A black feather lying on dead grass — alone and separated from its life source. As a creative, there’s nothing quite like finding your tribe. ’Tribe’ is that over-used term for a group of like-minds, whose values and interests align with yours — a community of interest. For me, finding that community took years. I …
Listening is a whole of body experience. A couple of years ago I sat on a panel at the Artists in Volatile Landscapes Regional Futures symposium at Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre in Sydney to talk about how we might listen better. To underline the urgent need to listen better, I was particularly keen to get …
Are the places we live and work so uninhabitable, so disconnected from the natural world, that our only option is to reproduce sounds that keep us sane and healthy? Land once cleared for grazing is now home to a wind farm on Wiradjuri Country, Central West NSW (2022) As I’ve been working on my upcoming …
Over a long weekend in October, I returned to the Mid North Coast and the Manning Valley for another round of field recordings and story gathering for my Regional Futures project, Vaticinor. Works are now in development for this project, in preparation for a small group exhibition at the Manning Regional Arts Gallery in March …
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