In lieu of a photo...

New happenings...

I have been traveling around a lot this year, settling and resettling, searching for the greenest pastures. Following the Habitat exhibition I took a small hiatus from my art practice. We packed up our beautiful sunshine coast hinterland house and took our possessions south for storage in the New England. Work in Toowoomba had finished up and a window of opportunity had arisen for us to go on the road and seek out new fortunes. We meandered south to the awesome coastline of the Great Ocean Road, stopping along the way at Scarborough and Kangaroo Valley. We revisited an old haunt in Apollo Bay and stayed a few weeks there to relax and recalibrate our travel compass.  This time in the small coastal town was invaluable as the years journey had taken its toll not only on our faithful Subaru, but also on our boys Cedar and Arlo. The waters were fairly brisk to put it politely, but we still spent plenty of time at the beach, braving the waters, carving the sand and just observing the the rolling hills descending into the Bass Straight. After a few weeks here we received word that I had successfully gained lecturing work in the Northern Territory. So we loaded up our car and began the migration northward again. We drove to Brisbane where we loaded our car onto a truck and flew to Darwin. We arrived in Darwin late on a Thursday night in March, the tropical humidity hit us like a big wet blanket as soon as we stepped off the plane. It seemed a bit colonial and a bit Asian at first, hot and maddening. Life here is becoming normal, or we are adjusting to it. This is most expensive place to live in Australia I am told. There is a resources boom happening and the price of everything is subsequently inflated. Amongst the mix of cultures and bogans, sweat and air conditioning, world heritage listed wilderness and uranium mines, local laksa and interstate imported groceries, I am making some drawings and teaching some classes. I have no camera with me. So photos will have to wait. Hopefully the amazing environment will permeate these new works. Stay tuned...