More signage has been installed by the Fraser Coast Council in the Takura Reserve, Hervey Bay. I was commissioned by the council to make over 100 illustrations of flora and fauna and social history to be used in signage around this and other reserves. Such a joy to be involved in this worthwhile project that seeks to inform and educate about our unique environments.
a lovely evening at the Sunset Session – in conversation with Sarah Wallace, curator of my exhibition as we discussed this body of work while folk browsed through my sketchbooks and asked questions.
The Common Park scooter track is located at 88a Cambridge Drive, Coorparoo. The park includes a playground, skate park, and the Norman Creek Bikeway, as well as additional recreational features that provide a hub of active opportunities for park users.
I’m grateful to the Brisbane City Council for including bronze sculptures as part of the creative enhancement of these shared spaces
The 32 illustrations I did for the Fraser Coast Council for the Arkarra Wetlands have been installed. This is an ongoing project with other reserves being upgraded by council to engage communities in an informed and coherant visual language. I’m very excited to be a small part of that.
some of the signs installed at Arkarra Wetlands
image credits Jacinta Padgett, Fraser Coast Council
Brisbane City Council commissioned me to make ‘discovery’ elements for an interactive playground at Gus Davies Park, Bald Hills. Built by the Landscape Construction Company, this park upgrade has created a wonderful imaginative playground with bikeways and different zones to explore. Turtle, frog and gecko were sculpted in the studio and cast by Chalkos Art Foundry. We hope to engage children on the micro level and alert them to the creatures that share our natural environments.
I will have these works hanging as part of this group show
The Powerful Owls have been nesting again down at our local creek. This threatened species are suffering due to habitat destruction and the loss of old growth trees for nesting hollows. A shy and secretive bird, they are the largest of Australia’s owls and the babies are simply gorgeous. I have been documenting their progress and was so pleased to see not one but two babies this year. These looser and more intuitive works have come since my time with my fellow artists on our art camp at Villa Rustica. There is always a lovely osmosis of ideas and ways of seeing that happen when artists work alongside each other.
Animal as Object – nature and culture will run at the Tweed Regional Gallery and Margaret Olley Art Centre from May to October 2022. I have been mulling over ideas and making works towards this project for some years now and my research (pre-covid) takes me to the Queensland Museum on a weekly basis as I investigate the animal as an object in the context of both museum taxidermy and the souvenir.
I love drawing and especially the natural world, so to be given the job to produce thirty line illustrations for interpretive signage has been a delight. I look forward to seeing the signs when they are all printed and installed in the Arkarra Wetlands, Hervey Bay
Two very different works representing two ends of my painting spectrum! I am very grateful to be included in this collection and for these works to be hanging in the public hospital.
snuck in between lockdowns and we were grateful to be able to get 5 solid days of drawing in our sketchbooks from the natural world. A great group of enthusiastic students again.
Opening Saturday 17th April in conjunction with the new HOTA Gallery grand opening at Southport, Gold Coast.
These are some of the works I am offering to this dynamic group show.
I will be joining a panel of artists on Thursday 25th March who work across the arts and science to discuss the ‘creative collisions’ that happen at the intersection of Science and Art. I spend a fair bit of time at the museum chasing my interests of objects and natural history. Is the creative mind so different from that of a scientist or researcher? In these short, sharp sessions we’ll learn about the melding of minds to create some truly inspiring outcomes. Join us to explore these unlikely alliances and their creations.
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Despite a last minute covid lockdown, the Summer School went ahead minus a few days.
It was great to be joined by a fun group of enthusiastic students who embraced drawing from life in a sketchbook as we investigated the natural world using taxidermy and drawing outside in the Japanese Gardens at the University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba.
I had the lovely privilege to be commissioned to create a bronze bust of an older gentleman, a retired doctor on the Gold Coast. He sat for me for several 3 hour sittings and I worked up the sculpture in oil based clay.
The resultant portrait was then taken to Chalkos Fine Art Foundry and the long process of going to bronze. I was very happy with the results as were the clients.
This was a delightful commission to produce a bronze pelican for a private client.
about the Drawing to Dis/Possess project and the exhibition now up at Lorraine Pilgrim Gallery, Southport.
The exhibition is open for viewing by appointment with Lorraine Pilgrim Gallery, Southport. ph 07 5532 7170
