Fremantle for residency!

At Fremantle, WA & loving the new environs & what it has to offer! 

I have a 1844 pad& renovated for comfy stay! A studio & a bike for getting around lots of bike tracks along foreshore!

Fun Collagraph Workshop

I just had a lovely weekend teaching with several talented women how to make collagraphs at my Play with Texture & Collage & Print Workshop along the banks of the mighty Clarence River.  The weather held out and the sun shined and the river and birdlife gave the workshop added joy!!



Trish using fabrics, beautiful gum leaves from her property and glues.



Mary and Trish discussing the different effects with various materials.

  

Suzie is a textile artist who revelled in the textures of snake skin and fabric for her collagraphs.





Evey works with glass and took to print like a dream!



The greedy banker

Animation still here in background of banker & sticky money floating thru the flooding suburb!! Prints of houses of stocks& domestic female collage running over the rooftops... You get the idea?!

She's Hunting House

It's finally done- a 2 min animation & prints installed at Branch3D a real drive by show!!! 26 Ross Street Forest Lodge. Check it out its on till 18th May..

collage fun looking at the myths of sirens and water nymphs.... all this rain starting to get to me!!

some fun with animation too-

Post flood

After the high drama of my first flood @ south grafton... Water levels beyond historical records, the river is down & weeds growing well....

I've been in Sydney for a few days catching up with family and my sweet grandchild Sofia, who- poor poppet Ive been babysitting since the crack of dawn cause she is a sick with some dam germ!  Its been a while since Ive seen so many cartoons for kids.... the up side is that it may be considered arty research for my forays into animation. 

Ive got to see some great art whilst here.... Francis Bacon and his tormented vision of the human condition and another interesting artist at Dominik Mersch Gallery Li Hongbo: Pure White Paper.

pic from gallery site. http://www.dominikmerschgallery.com/Exhibition.aspx

And that is what his work is made from, just pure white paper!! 

Some works give the effect of solid plaster and as you walk around the room a bit puzzled, because you realise its not plaster but paper cut and molded into a shape like a skull.  Or, like the work Girl 1 where the paper is more exposed by stretching it out in a concertina method to form extended limbs of the girl.  Very interesting and not laser cut!  on till Until December 22.