As the world outside my window goes round in circles of chaos, I have been creating circles of connection, a theme which I have taken into my larger works including making a huge world of paper last week in the Imagine Peace Activation.
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The cordoned off paper world outside The Field Artist Run Initiative gallery, M-Arts, Murwillumbah.
Creating a new peaceful world through a community Imagine Peace event becomes a small activation which can contribute to empowering ordinary people to take action. It lifts us up, gives us hope and helps dispel the miasma of overwhelm and hopelessness we can sometimes feel in the face of world catastrophe.
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My collage from 9 October 2019
Big ideas that start with a “what if?” What if we could build a lighthouse that streams the impulse of peace into the world for all to see. What would this look like? Yoko Ono and John Lennon imagined this into reality. They inspired me to bring the spirit of this Imagine Peace to Murwillumbah on Friday 9th October at 6pn ADST in conjunction with my exhibition Fire & Ice about Iceland. This event coincides with the annual lighting of the Imagine Peace Tower on Videy Island, near Reykjavik to commemorate John Lennon’s birthday.
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Artworks, Icelandic cheese box and Tape - ready to pack for the exhibition install tomorrow
The publicity is out, the gallery is empty and the exhibition is ready to hang - a wonderful opportunity to show off all your hard work for others to view, appreciate and maybe (hopefully) buy for their own houses. Here’s some of the things to pack…
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Extinction Tourism: Walking the Glaciers
When you make art with a strong message – about issues of injustice or climate change or social breakdown, how do combine the message with aesthetic beauty, without diluting the content? Art can bring revolution and resolution…
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One of Chelle Wallace’s photographs of me taken in 2019.
What lies beyond the frame of a photograph or painting? Visual artists are also storytellers, they reveal and conceal, hinting at the back story, the why of their creations. As artists it is our job to dig deep within ourselves to find out our why, as this leads us also on the path to self discovery.
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Skagaströnd in the snow- these lights inspired many paper artworks in my exhibition
Rejections equals redirection. If you have a Plan Bs this softens the blow. Plan Bs lead you into unchartered waters but they are worth the risk and challenge you to grow.
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How a collection of rocks inspired a 5 year arts project and my friend became a writer…
How a collection of rocks became a 5 year arts project and a painter found her way to write her family’s immigrant story by exploring the rock, Granite. Sometimes stories and artworks need a long time to ferment before they are ready to emerge into the world.
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Red apple linoprint 2009
Even the humble apple can inspire a series of artworks that can then be formatted and exhibited. A bite into a red apple takes you back to your childhood, and suddenly the prints become folded artist books with stories that are ready for exhibition.
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Eco-Sublime: International Paper Fibre Art Biennale, Taiwan, 2017
When opportunity comes, will you be ready? I never thought that I was good enough to apply for a major international exhibition. I thought I would fail, but then I thought - what if I am successful? Success takes courage and planning.
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