Sally Pryor

Sally Pryor

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

A statue beyond limitations

Sally Pryor Arts Editor Amid all the debate surrounding the Skywhale, perhaps it's time to reflect on an alternative reality.

Silken touch for Griffin lithograph

News. At the National Library of Australia, a preview of the exhibition,

Sally Pryor Like all patients that arrived through the doors, this 80-year-old was triaged and assessed for damage.

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.

One man's junk is another's orchestra

Graeme Leak with a collection of items at Tiny's Green Shed. The items will be used as instruments in the Noise Orchestra he is organising as part of Canberra's Centenary Celebrations.

Sally Pryor You might see it as junk, treasure, a way to furnish your home or a useful place to dump household rubbish. But when it comes to the tip, Graeme Leak sees an orchestra.

Behind the smoke

2003 bushfire pics for Grant

Sally Pryor There are many defining images of the 2003 firestorm - the flames, the silent, smoking forests of naked black trees, the sight of hundreds of Canberrans camped out on the floors of emergency centres.

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.