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On the Wings of a Godwit
A musical collaboration to take you to the ends of the earth and back...
On the Wings of a Godwit
A musical meditation to the ends of the earth and back...
Presented as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival
Multiple dates and times between November 18-29
Suggested Price: $15, tickets available here
Duration: 20mins
'On the Wings of a Godwit' is a 20-minute, immersive, online guided meditation of music, birdsong and spoken word that takes the listener on a journey from the continental shores of Australasia to the tundra of Siberia. We invite you, the listener, to become a migratory bird, overwintering between your summer homes, following a flyway path that has been travelled for thousands of years.
Stop, listen, breathe, and take flight on this journey created by renowned Australian artist Kate Gorringe-Smith and award-winning musicians and soundscape designers the Bowerbird Collective, Simone Slattery (violin) and Anthony Albrecht (cello). Further information available at www.bowerbird.productions/godwit
Supporting the East Asian-Australasian Flyway Partnership and BirdLife Australia.
A musical meditation to the ends of the earth and back...
Presented as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival
Multiple dates and times between November 18-29
Suggested Price: $15, tickets available here
Duration: 20mins
'On the Wings of a Godwit' is a 20-minute, immersive, online guided meditation of music, birdsong and spoken word that takes the listener on a journey from the continental shores of Australasia to the tundra of Siberia. We invite you, the listener, to become a migratory bird, overwintering between your summer homes, following a flyway path that has been travelled for thousands of years.
Stop, listen, breathe, and take flight on this journey created by renowned Australian artist Kate Gorringe-Smith and award-winning musicians and soundscape designers the Bowerbird Collective, Simone Slattery (violin) and Anthony Albrecht (cello). Further information available at www.bowerbird.productions/godwit
Supporting the East Asian-Australasian Flyway Partnership and BirdLife Australia.
2020: Strangest year ever
First Australia was hit by an unprecedented bushfire season, and then the Covid-19 pandemic hit. The year and its plans, not to mention the world, has been turned upside down, and we are trying to live as close to normal as possible, planning cautiously and continuing to make our art.
I hope you and your friends and families are safe and staying well. I hope that, if you need them, the government subsidies have reached you. I hope that social media is working good for a change to help you stay connected and that with the easing of restrictions life is feeling a little more normal.
In the lockdown I got to know the tree in my front yard particularly well, as well as certain walking routes close to my home down where the Merri Creek meets the Yarra River, just north of Melbourne's CBD. The tree in my yard is a flowering Eucalyptus that has pale golden gumnut blossom. It is much beloved by European bees, and all through the summer and much of the autumn if you stood very quietly underneath it you could hear the constant low hum of the bees, busy in its branches. Alongside the hum were the squawks and calls of the birds that also came to drink the blossoms' nectar - Rainbow Lorikeets, Musk Lorikeets, Little and Red wattlebirds. The tree is always full of life.
Image below: 2020, 'Rainbow and Musk Lorikeets', Linocut on Ecoprint.
I hope you and your friends and families are safe and staying well. I hope that, if you need them, the government subsidies have reached you. I hope that social media is working good for a change to help you stay connected and that with the easing of restrictions life is feeling a little more normal.
In the lockdown I got to know the tree in my front yard particularly well, as well as certain walking routes close to my home down where the Merri Creek meets the Yarra River, just north of Melbourne's CBD. The tree in my yard is a flowering Eucalyptus that has pale golden gumnut blossom. It is much beloved by European bees, and all through the summer and much of the autumn if you stood very quietly underneath it you could hear the constant low hum of the bees, busy in its branches. Alongside the hum were the squawks and calls of the birds that also came to drink the blossoms' nectar - Rainbow Lorikeets, Musk Lorikeets, Little and Red wattlebirds. The tree is always full of life.
Image below: 2020, 'Rainbow and Musk Lorikeets', Linocut on Ecoprint.
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At the moment my main work is my ongoing project The Overwintering Project. The aim of the project is to connect artists and communities with there local migratory shorebirds and migratory shorebird habitat. The main part of the project that I administer is the Overwintering Project Print Portfolio and it is an open call for artists in Australia and New Zealand to make a print in response to their local migratory shorebirds and habitat and send two to me - one to exhibition in ongoing Overwintering Project exhibitions and one to sell to raise funds for BirdLife Australia's migratory shorebird research and conservation programs. So far I have about 300 prints in the Portfolio and we have raise $23,000 for shorebird research! Click the link above for details or you can email me at overwinteringproject@gmail.com. The deadline for prints for the upcoming Victorian exhibition at the Mornington Peninsula Regional gallery is December 31 2020.
UPCOMING OVERWINTERING PROJECT EXHIBITIONS
Redland Art Gallery, Cleveland Qld
25 October - 6 December 2020
Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Tas.
18 December – 7 February 2021 (*)
Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Vic.
6 March – 23 May 2021 (*)
Signal Point Gallery, Goolwa SA
June 2021
Kingborough Community Hub, Kingston, Tas.
5 – 16 July 2021 (*)
(* Exhibitions marked with an asterisk are Core exhibitions - i.e. exhibitions that include the Overwintering Project Print Portfolio.)
Redland Art Gallery, Cleveland Qld
25 October - 6 December 2020
Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Tas.
18 December – 7 February 2021 (*)
Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Vic.
6 March – 23 May 2021 (*)
Signal Point Gallery, Goolwa SA
June 2021
Kingborough Community Hub, Kingston, Tas.
5 – 16 July 2021 (*)
(* Exhibitions marked with an asterisk are Core exhibitions - i.e. exhibitions that include the Overwintering Project Print Portfolio.)