Art Gallery NSW -Slide show

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Favourite piece of Contemporary Aboriginal Art

                                           
                    Title-                       Fruit bats   - 1991
                        
                     Artist-                    Lin  Onus     
                                                   Australia
                                                   Dec 1948--24 Oct 1996
             
                Language Group       Yorta Yorta ,Sourthern Riverine regio

Lin Onus was born  only child of bill Onus  ,a Yorta Yorta man from Aboriginal Community of Cuummeragunja in Victoria and a Scottish mother ,Marry McLintock Kelly. He died prematurely in Melbourne on October 24 ,1996 at the age of 47  and known as a pioneer of the Aboriginal art movement in urban Australia .Moreover, he struggled for indigenous rights .He exhibited 80 exhibition in Australian and international   venues.He was the recipient of many awards and appointments of note .Further ,he was appointed as a member of the Aboriginal Arts Board of the Australia Council in 1986 and founding member and Director of Viscopy in 1995. 

When i was standing in the basement of the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney ,Australia,studying the contemporary  Aboriginal Art i was fascinated with this art work.In his painting ,he interposes 99 fiberglass Arnhem Land -inspired fruit bats ,striped with rarrk(crosshatching ) ,are suspected on a common backyard Aussie Clothes line .He painted in native motive with a Western human construction in order to blend traditional aboriginal heritage with elements of a modern lifestyle.There was littered below were the bats dropping  on small discs of flower design ,referencing the flying fox dreaming to which Onus was permitted to access . In other word ,it is a cleaver way to illustrate the role fruit bats in pollinating and dispersing seeds from native plants . Eventually, this piece combines traditional indigenous culture with the suburban Australian lifestyle. 

He humorously attacks the suburban sensibility of the clean and neat back yard,contrasting the idea of clean washing bat dropping ,while forcefully bringing nature into this controlled environment.It signifies a contrast between an aboriginal engagement with nature and Anglo -Celtic determination to control or exploit it .The work is humorous but there is an undercurrent of anger in the sculpture.

                                       

Art Gallery

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Preparation for the art gallery excursion NSW

we are going to the Art Gallery of NSW on 20th October 2016. In this excursion we are going  to use our skills such as mapping, observing and hearing. We will be exploring the culture and the time periods of the different Aboriginal  art works by famous artists. By using our observation skills, we will be writing down important notes.This data will then be used in our tasks in the class.  So i am really very excited  to go on this excursion organised by Granville tafe.

Here are the directions from St.James station.

Academic listening video

Watch this  video on Academic listening 

Academic Listening skill

Here is a link to the you tube video
Academic Listening Video

Excursion next week to Art Gallery of NSW

We plan to go on Thursday, Oct 20 on an excursion  to see Aboriginal Art at the Art Gallery  of  New South Wales .
We will be going there by public transport.This is  an academic excursion organised by  Granville TAFE on behalf of ESOL Dept.

Aboriginal Art

This is the direction to go from St James to the Art Gallery of NSW.
Direction Link from St James Station To Art Gallery of NSW

Reflection on Twitter

Reflection On Twitter

An important  tool i learned to use this EAP semester  was Twitter. At present  i am extremely uncomfortable using twitter . However , i will be like an  old hand  at twitter in coming days. It offers  me micro - blogging services  to communicate via Twitter post (tweets) on laptops , smartphones and any other devices  with internet  access.For me ,It became an effective  teaching and learning tool in academic  studies.  I am going to use as a personal and professional tool after the completion of this EAP. As a registered user i can share information  with peers, easily communicate with other students  that are considered as real -time news source .In this way, i can get a lifelong  learning experience .

Twitter is useful as an academic tool ,it helps in meeting new  people in  all disciplines, academic  support  for finding new ideas ,people's blogs and publication that  definitely  ,increased visibility  . Through Twitter, i  can meet others who share my  research interests. we may   be able to collaborate on group assignments or projects . we  can write about anything by using our  right of speech. It is useful  for  academic arguments    face to face  and very quickly  allows me to spread the word  of my work  to other academic audiences. and also  allows me to interact with other scholars .Certainly, twitter makes it possible for me to engage with the global   community even though  i  now live in Australia .Moreover, it also facilitates real - time chat through  the use of hashtags. By creating their own hashtag, students can invite participants from around the world to take part in instant research by contributing to a live discussion on any given topic . Furthermore,it facilitates direct contact with leaders in any given field. Encourage students to ask questions from world-renowned scientists and thinkers.Above all, it is  limited  only   to  people who are registered  users. I would love to  use twitter to enhance my research and Knowledge exchange activities just to  have good academic sense .   

Reflection on Delicious Bookmark

The Delicious bookmark is a social  bookmarking site which is very useful  for academic study  and most efficient way for researchers  to browse  the net. It help me  to create a group to share academic writing  resources and also easily join another group to access their resources. In this way ,it   allows  me to  a registered  users  to save links to various websites of interest ,to tag those link  with keywords and to add descriptions that will make the links to easier  to promote or review .we can easily discover new research study materials that other have found.  For last two months ,i have been using Delicious bookmark  as an information designer because it produced all-inclusive in-depth information ,articles ,books,and subjects for  academic research writing  on the internet to which i might want to refer that will be using for research and my spoken presentation for speaking assignment .It makes things public .In future assignments ,it will  help me in developing an actual  working relation with  my classmates and other scholars as i will be added to their networks.  Moreover, i can easily access my bookmarks from  any computer on the web. It will definitely, enhance my  academic reading -writing skills  and efficiently focus on my  brilliant performance.

Email Protocols - Reflection

Email Protocols - Reflection

 In the academic study, using proper email language can create a professional image. Most of the time it shows work efficiency. Emails that get to the point are more effective than simply written emails. It serves  as an official record of my communication with the faculty. It should be presented in a professional manner. I have learnt how to write a good informative subject line in emails that must give the recipient a good idea of the email content. Moreover, it should be brief and specific with a clear informative title in the subject box .It is a basic way of politeness to address the recipient at the start of an email by using their title and last name. For BCC, it is very use full for us because it protects   privacy of others email address so group email can be sent by blind copy (bcc).  An attachment with proper footers and header including date, page number can be sent easily.  Now I can easily write file name in properly  identified path in footer of documents .It is helpful in searching for file from different folders .Taking regular backup of email can save my all files. Two-step authentication will make it more difficult for cyber criminals to breach my account. It could be done with a mobile phone ,a sim, a USB stick and  id cards  .with this technique i can secure my all privacy by changing the password regularly.

 Academic email protocols can help me in practicing to act and respond in a professional way. As an academic student, it is required to respond in academic culture to relevant subjects with different topics.

My first post

This is my first post in EAP blog.