The search for peace and love is ongoing, especially in the midst of worldwide chaos and upheaval. The annual lighting of the Imagine Peace Tower gives a focus to that impulse, if only for one hour on one day of the year.
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At the opening of the IAPMA 35th anniversary exhibition Origins and Destinations, Burnie, Tasmania. (Photo courtesy The Advocate newspaper., Tasmania.)
The business of art is overlooked at your own peril. What if the “business” of art bores you and you would rather be creating than talking about your work? Having a business strategy is like having a plan, you fail to plan means you plan to fail. First you need to create a body of work. Then you need to know your How, What & Why and explain it.
Read MoreRepurposing your old artworks releases the energy stored in your materials. When you are deep in your creative flow, the impulse that brought you to create at that time is captured in the materials. Like stones, they hold energetic vibrations of your thoughts and emotions which can be tapped into to tell a new story.
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Lately I’ve taken to counting birds, in the sky, in the garden. Listening to the sound of them in the trees, hidden yet present. They symbolise the freedom of flight, the raucous antidote to silence and the great Apausalypse.
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An early photogram I made in TAFE photography - I included my dad’s ink well as it was precious to me.
What interests us as a child circles back as our future comes forward to meet us. We can have many lives in one lifetime. I was a writer before I was a photographer. I made films before I wrote plays, made paper before I started screen printing.
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In the repurposed fish packing shed at the Nes artist residency in Skagaströnd, Iceland in 2019.
Why go on artist residencies? While you need a proposal to submit with your residency application, the work you make might completely go off on a tangent. I’ve learnt the best thing is to stay flexile and adapt to your new surroundings.
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Daily artwork ink on paper (detail)
Creativity is a blessing. It takes you outside of yourself to a place that is “out of time”. It is akin to connection with something greater, the divine, the universal life force.
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24th July (detail) 2021
The history of art is full of artist activists. Art can “spur thinking, engagement, and even action”. It can not only bear witness to events, but can move us to hope in the midst of despair. Hope for freedom, hope for action, hope for equality and justice in the midst of the ensuing world chaos that can threaten to overwhelm us.
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Waterholes, woven paper artist book, (work in progress 2021)
A little bit wonky is a good thing in art, it frees you from perfectionism. When it comes to repurposing old artworks, the courage it takes to tear up or paint over the old, is worth it. Old and boring transforms into wild, wonky and unique.
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Les tres riches heures du Duc de Berry Fevrier (February), detail
When you are at home is self-isolation, how do you mark time? In the Middle Ages the marking of time was both cosmological and seasonal. Can we turn crisis into opportunity and document our days with creative activity?
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