Today is Good News for Whales

Above are details from Cat Bailey's hanging nylon bag installation please see and read more here 

Lets hope today's historic ruling by the International Court of Justice ends Japan's murdering of whales (and thanks to the 2010 Rudd government for this campaign).

"Japan had justified the slaughter of more than 10,000 whales in the Southern Ocean in the past 25 years on the grounds that it was done for scientific purposes, even though it sold them on commercially."  

The Independent TUESDAY 01 APRIL 2014

water debris

© PAOLA TALBERT   Gyre 8   2012  60 x 60cm   awarded Highly Commended at the 2012 GreenWay Art Prize

Above photograph shows a fragment of an everyday urban detritus so beautifully enticing but revealing a part of our human disconnect. This work is from Paola Talbert's newest series Gyre, an ocean vortex, where originally full of plankton now collects millions of kilos of rubbish... our rubbish! Here is a good link with more information on what they call the Great Pacific Garbage Patch - a landfill in the ocean.

Your piece Paola is an exquisite example of the beauty and the foul aspects of this wonderful and absurd world we live in! Thank you

trees puddles critters

Lot of fun and a lot of great drawings created today by local artists... Bianca (above also includes her sisters Aoife and Niamh's trees), Cassidy with his sunny and rainy GreenWay days, Elkie's rainbow and Isla's sensitive skink. A popular work with visitors today is this central tree-hybrid inkjet print on acetate by Melbourne artist Aneta Bozic (above).... thanks everyone.

Eco Annandale exhibition and book launch

some for you some for me  2011

Ecologically Sustainable Annandale 2011 exhibition 
and book launch of 1890s Annandale: A Short Walk by Marghanita da Cruz

Officially open by Jamie Parker, the Member for Balmain Sat 8th October  1.30 - 3.30pm

Exhibition on 1 - 29 October

Leichhardt Library, Italian Forum, Norton St

Eco  Annandale is an annual exhibition, artists and their works can be seen on the website via here

Not only is my art practice concerned with sustainability, I have a personal connection to Annandale with recently sighting my great grandfather's picture up on the wall of the Annandale Town Hall amongst many other past mayors.