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.

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.