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Join the Detanglers Club
THE DETANGLERS CLUB is students, staff, and community members of the greater Fremantle/Bathers Beach area. We spend time each Wednesday afternoon working with artist and jeweller Melissa Cameron, Katherine Ashe of vittinoAshe architects, and the seahorse detritus collected by Notre Dame University scientist Linda Davies. Together we are crafting a large scale artwork designed by…
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Can you collect?
Perth + Melbourne, can you help? I’m working towards a new work and I’m on the hunt for two specific recycled materials: all as pictured above. I’m seeking hundreds of both lids and bristles, so it would mean a HUGE amount to me if you were to keep your eyes peeled and pick up either…
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Spotlight
Current CV 2023 Current research includes: 1/ collaborating with architect leads vittinoAshe alongside Brendan Moore (Southwest Aboriginal Land and Sea Council) and Syrinx for an artwork as part of the upcoming Fremantle Biennial Pavilion. 2/ the generation, creation and installation of a public artwork for Murdoch Square, to be delivered later this year. 2021 –…
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LOBES at Danaca in Seattle
LOBES – it has meaning Dana at Danaca Design announced her intention to have a holiday earring show with local Seattle makers back in October (while I happened to be visiting the town I called home for 6.5 years for the first time since I left in 2018), and I immediately jumped on the bandwagon.…
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US exhibit, AUS opportunity
So for all of you on the big southern biscuit, the National Contemporary Jewellery Award 2022 is calling. From their email: The National Contemporary Jewellery Award is back!We can’t wait to celebrate the newest addition to the collection along with the NCJA 30th anniversary in October.We’re very excited to see all the amazing work and…
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Edith Cowan commemorative pin featured in WA Parliament
Welcome dear friends, to a picture of me posing with several WA Politicians, in the WA Parliament foyer. Obviously fans of the WA parliament will have already seen this collage pop up in their FB feed but at the risk of boring those people I’ve screen cap’d it to share with y’all (in other words,…
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Garland Magazine
I had a piece published last month in Garland Magazine’s 25th issue Craft Currencies – Value is in our own hands. Editor Dr Kevin Murray saw the work and asked me to write about the series Juukan Tears Offcuts that I made last year, through the lens of high/low, rich/poor, gallery/gift shop craft. It is…
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Edith Cowan 100 Years Anniversary Pin
Celebrating 100 Years of women in WA Parliament Christine Tonkin MLA, the Member for Churchlands, got in touch about 6 weeks ago to ask if I wanted to make a brooch to commemorate the making of another brooch 100 years ago. Could it get more meta? Of course I said yes! When I was first…
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The Uluru Statement needs you!
For those of you following along, here in Australia we’re getting close to the submission deadline for comment on the Indigenous Voice co-design process, with final submissions due on the 31st of March. From the zoom lecture I attended I found out that the Minister of Indigenous Affairs Ken Wyatt has not sought to push…
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3 things on November 3
Need some distraction for this 3rd of November? Yup, me too. 1/ It’s Melbourne Cup Day! OK, so for those of you outside Australia who may have never heard of the Melbourne Cup, it might help to think Royal Ascot or The Kentucky Derby. If those ring no bells, here’s a quick story to illustrate…
