Weeekly winnners…

I am absolutely flatstick busy at the moment getting ready for the end of year art exhibition which opens at The Long Gallery in Salamanca next Wednesday the 19th. Of course that hasn’t stopped me taking  a gazillion photos this week. The sky was amazing all week. So if you dont like photos of the sky  you are in the wrong place…

But first my lovelies here is a sneak preview of an installation of mine  that will be in the exhibition..

I apologise for the quality of these two images. I took these shots in the studio at tafe so that when it came time to place them on their plinth in the gallery, I would actually remember how I had arranged the shells. I had fiddled with them and the text and images that they were sitting on for ages before I was finally happy with the end result.

This is my artist’s statement that goes with them.

Boganvillainy..

In this beautiful island state of Tasmania so many  gifts of nature are taken for granted. Native animals lie dead on the side of the road, victims of our haste. Ancient forests are turned into paper, waterways are poisoned, beauty is destroyed. All victims of our greed.

I am a ceramic artist and when my hands are filled with clay I am able for a short time to forget my despair and shame that I am a silent witness to the destruction of Tasmania’s spiritual heart.

Now Back to the sky…

The other morning we were woken at first light by a very noisy flock of white cockatoos that decided to investigate the gum trees right outside the bedroom window…

It was very hot and very, very windy on Thursday. When I arrived home from the studio at 5.30 pm it was still about 32 degrees up here (about 90) . A thunderstorm was building and there was a lot of dust in the sky. (half the topsoil in the midlands had blown away  *sigh*) …

These photos were taken over a period of about two hours.

That’s it for this week. For more winners go over to Lotus’ and say ‘hello’…