At the moment I am reading lots of essays via Substack. Always of interest are the letters showcased in Shaun Usher’s newsletter, Letters of Note. Read More…

For most of this year I have been making collages centred on the representation of women in media. 

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In July of this year I participated in a self funded online collage residency offered by the Kolaj Institute in New Orleans.

The residency focussed on the intersection between photography and collage and as I had already started working with photographic images it was a perfect fit for me.

At the end of the residency we were invited to submit work that might be exhibited at the Kolaj Institute Gallery during Photonola 2025 and I was pleased that four of my collages were accepted into the exhibition.

Click on the links for more info:

Camera & Collage | Kolaj Magazine

World Collage Day is an annual, international celebration of collage on the second Saturday of May initiated by the founder of Kolaj Magazine. Aartists and venues around the world hold collage events to bring together people and community in a spirit of cooperation, support and creativity. 

In collaboration with The Churn Room in 2024, I hosted a series of collage activities.

John Massy opened with a lively talk about the work in his exhibition, after which Guthrie and I facilitated a two hour collage making session and we finished the day with a life model collage session.

Here are some links with more info:

World Collage Day | Recollect exhibition by John Massy  |  Guthrie on instagram

When I moved to Dayboro I quickly realised I was not going to be able to travel to Brisbane or even across town at night, along dark country roads, to go to life drawing classes.

So I decided to organise life drawing myself. We started off in my shed studio until we moved to The Churn Room in 2023 and 2024. I am grateful to Bronwyn Hawkins, the Director of The Churn Room, who generously provides support with promotions and photography services and exhibition space for the showcase.

For more information about The Churn Room visit the website at www.thechurnroom.com.au

Art Lab - Like many of us, during covid I developed strong connections with my online community and as we eased out of isolation it seemed to me there may be a need for artists to gather in person to engage in critical conversations in which we get to talk about art and art making with like minded creatives.  

Keeping my eye open for interesting bits of information, using writing exercises and artist led discussion to interrogate various topics, since 2023 the group has met monthly for supportive and engaging talk fests.

We’re now in our second year and Art Lab is going strong, and looking forward to sharing with our wider community.

Not long ago I was asked to do a collage workshop by our local council for a group of educators.

The prep resulted in another day playing with infographics. They are such a good tool for succinctly imparting information!

This infographic is just a snippet of what I have come to understand about design and composition. It is a dip of the toe into the subject, even so, I do hope this is a handy reference to print out for the notice board!

Click here for the pdf