David Thorne's Personal Webspace
Retired doctor and former educator of medical students, currently involved in the adult ongoing learning and the arts fields.
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.
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!
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...
Organisations
My present affiliations...
I am currently involved in two organisations that contribute to the interests of seniors.
Here is a description of David’s present & past talks.
The archive is currently incomplete - it’s still a work in progress!