May 2nd, 2019
Had a chat to Richard Watts from SmartArts on 3RRR today about the upcoming show  The world around us
(1 hr:3mins into show time)
www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/smartarts/episodes/7235-smartarts-2-may-2019#episode 
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PictureWill Murray, Rivers of Gold, 2018
THE WORLD AROUND US @ ARTS PROJECT AUSTRALIA
Opening 3pm, 4th May, 2019
4 May - 8 June 
Curated by Penelope Hunt, the exhibition charts the process of walking the same paths around Northcote’s Merri Creek for a year-long period, and presents images by artists working digitally.
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As part of CLIMARTE’s ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE 2019 festival, The world around us literally refers to a five-block radius around the Arts Project Australia studio. Each week as the seasons change and the weather alters, so changes the landscape and our perceptions of it. Through the process of walking the same paths over a year, Arts Project studio artists will present work that focuses on and truly examines the fluctuations of their local environment, articulating their interests and concerns.
Featuring works by: Miles Howard-Wilks, Danny Lyons, James MacSporran, Eden Menta, Will Murray, Anthony Romagnano, Aidan Sefo, Georgia Szmerling and Lachlan Turk.
The exhibition will be opened by Bronwyn Johnson, Executive Director, CLIMARTE.
www.artsproject.org.au/event/world-around-us/?fbclid=IwAR3Gh133Z47FxLAq4se4RNKOCZcGzqlxm5eP7_rfa2m68fgcyrHrds13W8k

Finalist
Milburn Art Prize, 2019
‘Landscape as a space of creative discovery’ on Friday 3 May @6:00pm.
Brisbane Institute of Art
www.brisart.org/milburn-prize
The 2019 Paul Milburn Art Prize reflects the evolving nature and aims of BIA to honour Paul Milburn, a much loved and respected tutor who began teaching in 1989 at BIA until his death in 2011. With this in mind we have made some significant changes to the annual exhibition by opening it to all artists residing in Australia, and increasing the prize to $10,000 awarded for a 2d artwork addressing the spirit of Paul Milburn’s legacy and John Peart’s musings on landscape as quoted above. Accepted media for Landscape as a ‘space of creative discovery’ includes painting, drawing, printmaking, mixed media and photography.
I see myself in you
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St.Heliers Street Gallery, 
Convent Building, 
​Abbotsford Convent,
1 St Heliers Street, Abbotsford VIC 3067
12th October – 18th November, 2018
​https://abbotsfordconvent.com.au/whats-on/key-programs/st-heliers-street-gallery-exhibitions-2019
Penelope Hunt’s new series I see myself in you focuses on how connection to the environment can psychologically mirror the relationship we have with ourselves as well as each other.
Taken of the Merri Creek, an important waterway which weaves behind her home in Melbourne’s Northern suburbs, the images are all seen from a particular vantage point. Exploring how the reflection changed over the seasons a relationship and connection to place became more evident and challenging. 
Notions of beauty, yearning and connection to the landscape are referenced against the colonial landscape painter John Glover’s artwork, Swilker Oak, as shadows of our colonial past are evoked within the landscape.
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PictureBurnt Sienna 110 x 78cm Pigment print on Archival Photo Rag
Photography workshop
Finding the beauty in everyday through photography
This one-day workshop is designed to help you discover your own visual language by learning to open and trust your unique intuitive vision.

Please note: Workshop will be available Feb/March 2019.
Please email me to register interest.
​Facilitated by myself and Helga Leunig.  
For more details and booking info:
 abbotsfordconvent.com.au/whats-on/classes-workshops/finding-beauty-in-the-everyday-through-photography