Sophie Ryder, English sculptor who developed her hybrid hare women sculptures as a counterpart to the Minotaur of Ancient Greek mythology #womensart
#MadMarchHares
Fabric design by Vanessa Bell, sister of Viginia Woolf, dating from 1913 #WomensArt
“… the power of museums and the power of culture, that it can almost transcend politics and do what politics is struggling to do.”
One night in 1997, fuelled by boredom, trainee ship bartender Erika Boyero filled some empty bottles with handwritten notes and threw them overboard in Norway. Last week, she met with the Tasmanian woman who found one of her messages.
St Pancras station this evening. The Bayeux Tapestry is coming! Through the tunnel (but not on Eurostar). Making the journey on dry land, unlike when it went from Canterbury to Bayeux in the 1070s.
This has been felt strongly across Canberra and also felt in Sydney. The last significant earthquake in this area was a magnitude 4.1 in late 2022. The largest on record in the area was a magnitude 5.0 earthquake in 1930.
One of Rubens’s most important commissions—his monumental painting for the Whitehall Ceiling at Banqueting House in central London—is reopening to the public following extensive renovations and conservation work. #earlymodern
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Irena Sibrijnsa, Dutch-born, UK-based potter #womensart
Welcome back Marie 👏👏🌈
How was this 14 hours ago 🙃
Peacock teapot by Carol Long, US ceramicist who draws influences from Art Nouveau and plant and animal life #WomensArt
Sunday
I’m so in for The Mandalorian and Grogu. It just looks…fun. Sometimes that’s all I want. I’m excited for a new pulp adventure set in a galaxy far, far away. #starwars #filmsky
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frid-hengest, m.n: of uncertain meaning but ‘hengest’ is ‘horse’: one idea is ‘horse-horse’ (tautological); (less likely) ‘beautiful-horse’, ‘peace-horse’ or ‘war-horse’. (FRID-HENG-gest / ˈfrɪd-ˌhɛŋ-gɛst)
Image: Bestiary; England, 1220-1240; @theul.bsky.social Kk.4.25, f. 59r.
#OldEnglish #WOTD
Clarice Cliff (1899-1972), regarded as one of the most influential ceramics artists of the 20th Century #WomensArt
““One of the big pictures here is increased variability — the increase in differences between the good years and the bad years in agriculture," Professor Howden said.
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“Parched start to 2026 for southern Australia as east coast lows dry up”
Spirit animal 💕
Susie Cooper OBE ( 1902-1995), prolific English ceramic designer whose designs gained international acclaim #Womensart
Wrap of #Heatwave Maximums for 30 Jan 2026.
SA 50.0 °C Port Augusta 2:43pm
NSW 48.1 °C Smithville 3:32pm
Qld 47.3 °C Ballera 1:59pm
Vic 45.6 °C Mildura 6:01pm
ACT 40.4 °C Tuggeranong 4:12 pm
Tomorrow conditions will start to retract then ease on Sunday
A couple of stations in outback SA joined the rounded (but not quite) 50 °C club for the current heatwave over central/southern Australia on Thursday.
Wrap of todays #Heatwave
NSW: 49.2 °C Borrona Downs 3:32pm ( Near White Cliffs )
Qld: 48.5 °C Thargomindah 2:45pm
SA: 48.3 °C Marree Airport 5:17pm (50°C forecast for tomorrow!)
Vic: 46.0 °C Yarrawonga 2:48pm
ACT: 43.5 °C Tuggeranong 3:49 pm
*Some of these are all time or Jan records
“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own #WomensArt
Portrait by her sister Vanessa Bell
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English writer Virginia Woolf was born #OnThisDay in 1882. For Christmas 1933, society hostess Ottoline Morrell gifted her friend Woolf an embroidered black silk shawl, now believed to be the only surviving piece of Woolf's clothing. Monks House collection. #readmorewomen #fashionhistory
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“No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent...And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.”
John Donne, English metaphysical poet, Dean of St Paul’s London; born #OTD 1572.
Portrait after Isaac Oliver, National Portrait Gallery London
“I’m a remarkable woman..always was, though none of you seemed to think so.”May Morris, English artist embroiderer, designer, feminist and socialist, dismayed by the lack of support for women artists founded the Women’s Guild of Arts, 1907 #womensart
