19 weeks in on a 6 month road trip tracing Australia, we turn the corner of the Western Australia coast and begin to head east.

Musings during a 15 day stay at the property Ahimsa once home to environmentalist, lawyer, feminist and Buddhist Marie Byles. Researching Marie’s life, walking where she walked and following connections with author Gillian Mears who was also inspired by this woman. 31 Jan- 14th Feb 2024

I think when you are a “creative” it comes out in many ways….because it simply has to come out. For me it comes out in projects, artwork, writing and poetry.

Lateral Thinking Part 3- The Arts

A voice for or times. Musings on arts funding, the meaning of it all, protest songs and things we could do differently.

After working at my day job for 16 years sitting at a desk and organising engagement with other peoples studios, it’s time for me to think about what I need and want in my own studio.

It’s the 11th September 2021 and the annual outdoor sculpture show Swell at Currumbin Beach is in full swing. We are arriving just as the sun is going down. There are people promenading down the beach with the giant blow up white rabbits, a thousand paper cranes blowing in the wind, the grand, the simple, the bizarre and the intriguing. Swell is Queensland’s answer to Sculpture by the Sea at Bondi. Luckier this year to be able to host the event whereas Covid restrictions in Sydney have closed Sculpture by the Sea for the second year running.

Lockdowns, cancellations, expectations, change the big pause continues and musings on the whole damn thing

Belonging; an exhibition by artists Kim Williams and Kim Walmsley this Naidoc Week

There have been times in my life when trees have saved me. A grandiose statement but in many ways true…..

Recently I caught up with artist Michael Daly at Artlands Victoria (Regional Arts Australia biannual national conference) Whilst others were networking or processing the talks and demonstrations Michael could be found absorbed in drawing what he was listening to or seeing.

Recently I met a very inspiring woman who has dedicated much of her life to women living with Aids. At #ArtlandsVictoria I asked her about her practice and what motivated her.

What is the collective noun for a group of artists or artsworkers?

A posse, a palette, a bevy, a flourish?

“The distinction between art and entertainment is that entertainment happens within what we already know. Whatever our response is – laughing, getting excited – underneath it all, entertainment says that the world is the way you think it is. Art, on the other hand, happens outside what we already know, so that inherent in the artistic experience is this amazing human capacity to expand our sense of the way the world is or might be. ”- Eric Booth