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Artstate Bathurst 2018 - the Fringe
As part of Artstate Fringe, I will be conducting a Pop-Up show in my garden gallery-studio in down-town Bathurst After recently...
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Art with words
For some years I have incorporated the act of writing into my artworks. I say `act’ because the text is very much a product of the...
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Pietrasanta, Italy
Some of the many sculptures throughout the town. Last year I returned from a month’s sculpting residency in Pietrasanta, a vibrant...
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An opportunity to carve stone in Italy
Carrara marble quarry (Image: Reiner Flassig. Wikipedia) It has been a dream for quite a while, to go to Carrara in Italy, to those...
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Gibb's Farm Sculpture Park, New Zealand
In 2014 I took the the opportunity to join a small touring group organised by Sculpture by the Sea, to spend a day visiting the renowned...
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From a 500kg block of stone to 'The Seer'
It all began with a small hammer... I walked among the blocks of stone, tapping them gently, listening for the ‘ring’ that would tell me...