Category: NSW Art Gallery

Visits to the NSW Art Gallery and its resources.

19thCLit, 21st Century Lit, 4 Quartets, Extra-Mural Teaching, Francis Webb, Grace IV: Contemplative Experience, Literature in Time and Space ENGL111, Literature: An Introduction, NSW Art Gallery, Oz Lit, Poetry and Being, Poetry of Grace @ Aquinas, Poetry of Grace IV Contemplative Experience, SLA Conference, x Blogging

1000 Years of Poetry and the Contemplative Tradition

by michaelgriffith1 • October 8, 2022 • 0 Comments

England 2023: Overview Please join me on this pilgrimage which begins in July 2023. Find all the details at the following link: 1000 Years of Poetry and the Contemplative Tradition England 2023 The adventure begins in London on the site where Chaucer’s pilgrims set out in 1390. Next comes Canterbury, with its Cathedral, St Augustine’s Abbey,…

19thCLit, 21st Century Lit, 4 Quartets, American Literature, Australian Literature, Exploring Literature (Clemente), Extra-Mural Teaching, Francis Webb, Literature in Time and Space ENGL111, Literature: An Introduction, Literature: An Introduction 2020, New York, Nineteenth, Nineteenth Century Literature Test, NSW Art Gallery, Oz Lit, Poetry of Grace @ Aquinas, Poetry Workshops, Reading Australia, Research and Writing, Rilke, Shakespeare Plus, The Sacred in Literature and the Arts, Twentieth Century Literature ENGL202, Visionary Blake, Visionary Imagination, William Blake, Wisdom, x Blogging

Greetings and farewell from A/Prof Michael Griffith (Literature: Strathfield)

by michaelgriffith1 • June 30, 2022 • 0 Comments

I am retiring after 45 years at ACU. While it certainly sounds a long time, I remember vividly my first days on Castle Hill Campus in 1977 and then the flow of new literature students, through Castle Hill, then Mount Saint Mary and occasionally MacKillop. Every year a wonderful crop of new faces, new enthusiasms!…

19thCLit, Nineteenth, NSW Art Gallery, x Blogging

Show and Tell 19th Century Literature Mid-Semester Blogs… See the best here… THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR AMAZING WORK…

by michaelgriffith1 • April 18, 2022 • 0 Comments

Thanks you Ashleigh for telling us how reading the Romantics has actually changed the way you live your life right now: Best blog on our Art Gallery visit. Thank you Tia for discovering an epiphanic moment in front of Eugene Von Guerard’s Fig Tree: How entering the Art Gallery is like entering the gates of…

Nineteenth Century Literature Test, NSW Art Gallery, x Blogging

The Late Romantic Period: Blog Topics for your Second Blog (includes NSW Art Gallery Visit)

by michaelgriffith1 • April 11, 2021 • 0 Comments

Take this opportunity to write about something that has really touched your imagination in the last few weeks, or that has ignited your interest in our visit to the Romantic and Victorian Halls of the NSW Art Gallery on April 14th. Remember you are permitted to create your own topic as long as it falls…

Nineteenth, NSW Art Gallery

Best Blogs from 19th Century Literature 2020

by michaelgriffith1 • June 18, 2020 • 2 Comments

Overall, an amazing feast of student talent in reflecting on how 19th Century Literature can shed so much light on core issues of human experience in the 21st Century. Thank you All!! Here is one student Alicia Ticchio reflecting on her semester, writing during the Covid 19 Pandemic, when all studies were on-line using Zoom…

Australian Literature, NSW Art Gallery, Oz Lit, x Blogging

Australian Literature- Art Gallery Visit 2019

by michaelgriffith1 • August 27, 2019 • 0 Comments

What a great turn-out for this visit! Thank you all for your keen participation. We covered a wealth of material in the allocated hour from early 19th Century through to contemporary and Indigenous Art. Hoping that this will provide lots of useful insight for your blogs and your quiz! I have attached the audio talk…

Australian Literature, NSW Art Gallery, Oz Lit, x Blogging

Later Colonial Australian Literature – around the 1890s!

by michaelgriffith1 • August 18, 2019 • 0 Comments

Tom Roberts Bailed Up: https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/833/ Hi All, Building on last week’s excursion into the literature of the first half of the 19th Century in Australia, here is a quick survey of some of the material I will be exploring with you this week: Colonial Literature 1890s 2019 This is the period when the Australian idiom in both…

NSW Art Gallery, Visionary Blake, Visionary Imagination, William Blake, x Blogging

The Visionary Imagination: William Blake, Patrick White, Brett Whiteley, Allen Ginsberg- Celebrating Class of 2018 ePortfolio/Blogs

by michaelgriffith1 • November 11, 2018 • 0 Comments

BLAKEAN STORIES This was perhaps the most creative component of all the blogs: those many stories about strangers or family members who provided a trigger for seeing the world in a totally new way. Here is Jamie’s wonderful story about his sister from Vietnam in which he “describes a totally ordinary person in such…

Australian Literature, NSW Art Gallery, Oz Lit, x Blogging

Art Gallery Visit for Australian Literature Students 2018

by michaelgriffith1 • August 29, 2018 • 0 Comments

Thank you all for your keen participation and all your answers to questions as we were going around the Australian sections of the NSW Art Gallery. I hope you all got a sense of how important it is to get a sweeping picture of the development of Australian painting from its Aboriginal origins through to…

NSW Art Gallery, x Blogging

Art Gallery Visit for Clemente Campbelltown Students

by michaelgriffith1 • May 4, 2018 • 0 Comments

A fabulous morning was had by all as we explored the ways in which the techniques and subject matter of paintings mirror the ways in which writers produce their poetry, drama and fiction. Much discussion ensued about the ways in which painters produced textures through their brush strokes, colour contrasts and thickness of paint. This…

Nineteenth, NSW Art Gallery

The Art Gallery of NSW with Nineteenth Century Literature Students.

by michaelgriffith1 • April 20, 2018 • 0 Comments

What a blast to be given the opportunity to try to link literary themes to artistic expression in the visual arts!. I think I learnt as much as the students! Perhaps the most important insight of the morning is the extent to which Romanticism as expressed through early Australian art, gives such a powerful vision…

NSW Art Gallery, Shakespeare Plus, x Blogging

A Day of Shakespeare!

by michaelgriffith1 • March 24, 2018 • 0 Comments

ACU Students had a feast of Shakespeare in Australia yesterday! As is well known one of the first plays to be produced in Australia, back in 1800, was Shakespeare’s Henry IV, with a convict cast. What an amazing historic event that was, is, and remains. To have Shakespeare’s subversive political stance, his hatred of officialdom,…

Nineteenth, NSW Art Gallery, x Blogging

Best Nineteenth Century Literature ePortfolio/ Blogs

by michaelgriffith1 • June 9, 2017 • 0 Comments

Hi All, the top four ePortfolios were produced by the following students. Click on their name to see their amazing contributions to the topic of how the literature of the Nineteenth Century (Romanticism and Victorianism) still contributes to our lives in the 21st Century. A round of applause for: Felicity McManus Joey O’Reilly Jessica Welford…

Nineteenth, NSW Art Gallery, Shakespeare Plus, x Blogging

Shakespeare/ Victorianism & Charles Dickens – Week 6

by michaelgriffith1 • April 12, 2016 • 2 Comments

Thomas Carlyle the great Victorian historian, close friend of Charles Dickens wrote these wonderful words which have been carved in stone in the foyer to the Mitchell ( State Library) in Sydney. This is where many of us visited the Shakespeare Room this week. But for those of studying Charles Dickens and Victorianism, these words…

NSW Art Gallery, Oz Lit

Australian Literature Art Gallery Visit- 2015 (Week 4)

by michaelgriffith1 • August 18, 2015 • 0 Comments

What a great turn-out for this visit! Thank you all for your keen participation. We covered a wealth of material in the allocated hour from early 19th Century through to contemporary and Indigenous Art. Hoping that this will provide lots of useful insight for your final assessment! I have attached the audio talkl tour here…

Literature: An Introduction, Nineteenth, NSW Art Gallery, Performances, Shakespeare Plus, x Blogging

Final Night Clemente/ Catalyst Students at Mission Australia Surry Hills: Shakespeare

by michaelgriffith1 • May 28, 2015 • 0 Comments

Arthur Enfield (Stained Glass) The Seven Ages of Man (Shakespeare As You Like It), State Library of NSW. What a fabulous outcome! All our doubts, uncertainties, wrestling with difficult words, produced an amazing and satisfying presentation of sections of As You Like It. This was the culmination of our course Introduction to Literature which ran for 12 weeks: 4…

Literature: An Introduction, NSW Art Gallery, Shakespeare Plus, x Blogging

Clemente/Catalyst Students Go the NSW Art Gallery: The Links between Literature and Art!

by michaelgriffith1 • April 30, 2015 • 1 Comment

One of the most exciting things I do several times each year is conduct literature students to the NSW Art Gallery to explore the ways in which paintings and sculptures can hugely expand our understanding of the way literature communicates meaning. One of my students (thank you Joey!) right at the start of our tour…

Literature: An Introduction, NSW Art Gallery, Shakespeare Plus, x Blogging

Art in the Age of Shakespeare: A Distant Mirror over 450 Years Ago!

by michaelgriffith1 • April 17, 2015 • 0 Comments

Thank you all for your keen participation in today’s visit to the Renaissance section of the NSW Art Gallery. We all got a very good taste of the range of art work from the period and the connections of all this work to Shakespeare’s imagination. Most powerfully this painting by Jacques Blanchard Mars and the Vestal…