Rain drops and reflections at Pottsville Environmental Park, NSW
Rain puddles, upside down trees and floating bits of bark. These have started a mapping process for me of the Boorum Wetland, adjacent to where I live. Making maps is an exciting direction for my next art project. It’s time to reclaim the beauty of swamps and wetlands.
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Swamp Sclerophyll Forest in Pottsville Waters, New South Wales.
After seven months away from home, I realise that I have taken where I live somewhat for granted. Yet is is one of the few remaining habitats for the endangered Buruwagan (bush curlew) whose distinctive night call is becoming my own call to action.
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Porthleven harbour, last stop in Cornwall
The annual raft race at Porthleven harbour was a great finish to my time in Cornwall where I could reflect on my last artist residency in the UK. Now my challenge will be to return to Australia to bring this experience into my final project to complete the Masters Arts & Place program.
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Three fold brochure layout for my Imaginary Guide to Trespass
What are you own particular set of skills? It’s easy to undervalue what comes easily to you. Yet these same set of skills could be exactly what you need to develop and extend your own art practice.
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Things of concrete and wire, mythical creatures to inspire stories
Creatures of myth and imagination can call to you from the strangest of places. I am attracted to taking pictures of the strangest things, like rusted wire, abandoned buildings and patterns in the asphalt. They inspire me to tell their stories.
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‘Flee for Freedom’ art on a preserved section of the Berlin Wall now dedicated to wall art.
I have been lucky so far in my art career to not get badly burned but there are occasions when I have felt decidedly uneasy. Due diligence is needed as an artist, especially if you are travelling, spending money for exhibitions or when posting on the internet. Things can go wrong even with the best plans, so be aware!
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IAPMA Paper Alive exhibition, Pillnitz Palace, Dresden.
Can artists save the world? Papermakers are giving it a try! Presenting at the International Association of Hand Papermakers and Paper Artists (IAPMA) congress in Dresden were papermakers from around the world, sharing ideas, goodwill and challenging us to find creative ways to be sustainable.
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Caisleán Charraig an Phoill (the Rock of the Hole). Carrigafoyle Castle, Ireland
What does a landscape reveal? In Ireland the west coast is full of the relics of stone towers and castles where lives were lived and battles fought. What we learn when we travel is not always aligned with the histories taught at school.
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Wooden block wheel c 400 BC, National Irish Museum, Dublin
What objects do you keep and what stories do they tell? Museums are great storehouses of stories told through the collection of objects. Souvenirs of place and time, preserved through fate or passed down through generations.
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The Caledonian Pine or Scots Pine tree seems to symbolise all that is tough and hardy about Scotland. Through it I feel the tug and pull of my DNA, my ancestors voices in the wind, calling. I wrote a poem which became a drawing and then a video. I love the way the artistic process unfolds as you work.
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