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Robert Smith

December 5, 2023

For the past few weeks I've kept coming back to one of my favourite songs by The Cure, Homesick. Homesick is a sort of unusual song in a lot of ways - it's...

Aquarium

November 28, 2023

For a long time I wanted to be a marine biologist when I grew up. I can't remember the exact ages that this was something I wanted to do, but I feel it was...

Lacking Depth

November 21, 2023

I'm sorry it's been ages since I wrote one of these. A combination of travel and not having much to say sort of curtailed things a little. I will say that I...

Double is triple

October 19, 2023

My plan, this year, with Tall Poppy Press, was to publish four books spaced out over the year. One in February, one in June, one in September and the last in...

I'm ready

October 15, 2023

Over the last few months I've been feeling that I want to pursue some exhibitions again. For a few reasons, this year I was relatively quiet with exhibiting...

Studio update: September

September 30, 2023

I know I've been a little inconsistent here, I've been mega busy with my day job and am currently on a trip in Vietnam which meant I had to spend a bunch of...

You can't have it all

September 19, 2023

Recently, I've been day dreaming about buying a retail shop and having a bookstore for Tall Poppy Press, a little studio and then a space for food/drink....

Retail

September 5, 2023

When I work a book fair, I'm working retail. At a book fair, I have a table, I set up and display the books and posters, etc I have for sale and then as...

What is sustainable?

August 29, 2023

I don't mean what does the word mean, I mean what ACTIONS and LIVES are sustainable. In my day job, I run a program for University students about...

Overseas

August 23, 2023

While, in general, I roll my eyes when someone talks about the pandemic, I wanted to start this email with the qualifier that the change I'm writing about...

Studio Update: July/August

August 5, 2023

Hello everyone, It's going to be a hectic few months for me so I wanted to give a bit of a studio update a cheeky apology for likely being a bit absent over...

A haven or a prison?

July 25, 2023

Over the last five years I've spent a lot of time at wildlife sanctuaries of various descriptions, often visiting expressly to photograph an animal I don't...

Art/Money #3 - am/am not

July 13, 2023

Apologies up front - this is a rambly one and sort of covers a lot of ground without doing very much. As an artist, if you want to make a living, you can...

Art/Money #2 - Audience monopolies

July 5, 2023

Before we dive into art and money #2, I wanted to share three points of context: When I started this newsletter, there was a pervasive sense that Instagram...

Twenty five dollars

June 30, 2023

of the financial year here in Australia, which is a time a lot of people dread, find boring or forget about, but I really like. It's an odd thing, I...

Studio update: June

June 23, 2023

This is the second email I'm sending about what I'm working on. I don't know if this is interesting - though a few folks did get back to me after the first...

Everything has its season

June 15, 2023

Everything has its season is something I say a lot, to me it means acknowledging that there's a time for effort, a time for rest, a time for beginnings and a...

Grabbing the bull by the horns

June 7, 2023

A few months ago I had 4 weeks off from work and spent that time making new art and doing publishing things. Since that time something I've been wondering is...

Craft

May 31, 2023

There's a gallery I visit once a month or so near where I live and work. I like the guys that run it and like their shows and sense of play with the work...

Metrics/Measures

May 24, 2023

I don't quite know if everyone is like me in this way, so apologies if it's a little weird. Something that I find very motivating and de-stressing is knowing...