Category: The Artful Blog
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Impromptu watercolour sketch class
I love running workshops and I was excited to run an impromptu, totally off-the-cuff watercolour sketching class and share skills with friends during my recent retreat to the South Coast.
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Nature temple sacred space
Adam took the love banners I constructed for the Enchanted Forest of Love to The Third Degree and created a nature temple in collaboration with the Unicorn Orphanage crew.
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Hand-painted coasters
One-off, hand-painted original set of drinks coasters. Created as an experiment in potential formats.
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Catbus at the Canberra Kinetic Sculpture Race
Catbus took out three awards and made the ABC news at the inaugural Canberra Kinetic Sculpture Race
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One-a-day 365 Challenge: first month progress update
In September 2022, I decided to set myself a challenge to create one illustration a day for a year. So far, I have created 42 illustrations!
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Spoken word at Seven Sisters Festival
I performed three of my poems at open mic during the Seven Sisters Festival.
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Ku-ring-gai Wildflower Garden Sculpture Trail
Three of my waste-to-art Totemic Spirit Figure sculptures – Possum, Kangaroo and Quoll – were selected for inclusion in the Ku-ring-gai Sculpture Trail in the beautiful Ku-ring-gai Wildflower Garden. And I won 2nd prize!
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After the rain
I spent a wonderful 5 days on an artist retreat in April on Dangar Island. It rained the entire time I was there and I really enjoyed exploring using rain as a medium. This is a photo essay I created called ‘After the Rain’.
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YamX art talk: Making love
My second YamX talk was all about creating the Enchanted Forest of Love installation at the Wild Yam festival.
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YamX artist talk
This artist talk was presented at Wild Yam: YamX in Jan 2020. It was the first time I had talked publicly about my art practice and my vision for building a creative community.
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Catbus costume
Inspired by Studio Ghibli’s animation “My Neighbour Totoro” and Adam Savage’s one day Totoro costume build, I created a 4-person Catbus cosplay for our family to take to festivals as a street art piece.
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Steampunk Teapot Racer
Totoro’s Steampunk Teapot Racer, created to participate in the Grand Teapot Race, Goulburn Victoriana Fair
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