{"id":436,"date":"2011-10-16T10:42:37","date_gmt":"2011-10-16T00:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/?p=436"},"modified":"2011-10-16T18:47:54","modified_gmt":"2011-10-16T08:47:54","slug":"is-there-a-doctor-in-the-house-the-flying-doctor-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/?p=436","title":{"rendered":"Is there a Doctor in the House &#8211; The Flying Doctor Artist"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb_share_1\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a name=\"fb_share\" type=\"icon_link\" share_url=\"https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/?p=436\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php\">Share<\/a><\/div><div><script src=\"http:\/\/static.ak.fbcdn.net\/connect.php\/js\/FB.Share\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/div><div id=\"attachment_441\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/?attachment_id=441\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-441\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-441\" class=\"size-full wp-image-441\" title=\"&quot;Flying Doctor Dunny Stop&quot;  &quot;Backyard Line Dancing&quot;  &quot;Flying Doctor, Teach us to Fly&quot;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/FlyingDoctor011.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;Flying Doctor Dunny Stop&quot;  &quot;Backyard Line Dancing&quot;  &quot;Flying Doctor, Teach us to Fly&quot;\" width=\"800\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/FlyingDoctor011.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/FlyingDoctor011-300x113.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-441\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&quot;Flying Doctor Dunny Stop&quot;  &quot;Backyard Line Dancing&quot; &quot;Flying Doctor, Teach us to Fly&quot;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Calling all Doctors.\u00a0 Take some time out from your everyday life and explore the comedy of the \u2018Flying Doctor\u2019 series by Howard William Steer.\u00a0 He uses his humour to promote, and bring attention to, the wonderful service of the truly unique Australian icon, <a title=\"FD website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flyingdoctor.org.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Flying Doctor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"HS site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.howardsteerart.com.au\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Howard\u2019s \u2018Flying Doctor\u2019 <\/a>features in many of his works, helping to raise the profile, as well as financial support for, the Royal Flying Doctor Service. Howard came up with the proposition that every Broken Hill physician should make his visits from the sky. Flying doctors ought to fly, so he painted them as having wings. Gossamery little things.\u00a0 Patient care could be given anywhere.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Howard William Steer<\/strong> has lived all his life in Broken Hill.\u00a0 As well as supporting the Flying Doctor through his art, Howard paints subjects of the people and animals of the outback. He captures the early miners&#8217; struggle to get reasonable working conditions and humorous (and sometimes satiric) views of our Australian icons, the result being a host of powerful <strong>stories-in-art.<\/strong>\u00a0 <a title=\"HWS rhg link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.redhillgallery.com.au\/2007\/ARTISTS%20HTMS\/HowardWilliamSteer.html\" target=\"_blank\">Red Hill Gallery\u00a0 has just received a selection of Howard\u2019s paintings; <\/a>we all had a quiet chuckle at his latest humour.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_444\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/?attachment_id=444\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-444\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-444\" class=\"size-full wp-image-444\" title=\"&quot;Let Me Put You in the Picture&quot;       &quot;Flying Doctors Clinic&quot;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/FlyingDoctor02.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;Let Me Put You in the Picture&quot;       &quot;Flying Doctors Clinic&quot;\" width=\"800\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/FlyingDoctor02.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/FlyingDoctor02-300x117.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-444\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&quot;Let Me Put You in the Picture&quot;  &quot;Flying Doctors Clinic&quot;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"al2fb_like_button\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=499790883388518\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));\n<\/script>\n<fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/?p=436\" send=\"true\" layout=\"button_count\" show_faces=\"true\" share=\"false\" width=\"150\" action=\"recommend\" font=\"arial\" colorscheme=\"light\" ref=\"AL2FB\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ShareCalling all Doctors.\u00a0 Take some time out from your everyday life and explore the comedy of the \u2018Flying Doctor\u2019 series by Howard William Steer.\u00a0 He uses his humour to promote, and bring attention to, the wonderful service of the truly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/?p=436\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":456,"href":"https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions\/456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}