Knowledge About Online Art Gallery: Political and Other Activities of Online Art Gallery

Currie was elected as MP for Northampton at the 1837 general election, and held the seat until he stood down twenty years later at the 1857 general election. He was a Whig and took an active part in debates and committees. He made contributions to debates on banking and currency and South Australia. He was a vigorous supporter of his party and on one occasion made a long speech chastising the leader of his party for crossing the floor and supporting the Tory party. In 1847 he served on the committee of the British Relief Association.

In 1849, with Richard Cobden and Lord Dudley Stuart, Currie offered financial aid and support in Parliament for the stream of Hungarian migrs who arrived in England in the wake of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 as the forces of repression in Hungary intensified.

Currie was a founder director of the South Australian Company and a director of the Van Diemen's Land Company. He was also a Member of the Provisional Committee of the South Australian Association and of the South Australia Literary and Scientific Association. He was one of four donors in 1859 of the Silver Bowl from which the annual Adelaide City Council 'toast to Colonel Light' is drunk.

He was a religious man and was Treasurer of the South Australian District Committee of the Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. As a member of the South Australian Church Society, Currie befriended and supported Charles Beaumont Howard, who had been appointed colonial chaplain to South Australia and was one of the first settlers in Adelaide.

Currie started an important collection of books, manuscripts and works of art, which was considerably enlarged by his son Bertram and grandson Laurence. ". . . this eclectic collection embraced everything from Dresden porcelain, English portraits and clocks, and Italian old masters, to the French Decorative Arts of the eighteenth century".

Some of the paintings, including a portrait by Peter Paul Rubens of the Marchesa Brigida Spinola Doria, are now in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA.

The 1881 British Census found him at Minley Manor with his son Philip, his daughter Mary and her husband William Deacon, his niece Laura Wodehouse and 14 servants.

He died on 16 October 1881 at age 80.

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Zainub Verjee is a video artist, curator, writer, arts administrator and public intellectual.

Her work has been shown internationally, including at the Museum of Modern Art and the Venice Biennale. She was Film Distribution Manager at the Women in Focus Society, Vancouver. She was involved with the British Black Arts Movement of the 1980s. In 1989 Verjee cofounded In Visible Colours with Lorraine Chan of the National Film Board, an international film and video festival and symposium featuring the work of women of colour. Following the success of In Visible Colours, she was invited by the Jeanne Sauv Youth Foundation to lead a workshop on International Forum 1992: globalization and nationalism at the first International Conference for Young Leaders, Montreal.

In the 1990s, she worked for a decade as the Executive Director of the Western Front Society in Vancouver.

As a writer and critic she has been very prolific. She was the guest editor of a special double issue of the Capilano Review, the first to be entirely devoted to women, featuring thirty-seven British Columbia women writers and visual artists, all working within the theme of struggle, local and global.

She has been active as an arts administrator in the field of cultural policy and cultural diplomacy for over 30 years. Her decades of work in the sector has led to appointments on boards, steering committees and invitations to speak on the national and international fora. In addition to holding positions at Women in Focus, Citizens Forum on Canadas Future -The Spicer Commission, Canada Council for the Arts, Department of Canadian Heritage etc.,she was engaged by Gordon Campbell, Canadian diplomat and the 35th Mayor of Vancouver on his landmark Vancouver Arts Initiative, and among many appointments to Boards, she is proud of her work at the B.C. Arts Board that led to the formation of the B.C. Arts Council. In 2017 she was appointed as the Director of the International Art Gallery at the Jubilee International Arts Festival in Lisbon.

Appointed in 2015, Zainub is currently the Executive Director of the Ontario Association of Art Galleries.

Born in Nairobi in 1956, Zainub is a fourth generation Kenyan. She moved to Canada in the 1970s to study economics at Simon Fraser University. Verjee family is known for its philanthropy around the world.

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In Conversation (1997-2001): an internet project in which users could talk to people in the street via an animated mouth. The project won the 2012 Dutch Kunstbeeld thesis prize.

Classroom of the Future (2001-2005): a classroom design for Mossbrook Special School in Sheffield, a collaboration with architect Sarah Wigglesworth, which won an RSA Art for Architecture award. Collins added an interactive environment to Wigglesworth' building, consisting of a wildlife surveillance system, a camera obscura and an audio environment called the 'ballpool'.

Tate in Space (2002): Collins invented this tongue-in-cheek project that aimed to establish a branch of the Tate Galleries in outer space. Part of the project, that included a spoof website, was the launch of the 'Tate Satellite' which was visible from earth.

Underglow (2005-2006): the project consisted of illuminations of a number of drains in the vicinity of Guildhall Yard, King Street and Queen Street in the City of London, which were visible from dusk to dawn during the winter of 2005-06. The project was commissioned by the City of London Corporation and Modus Operandi as part of the 'Light Up Queen Street' programme.

Fenlandia, Glenlandia, Harewood (2005-2014): a series of online project time-coding landscapes and cityscapes. The original commission was by Film and Video Umbrella and Norwich School of Art and Design. For 12 months a webcam was placed on the roof of the Anchor Inn, a 17th-century coaching inn in Sutton Gault, Cambridgeshire, part of the area known as Silicon Fen. The installation stored a single pixel of the recorded webcam image every second, building up a new image from left to right, top to bottom in horizontal bands. Thus the final image was built up from individual pixels collected over a total of approximately 21 hours and 20 minutes. This process was repeated for 365 days, from May 2004 until May 2005, after which the project was moved to Cambourne (also in Silicon Fenn), Greenham Common and Bracknell, Berkshire (both in the M4 corridor. Similar projects took place in Loch Faskally, Perthshire, Scotland from 2005 until 2007 (Glenlandia), at Harewood House near Leeds in 2008, and in Lambeth, London in 2013 and 2014.

Seascape (2009): a digital work that consists of a series of gradually unfolding digital seascapes, featured at the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex. These digital seascapes were captured in real time by webcams installed at five key coastal vantage points on the South Coast between Margate and Portsmouth. The webcams were sited at each location for up to a year before the start of the show, recording fluctuations in the light that are a characteristic feature of the English coastline.

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Eoin "the Pope" O'Mahony (22 March 1905 15 February 1970) was an Irish barrister, local councillor, and genealogist. He was well known as a "wit, raconteur, and fighter for hopeless causes".

He was born in County Cork and attended Presentation Brothers College, Cork and Clongowes Wood College. The most common story of how he gained the nickname "the Pope" is when asked at school what he wanted to be when he grew up. A skilled student debater, he was auditor of both the University College Cork Philosophical Society and the Trinity College Dublin Historical Society; his auditorial address to the former was published in a legal journal. He was a Fianna Fil member of both Cork City Council and Cork County Council in the 1930s, breaking with the party over its internment of republicans under the Offences against the State Act 1939 during the Emergency of the Second World War. The breach curtailed his legal career as a state prosecutor and he later led a precarious life with no permanent home or income; according to John Ryan, his mailing addresses were "Main Gate, Trinity College", and "Men's Hairdresser, Shelbourne Hotel". When the young Brendan Behan was held at a borstal in Liverpool, O'Mahony sent a famous telegram that "the Pope" was coming to defend him. He was on the committee which secured the 1947 release of S-Plan prisoners.

Admired for his loquacity and genealogical knowledge, he presented a programme on Radio ireann, was visiting professor at Southern Illinois University, and wrote a paper on John Conmee. He received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for his work for postwar German child refugees. He was a Knight of Malta and Man of the Trees. He tried to run in the 1966 Irish presidential election, securing one of the required four nominations, from North Tipperary County Council. He was sympathetic to elements of Irish heritage dismissed by many at the time as West British, honouring the memory of those who fought in the First World War and supporting the Irish Georgian Society. He proposed a united Ireland as a monarchy under Viscount Gormanston (highest-precedence Catholic in the peerage of Ireland) or the O'Conor Don (heir of Ruaidr Ua Conchobair, last pre-Norman High King).

A portly man, O'Mahony died unexpectedly of a heart attack. After his death, the National Gallery of Ireland purchased a portrait of him. Harry Kernoff also painted him. Friends established a bursary in his memory for study of the Irish diaspora, which was administered by the Royal Irish Academy until 2017.

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While still an art student, Olivers work was included in a show at Houstons Courtney Gallery, and in 1970 the gallery gave him his first solo exhibition. He had his second solo show at the DuBose Gallery the following year. In the years after his graduation from Texas Southern University, Oliver became an integral part of the Houston art scene. He was the first African-American artist in Houston to be represented by a major commercial gallery. His work was subsequently exhibited in numerous solo and group shows and has been included in a number of museum collections. In 2005, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston held a retrospective exhibition of Olivers work titled, Notes from a Childs Odyssey: the art of Kermit Oliver, that included a selection of more than 90 works created over four decades.

Alvia Wardlaw, curator of Oliver's 2005 retrospective exhibition, noted that The love of flora and fauna that you see in Kermits art began in that childhood where he was free to roam around Refugio and ride horses and hunt and sketch and drawHis visual sensibility with regards to the Texas landscape which he makes a metaphor for the wonders of the universe was born out of those youthful experiences. Oliver has noted that his work deals with ideas such as growth, metamorphosis, birth, death, rebirth, resurrection, immortality and "redemption...that especially." His paintings create worlds where "...animals, plants, and humans interact in surprising scenes that seem freighted with a mysterious and complex significance. For example, a painting of a figure standing in front of rows of tall shrubbery is not simply a study of a garden--it is titled Theseus and the Labyrinth.

Oliver is also known for his celebrated work as a designer of scarves for Hermes, the French fashion house. The relationship began in 1980 when Hermes asked Lawrence Marcus of the upscale department store Neiman Marcus, if he knew of an American artist who could create a design for a scarf with a Southwestern theme. Marcus told Hermes about Oliver, and the design was a successso much so that Oliver created 17 designs for Hermes over 32 years. He is the only American artist to create designs for Hermes.

Oliver's work is held in the collection of The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.