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I just thought i'd give those of you lucky enough to be living in, or travelling to Canberra over the next couple of months a heads up that the National Library of Australia in Canberra is having a massive retrospective exhibition of the goldfields artist S T Gill.
The exhibition runs until October 16.
For those of you not familiar with Gills work he is probably best known for his very intricate and down to earth depiction of early colonial life without a hint of romanticism. During his life he was never a financially successful artist and in the end died a pauper.
There are claims that it was Gill who first coined the phrase 'digger' in reference to the goldminers, a phrase that was later used to describe the servicemen of WW1 and is still proudly associated with the footsoldiers of our present day army troops.
The exhibition runs until October 16.
For those of you not familiar with Gills work he is probably best known for his very intricate and down to earth depiction of early colonial life without a hint of romanticism. During his life he was never a financially successful artist and in the end died a pauper.
There are claims that it was Gill who first coined the phrase 'digger' in reference to the goldminers, a phrase that was later used to describe the servicemen of WW1 and is still proudly associated with the footsoldiers of our present day army troops.
