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An encounter with Zorro on the ‘Walk of Fame’, Hollywood Boulevard USA 2004.
I felt like a star having just climbed a pyramid in Guatemala and sauntered down the ‘Walk of Fame’ in Hollywood, USA in 2004. It’s a memory to focus on when I feel anxious at the outcome of my total knee replacement surgery. I dream of being able to climb up stairs again, or even go for a hike without excruciating pain.
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Porthleven harbour, last stop in Cornwall
The annual raft race at Porthleven harbour was a great finish to my time in Cornwall where I could reflect on my last artist residency in the UK. Now my challenge will be to return to Australia to bring this experience into my final project to complete the Masters Arts & Place program.
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Things of concrete and wire, mythical creatures to inspire stories
Creatures of myth and imagination can call to you from the strangest of places. I am attracted to taking pictures of the strangest things, like rusted wire, abandoned buildings and patterns in the asphalt. They inspire me to tell their stories.
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The Caledonian Pine or Scots Pine tree seems to symbolise all that is tough and hardy about Scotland. Through it I feel the tug and pull of my DNA, my ancestors voices in the wind, calling. I wrote a poem which became a drawing and then a video. I love the way the artistic process unfolds as you work.
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The outer cloth and silk lining ready to sew a sachet - I dyed these cloths while at Dartington this year.
Much of art research is collecting information or data, then conceptualising how this can be creatively expressed. Collecting data about the weather has become a rich source of inspiration in the Western Highlands for over a hundred years. I’m carrying it forward…
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View of the lower part of Ben Nevis through the rain spattered window
Why do people climb mountains? Is it because “they’re there?” In Scotland there is a tradition of ‘bagging a Munro’, climbing one of the mountains over 3,000 feet. My idea of climbing and bagging is a bit different….
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Watching the shore disappear
Bodies of water and their crossing will always fill me with the siren call of adventure. The anticipation of exploration and (self) discovery are strong allures so I headed out to the small island of Lismore on my own kind of pilgrimage.
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One of Megan (Margaret) Watts Hughes voice paintings on an A4 size glass plate I photographed on the light box. With thanks to Carfarthfa Castle Museum and Art Gallery.
A treasure hunt for sound vibrational art led me to Cyfarthfa Castle Museum and Art Gallery in southern Wales to view the works of Megan (Margaret) Watts Hughes. Her extraordinary pictures were created by singing into paint on a glass plate, revealing what the artist believed was the invisible “voice of God”.
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Bibury camping site in the Cotswolds
Sometimes it takes radical trust to believe that things will work out OK. After last minute repairs to the van, we are back on the road travelling through the Cotswolds and encountering more of the Roman history of Britain.
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Feet First Iffley campaign wall.
It’s so important to document not only your finished work, but also the process of its creation. This means you exhibit your final findings as strong images, yet the process of how you came to make them, your ‘compost’ of ideas and creative process is a valuable part of the work as well and should be valued as such.
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