Bibliophilia

A row of freshly brushed lower case 10pt c's I bought myself some lead type the other day. There's two fonts, a 10pt condensed sans...

I am busy doing lots of stitchery and even secretly working on binding an edition on my own. But the most fun, interesting and photogenic t...

After a winter lull, Bethwyn and I are back in the swing of our collaborative altered book project, Frugal with the Breugal. We are being ...

Storm battered poppies in ink It's been ages since I've been to a sketch crawl. The WSA has taken over the organisation so compete...

Boring, but extremely useful op shop blouse ruined with bike chain grease on the cuff, restored by cutting off the cuffs, hemming the sleev...

More stitching... this was inspired by an aerial photograph of the tailings lake of a open cast copper mine in the Atacama Desert in Chile. ...

I've written another poem about an Antarctic hero and Harvey Molloy has published it as his Tuesday Poem this week at Molloy Notebook ....

I just can't find the motivation to write at the moment. All I want to do is stitch. So here's some photographs of my icebergs to k...

Rachel Kent, judge of the Bold Horizons National Contemporary Art Awards, speaking about her selection process. I was so thrilled by what s...

Four months ago I dreamed about making an iceberg in the form of a tiara, or maybe a crown. In my dream it was twilight shades of blues and...

Flying in, the sea is dark and demanding. Our island appears like a jewel and grows green until we circle to land, then I see the red s...

Editioning from Meliors Simms on Vimeo . It's taken exactly 13 months to finish making my short film about making an edition of 100 bo...

Almost Antarctica, except for the ski lift cables. This week I went away for a little break, mostly because after spending so long with the ...

My Antarctica (Pancake Ice) Amundsen's Dogs In loose drift, the bicycle wheel clogs but Amundsen ices the runners and the sledge, laden ...

View from the stairs to the National Contemporary Art Award Gallery You've read about the installation of my little solo show at th...