the resi at the Coal Loader has been packed full and workshops are happening from all directions ... so good to have a little bush break near my #coalloaderstudio

the new gig:

SydneyBAG 

Opens Up

IWOST (formerly LOST) Inner West Open Studio Trail

Annandale Community Centre

Sunday 14 May 10 - 4

birds & bits,  a cut out concertina in the round, that has come home from its showing with the Manly Library Artist Book Awards exhibition

Šošo    inkjet print, pegs

Personal Histories International Artists' Book Exhibition 

UNSW - Australian Defence Force Academy - Duntroon

Academy Library, Canberra 

28 September - 11 December 2015

opening 5.30pm 1 October 

 Sydney BAG 

with Alphabet City Press 

Volume 2015 I Another Art Book Fair

presented by Artspace in partnership with Perimeter Books (Melbourne) and Printed Matter, Inc. (New York), an offsite event for Sydney Contemporary 2015

launch Saturday 12 Sept  3.15pm

Stack   

a collaborative pile-up of artists books by Avril Makula, Cathie Edlington, Cindy Tonkin, Gary Smith, Julie Bookless, Lisa Giles and Sandra Winkworth

Artspace, The Gunnery 43–51 Cowper Wharf Road Woolloomooloo 

Friday     11 Sept:  5–9 pm
Saturday 12 Sept:  11am – 7 pm
Sunday   13 Sept:  11am–6 pm

The studio looking sweet but can it transport... today off goes the applications, off goes works for the exhibition Personal Histories, pack up for FOUR and VAP and something for the Portland Artist Residency and these studio starters for Grafton...... lets go 

detail from a small 3 piece work....

Every month the Sydney BAG (book art group) meet up to show and tell, and we all individually exhibit, win and sell work but this time we had our inaugural Sydney Book Art Group Show. Thank you to Art Est. Art School for everything that made this a great exhibition. 

Some photographs can be seen via our facebook page and the show still runs until the 2 December.

Happy to have nearly nearly finished making new works for the artist book exhibition Personal Histories. I love being in exhibitions like this one as I am garanteed that my work will sit next to beautiful and fully considered bookart constructions by artists I admire.

A wonderful weekend in Melbourne thanks to lovely friends and an extra huge thank you goes to Sandra Eterovic, the creator of the above bird dancing girl - please see her blog here and her shop here. It was a fully packed visit as I attended the inaugural Codex Australia Symposium and book fair, joyously catching up with Sydney folk as you do. The talks were all brilliant with lots of brain exploding moments as theories densified. I so needed that work out. now home to rest .... 

Bird Week

Ornitho-logical (until the 26th) at Leichhardt's community Pop In Space is a good looking show featuring (detail above) Kirsty Collins' installation piece No Honeyeaters and with probably too many of my bird works! I did do some new watercolours, The locals, 27  "quickies" sourced from photos taken around my home/garden to reflect all states of my visitors movements. 

Celebrate our native birds this Bird Week 19 - 25 October

more at Birdlife

(love this) acrylic on paper by Kevin Woods from the current Roomies exhibition

this month I have been invited as artist in residence for the Pop In Space with Leichhardt Council. A workshop completed and now I'm setting up with some past bits. Can I make new work before the opening next week?

spring and winter blooms all at once... that is Sydney. I am back from my glorious time-out to find the most agreeable news of selling and winning results!!! Hip Hip hoorah to me! 

detail of winning miniature work at the ASMA exhibition

The POD work is sent and received. more later. I am having time off in lovely lovely Hill End, watching all the glorious birdlife, please have a look at the home of my dinnertimes: Hill End Press

some completed bits for a miniature work ... the deadlines are lined up like soldiers this year. I just said No to a wonderful life/ art opportunity just to practice the No and to stop with the over plating! 

Soon for a little rest....

Abundance - waste not  is a larger piece made for the inaugural addition to North Sydney's Art Prize,  The Coal Loader - Centre for Sustainability. What was so lovely being in the show, from the curator Alison Clarke to the artists, was a genuine delight installing in this newly updated space. A recommended visit with or without the art. The 8 day show is now over and I am looking forward to reinventing this hangy left-over paper work into a new form....

Little Wonders

Lost in Transition  screenprint from collage

Last days for the brilliant Janet Parker - Smith's show 

at Brenda May Gallery

"This new series of collages and objects deal with ways of seeing. Using humour, they explore displacement and aim to provoke enquiry into how one receives, perceives and imagines physical ‘otherness’. 
The work explores nature’s boundless capacity for reinvention and rejuvenation, as well as the necessity for these processes as a means of survival. Referencing nature and alchemy, the work discusses the effects of progression and existence on nature and our environment."  

love = Janet. 

All the Pretty Birds No. 4   deconstructed book and collage

1. The SWF is over, the work is down and the rain has temporarily eased. and we of Sydney BAG had fun.

one little work soon flying off to Port Fairy

one large installation completed over many days with the Sydney BAG (Book art Group) at a glorious location Pier 2/3 Walsh Bay for the  2013 Sydney Writers Festival!

I have been meeting up regularly with this mix of 9 multi talented individuals to share our love of Book Art and here is our first collaboration, hanging nearly 750 pages from an old aussie Hills Hoist. please check out the links above as the pics are more telling... oh, and like us.

FEAST is on and ha, a splendid posting made today at 23 Sandy Gallery, Portland Oregon! See more details in the  catalogue and here on the cover is my Four and Twenty Magpies alongside work by Julie Shaw Lutts and Diane Jacobs. I am excited to be a part of this Gallery that specialises with the bookarts. And now I have another Portland connection. Thank you Laura Russell, great artist and galleryist!

Jan Melville's Love Story and Hot Pie Portland from the Manly Library Collection

Glad I went last night to an opening at the Maroubra library as my piece with others from the Manly Library's collection were on display. Lots of jobs to complete as usual and my in-tray is a mess