Bibliophilia

A strand of Dispersant, casting night shadows on the studio wall In preparation for installing Dispersant in the Outeredge Project wind...

Blizzard (2011) I won an award!  One of the four 2012 National Contemporary Fibre Arts Awards, the one sponsored by the Nelson City Coun...

One strand This morning I finished crocheting the 400th globule for the Dispersant installation.  I think I  started the first globule ...

Click on image to see more of the show Sculpture & Object at Sanderson Gallery had a wonderful opening on Tuesday.  It's a gorge...

I have Antarctica-themed work appearing in two group shows opening in March, one in Auckland and one in Upper Hutt (Wellington Region).  I...

Big oil spill in progress  I've got three substantial works in progress at the moment and flit between them according to where I...

Stockton Mine (photo from Solid Energy ) I spend a lot of time looking at pictures of open cast mines (photographs, diagrams and maps) t...

The first action on visiting is always to move the spinning wheel and tapestry frame out into the hallway so I can access what I need. I...

I'm overjoyed to announce the launch of my new 'gallery' website at www.meliors.net .  It's been years in the dreaming, mont...

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...