Letters from Ukraine: 23/03/22 – Night Train
Our Aussie mate and art collector Mike Haly, who runs a mining company in Poland, organised a thirty-six-year-old executive, Mateusz, to pick us up from our Krakow Hotel and drive four hours to the railway station where trains leave for Lviv. We chatted happily with Mateusz and enjoyed seeing the Polish countryside, as we cruised along at 140 […]
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Yellow Submarine to Taliwood: 12/12/21
This era started with watching people jump to their deaths from the Twin Towers on 9/11 and ended twenty years later, close to 9/11, when desperate Afghans fell from the planes at Kabul Airport. We are presently contacting people who lost loved ones who clung to the planes and fell to their deaths. Our film […]
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Yellow Submarine to Taliwood: 11/12/21
Watching footage of crowds running with the huge grey evacuation planes, some made it up onto the wheel hubs. Most were reaching for something to hang onto but one guy was sitting and looking into his phone screen. Was he saying goodbye to loved ones? Was someone desperately telling him to get off before it was […]
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VIDEO: Yellow Submarine to Taliwood
On his connection to the culture of the region, and his projects there, Gittoes writes: “During 1965, while in my first year at a new high school, Kingsgrove North, I dared to suggest to the art teacher that we take the option of studying Islamic art. The teacher tried to persuade me against it, saying […]
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Yellow Submarine to Taliwood: 04/11/21
I took time out this morining to read Hermann Hesse’s book Siddhartha (1922) again after about fifty-five years since the first reading. Then I had to write about it. This sense of a life journey had been a big element of this journey. […]
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Yellow Submarine to Taliwood: 04/10/21
Waqar was looking very ill when he got back from hospital last night, but assures us the doctors think he is OK and does not have COVID-19 or dengue fever. He does, still, have a temperature of 103 degrees. I will check him when he wakes up. He has been overworking with me – I push […]
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Yellow Submarine to Taliwood: 2/10/21
I don’t accept things the way they are because it is more fun to make them something new. Picasso rearranged form; I rearrange the realities I enter. A few nights ago we went to visit Shah Jehan who is the leading intellectual Professor in Peshawar. I ended up losing it with him . . . […]
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Yellow Submarine to Taliwood: 28/09/21
This morning we re-found the place where the 115-year-old Sufi Syed Baba G taught. He died in 2012 and his permanent resting place is in his old home, his bedroom. Two of his young students, brothers, sang the poetry of Rakman Baba. Then in the late afternoon, inspired by the songs, we went to the […]
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Hellen Rose
In 2011, George Gittoes and I were invited to speak at the World Conference on Artistic Freedom of Expression at Oslo about the Yellow House Jalalabad. ‘All That is Banned is Desired – A World Conference on Artistic Freedom of Expression.’ There I met one of the escaped women of the group Pussy Riot. We […]
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George Gittoes
George Gittoes’ ‘Augustus Suite’ is a contemporary reincarnation of his earlier ‘Hotel Kennedy Suite’ begun in 1969 at a San Francisco YMCA while the artist was ill with Hong Kong Flu. Its immediate prompt has been Covid, but the links go deeper. Febrile, hallucinogenic, half-awake, Gittoes describes catastrophic visions that emerged as if of their own […]
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Surf Shack
George Gittoes and Hellen Rose have been given the keys to The Surf Shack for stage an interactive exhibition before the shack is demolished.
George Gittoes | Night Vision
An artist that has dedicated his life and art to documenting and working in some of the most troubling places of conflict, George Gittoes is inseparable from his work.
George Gittoes’ diary
Announced as the recipient of The Sydney Peace Prize, in our latest issue George Gittoes gives you an insight into the everyday workings of life overseas, Yellow House and Afghanistan.
Issue 12
Our Issue 12 cover artist George Gittoes tells of his award-winning career as a painter and documentary maker in the world’s most troubled hotspots. We also meet with feminist icon Deborah Kelly; Tim Maguire unveils his latest foray into film; and Joe Frost discusses bad language in art criticism. Featuring George Gittoes Deborah Kelly Also Inside […]
