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The Village Markets.

On 4 December, 2011 · 4 Comments · In Events, Fashion

With the runaway success of markets like Finders Keepers I’m so pleased to see smaller weekly and fortnightly markets popping up. When we moved down here I wasn’t sure what kind of arts and crafts scene was going on, but after visiting the weekly Village Markets at Burleigh Heads State School today I’m [...]

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The front cover of Fat Ladies in Space, depicting a fat space lady battling with a space octopus as it tries to take hold of the space ship. Lots of markers and pens surround the colouring book.

Fat Ladies in Spaaaaace!

On 19 September, 2011 · 3 Comments · In body acceptance

Have you heard about Nicole Lorenz‘s colouring book, Fat Ladies in Spaaaaace?! When I first saw one of Nicole’s drawings posted on Marianne’s blog, I knew I wanted to colour in her fabulous space heroes straight away but I had to wait until the book was ready for the [...]

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On my walls

On 6 June, 2010 · 4 Comments · In A Beautiful Life

Considering that I’m an artist, I have an embarrassingly small collection of art by other people in my house! The above framed drawings were bought a little while ago, but I’ve only just gotten around to finding frames for them. The print on the left is by Catherine Campbell, and the original [...]

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Fanciful Friday

On 7 August, 2009 · 9 Comments · In Fancy

Surprise! It’s Friday! I really have no idea where my week went, but I suspect you’ll find it under a pile of eraser leavings and pencil shavings. I keep a tin full of them, I’m not even kidding. As for the picture, I wanted to share just how fancy [...]

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The Illustrators at KILN – starts this Friday night!

On 28 July, 2009 · 2 Comments · In Events

I just picked up three of my beautifully framed pieces from Bizarre Framing and dropped them into KILN Gallery for The Illustrators show, a group exhibition I’m so chuffed to be part of. I saw Nigel Buchanan‘s gorgeous giclee prints lined up against the wall, and [...]

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Look how fancy I am!

On 5 June, 2009 · 5 Comments · In Art

I’ve said it before, I’m very lucky to know Kate O’Brien and even luckier that we can muck around in her studio. We ended up going for a 1980s portrait studio vibe replete with vaseline screen filter and bad perm. [...]

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My Talented Friends – part 3

On 13 May, 2009 · 4 Comments · In A Creative Career

In this exciting installment I divulge five more names from my list of the world’s up and coming awesome folk. They dabble in writing, modelling, designing, entrepreneurship, art and being pretty cool.

Heidi – [...]

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My Talented Friends – part 2

On 29 April, 2009 · 1 Comment · In A Creative Career

I present to you four more of the most awesome people around, including a musician, burlesque star, jewellery designer, writer and photographer! They all have my seal of approval ;)

Sharon Walker – jewellery designer for

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My Talented Friends – part 1

On 19 April, 2009 · 1 Comment · In A Creative Career

I have a lot of talented friends, and I only realised it when I sat down and thought about writing profiles on all of them to share with you here! I have friends who are photographers, artists, designers, models, performers, publishers, writers, musicians and activists. [...]

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Audrey Kawasaki’s Drawing Room show

On 10 November, 2008 · 2 Comments · In Art

I thought I’d post some of the work that was in the Drawing Room show which was curated by Audrey Kawasaki. I was really really excited when I first heard this show announced, because three of my favourite Australian artists were included.

Lilly Piri – Cherry Bees

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