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Tidal Moon 2019

Tidal Moon 2019

One thing leads to another

July 28, 2019 in Paper

When one thing leads to another, experimentation can become a springboard to creating new works. Trusting in the process and listening to your materials is an intuitive process I use when making art.

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Tags: handmade paper, motifs
Recontextualising found objects

Recontextualising found objects

Creative Offerings

July 21, 2019

Sometimes different ways of seeing can create something new by just engaging in material play. When you get out of your head and into your hands, the materials ‘talk’ to you and find new ways of being.

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Tags: material play, found objects
Vision Board (detail) - you can see I was preoccupied yesterday learning about how to be a good coach

Vision Board (detail) - you can see I was preoccupied yesterday learning about how to be a good coach

Learning

July 15, 2019

You never stop learning. When the learnings seem insurmountable it’s good to be able to get support and encouragement, to do it in a group wherever possible. My first online 4 week course launched and I’m pumped!

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Tags: creativity, ecourses
From the plane window - a blue sky portal

From the plane window - a blue sky portal

Blue Skies

July 08, 2019

Blue sky dreaming. It is real and it can turn your ideas into reality. I believe everyone ic creative, but sometimes clouds and turbulence can get in the way. My creativity course helps break through the clouds into the blue skies again.

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Tara Dyson Holland with her skirt and the pieces cut up ready to pulp into paper.

Tara Dyson Holland with her skirt and the pieces cut up ready to pulp into paper.

Paper Experiments

June 30, 2019

Studio days are so precious, especially with collaborations between artists when you live so far from each other. There is a magical energy that happens when we get together to play with materials, lots of talking then ideas explode into action.

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Day 2 of my #5 day envelopeart challenge

Day 2 of my #5 day envelopeart challenge

Envelope Art

June 23, 2019

The end of a creative week and the #5day envelopeart challenge which had people across the world using a humble envelope to connect with art and story sharing via social media.

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On the screen: orange hi-vis shirt pulp with white cotton pulp and flood-mud.

On the screen: orange hi-vis shirt pulp with white cotton pulp and flood-mud.

Discovery and experimentation

June 16, 2019

Experimenting is a process of discovery and that all starts in the studio. Turning up to work in the job of art, often feels like its unproductive and then suddenly your experiments propel you into new forms of art making.

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Brisbane collage from Friday 07 June. Click on the image to read the poem on Instagram.

Brisbane collage from Friday 07 June. Click on the image to read the poem on Instagram.

Daily Creative

June 09, 2019

My daily creative practice is collage. Why do I make these simple collages every day? I believe art helps us make sense of our own lives so that we can navigate the greater world, every day.

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Draining water from the rusted fire pit with its amazing mandala pattern.

Draining water from the rusted fire pit with its amazing mandala pattern.

Start, somewhere

June 02, 2019

Day three of of an artistic collaboration between myself and two other artist friends where we explored print making, starting with no preconceived ideas of where the day’s making would take us.

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Daily Collage 20-05-2019

Daily Collage 20-05-2019

Turning Up

May 26, 2019

Turning up to your art practice is a commitment to yourself and your art. Even when you don’t feel like it, this routine ensures you are always productive in a small way every day.

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