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Added several hours after posting:I really wish I could say that I planned for this post to be published on the solstice, but I didn't. Nonetheless here it is, and it seems quite fitting. Happy Solstice, be it short or long of light where you are. I've made a few adjustments to the images I showed in the last post and am now ready to make the final version, but I'm out of glassine. So while I

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As today is International ME/CFS Awareness Day, it seemed the right day to share where I'm up to with my artist's book "About ME". Below is the text I am using in the book. "Patients with ME/CFS experience abnormal fatigue that is both more intense and qualitatively different from normal tiredness. The fatigue in ME/CFS may take several different forms: post-exertional fatigue (abnormal

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....cleared, amongst the mess......to finish the stencil cutting.........and start to test out the text. Progress! Posted with Blogsy

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It seems that the more I try to focus my attention on a single art project, the more projects I end up starting.  I have, as you know, wide-ranging interests and limited energy. As a result, I often find myself working on one thing while I'm longing to be making something else. So I thought that as a strategy to manage this, I would try focussing on one work for a month at a time. This

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It started in December when I received these gorgeous gerberas from some dear friends. Ages before I had decided that whenever I receive flowers, I would use them to try some ecoprinting. This was prompted by the sense that my gardening capabilities are rather limited by my lack of energy, not to mention living in a unit. I also really like the fact that people usually give you flowers to

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I'm spending a couple of weeks in Melbourne staying with family and yesterday I visited the State Library of Victoria. Despite living here for two years, I had only visited the SLV once before. Quite odd really, given the ceramics department of RMIT is directly across the road and I am a book artist. I had never been to the LaTrobe Reading Room, which you can see below is quite beautiful.

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I'm pleased and proud to be a part of this inaugural exhibition at the new premises of Impress Printmakers. You're invited to the Opening, but please note that it is necessary to rsvp.  If you can't make it on the 21st, I hope you'll check out the show and new premises soon. The gallery will be open Thursday - Sunday, 10am-4pm, and the show will be up until March 30th.

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  I rounded out last year by finishing this wedding present, a hand bound album to hold my friends J and B's wedding photos. This has been the most technically challenging book I've made, being the largest and heaviest, and obviously needing to be able to be handled. Making it even more challenging was my promise to use an "across the spine" binding. At the time when I suggested it, I

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Just a brief post to wish everyone, whether regular reader or occasional visitor all the best for the coming holidays.No matter what you are celebrating, keep safe, have fun, relax and I hope you share some happy times with people you love.And if you are on your own or this is a challenging time for whatever reason, know that you are also in my thoughts. All images taken by me with my iPhone and

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My title for this edition of BAO is "A Day Just Like Any Other". I finished the "required" eight copies and posted them off to my group members in April, but I still haven't completed the full edition of fifteen. As a result, I didn't get around to sharing the full book here, before I went on "sabbatical".  Nonetheless, "A Day..." has already been on show with other BAO Edition 4

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Hello and welcome back to my blog! Thanks for coming back and for being so patient during the four months since my last post. I think the blog break has been good for me and it has been nice to be free of obligation for a while. That said, I really miss the contact with everyone and I'm hoping to get back to a more regular routine of posting now. Despite being four months since I last

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With the lack of activity on this blog, you may have already thought that I had taken a sabbatical from my writing "duties". In a way it's true, but I want to make it "official" so that you don't feel that I have just run off, abandoning the inter-web and never giving this blog or you another thought! This year seems to be a challenging one for a lot of people, and that has

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A new podcast in which Amanda shares some exhibition news and invites you to join her at Impressions7 on Monday afternoon. listen to ‘"The Great Library" in Geelong’ on Audioboo(function() { var po = document.createElement("script"); po.type = "text/javascript"; po.async = true; po.src = "http://d15mj6e6qmt1na.cloudfront.net/assets/embed.js"; var s =

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As most of you won't be able to get along to Impressions 7, the Annual Impress Printmakers Exhibition, I thought I'd share my new print which is in the show. This is probably one of the first, if not the first digital print which has felt satisfying to me. I took the original photo several years ago using the camera facility on a Sony PSP, which has a  toy camera option.The iPhone was

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A month or so ago, I was invited to participate in Impress Printmakers' Annual Exhibition. Works are by members and can inlcude prints, drawings and artists' books.  I decided that it would be a good opportunity to show a couple of my artists' books to a Brisbane audience. Although my books have traveled to a variety of venues in Australia, to the US and right now one is making its way

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 Last year I made some prints using the 'welcome home' roses our lovely house-sitter Louise left after our trip. When I took the embroidery course in August I used a couple for machine stitching, which I showed you here.  Otherwise they have been sitting waiting my attention, while I worked on other commitments. So after finishing the first half of my BAO edition, I took a week off to

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listen to ‘BAO Group 4 books departing now’ on Audioboo (function() { var po = document.createElement("script"); po.type = "text/javascript"; po.async = true; po.src = "http://d15mj6e6qmt1na.cloudfront.net/assets/embed.js"; var s = document.getElementsByTagName("script")[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s); })();

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listen to ‘A return to podcasting’ on Audioboo (function() { var po = document.createElement("script"); po.type = "text/javascript"; po.async = true; po.src = "http://d15mj6e6qmt1na.cloudfront.net/assets/embed.js"; var s = document.getElementsByTagName("script")[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s); })();

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  ......always a chance for some photography. Took the train to the Gold Coast and saw some of those sights you mostly miss in a car.  The laid-back beachified approach to safety and again! "Red sky at night, Shepherd's delight"   ...but it didn't happen that way for once. Don't let this patch of blue sky fool you

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I'm very happy to say that Alicia Bailey of Abecedarian Gallery in Denver has selected one of my books for Photo Book Works, which opened there this Friday February 15th. If you've been following here for some years you may remember the flag book I made called Like Weather. The book explored the inconstancy of emotions and compared this to the changability of weather. It was in fact the book

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No, sadly I am not in New York. Still here in Brisbane, navigating my way amongst the piles of CDs, books and electronic gear while Ian's music studio dries out. However, the extremely talented Hannah Bertram, who I've introduced to you before from my days at RMIT in Melbourne is in New York. In what is an incredibly competitive arena, Hannah secured a three  month Australia Council

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No matter where you are reading this, your news service has probably informed you about what's left of Cyclone Oswald and its effects on the eastern coast of Australia. Here in Brisbane, the sun is shining now, and we've had one flood peak with another to come. This flood is not as bad for us here as the last one in 2011 and we personally have no worries about being inundated. This time,

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 Just like Hilke, the Buechertiger I've been delaying the writing of this post, my annual review. Some of my reasons are the same (not feeling I've accomplished enough) and some are different. This time last year I was in an optimistic mood, satisfied with the achievements of 2011 and excited at the potential offered by a brand new year, 2012.This time around I have not felt the same

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Brisbane River, under the Goodwill Pedestrian Bridge I'm taking a little time to reflect on 2012, rest up, and prioritize and plan for 2013. I am loving reading everyone else's great plans - the blogosphere feels so full of energy at the moment. Your posts are a delight, but I'm finding it hard to reach out and comment just at the moment. I hope you'll understand. Smoky Brisbane CBD

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I wanted to take this opportunity to thank everybody who has dropped by my blog this year. Your visits mean so much to me, and it has been such a source of delight to connect and chat with you.If you are holidaying or celebrating at this time, I wish you safe and happy times.We'll be celebrating Christmas tomorrow, with both my family and my husband's. Below you can see the traditional tree which

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