So, I had Friday off and took a mini-break to go to Hobart to visit Mona. It’s a new private art gallery which has just opened there, the brainchild of David Walsh, gambler, curator, genius. Words will fail to do any of this justice. If you were to imagine what the very best art space…
Luckily, a well placed silence is a great thing. The lack of posts here haven’t been deliberately crafted, just a result of making things rather than writing them. It’s been lovely. I was in Adelaide on Tuesday, just for the day, doing some planning for the February event that Jonny Baker and I are curating.…
I spent yesterday at Narana with a group of people from the United Aboriginal and Islander Christian Congress [UAICC], working on some communication and education resources for some presentations they will be doing next year. Have I mentioned I love my job? When i got home last night I read this book review on Jonny’s…
Yesterday and today have been reading days – the plan was to read a chapter or two of half a dozen books, just to start my thinking in a few different areas [i’m still on a very steep learning curve with this new role!]. Instead, i’ve found myself absolutely engrossed by Karen Armstrong’s latest book,…
If i were called in to construct a religion, I should make use of water… – Phillip Larkin, Water I went to church on Sunday for a baptism. It seems to be baptisms that get me back to church at the moment, and I can’t think of a better reason. I’m a big fan of…
Mark Vernon says everything best. I’ll let the article stand on its own before i editorialise – except to say that i did go back to church yesterday, for a baptism… it was really lovely to be there, and it confirmed i don’t want to go again…
I came across Laurence Weiner’s work for the first time while in the UK – I saw the piece below in the Tate St Ives, and the fact that I could still remember the piece, and quote it in its entirety without effort two weeks later led me to buy this book that then doubled…
Paul Emerson Teusner has emailed to let me know that Dr Heidi Campbell is going to be in town in October, and that Paul’s organising a dinner with Heidi in Fitzroy, for people interested in a conversation about religion, culture and media. I think it will be an amazing opportunity… For those of you [like…
For all the wrong reasons, it’s been a memorable return home… long story short, my apartment was flooded out while I was away. We only discovered it when i opened the door after the 24 hour flight, to be greeted with mould, stench and the detritus of the upstairs neighbours’ lives… So I’m back at…
I hate travelogues, so I won’t bore you with the fact that I’m on a train from Manchester to London. Or with photos from idyllic english locations. I have drunk tea with… an installation at the Eden Project This next blog post was going to be an exploration of what we’re doing next year, but…
