Broken Hill NSW, Sulphide Street Railway Museum, Steam locomotives, Y class, T class
Broken Hill NSW May 13, 2015 Art Gallery day, starting with the Regional Art Gallery - nice building.... Actually, they had several big displays on of Aboriginal art, well not the traditional dot paintings, but a whole bunch of what looked like necklaces made from anything that could be found, a whole room of colour-splash art and a grouping of portrait photographs of the Elders from Blacktown. I thought the photos were excellent, must have a go at this portrait lark one day. They also had a whole gallery of an eclectic mix of old 'proper' paintings, impressionist, dot paintings, modern and contemporary, who knows. The two old proper ones were the standouts, in that they were in the traditional model where the models are almost lifelike. Had to laugh though, at the top of the stairs, in the top of the stairwell, they had their entire Brushmen of the Bush collection: a few Pro Harts, one Jack Absolom and one other somebody. 6 in all. That was it. Not too good considering t...