I spend some time every day picking flowers for the house. Of course I use the word flowers in the loosest sense, it could be bunches of autumn leaves or native grasses. I have always longed to have a flower preparation room, as opposed to using the
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Do you remember that engaging Kit Kat ad based on Frederick McCubbin’s On the Wallaby Track? The characters came to life after closing time, rather like the movie Night at the Museum. Whenever I see the painting at the Art Gallery of New South Wales I can’t
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Florence Rodway was born in Hobart, on November 11 1881. Her father had hoped she would become a doctor, but after showing an early aptitude for drawing, she studied at the Hobart Technical School. At 21 she became only the second pupil in Australia to be awarded
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