grime

So I’m regretting cleaning the new baby.
Me and my ridiculous need to clean her and make her mine…  I scrubbed away 50 years of dirt and then realised the next day that it was the dirt that was the appealing thing.  Those bits of detritus around the edges of the viewfinder were very beautiful.  Like [...]

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Flex-able

It is the nicest feeling to be inspired to tackle something unexpected and find a new diversion, which is not taxing and relies on serendipity and a steady hand.
Last week I  learned about ttv (through the viewfinder) photography via Jo’s blog.

The idea being that you get an old twin lense reflex camera, compose your photo [...]

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Hallo

As a kid I used to watch Halloween specials from America with envy.  How awesome – to dress up in costume, go out at night and collect sweets on the way.
We don’t do that here – and apart from the occasional nervous neighbour standing at the gate with a child doing the door knocking, it [...]

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cerberus

I am the bloody monitor, oil on linen, 2009

The Cerberus is a revolutionary design 1860’s ironclad monitor, currently a breakwater off Black Rock, Melbourne, Victoria.

Pivotal Gallery in conjunction with Friends of the Cerberus is having an exhibition as part of an ongoing campaign to save this nationally and internationally important piece of Maritime [...]

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small

The reveal, oil on wood, 30cm x 30cm
Opening today Gallery 775’s small works group show.  I have 12 works in this, will be at the opening and can’t wait to see the works by the other artists involved.  All works are 30cm sq or under.
Link here.
The opening is from 2-4 at shop 1, 159 shoreham [...]

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UP!

Seagulls at Black Rock
In a holiday that has involved far more thinking than is comfortable and just about every emotion possible, a movie can prove an excellent distraction.
Yesterday the kids and I went to see UP! The new Pixar animation.  What a ride!
I must confess to being a Pixar junkie.  I don’t love all of [...]

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out

The faulty fandangle. – showing at ACMI now.
When summer starts cooling off, autumn sweeps through and the chill of winter descends I have a tendency to hide.  Even though I love winter and our climate is no hardship by any stretch of the imagination, I nest and keep my children indoors and cosy. So it’s [...]

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Veg Wednesday – Cauliflower, cumin and cannelini bean soup

It must be said that I usually can’t stand Cauliflower (childhood memories of cauliflower cheese slowly going cold as I pushed  it around the plate *shudder*).  This soup transports the vegetable in some way however.  The end result is silky and deep and doesn’t taste like cauliflower as I remember it.  Plus it’s healthy!

Cauliflower, cumin [...]

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Weekends at the farm

Weekends at the farm, oil on wood, 30×23cm
When I was growing up in Hobart (Tasmania), I was lucky enough to have a couple of friends who lived on farms and travelled in to school each day.  I have wonderful memories of long weekends spent with them, wet grass, animals, horse riding, open fires, running over [...]

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Go.

Have a look at this!
I have seen these works grow, marvelled at the detail and amount of work that has gone into them and the imagination that it has taken, so it was a thrill to finally see them delivered to Pivotal Gallery and to be at the opening last Wednesday night.

Go Daniel.
Go [...]

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