- burbs
= suburbs/urban living Australian urban vernacular
- silly-bugger
= irresponsible idiot tedious fool rowdy delinquent
- See
"Aussie Roofing History Began With Bark" Ian
Evans, [Go
to the Website]
- 'the country':
Aboriginal
people typically refer to their land as their "country"
which implies the land itself plus everything connected to it
environment, traditions, stories and spirituality.
Typically, rather than land belonging to them, Aboriginal people
understand themselves as belonging to the land and themselves
in an inseparable relationship with it.
- chookhouse
= hen house sometimes called a "the fowl-house"
in the vernacular and if so it would also accommodate ducks and
geese all in together with the hens
- tin/bark
canoe:
It is possible to construct a canoe from a sheet of corrugated
iron in much the same way as Australian Aboriginal people made
canoes from the bark of some kinds of eucalypts. Aboriginal people
never killed a tree just to get its bark as they only took the
bark they needed albeit that it would scar the tree such
trees are now called scar-trees or canoe-trees. Conversely
every tree that yielded bark for a settler's hut must have died
as all the bark was removed albeit that the timber was also put
to some use fuel, fencing, construction, etc.
- Anne
Warr:
MATERIAL EVIDENCE Conserving Historic Building Fabric,
Corrugated Iron, Options for Repair April 2003,
[Go to
the Website]
- Anne
Warr:
April 2003, [Go to
the Website]
- Anne
Warr:
April 2003, [Go to
the Website]
- Glenn
Murcutt: [Go
to the Website] Images of Murcutt Buildings:
[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]
- Rosalie
Gascoigne:
"With her very distinctive and poetic assemblages of found
objects, Rosalie Gascoigne was one of Australia's most accomplished
visual artists. Gascoigne came to art late in life (she gave
her first exhibition at 57), but she says she's really been an
artist all her life. Stephen Feneley spoke to Rosalie Gascoigne
in 1997, when she was 81 years of age, on the occasion of a major
retrospective of her work at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.",
[Go
to the Website]
Interview with Stephen Feneley 4 December 1997 [Go
to the Website]
- Rosalie
Gascoigne
Gascoigne Estate 2002, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery Sydney
Hollyhocks: sawn corrugated iron on wood, Height: 75.0cm
- Width: 90.0cm, Year: 1997 [Go
to image of the work]
- 'ridgy-didge'
= true and interchangeable with real or genuine
or authentic or bona fide and also interchangeable with
'true-blue' until recently both terms were typically
used for an Australian born in Australia and of British stock
Author:
Ray Norman is an Australian artist, cultural commentator
and a sometimes cultural jammer who has lived in various parts
of eastern Australia and currently lives and works in Launceston
Tasmania.
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