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.

Musings on what it means to be an Australian and artwork about the diaspora that makes us Australia today

It’s time for a change Australia- a rethink about Commonwealth, monarchy, and nationhood. What does it all mean anyway today?

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.

Poverty will only be made history when nature enters economic calculations in the same way that buildings, machines and roads do. Partha Dasgupta

I can smell an election in the air and there are a few things on my mind I reckon the politicians are getting very wrong and are ready for some lateral thinking….

• Housing

• the Environment

• the Arts

it is timely to step back and refocus our attention on things that matter rather than what the media and political spin doctors say matters.

What does it take to be a visionary?
Collins dictionary says synonyms for visionary are idealist, romantic, dreamer, daydreamer. This has a dismissive air. The world today has no time for idealists. Yet they also say You use visionary to describe the strong, original ideas of a visionary.

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.

The good the bad and the ugly!

In Consideration of Trees 3 days of art, talks, poetry and music dedicated to trees. Our connection, need for wildness, actions we can take now and arts that can speak louder than words.

When life gives you dirt….make compost… that sums up the message from the Resilient Women event on Tamborine Mountain (Bron and The Lyre Bird- image courtesy of Linda Mahaffy from Scenic Rim News Info and Events)

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

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