When I don’t think I’ve done too much art or travel yet find out that every month was filled with a trip somewhere in Australia and my artmaking continued to take me to places north and south of home. Cyanotype image making became my focus as well as a return to creating artist books. It has certainly been a year art & travel which encapsulates this Year in Review 2025.
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Recent blogpost images and 2022 June blogpost pics about my trip to Greenland and Iceland
Slide Nights and Photo Days
Looking back to where I was three years ago has shown my how much travel I crammed into 2022. Its like reliving my childhood slide nights as I compile a year of blogposts into my Year of Sundays 2022 blogpost book. I get to relive all those memories and keep them to reread at my leisure, analogue book style.
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Time, Rocks, Place 2022. Argyrotype print selected for Fugitive exhibition at Hill End, NSW.
Home and Away
It can be challenging to occupy a space temporarily and create a sense of home. Even more challenging to return home and realise that your old space no longer ‘fits’. Harnessing the energy of homecoming can facilitate growth, experimentation and expansion.
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When Moonah Trees Walked 2025 - cyanotype on bamboo paper 29.7cm w x 21cm h
Best Laid Plans
Adapt, experiment and survive. That’s my motto, especially when it comes to artist residencies where the unforeseen can completely derail your best laid plans. Getting sick when away from home can be very debilitating. Yet it can also give you the impetus to adapt and experiment, abandoning all measure of control, sometimes with surprising results.
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Washing out the cyanotype solution in a tray under the garden tap (improvisation)
Blueprints for Success
Experimentation is about taking risks. Pursuing a train of thought and organising the steps to get there gives you a better chance of success, even allowing for some ‘failures’ along the way. My blueprint for success is to plan, execute then let go of any expectations. It ‘s how I can adapt and improvise when at an artist residency.
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Part of a gridded image of Moonah trees
Reconnaissance
Reconnaissance is a way to ‘hit the ground running’ when you are about to embark on an artist residency. I’ve been taking preliminary photos of the Moonah trees at Point Nepean National Park to see what the pictures suggest. This has led me to consider gridding up an image of the trees dancing together which I can then draw and print over as cyanotypes.
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Forest Family 2021 - paper pulp painting created during my residency at BigCi, Bilpin .
Forest Whispers
When trees whisper their secrets, who listens? As an artist making work about the environment, I feel called to bear witness to the trees and forests threatened by logging, environmental destruction and pollution. Trees may help save our planet from destruction. Helping them survive is a reciprocal action.
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Detail of a cyanotype print using blackberry leaves as a stencil
Never Say Never
Pest or Passion? I’ve had both reactions to the humble blackberry. But never would I have thought it could lead me down an interesting path of discovery about alternative photographic practices. Yet I now find myself regarding this plant with new eyes.
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Eat the Road collage 2024
Eating the Road
There’s anticipation and excitement in getting ready to ‘eat the road’ as Australians head off for the summer holidays between Christmas and New Year. I love consulting maps to plot all the road stops where we will break open the thermos and left over Christmas cake, stretch our legs and change drivers for the next leg of the journey.
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One of my first cyanotypes on handmade kangaroo grass paper made in Central Australia in 2019.
Out of the Blue
Have you ever felt your ideas have sprung from ‘out of the blue’? Yet the colours, processes and themes which have caught your interest along the way have all pointed you in your current direction. That is what I have discovered about my abiding love for the colour blue and the joy of cyanotype printmaking.
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