Hermes - etching - 2011
When you’re feeling unhinged and not quite in touch with your inner self, look around for the tools you have to hand to put some structure back into your life. This helps turn experience into beauty, transforming the chaos into poetic metre, a daily ode to life told line by line, word by word, image by image.
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The paper ‘critter’ still drying on an embroidery hoop frame.
A message arrived this week in the form of a non human messenger. It was a message about growth and transformation, the shedding of old ways of doing things. An indication that life was changing and I was changing with it.
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At the BigCi Open Day with my two Forest Floor canvases.
Artists residencies can propel you forward in your art practice. This month I finished my fourth artist residency in four years and reflect on the top #10 lessons I’ve learned from all four.
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The night before the BigCi Open Day - in front of my Forest Floor canvas
It takes a community of like minded, inclusive thinking creatives to nourish an artist’s talent and confidence so they can breakthrough to success. An artist residency gives you the time, space and support to enable those breakthroughs.
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Fractal Figure #2 (detail)
What happens when you make a quantum leap? Your artwork conceptually ‘jumps’ and you move into a whole new method of creating. Making these leaps means you draw deep from the hidden parts of your imagination which are waiting to be released.
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Bark fractals and a freeform paper landscape - the colours of the bush.
Lots of experimenting in the rain and mud with paper in this first week of my artist residency at BigCi in Bilpin. Pouring paper pulp and getting ideas together in readiness for our public Open Day on Sunday 4th April where I will be demonstrating my pulp pouring techniques.
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The colours of the landscape ~ Wollemi National Park, Bilpin
To occupy is to name, make claim, live in and inhabit a space, temporarily or permanently. This is a tale of two artist residencies two years apart. One I am in now at Bilpin, NSW and one I was at in Central Australia in 2019 and the artworks I created there are now on exhibition at Northern Rivers Community Gallery in Ballina.
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Time[less]. 2019. One of the works in my Occupy exhibition
When it’s time for exhibition, how do you show up? I’ve learnt over time to make an occasion of it, dress in my best, put on red lipstick, show up for others, but more importantly, show up for myself. My joint exhibition Occupy is all about occupying space and time. As an artist and a woman it’s about staking your claim. I am here. I am worthy!
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Book pages showing Australian artist Annique Goldenberg in collaboration with Salwa from Kabul, Afghanistan from the Making Marks project (and my necklace).
Art has the capacity to heal and connect people on a heart to heart level. The colour blue from lapis lazuli has led me on a circular journey through art and inspiring artist collaborations into the war torn country of Afghanistan.
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An organised corner of my studio space
How do we inhabit a space, occupying it with traces of our own existence in place and time? It’s an interesting question to ponder as I consider occupancy with my upcoming exhibition Occupy and resuming an artist residency in the Blue mountains. What traces of my own life and occupancy will I leave behind?
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