Category: Journal

This month I’ve been painting, sculpting and gardening. I’ve been playing with a new sculpture (above), the working title is The Ghost Forest. I’m not sure whether it will fly or not. Playing is an important part of my work. I’ve also been in the sculpture studio developing my little Sailing with the Sirens sculptures,…

My work is in a ‘celebration exhibition’ at the new premises for Whitewall Art Projects Gallery, owned by dealer and artist Thomas Bucich at Shop 2/13 Old Hume Highway, Berrima gallery@whitewallartprojects.com   The works in the show (both paintings and sculpture) are part of my work on salt lakes and I’m sharing here some pics…

Here we are at Fort Scratchley Sculpture Show Newcastle NSW. ‘Sailing to the Sirens’ are setting out on their journey and ‘Dancing at the Edge’ isdoing a few turn around the parade ground. ‘In the Balance’ is holding steady too.

Travelling through Hiroshima and Kyoto. I like the idea that in Japan everything is considered; worthy of care.

In New Mexico, I went to Los Alamos where the atomic bomb was built, and then to the Trinity site, where the first atomic blast occurred. The Trinity site is only open for two days of the year. I took photos, scribbled and did drawings at whatever took my interest. Later, I went to a…

Another hotel room studio. Something appealing about the Shinto idea that just a rock can be sacred.

I was lucky enough to have the use of a studio, out of Nara, to work on paintings for my 2020 exhibition 101 Views of the Anthropocene. The studio belongs to Kuniko and Kazu. I went there after visiting Hiroshima and Nagasaki researching  the atomic bomb. The studio sits  above the Takami River (Takami-Gama). In…

I went to Yorke Peninsula to spend time at the salt lakes there. It’s a beautiful place: flat, wild and windswept. The Yorke Peninsula is the land of the Narungga (traditionally spelled Nharangga) people. They have always lived on Yorke Peninsula. Their country extends as far north as Port Broughton and east to the Hummock…

On my way from Sydney to Adelaide, going along a back route, I often stop by the Pink Salt Lakes in Murray Sunset National Park to walk about and draw. This place is Aboriginal land that includes the traditional Country of the Latji Latji, Ngintait and Nyeri Nyeri Peoples. At one time there were salt…