Post Script to interview ‘Taking Steps, an artists journey with Parkinsons.

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.

I sit writing this under one of my favourite trees in palm grove section of Tamborine National Park. .Nearby a creek flows, the occasional birdsong can be heard whipping through distant tree tops. Underfoot Lillypilly fruit and palm fronds brown, returning to the earth.

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.

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

Interview with David Forbes- a story of an artist living with Parkinsons Disease

As an artist and an artsworker there are opposing forces at work. There is the need to create art for the sake of creating it and thereby nurture the soul, the need to contribute different perspectives on issues of our times through the use of a creative voice and the need to make a living in a world that is not always kind to creativity.

It has been some time since I updated this blog. Time and tides have kept me chained to my computer with precious little creative space to contemplate

Support the saving of Black Swan Lake

The black swan theory or theory of black swan events is a metaphor that describes an event that comes as a surprise, has a major effect, and is often inappropriately rationalized after the fact with the benefit of hindsight.- Wikipedia

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.

“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

That’s me in my first studio back in the early 90s. It was a triple lock up shed with a concrete floors and tin walls. To me and fellow artist Kate French it was heaven.