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work accepted for Lyn McCrea Drawing Prize

This year I decided to enter the Noosa Regional Gallery’s annual Drawing prize which commemorates local artist and identity Lyn McCrea who passed away several years back. Lyn was a friend of the Sisters of Mary, one of the groups which agitated to protect the Mary River during the flawed Traveston dam proposal. She was also a keen collector and […]
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Work shortlisted for Lyn McCrea Drawing Prize

This year I decided to enter the Noosa Regional Gallery’s annual Drawing prize which commemorates local artist and identity Lyn McCrea who passed away several years back. Lyn was a friend of the Sisters of Mary, one of the groups which agitated to protect the Mary River during the flawed Traveston dam proposal. She was also a keen collector and […]
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Mayu’s Hair Paper

About Mayu’s Hair Paper My friend Mayu Kanamori was diagnosed with breast cancer last year, and she took the brave step of documenting her journey with the help of several friends. Accepting that she would lose her long black hair in the course of treatment, she asked what could be done with the hair. At this point I found a […]
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Opening speech by Sandra Ross

I recently got permission from my opening speaker, Fellow Toastmaster Sandra Ross, to publish the beautiful words of the opening speech which she wrote and delivered to open my exhibition. You can read it below: Through Emerald Eyes Emerald is a crystal, green in colour because of the Chromium contained in it. It was formed deep within the subterranean layers […]
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Through Emerald Eyes

My concept behind the Solo show are partly explained here. About the exhibition at Gympie regional Gallery in August 2014 You may have read that these works reflect the development of my ideas during the journey through a Master of Environmental Education Degree.  There’s something about study that challenges you to read stuff you might never even find on your […]
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Tall Tale Teller

After representing my Toastmasters club, Gympie Goal Diggers, at a number of regional contests, I’m proud to announce that I won the Tall Tales section of the contest at Cooloola Berries, Wolvi, on Saturday! I even get a cute little trophy with my name engraved on it!
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Yoshio and the Magic Bowl

Years ago, after a period of exposure to the culture of Japan, I wrote a story set in ancient Japan. I had visited the climbing kilns at the pottery village of Mashiko in Japan in 1994, on a kind of pilgrimage to the home village of Shoji Hamada, a potter I admired very much in my own pottery days. Later […]
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