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"tom hislop born 7 june 1988 is an australian rules footballer who played for essendon and richmond in the australian football leaguehe was drafted by the essendon football club in 2006 at pick 20 and had shown some promisehe made his debut in round 14 vs geelong and kicked a goal however he suffered a stress fracture prior to round 17 and missed the rest of the 2007 seasonin 2008 hislop injured his wrist and missed a few weeks but made his return with the vfl side bendigo bombers in round 6 he returned to the senior team in round 7essendon offered hislop a oneyear contract at the end of 2008 which hislop and his management believed to be of insufficient length no subsequent agreement was reached and the club eventually was forced to delist him in october hislop nominated for the 2008 afl national draft and was recruited by the richmond football club with pick 58hislop was delisted by richmond on 14 october 2010 after playing fifteen senior games in his two seasons at the clubhe was then redrafted by richmond and played his first game of 2011 against the sydney swans at the sydney cricket groundin november 2011 tom signed with aberfeldie football club in the essendon district football league in metropolitan melbourne and played in the 2012 season along with his two younger brothers jacob and zachary who also signed to play at the club all three played together in season 2013 albeit tom did not play many games due to injury he will not be playing this coming season 2014"
"thomas wilbrandt born 1952 in bielefeld is a german composer and conductorhe studied with franco ferrara hans swarowsky and bruno maderna in rome vienna and salzburg and was assistant to herbert von karajan and the berlin philharmonic for three years in berlin and salzburgin 1980 he founded the berlin chamber academy berliner kammerakademie a fortypiece orchestra originally formed from players of the berlin philharmonic with whom he recorded a highly acclaimed mozart series for rcavictor the berlin chamber academy received rapturous reviews for the fresh vital and exciting approach of wilbrandts readings both in concerts played to capacity audiences and in recordingsnext to international conducting activities and cooperations with major orchestras such as the berlin philharmonic and the philharmonia orchestra in london wilbrandt became more involved in his own projects and recordings concentrating on his work as a composer especially in the field of avantgarde and electronic music this led to developed experimentation regarding multimedia content and expression and to the constant exploration of new forms of music presentation wilbrandts ongoing issue and ambition is to transform and merge sound and vision into a stimulating new dimensionin its stylistic eclecticism and acknowledgement of tradition the postmodernist spirit may serve as a key to understanding wilbrandts musicone of his first major projects was the creation of a totally new kind of fusion between acoustic orchestral playing and digital and electronic instruments and sounds entitled the electric v a so far unheard approach to vivaldis famous concert cycle the four seasons the musical style he developed after the formula traditioninnovation future is unparalleled in uniqueness and originality the first edition of the electric v was released in 1984 in twenty countries and rapidly became a worldwide bestseller that was selected by critics as being one of the best available productions on cd in terms both of musical quality and audio technologywilbrandt wrote directed and produced the electric v film between 1987 and 1990 using the most modern stateoftheart postproduction techniques it was the first realisation of an audiovisual project on such a large scalewilbrandt has composed and advised music for several films and documentaries amongst others for the aos project he contributed music to the highly acclaimed soundtrack of oliver stones film natural born killersballets with wilbrandts music are performed worldwide2011 sees the launch of fennster a berlin based foundation for contemporary art and multimedia innovation initiated by thomas wilbrandt the objective of the foundation is to foster new impulses combining innovative potential and creative forms of expression as well supporting young artists with studio and working spaces and to develop their creative potential and abilities in a highly inspiring thinktank meltingpot environment"
"samuel walsh was born in london england to irish parents in 1951 his mother from limerick and his father from ennis co clare he was educated in london and limerick he lived in limerick from 1968 to 1990 and he now lives and works in co clareafter moving from london he was educated at villiers secondary school limerick where he sat the irish leaving certificate he has stated that he struggled academically and did not receive good marks he was inducted into the villiers school roll of honour in 2012 after finishing secondary school he studied at the limerick school of art and design mary immaculate college of education limerick and the national college of art design dublinhe is closely associated with the beginnings of the limerick exhibition of visual art evaevaeva international in 1987 he founded the national collection of contemporary drawing that hangs in the limerick city gallery of arthis first oneperson show was in limerick in 1978 and since then he has held oneperson shows in cork carlow ennis ennistymon and dublin with the oliver dowling gallery the rubicon gallery and hillsboro fine art and oneperson shows in switzerland and france his style has moved from an early interest in minimalism to a combination of postminimalism and lyrical abstraction since 2007 he has attempted to make paintings that combine elements of the two disciplines of drawing and painting in that each hold equal value within the compositionhe has dealt with a variety of subject matter using an abstract visual language in his career the stations of the cross fourteen points of entry 1991 now in the collection of the irish museum of modern art dublin the encroachment of and into an individuals personal space ambit paintings 20012002 his fathers wartime experiences airborne drawings 2002 interpretations of ancient classical art motifs frieze paintings and drawings 20062007 in november 2007 a major body of work by the artist based on the divine comedy by dante alighieri opened at the limerick city gallery of art the inferno section travelled to ciac pontaven brittany france in may 2008 and was shown in its entirety again at triskelesb caroline st cork in january 2010 he showed new paintings at visual carlow in september 2011 entitled the coercion of substance that subsequently travelled to the highlanes gallery drogheda co louth and the regional cultural centre letterkenny co donegalwalsh has exhibited his work in group exhibitions throughout europe the usa and asia he has been selected for all open submission exhibitions in ireland in particular the royal hibernian academy dublin annually since 1982 and eva limerick in the 1980s90s he first showed at the 246th royal academy of arts london england in 2014in 1997 he was elected a member of aosdna a body set up by the irish government through the arts councilan chomhairle ealaon to recognise outstanding contributions by individuals to the creative arts in ireland he is a fellow of the ballinglen arts foundation ballycastle co mayohe has been selected for international artist residencies in switzerland in 1990 france in 1995 2002 the usa in 2009 and in berlin germany in 2012 2015his work is in collections in ireland including the irish museum of modern art limerick city gallery of art crawford gallery cork the arts councilan chomhairle ealaon university college dublin university of limerick trinity college dublin office of public works dublin national selfportrait collection limerick university college cork leinster house dublin county collection ennis co clare dublin dental school hospital and in international collections in france croatia hungary england switzerlandhe taught drawing at the limerick school of art and design from 1987 to 1997 in 2005 he was the professor of drawing for the autumn semester at the pontaven school of contemporary art brittany france he has also been a visiting lecturer to this college and to the national college of art design dublin and the burren college of art co clare he lectured annually on the drawing studies course at the national gallery of ireland dublin 20082010the artist is represented in ireland by the oliver sears gallery dublin"
"john minnion born guildford 13 august 1949 is an english illustrator his distinctive black and white drawings have appeared in publications such as the financial times the guardian and the times where for six years he illustrated the television criticism column written by lynne truss author of the surprise bestseller about punctuation eats shoots and leaves minnion drew politicians for the new statesman and composers both jazz and classical for the listener his skilful caricatures are drawn always from photographs never from lifeamongst minnions earliest issued works which he published himself are illustrated versions of lewis carrolls jabberwocky 1973 and the hunting of the snark 1976 he also issued a small folio of illustrations to samuel becketts waiting for godot most recently minnion has published several books which bring together drawn and written portraits under the label of his own publishing company checkmate books the first of these books was glued to the gogglebox which brought together various british television personalities his second publication centred on 20thcentury composers and was named uneasy listening this was closely followed by hitlers list a compendium of those found undesirable by the third reich from gypsies to jews concentrating on the socalled degenerate art his most recent publication is pool of life the story of liverpool in caricatures which has been released as part of the citys year as european capital of culturehe currently lives in liverpool"