Coming up, Lempriere hype!
Your work has been selected for a group show which attracts much hype, year after year, here in New South Wales: The Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship. On the opening night (this coming Thursday) one artist will be selected to be the beneficiary of a hefty $60,00 to undertake a year of study overseas. As […]
on privet posters, or rather, how you got there via a busy year
Somewhere you read 2008 is the year of getting busy building for the future..uhmm Sure you where busy up to now! This post is just to make a list of what you have been up to so far and a few upcoming events as well. You, reader, might or might not know you are involved […]
on one mile diets
There are lots of artistic investigations out there focusing on the way humans relate to their surrounding environments, like yours. Ally Reeves and Robin Hewlett have an ongoing project about just that. One Mile Diet takes the concept of the 100 Miles Diet movement to a new height (or distance, rather). Here’s how Ally Reeves […]
about above
A show finished last Saturday at First Draft, where three artist presented three distinctive and unrelated bodies of work. You enjoyed all three, for different reasons, Leah McPherson’s flip-book short films, a fantastic editing exercise activated by viewers, Josy Cavallaro’s flimsy visual statements and commentary on semantic peculiarities..which reminded you of speech bubbles, and Kirsten […]
Dandelion Paellata, a Weed Recipe
Lucas and Lizzy came for dinner, so you made-up a recipe using Dandelion and whatever you had in the cupboard. It turned up to be a cross between a spanish vegetarian Paella and a frittata, therefore the name, Paellata. Ingridients: 4 cups of Dandelion leaves, chopped 4 eggs 1 cup of rice 1 onion, chopped […]
Carving A Path Through Lantana Taller Than You
Day5, you just came back to the studio, longing for the keyboard. The crickets outside compete with the fridge noise. Today Jim came to visit, he documented in a cd Rom the environment of Bundanon, frogs, mammals, fungi, plants. His work gathered information far apart and his knowledge filled your day. You discovered native Solanums […]
Weed Mysteries
Day 2, The bike raid to Riversdale was a killer, next time will get a lift. Starting collecting specimens, this morning on the Amphitheater Walk, found: Blackberry, Oxalis, PLantago, Clover, Scotch Thistle, Sheep Sorrel, Datura Stramonium, Fireweed, and an enormous amount of Lantana. I also found a number of other species which I still didn’t […]
A little Poetry
Found this one by searching blogs around, thought was lovely… Democracy by Ann Zelenka I’ve spaded up a garden But I haven’t planted seeds, This one’s going to be kept Exclusively for weeds – There won’t be distinctions Or uptilted noses, And Queen Anne’s lace is lovelier Than lilies or roses.
Ribwort Plantago
Second installment of the Self-Guided Tour Panels: Ribwort Plantago And here is the PDF version of the panel: ribwort plantago
Blakberry Panel
Here is the panel i made for the Self-Guided Tour of the Weeds of Australia now on at Wollombi. Over the next weeks i will slowly upload all of the 10 panels. The info-points are in PDF format, just download from this link. blackberry info-panel
