new thing

Rainbow street public school is having an art exhibition fundraiser from the 27th of August to the 1st of September at Gallery East, 21 Burnie st Clovelly. Chris Gleisner is curating it and asked me to donate something to the cause. I made some things like this.

the roof is on

Had some help putting the roof on "Dream Home". Here it is.

Scrap Close up

Rosie and Scrap

I put little Scrap (just finished) on the floor to take a quick picture for this blog, when Rosie decided to come over and have a look. Here's what happened.

Come on.....play!

From Little Things

Photography: Greg Lippiatt

I was recently invited to participate in the arty part of The Five Lands Walk, which is an annual event celebrating the area from McMasters beach to Terrigal. This installation was at Avoca beach and was my take on the whale migration that is regularly witnessed from those lucky enough to live on an east coast beach. The sculptures are made from water bottles and their lids, which are a pet hate of mine for their environmental nastiness. I think they look much nicer cut up and reconstructed.

commissions

meat tray

What to make for an RSL show? A meat tray of course.

new birdies

Just when I think I'm done with birds, another request arrives.

These are two wrens...a Red Backed Fairy Wren and a Variegated Wren, beautifully photographed in the afternoon light by Greg Lippiatt.

CarriageARTworks

Wagging school

I took Charlie (my nephew) out of school on Monday to go on a skatepark crawl. We went to three and included a stop at Skater HQ in Manly for new wheels and some adjustments to existing boards. They're really friendly down there and put us on to a really fun snake run at Balgowlah. We finished off at Manly Vale skate park which I particularly liked (Charlie preferred the snake run). Here's a little peek at what we did. Pretty lame video really, it feels much more scary than it looks. I didn't manage to get Charlie doing a 50/50 (where you get the board half and half longditudinally on the coping at the top of the ramp before going back down), but I will next time.