Saturday, June 30, 2012

here, there and everywhere...


I've spent a final day in the garden before I head off tomorrow 
for a stint teaching at Sturt Winter School in Mittagong

look at how lush everything is
(and its wintertime)


mustard greens and silverbeet


ruby chard 


broad bean flowers


and a first hellebore of the winter...



I'm looking forward to meeting everyone at Sturt 
and hopefully doing great stuff with passionate students

but I get soooooo homesick


sigh



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Sunday, June 24, 2012

art gesture sunday - week 25 ...


a small fire...


 creates....







'terra incognito'
hand-carved and charred book stack 
5 volume set of 'The Australian Encyclopaedia' 


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(a gesture that's now off to hazelhurst gallery)


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Friday, June 22, 2012

bonus gestures...


 While away - I did play...


In the printmaking room


(mmmmmmmmmm me loves the Albion)


In the car park  


(a bird book in suitable place - a gesture for a special friend)


as it was a temporary I left something behind to mark the spot....




(I wonder if it was found before the rain came?)


and talking of things left to be found.....





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Today I have to get my work packed & ready 
to go to Hazelhurst Regional Gallery

(the gals are turning up tomorrow to collect the work to install next week..... 
opening night is Saturday June 30 - but as I have to be in Mittagong the following day 
I won't get to see the show...... 
if you are in the area maybe you can go and tell me how it all looks?)



oooooo busyness



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Thursday, June 21, 2012

did the earth move for you?


I'm baaaaaaaack! after an action-packed few days away at uni

This year marked my 6th (eeeek) and final winter sympo - 
so of course on the Tuesday night an earthquake struck
its epicentre was something like 15kms away from the university accommodation 
(yes... the earth, and more did a LOT of moving and shaking....... 
wooof! what a rocking time!)





I made the page above as part of the collaborative book project about 12hrs before the quake.... 
which has been variously reported as 5.5, 5.4 or 5.3 magnitude ..... 
ummmmmmm ..... right...... SPOOOOKY

lets just leave that one be and go outside eh?

I took my looooong book out for a bit of fresh air - 
and found fungus under the pine trees on campus


later that day our small sympo sub group did a walk together in Morwell National Park


 I found many more fungi

Mick with his trained eyes found something really special...


(a small fragment of an aboriginal artifact - 
Mick has the eye to spot these things among the leaves and stones.... 
which is a seriously impressive skill)


And then today I had the long drive home - back through the boonies
where they were still cleaning up from a violent storm of 10 days ago
that closed the highway for almost a week
as hundreds of trees were blown over the road 
blocking it for hundreds of kilometres




phworrrrrr 

I feel the earth move under my feet
I feel the sky tumblin' down...




(I'll show you all a couple of bonus arty gesture things here tomorrow.... 
right now I need the comfort of my own bed....... ahhhhh HOME!)


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Sunday, June 17, 2012

art gesture sunday - week 24...



 20 volumes of Encyclopaedia Britannica
laid on a wallaby track
between the Kooraban National Park and Sams Creek farm






* In a few minutes I'm hitting the road for the 7hr drive south.... 
through the forests to my uni


see you in a few days



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Friday, June 15, 2012

the long haul....


It is cold and drizzly here at the creek 
 perfect weather for inside work by the fire...


my very long book is growing longer and longer 
as the days are getting shorter and shorter


 the long book is currently over 4m in length -
 it still fits in my mother's little suitcase from the 1960s
(but not for much longer) 


In two days time I will be taking this suitcase 
(along with my other cases of clothes and books and work)
on my annual loooooooooooooong road trip to university


its a long haul 


 in every sense



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Sunday, June 10, 2012

art gesture sunday - week 23


red books and a red leafed tree



one red book buried* under a red leaved tree




 one red book left lying in many red leaves

  



many red leaves left in one red book



(to be continued.....)





*for india and jennifer


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Sunday, June 3, 2012

Friday, June 1, 2012

making....


Now that the dust (the mulch?) has settled - I'm able to enjoy my revamped studio space - and just in time as I've got a myriad of 'things' coming up....



First is my annual sojourn to my Uni in a couple of weeks time.... (and there's a very real chance this may be the last time I have to head off to winter symposium....) I'm making work and preparing my presentation and steeling myself for the marathon drive through the boonies....

No sooner will I get back but I have to pack up work for a stint as 'invited artist' for a show at Hazelhurst Regional Gallery..... it's all come about at last minute but the organisers from south scribes have been soooooo accommodating I didn't want to let them down....

I was guest artist in the same place in 2001 - the year our little island nation was commemorating its centenary of federation -- I think many aussies took time to think about what it meant to be Australian (or maybe it was just me?) - For that show I created work around themes of national identity.... (here's one of the works from the show, and another, and another....)


This time around, at the request of the curator, I'm sending up some of the work I created for my stint as guest artist for Coffs Calligraphers back in 2007.....

(ps - here's one of the works that I'm sending... Its the ten panel painting - 'Weight of Words')


 
As well as a few older pieces I'm also hoping to make a couple of 'surprise!' new works (looky - I've got my sumi ink out and I'm splashing it about!) - and if I'm lucky I may even get to the June 30th opening this time...

fingers crossed