Sally Pryor

Sally Pryor

Sally Pryor reports on Canberra's 100th birthday celebrations, and blogs at Sally of the Century

Secularised research may miss nuances of design

Griffin geometric patterns.

Sally Pryor Is there any end to the enigma of the Griffins? Not in this centenary year there isn't.

Fifty years on, Seekers are still a bit rock n' roll

The Seekers - Bruce Woodley, Keith Potger, Athol Guy and Judith Durham in front - pose in front of a painting of themselves by artist, Helen Edwards, at the National Portrait Gallery.

Sally Pryor At first glance, it could be a classic family portrait, three brothers gathered behind their little sister seated at the front.

Princess upstaged by humble legume

Sally Pryor Since when has a princess not taken pride of place in a fairytale?

Private Capital

The word on the street

Dinkus - Sally Pryor

Sally Pryor Private Capital: Canberra’s long-time street mag BMA Magazine is celebrating its 21st birthday.

Leaving the job of a lifetime

News. 
Director of the National Museum of Australia Andrew Sayers who is leaving the museum.
28 March 2013.
Photo: Rohan Thomson. The Canberra Times 

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Sally Pryor Andrew Sayers has no regrets.

Snapshots of a bygone era

Louise Carbasse
Louise Carbasse by Rudolph Buchner

Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales - P1 / 304

Sally Pryor The year 1913 is having a moment, and just in the nick of time, too.

Sun up, sun down … a perfect day around the clock

News. 
The Canberra Centenary celebration fireworks as seen from the bubbly bar.
11 March 2013.
Photo: Rohan Thomson. The Canberra Times.

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Sally Pryor, Fleta Page and Lisa Cox Build it and they will come.

Past, present, future laid out on firestorm anniversary

Past present future

Sally Pryor As a site to mark a horrifying event, the setting and the weather couldn’t have been better.

Short list speaks volumes on reading habits

News. 
Dickson Library's Adrian Constance with the most borrowed book of 2012, Speechless by James Button.
23 Jan 2013
Photo: Rohan Thomson. The Canberra Times

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Sally Pryor A political memoir, a cookbook and an edgy crime thriller – it’s a short list that speaks volumes about the reading habits of Australia’s most educated city.

A majestic folly soars

Last Bonsai round-up at Arboretum site in the Green Hill Forest off Tuggeranong Parkway   ...... Chief minister Jon Stanhope is assisted by Barry Nash, organiser of the Bonsai dig, in the collection of an Irish strawberry plant at the site.

Sally Pryor It's only 8am, but Jon Stanhope has been up for hours. Something about the light, he says, and force of habit.

Treasures, living and otherwise

Former Director of the National Gallery of Australia, Betty Churcher, at her home in Wamboin.

Sally Pryor A former National Gallery director has teamed up with an artist to highlight some of Canberra's most prized collections.

Digger dodged death as bullet hit Bible

Bible.

Sally Pryor It was probably superstition that led 22-year-old Lance-Corporal Elvas Jenkins to tuck his Bible into his left shirt pocket at Gallipoli on May 7, 1915.