A reading of the Book of Kells
as a personal text of Celtic diasporic consciousness
http://www.indigodesignnetwork.org/
A consensus within the Melbourne design community
Tony Ward (AFW) was educated into and has participated in for half a century could variously profile him. As a teacher. An illustrator. A sometime adman. An ironic participating commentator on Australian cultural well being. As exemplified in his direct application of personally acquired learning across a diverse design practice and concurrently design education he is – in his own opinion – merely an illuminator not a creator of knowledge. No so different to the artist/scribe that sought to imbue experience of a text for his antecedents with the significance of the truths it contained, in the language of their place and time. Or the Iban storyteller/weaver of the pua kumbu of Sarawak, where he will be based in 2011, as a lecturer in Graphic Design at Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak and an illuminator of first truths for students in the early years of a new design programme.
Iban or Sea Dayak Fabrics And Their Patterns 1936
http://www.onread.com/writer/Haddon-Alfred-C-alfred-Cort-1855-1940-109854
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/a0228122204
http://www.scribd.com/Headhunters-black-white-and-brown/d/445007
http://eprints.ncrm.ac.uk/420/1/MethodsReviewPaperNCRM-010.pdf
http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3307/pg3307.html
RED & GREEN ARE A TENSION TO BE ENDURED
UNTIL RECONCILED THROUGH THE MEDIATION OF WHITE
December 20, 2010 at 10.05 |
That’s great news for you Tony + the close audience you will no doubt effect in the manner of the “real” world. Lucky students . . . lucky you.
There’s a link on viewersite where Barb and I managed a most spiritual interaction with fabrics from varied Asian cultures – here:
http://viewersite.wordpress.com/?s=darwin&submit=Search
Cheers and take care mate!