Model Urban

Model Urban, a small sculpture show opens tonight at Manningham Gallery in Doncaster. The show has a pretty amazing line up of artists, I am feeling very privileged to have been included in this show. If you have time tonight - Wednesday 9 September from 6 - 8 pm please come and join me at the opening. If you can't make it tonight then it is on for a month.

Image: Greer Honeywill, Off the plan, 2009, wood, horse hair, found object, 124 x 70 x 84cm. Image courtesy the artist. Photo by John Best.

Featuring Daniel Agdag, Daniel Crooks, Sally Darlison, Daniel Dorall, Greer Honeywill, Llawella Lewis and Susan Robey. 
Curated by Davey Warnock.

A collection of small scale sculptural works engaging contemporary urban environments.

To be officially opened by Corbett Lyon, architect and co-founder of Lyons Architects and the Lyon Housemuseum.

RSVP by Friday 4 September

Hello again

Such a long time has passed since I have written.
It has been a difficult time for me over the past 3 months as my Mum sadly was diagnosed with cancer and then died 6 weeks later.
We also have been working towards selling our house - and my beautiful studio, so that has involved quite a lot of tidying up and thus not much art work!
But...
Soon I will be back into the work in a big way as I will be part of a show at Manningham gallery in September.
 It is very exciting as it will be my first public gallery show - where they asked me!!
It is called Model Urban and will include small sculptural works engaging contemporary urban environments.
My piece Walking the Cinque Terre will be in the show and the rest .. well that is yet to be made. Watch this space. 

Hope For Women in Unexpected Places

Hope for Women in Unexpected Places is an exhibition  by TEAR Australia, it is a photo exhibition, but I was asked to create a piece for this show - that isn't a photo.

I was very excited to support TEAR as they do fabulous work both here and overseas with those who are the poorest in our world.

I was asked to create something that honoured women and the work they do. I chose to focus on water as this is an essential of life and sometimes one that poses difficulty.
While I was in Nepal I  noticed that the women collected water in large metal containers and then often carried them in a large basket they carried slung from their heads. Washing is also often done in public, communally, at the water taps or down near the river. This also involves carting the garments in the basket.
Washing in Nepal is a colourful palette flying in the breeze and the dhaka fabrics, traditional to the area I visited, are particularly beautiful.

I chose to combine these images and fabric along with a map of Nepal to create my piece for the exhibition.
Washing in Nepal is the result. It depicts the water vessel, the woman carrying the basket of clothes and the washing blowing in the breeze above the stepped rice fields of Nepal.

 detail of dhaka fabric and map of Nepal used in the piece.

Washing in Nepal

detail of the water container image

If you would like to see this piece and the rest of the exhibition you can find it at 

Chapel on Station Gallery 

cnr Station st  & Ellingworth Pde, Box Hill, Victoria

from February 20 - March 4 

Tues - friday 11.30- 3 

Saturday 1-4pm

Sunday 4.30 -7pm

There is an event on Friday 27 February with speaker Hailey Bartholomew of 365 Grateful 

and music from 2 members of The Tealeaves

hope to see you there, tickets are available here 

Exhibition Open

Meeniyan Art Gallery hosted the opening of my most recent exhibition - Fragments of a Journey.
The gallery is on the South Gippsland highway on the way to Wilson's Prom around 2 hours from Melbourne. It is the hub of a local art community.
This Friday I will be doing a talk about my art work and on Sunday I am running a print and collage class. There are still a couple of places in the class which runs from 10am -3pm . Contact the gallery if you want to join in.