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It’s been a long time since my three girls went out on the town but they did it in style this weekend just past, at the Mullum Music Festival. They fitted in so well in the lounge area at the Civic Centre, with its comfy old sofas and potted palms, that they didn’t want to […]

The old darling has had another outing, this time to the Byron Bay Writers Festival 2014 Sculpture Show last weekend. And once again, she enjoyed the company, and the company enjoyed her. “Great presence, great story!” enthused one festival patron. The Reader ended up with the Gaia Award for Best Sculpture, as well. Thanks to […]

What would bring 300 people out on a cold and wet night to an art gallery in regional Victoria? Yes, yes, free wine’s a help (especially if it’s high-quality local drops), but there was more to it. For on Thursday night the cream of Benalla society was at the Benalla Art Gallery in NE Victoria, […]

My new baby – Stories clouds tell – is doing nicely. Two weeks ago it popped into a welcoming world at Tweed Regional Gallery after an at-times agonising labour. Today the proud daddy talked about his creation to a receptive audience of family, friends, volunteer gallery guides and interested visitors. I’ve been overwhelmed by the […]

Last Friday evening my new baby arrived safely into a welcoming world at Tweed Regional Gallery, New South Wales. Called Stories clouds tell, her birth was announced officially by Wendy Powitt, North Coast artist and fashion jewellery entrepreneur (Ghost & Lola – www.ghostandlola.com). It was a great night at the Tweed. Sunlight filtered under the dramatic […]

I’ve just finished installing my first ever solo show, Stories clouds tell, at the Tweed Regional Gallery at Murwillumbah, New South Wales. And I’m biased, but it does look good. The show combines sculptures and paintings, mostly executed in pigmented epoxy resin. Two Carrara marble sculptures are included, including Billow, which won an award in […]

When I started my big cloud in August last year, I didn’t know it would take over my life. In October I thought I’d be finished in November. In November I thought Christmas would see it completed. Now, as March starts, the light at the end of the tunnel is growing. And gee, it’s looking […]

There’s no need to wait until Christmas eve for the best of presents – it’s already here, at the Art Gallery of NSW (AGNSW), in the form of a small survey show of the work of that dark and conflicted painter, Francis Bacon. The paintings cover all periods of Bacon’s life, and they show clearly […]

Recently APT7 – the seventh Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art – opened at GOMA and the Queensland Art Gallery in Brisbane. Billed as a “forward-thinking approach to questions of geography, history and culture and how these questions are explored through the work of contemporary artists“, it features works by 75 artists from Australia and 26 […]

I thought when I’d switched from working in marble to using epoxy, I’d left behind the bloodied fingertips. I was wrong. Yesterday, a telltale red-brown stain sullied the glorious whiteness of my newly-sanded epoxy cloud. Blood was there, because skin wasn’t. After half a day of not using gloves, my 36-grit sandpaper had done its […]