David Thorne's Personal Webspace

Retired doctor and former educator of medical students, currently involved in the adult ongoing learning and the arts fields.

David in Antarctica (2007)

My Art Collection

Art 2024-2025

Dale Chihuly to exhibit in Adelaide !

The world’s most celebrated contemporary glass artist, Seattle-based Dale Chihuly, will present a curated selection of large-scale installations and sculptures in an exclusive exhibition September 27, 2024, to April 29, 2025 in the stunning Adelaide Botanic Garden.

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Art

Mark Judd oil on canvas Second Valley II 150cm x 120cm

Anne Sorensen cast & cold-worked glass Point of View

Glass and other art forms

Some images from my personal art collection are coming soon...

Art

Sculpture by the Sea

20TH ANNUAL COTTESLOE EXHIBITION

> 1–18 MARCH 2024 <


Video from 2023:


Stage 1971

Life .. is a sexually transmitted Terminal Illness!

November 2023

The future may be short

About life...

Your days are so much more precious when you understand and accept there are not so many of them left.

Travel 2018

Bremer Canyon off the south coast of WA

One of many photographs I took of Killer Whales (Orcinus orca) on an expedition out to the Bremer Canyon in 2018. Popular and attractive, the Orca is in fact the apex marine predator!

 Naturaliste Charters 

Philosophy

WE SHOULD NEVER BELIEVE ALL THAT WE READ, and CERTAINLY

Travel September 2008

Philosophy meaning “love of wisdom” may have originated in Egypt?

Philosophy

“Man perishes; his corpse turns to dust; all his relatives return to the earth. But writings make him remembered in the mouth of the reader.” 

- attributed to Irsesh 12th century BCE (discovered in the 1920’s on papyrus scrolls at Deir El-Medina, across the Nile from Luxor.)

Philosophy

"I don’t so much fear death as I do wasting life."

Oliver Sacks (1933-2015)

Science

One of my favourite reads..

is Cosmos Magazine, the official journal of The Royal Institution of Australia Incorporated.



A little bit about me...

My brief bio is here...

Organisations

My present affiliations...

I am currently involved in two organisations that contribute to the interests of seniors.

U3A LOGO

An active member of Melville & Districts Branch, and contributor to City Courses and the 'Art for Everyone' programme at the Art Gallery of WA.

MALA LOGO

Responsible for the MALA Website, presently on the Perth Branch Committee of Management, and serving as the current President of the Mature Adults Learning Association (Inc).

Here is a description of David’s present & past talks.

The archive is currently incomplete - it’s still a work in progress!