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Regular readers of this blog (all six of you!) will know that I recently moved into an old house. How old remains a mystery, but the builder who checked the place out for me, before I brought it, reckons that it’s probably at least an hundred years old, possibly more. He was excited to…
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I thought I’d blog about my latest obsession: the peacock. While I’ve had periods of infatuation with various artists, writers, animals, men, drinks, sports and foods, this is my first time with the peacock. It began innocently enough, when my friend KRS began making these wonderfully strange sculptures of peacocks. Interested in female identity, and…
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Pick up any book about writing, and it will give endless reams of advice about how to create the best conditions for writing productively. These include joining writers groups, making it a daily job, blogging, finding a mentor, working alone, setting up a designated area and/or time for writing, and working to a word…
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Sometime ago I went on a rather fraught family holiday with my ex-husband and our four year old daughter. We loaded up his campervan and explored the NSW East Coast, stopping at various national parks, beaches and camping sites. On the way home we spent the night at Crowdy Bay, a rather lovely bay with…
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The year has started well, with something of a pile up of creative projects, which is nothing to whine about, but does present some ‘what the hell should I do first?’ scheduling issues. I got interested in time management and efficiency a while ago, and wasted countless happy hours reading about spreadsheets, productivity cycles and…
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This painting, moonlight on your beak, is one of the ones I’m working on for the upcoming Year of the Bird exhibition at Maitland Regional Art Gallery. The plan is to produce two paintings and one painted wardrobe. I was outside this afternoon, trying to scrub the last of the old shellac based varnish off the…
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In a well intentioned attempt to catch up on blogging about art related stuff, I thought I’d write about a couple of recent pieces of good news. The first is that the sculptor Karen Robinson Smith and myself will be spending some time this year at the Gunyah Artists’ Residency in beautiful Port Stephens. Now…
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Rather disgustingly, this blog has recently lapsed into ghost ship status. This is not, however, because I’ve done nothing creative, and thus had nothing to write about; it was unfortunately quite the opposite situation. Incidentally, the above pic is some work that was recently installed for about a month at Hobart airport. The paintings are Tiger…
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I thought I’d post a few images from my recent show, Strange Tales, at Despard Gallery, Tasmania. The exhibition was opened by Danielle Wood, who stood in front of this painting and spoke about the odd interplay of the nest of eggs, a symbol of hope, surrounded by writhing worm creatures. Earlier we’d spoken about…
Helen Hopcroft: an artist's life 