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Robert Andrew ‘Bob’ James
WILLIAMSBURG Robert Andrew “Bob” James, 86, peacefully passed away Friday, March 5, 2021, at Hospice House of Williamsburg after a series of complications due to an elective brain surgery. He was born June 4, 1934, in Brooklyn to Margaret Nardine and Andrew Thornton James. Bob grew up in East Rockaway, Long Island, New York, with his younger brother, Andrew James.
Showing leadership and popularity, Bob was socially active in many high school activities class president, Math Honor Society, chorus, glee club, operetta and theatre, in addition to sports. He was an all-around athlete in bowling, football, basketball, track and baseball (an all-scholastic center fielder). Bob was proud of the fact that he had a tryout with the Brooklyn Dodgers, his baseball team of choice. He graduated East Rockaway High School in 1952.
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Please join us for the opening of Myall Creek and beyond Touring Exhibition at the ANU School of Art & Design Gallery About this Event
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people should be aware that this invitation and exhibition contains images, and names of deceased persons.
On the afternoon of Sunday 10 June 1838, a group of eleven convicts and ex-convict stockmen led by a squatter, brutally slaughtered a group of twenty-eight Aboriginal men, women and children who were camped peacefully at the station of Myall Creek in the New England region. 180 years after these events a group of indigenous contemporary artists created works which explore the issues and complexities of this significant historic event and its aftermath locally and nationally.
Massacre at Myall Creek inspires artist to evoke spirit of survival
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By Lucie McHugh
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For artist Judy Watson, the trauma of the Myall Creek massacre recalled her family’s own story of survival: her great-great-grandmother Rosie escaped a massacre at Lawn Hill Gorge in north-west Queensland in the 1880s.
“Because Rosie escaped that massacre, our family survived,” said Watson, one of the artists featured in the
Myall Creek and Beyond exhibition at the University of Sunshine Coast Art Gallery.
Judy Watson, one of the artists featured in the exhibition Myall Creek and Beyond, wrapped muslin around trunks to represent “witness trees”.
When art needs an essay to be understood
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ACCA until 15 March
Thereâs an ingenious drawing machine at ACCA. On a raised platform, an armature pulls at 100 strings in a linear backward and forward motion. The strings run up the wall, fly across the space and tug at pieces of charcoal moored to the opposite wall.
Tracing inscriptions 2020, installation view
Credit:ACCA / Robert Andrew / Andrew Curtis
The resulting drawings resonate with one another in analogous actions. The spectacle is engaging, as you try to work out the engineering: how do the strings coordinate the curved gestures on the wall? On a symbolic level, the work is tantalising. Itâs like an allegory in which divine will is perfectly organised and controlled by a matrix, but perfect compliance does not eliminate chance and chaos.