Can rejection be fun?
Hello all, I am in the middle of nowhere this week, documenting wildlife surveys in a big property. It is (I hope) fun and important work. It is (I hope)...
Anti-elite art vernacular (or, the most specific topic I've ever written 1000 words on)
One of the really particular quirks of education in Australia is that, around the age of 14-16, a lot of schools assign their classes Of Mice and Men, the...
Perfect foods
I love food and am having a quiet week. Food consistently makes me happy. I love cooking, preparing, shopping, eating, enjoying. Here are a list of some...
A cat has nine lives - how many do we have?
Something I've written a bit about is here before is how my life is split between my day job in Education and my life as an artist. For many years, it's felt...
What is understanding?
On the weekend just past, I went to a stable and visited some horses. A friend's sister has two horses and I wanted to photograph them because I'm trying to...
Birthdays
Something a bit odd about me is that I don't really celebrate my birthday. When I was 16 I woke up thinking 'this will be a great day, everyone's going to be...
Australia: the land of fences
I'm obsessed with fencing and fences right now. I think that they are the most mundane expressions of a sense of inclusion, exclusion and control that most...
Getting older is getting easier
When I was a teacher, there was a segment of my colleagues who would often lament that working with teenagers made them feel old. Responding to the warp...
Adam Sandler
During COVID I got really into Saturday Night Live. I don't know why, it's not always funny, but there was something about watching compilations of sketches...
What we feel when
I'm off to Sydney tomorrow and Hawaii the day after. It's my first non-art-making holiday (and first international trip) since early 2019. For 2019, 2020,...
No Silver Bullets - money and art part 2 (fuck it!)
One of the things I want to do is show The Killing Sink in places that aren't Australia. To me, this seems like it would be a big step up and allow me to...
No Silver Bullets
One of the things I want to do is show The Killing Sink in places that aren't Australia. To me, this seems like it would be a big step up and allow me to...
Sophmore Album
I think the question that I ask myself in my art life is 'what's next?'. With art making, we often fixate on the wrong end point, and this can cause some...
I like maps but not Maps
A friend asked me to write about why I don't like to use navigation apps in cars and I figured 'why not? it's a whimsical enough topic', so here we are....
End of something, start of something else
Hey - so I think this is my, like, 5th email that's been about starts and ends in some form. I didn't realise that I've been thinking about things in this...
Good enough. Great. Perfect.
I've been making new work recently and it's sort of being amazing and disappointing all at the same time. The amazing part is being out, energised, engaging...
Bad rock climbing
When I lived in Canberra a friend of mine from teaching said 'hey come rock climbing'. She is a really accomplished climber, as is her husband (Australia's...
Low and Slow
I wanted to share a bit about how being an artist is going financially but I’ve had a surprisingly busy week and just haven’t had the chance to crunch the...
There's a season to everything
One of my favourite things to say is 'there's a season to everything' and it strikes me that it's a slightly more poignant way of saying 'everything ends'....
Heavy Rocks (it's a long one)
On Friday last week I went to my first live music concert in a long time. Not just because of COVID, but just in general I don’t go to much live music....