NEW TERRAIN – Sustainability, Environment and Community is an eclectic exhibition of twenty artists associated with Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE (NMIT) Visual Arts Department. NEW TERRAIN highlights various contemporary art practices involving photo-media, painting and small-scale sculpture, reinvigorating the idea of sustainability through diverse personal and artistic responses. The artists explore concepts of sustainability, the fragility and complexity of the natural world and the importance of embracing sustainable practices

“Conceived as a child’s toys these small sculptures are made of found objects, from the beach at Apollo Bay Victoria”.link to birds project on my wesiteThis project stayed dormant for a long time but it has re-surfaced again. I went for a walk on a beach last week (March 2008) and found that the pieces of driftwood washed ashore were all looking like pieces to a puzzle which wanted to

Last Night (10th of March) the Athenium theatre was filled with a crowd of mainly women, who were there to hear Germaine Greer talk about her new book “Shakespeare’s Wife”. The ticket I received last week (cost $10), was a photocopy which could have been forged by anyone who had access to a photocopier. I would be curious to know how the organisers have been able to keep track of

I’m not the type to go out of my way to be in a crowd of people.But I did just that this evening and it was worth every painful standing moment.I stood in the crowd at Readings bookshop to hear a conversation between one of my a favorite author’s (Paul Auster) his wife (Siri) also an author, and critic Peter Craven. I have read novels by Auster for the last

Invitation to Exhibition International Bureau of Identity Documentation (ibid)*Prospectus 08.4.4-ID: Your Documents Please International Identification Document Exhibition Opening April 2008 In an insecure world of fallible people with fallible ideas and ideologies, ibid invites you to submit an application to use the UNBRIDLED POWER of your ART to create (in suitable format as stipulated below) a Vital Document for purposes (known and unknown) of identification, emigration, immigration and imagination in

Packing/Unpacking the work.