Close up of original postcard with collage additions
Perseverance in art is essential. There is also an art to perseverance. I think about Shakespeare and the history of the Globe theatre today as I collage a postcard, which becomes a portal into a time of plague, chaos and playwriting.
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Cristo Rei (Christ the Redeemer) statue on the hill overlooking Dili harbour, Timor Leste
What this week has shown us is - Never take democracy for granted. In this momentous week I remember the 11th of November, the Whitlam dismissal, NAIDOC week and the struggle for independence when the Timorese voted for independence from Indonesia. Democracy hard won.
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The first steps…screen print on map and sizing up
Navigating through life is a journey of discovery. Where will you go next? A book made from a map is a placemaking activity. It shows you where you are now, where you’ve been or where you want to go next. A pocket map book has even more options, you can add paper ephemera to mark your journey, tickets are a great addition.
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The introduction to my Youtube series
Not perfect, but finished. It’s what I tell my course students and what I have to remember to do myself. Make mistakes, there are no mistakes. What we have instead are perfect imperfections, the messy human side of us revealed.
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Mavis Ngallametta. Bush Fire at Top Yalgamungken 2015
Going big and red or working small and achievable? These are questions many women are faced with when they want to create. Creating in small and achievable ways builds your creativity muscles and keeps you moving forward until your goals to go big are realised.
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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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