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I am busy creating 25 sculptures as centrepieces of the dinner tables for a fundraiser dinner for the Mater Foundation. The dinner will be held in the middle of May.

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The opening of Flash Trash in Toowoomba was a great success. There was some great work created and exhibited. I sold 2 pieces to be included inthe tour of regional Queensland next year. See the text below as written on the Toowoomba website:

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So I have finally completed the works for ‘Flash Trash’. The exhibition is being held at the Toowoomba Regional Gallery from the 9th September - 22nd October 2006, with the official opening at 1.30pm for 2pm on Sunday 17 September. So if you are up that way, go and check out the work, or come along to the opening.

13 Artists are involved in the exhibition, all having created works using recycled materials collected form JJ Richards recycling station in Toowoomba. From this exhibition, some artists work will be chosen to tour regional Queensland.

Ok… onto the next project.

If you have ever been visited by the dog… nipping at your ankles, then you would have been swept back into that dark world when viewing Clare Dyson’s dance production: “Churchills Black Dog”. It was presented as part of the Brisbane Festival at QUT’s Creative Precinct Roundhouse theatre.

It was a stunning piece that captured the isolation, the intense and helpless frustration of being consumed by depression. The stage was set simply with brown crunchy leaves covering the floor, a couple of casement windows, a door, a table and chairs, and a large claw foot bath. The dancers clawed, kicked,twitched, scrubbed and shyed away from the shadows haunting them, each in isolation.

A beautiful and moving piece that demonstrates how raw abstraction can bring such clarity of experience.

The orchestra! The drummers! The musical score!

Winners played for 1 night at the Concert Hall, QPAC as part of the Brisbane festival. Created by Fabrica, it brought together musicians from locations around the globe, with the Queensland Orchestra and the Mighty Taikoz. Documentry style video was composited onto various screens.

Winners was an ambitious project that was well worth seeing. For the most part it was successful, however some of the video content was weak (terminally ill patients), whilst some of it was very strong ( Maralinga victims). Interesting camera angles, and concept link ups with Berlin, New York and Sharpeville were explorative and enjoyable.

Technical details were not completely finetuned, eg. synching of the projectors was out - meaning jittery moving images. But this can be forgiven as the whole project was an amazing technical feat.

Great to see some projects out there really pushing technology in interestuing directions.

Cloud Gate dance theatre of Taiwan performed “Songs of the wanderers” at the Lyric Theatre as part of the Brisbnae Festival.

This was a truly transcending experience. The constant meditative pace made me painfully aware of its opposition to my busy, short-attention-span daily existence. It was beautiful- safron yellow rice on the black stage setting.  The bodies moving without moving, then bursting forward with life. The muscular control…. I am in awe at the whole masterpiece.

Margi Brown Ash and I are sharing our expertise with one another. I am helping Margi to develop a web presence for 4 Change, while margi is helping me to find a rythm in practising as a fulltime artist.

We are both having a ball… with wild inspiration and clarity in abundance! Love your work Margi!

I am one of 13 artists who has been chosen to participate in ‘Flash Trash’, an exhibition at be held at the Toowoomba regional gallery in August 2006.

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I exhibited my specimen works at an exhibition at Metro Arts Gallery this month. Rubberbands and tacks pinned a skeletal sculpture of metal and wood to the wall. Also exhibited were sculptural collages of wire and giclee prints. The works called ‘Specimen’ are on display in the folio.