“Vietnam – land of contrasts.” While first uttered as an attempt at guide-book cliche among or group, the phrase proved apt as we travelled along the Southern Coast from Loc An to Mui Ne. Leaving Ho Chi Min City we followed the familiar path of highway lined with stalls, hammocks, small businesses and litter, a…
“Never get out of the boat.” Apocalypse Now references are in particularly poor taste, but hard to resist while in a small boat on the a tiny branch of the Mekong delta. Despite the delta’s claim to be an easy place to live, where a man can fish for an hour and catch enough to…
After the regimen of our air travel to Vietnam, the near-chaos of Ho Chi Min City traffic left a distinct impression. The enduring image is of a mother zooming through traffic on her scooter with one child riding pillion with a satchel under his arm and another, no more than two years old, on the…
This post is about my most recent exhibition – a series of six works inspired by the LIFE Magazine book The World We Live In. In 1954 the US Magazine LIFE brought out an ambitious series of twelve articles under this title in consecutive editions of the magazine. The articles used majestic illustrations painted by…
I’ve had great fun these past months preparing work for a group show put on by the Eastern Regional Alliance (ERA – get it?) of Local Councils in Adelaide. It’s a travelling group exhibition that will visit seven council galleries over the next year. It opens on Sunday 4th August at the Prospect Gallery. My…