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Talkfest 2021
Here we go… The Value Chains JMGA online conference begins tomorrow evening (AEST) with Simon Cottrell, the co-chair of the original and postponed conference, and includes Roseanne Bartley, Claire McArdle, Julia Wild, Jonathan Zalakos and Joanna Zellmer. This is followed by matt lambert with “Other People’s Business: What makes a material new and what does…
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IOTA21
The Indian Ocean Triennial Australia 2021 is coming! I must’ve mentioned it a bit, in passing at least, as my new work Juukan Tears will debut as a part of the festival when it opens in September. But what is it? Well, it’s a presentation of new works from a curated selection of artists from…
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Bilk: The Perfect Brooch
Opening weekend on the Saturday 3-4 July 2021 11.00 am to 5.00 pm. Aurélie Guillaume, Bin Dixon-Ward, Brenda Ridgewell, Carlier Makigawa, Claire McArdle, Cinnamon Lee, Chris Bahng, Daniel DiCaprio, David Walker, Eugenie Keefer Bell, Fumiki Taguchi, Helen Aitken-Kuhnen, Johannes Kuhnen, Julie Blyfield, Kath Inglis, Larah Nott, Marian Hosking, Mio Kuhnen, Melissa Cameron, Nicholas Bastin, Sean…
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the saga of the two tire/tyre rings
If you’d like the opportunity to choose the outcome of the tale of the rings (in typing that I just realised I’ve made a mmp ‘choose your own adventure’ game!) please get in touch. You can comment below, reply by email – or go to my instagram and click on the relevant poll toggles in…
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The Neck – Craft ACT
Hiya team. Apologies for that last cryptic post – with bonus secret password window – on the main blog stream. I feel like a right fool but now the url is attached to an application I can’t change it until adjudication finishes. If it’s any consolation most of the content was taken from last year’s…
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The Neck / / Craft ACT
I’m in The Neck, a group show in Canberra, thanks to Bridget Kennedy of the eponymous Project Space in Sydney. It was meant to be last year, timed to coincide with the JMGA conference. In fact, it looks as though this whole programme was. Go see it if you can; there’s a lot of talent…
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Minnawarra Art Awards
With all the lockdown and limited-capacity art openings I totally forgot to mention (because I couldn’t go see it launched) that I’m in the Minnawarra Art Awards in Armadale! Shout out to my City of Armadale dwelling and working familiars! (Y’all know who you are.) The winners have all been announced already – and it’s…
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Live stream q + a soon!
Today! 3 May 10:30 am Perth time or in your zone at:Auckland – 2:30 pmNew York – 10:30 pm*Sydney -12:30 pmCalgary – 8:30 pm*Los Angeles – 7:30 pm*/ / /I’ll be chatting about my work in a live q+a on my YouTube channel – *at this live link*It will remain available to re-stream indefinitely.Email your…
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Livestream vacation
It’s another public holiday today in Perth, and after the uber long weekend I’ll still be on holiday (read: working on unrelated projects in the studio) until the 9th, coming back on the 12th of April. Looking forward to seeing you – my beloved livestream devotee(s)- then 😉
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Juukan Tears
In May of 2020 mining company Rio Tinto destroyed the Juukan Shelters, containing sacred caves that had been in use by the traditional custodians of that part of (what we now call) Western Australia, the Puutu Kunti Kurrama and Pinikura (PKKP) peoples, for over 46,000 years. The Shelters were in the remote Pilbara region of…
