‘Are these strictly necessary?” I ask our guide Hank as I hold up a pair of thick, black-nylon gaiters dripping with Velcro straps.
“Well,” says Hank, wearily. “There are three kinds of snake in Tasmania and all of them are deadly.”
So, I’ll be wearing the gaiters, then.
Steeped in history, the Tamar River was âdiscoveredâ by explorers Bass and Flinders in 1798 at a time when the area was home to the Leterremairrener and Pangerninghe people. Launceston was settled sometime later in 1806 and the early settlers of the region worked largely in agriculture or logging.
When gold was discovered at Beaconsfield in 1877, the area really started to grow new industries and by the end of the 19th century, a wharf was established to facilitate transport of produce (such as apples) to the mainland.
Stretching over 60 kilometres from Launceston to the sandy shores of Bass Straight, the valley is home to some 32 vineyards and a whole bunch of artisan cheesemakers, restaurants and even beer and cider producers.
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