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Garland Magazine
I had a piece published last month in Garland Magazine’s 25th issue Craft Currencies – Value is in our own hands. Editor Dr Kevin Murray saw the work and asked me to write about the series Juukan Tears Offcuts that I made last year, through the lens of high/low, rich/poor, gallery/gift shop craft. It is…
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Welcome 2022
In the hot sandwich press filled with bread, beans and leaking cheese at all sides (which is slowly gathering in puddles on the bench below) that was the last weeks of 2021, I missed adding my usual solsticefest post to the chimes of the season. So now I belatedly say thank you for reading, and…
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Arthan Gallery in Istanbul
From Co+Lab, Declaration of Sentiments finally opens in Istanbul! We are pleased to invite you to the exhibition of Declaration of Sentiments. Curated by CoplusLab, Snem Yildirim, Burcu Sülek, Nevin Arig and supervised by Can Akgumus the exhibition will take place at Arthan Gallery in Istanbul between16 – 31 December!Opening Thursday 16 December, 2 –…
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Edith Cowan 100 Years Anniversary Pin
Celebrating 100 Years of women in WA Parliament Christine Tonkin MLA, the Member for Churchlands, got in touch about 6 weeks ago to ask if I wanted to make a brooch to commemorate the making of another brooch 100 years ago. Could it get more meta? Of course I said yes! When I was first…
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Bilk Solstice open hours + a Brooch for Tom
Solstice celebrationsFriday 3 December and Saturday 4 December 4.00pm – 7.00pm. Please join us at dusk for a celebration and viewing of our fabulous Solstice exhibition together with light refreshments. With a little luck the late afternoon celebrations will bring a sunset reflecting in the dams. For those unable to visit us at Bilk Gallery,…
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farewell studio (for now) sale
Dear Friends, For those not in the know, the current configuration of my studio is soon to be disassembled and rebuilt. A new studio, part of our new and more sustainable home, will take its place over the coming year or so. If you have ever wanted to come up and see it for yourself…
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Solstice exhibition
Solstice – celebration marking the beginning of summer and the new year coming. Opened last Saturday, 13 November 2021 Aurélie Guillaume, Bic Tieu, Claire McArdle, Carlier Makigawa, Daniel DiCaprio, David Walker, Eugenie Keefer Bell, Helen Aitken-Kuhnen, Johannes Kuhnen, Julie Blyfield, Kath Inglis, Marian Hosking, Mio Kuhnen, Melissa Cameron, Sean O’Connell, Vicki Mason and Zachery Lechtenberg. This…
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Juukan Tears – last days to see!
There is but a few short days left to see my work Juukan Tears at the John Curtin Gallery as a part of IOTA21 in Curiosity and Rituals of the Everyday. If you’re not gonna make it (who even travels any more? I can’t – really, I’m in WA and state daddy says no…) I…
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Connexions closes tomorrow
Connexions is in its last days – today it’s open 11am – 4:30pm and then it opens for the last time tomorrow from 12 -2:30pm. We will always have the website, and I will update that with images from the installation soon, but in the mean time, if you can, stop by the gallery, grab…
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Media whore
Two interviews doesn’t really live up to the title, but I _had_ to! As of 9:05 am today, I’m doing two media appearances in the coming days. Tomorrow I’m scheduled to be on RTRFM radio at around 10:30am (AWST), on the Artbeat program with Bec Bowman. I’ll be talking about my work Juukan Tears and…
