Press
Some of my favourite projects in print.
Papermakers of Victoria | 2022
I was invited to give an artist talk for the Papermakers of Victoria about my residencies in Scotland and Iceland. My artwork Hebridean Landscape made during my artist residency on the Isle of Lewis, was featured on the cover of the Spring 2022 newsletter.
Collage Your Life | 2022
My collage process is featured in the 2022 publication Collage Your Life by USA writer/artist Melanie Mowinski. This page features one of my collage postcards Glastonbury, created as part of my #91 days project. The book is available to buy here.
Origins & Destinations | 2021
The International Association of Hand Papermakers and Paper Artists (IAPMA) held its 35th Coral Jubilee exhibition at Burnie, Tasmania in April 2021. I was privileged to be asked to open this as the IAPMA secretary. Picture courtesy Burnie Advocate newspaper.
Posts from the Big Flood | 2017
Photographer Chelle Wallace and I curated a first response exhibition of art and photographs following the Murwillumbah flood in 2017. The tablecloth in the photo is an artwork created by people helped create something together. This was a photo taken of my daughter and granddaughter for an interview by the ABC. This interview is no longer online.
Friends of Venilale | 2009
Ten delegates from the Mansfield community, including myself travelled to Venilale in Timor Leste In 2005 to establish a friendship town agreement. I documented this event in short movie Bienvendo Venilale.
A Book About Death | 2013
I co-curated the 27th exhibition of this international mail art project. Matthew Rose instigated the project in NYC in 2009 where artists submitted 500 postcards to create an unbound book about death.
Cafe Poet TRAG | 2011
As resident poet at the Tweed Regional Gallery Cafe I worked with cafe visitors over a 4 month period to write many poems based on fleeting impressions of their lives which capture a moment in time. My residency as Cafe Poet was supported by Poetry Australia.
MEXICAN Papermaking | 2011
I was keen to find out about Mayan paper making and in 2011 travelled to Mexico to discover two paper making studios, a cooperative in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas and Amate paper making in San Pablito, Puebla.
Ace of Spuds | 2006
Hundred of potatoes were carved by visitors to the Tolmie Sports 120 th event and placed in soil furrows on the tennis court to foster memories of potato growing in Tolmie. This project was funded by Regional Arts Victoria.