Sally Pryor

Sally Pryor

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

Australian artists on show in major London exhibition

Sally Pryor Australian art lovers have always been fans of England, and now the love is about to be reciprocated.

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.

A Salvo face that's launched $3 million

The face of the Salvation Army to many Canberrans, Alan Jessop, has been immortalised in Barbara Van Der Linden?s Faces of Canberra Centenary project.

Sally Pryor Arts Editor In a city where change seems as swift and inevitable as the seasons, there seem to be few things from the past that Canberrans can cling to for comfort.

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?

A portrait of the artist as a public man

Artist Roger Beale.

Sally Pryor It can be a lonely life when you spend much of the year travelling the world and meeting with world leaders.

Pat Power: A man of the people

FORUM/NEWS: Bishop Pat Power is giving a talk on the Catholic contribution to Canberra over the century. 10th April 2013. Photo by MELISSA ADAMS of The Canberra Times..

Sally Pryor Long after all the fuss has died down since a new Pope was elected last month, one Canberran has remained quietly elated at the Vatican's choice.

Plenty to protest about, so maintain the rage, young people urged

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Sally Pryor When Clive Hamilton was a teenager, he was among hundreds of schoolkids arrested for protesting against the Vietnam War.

We want you! Archive makes birthday wish to open up the time capital

Photos of unidentified Canberrans circa 1970s, supplied by National Film and Sound Archives. From the Film Australia collection.

Sally Pryor Are any of these photos you looking stylish in your youth? The National Film and Sound Archive wants to hear from you.

Nelson defends modernising memorial

Director of the Australian War Memorial Dr Brendan Nelson checks out a British 9.2 inch Howitzer and a Japanese Type 95 Ha-Go tank that arrived in preparation for the Australian War Memorial Open Day.

Sally Pryor It might be a disrespectful ''sound and light show'' to some, but Brendan Nelson thinks the War Memorial is just adapting to modern-day demands with his plans to project images on to the memorial...

Regard for the fallen crosses generations

Students from across Australia have shared messages on small wooden crosses, to be placed on Western Front graves. Campbell high School year 7 student, 12 year old Harvey Butler of Dickson with his, at the Australian War Memorial.

Sally Pryor The Australian men who fell on the Western Front might have been dead for nearly a century, but it's never too late to say thank you.

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Personal gallery of the Gascoignes goes on show

A personal collection of artworks owned by celebrated Canberra artist Rosalie Gascoigne AM and her astronomer husband, Professor Ben Gascoigne AO, has been donated to The Australian National University Drill Hall Gallery by the late couple?s family member Martin Gascoigne.

Sally Pryor At first glance, the latest acquisition at the ANU's Drill Hall Gallery is an eclectic group of seemingly unrelated works.

Private Capital

The word on the street

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

Shock as museum chief calls it quits

National Museum of Australia admin offices inside the old Canberra Hospital hospice. National Museum of Australia director Andrew Sayers.

Sally Pryor There was a time when the distance between the two sides of Lake Burley Griffin was the measure of Andrew Sayers' career trajectory.

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 rt130328AndrewSayers-0516.jpg

Sally Pryor Andrew Sayers has no regrets.

All things great and small at the War Memorial

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Sally Pryor Will seeing tanks and guns and planes up close – even really old ones – ever grow tiresome?

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.

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.

Centenary dinner recreates the original fare

Ben Willis, head chef and owner of Aubergine restaurant in Griffith has created a 1913 inspired dinner menu for Canberra's Centenary evening featuring chilled asparagus.

Sally Pryor Canberra chef Ben Willis is just a local boy at heart.

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. rt130311centenary-9059.jpg

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

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