Bibliophilia

View from the Tui Mine site, looking out over the town of Te Aroha and the Hauraki Plains   As part of the research I'm doing for my...

 I'm doing lots of thinking about what colours to use for the Tui Mine piece I'm designing.  Although I am confident and enthusi...

My friend Barry Smith, and his wife Catherine opened an Antarctic exhibition last week in exactly the same gallery  ( ArtsPost, Hamilton,...

Today is the 7th birthday of this blog, Bibliophilia. Each year the quantity of posts is a little less than the previous year, but I'...

This is as close as its possible to drive to Tui Mine these days, and it was far too rainy a day to get out and walk (especially given wha...

Snotty globules of oil-spill dispersant, hand-crocheted  cotton with wool  After starching up the first batch of tea-dyed crochet disper...

I've got a couple of large scale oil spill works on the go. Pressing hard at their heels are some mining works I've got planned, jus...

The South Pole on My Antarctica (shown here while still WIP) is marked with a small pearly button "So at last we reached our destinatio...

Pohutakawa bursting into bloom at Mount Maunganui I first heard about the Kermadec artists' voyage on the radio just after the artists ...

The University of Waikato bought my large embroidered appliquéd blanket piece, Tipping Point , from the Imagining Antarctica exhibition. I ...

No Mine is an Island , a large embroidered sculptural piece made earlier this year, but never exhibited has sold to a private collector in C...

No Mine is an Island bleeding tailings into the sea I was relentlessly positive going into the New Zealand's general election yesterday,...

This John Key-John Banks teapot tape scandal * reminds me of a time I was secretly taped. I dined out on this story for years and still fi...

Red Billed Gull While in Auckland for Art in the Dark last weekend , I stayed with Rachelle Wood who is the artist behind Bird...

Stragagem Bilateral Carousel by Jasmax Grads was a nice spot to lie down and have a rest while gazing up at the lights I caught the bu...