Saturday 17. 05 .14 Had breakfast again at the market and then took a cruise down the Yarra river into the harbour. In the afternoon went to the Immigration museum – again an excellent exhibition.
Travel
Melbourne
Friday 16. 05. 14.Started to explore Melbourne today. Went to Queen Victoria market for breakfast, saw a Piranessi show at the State Library, the Aboriginal galleries at NGV and some installations at the ACCA. Was struck by the similarity of the mark making of Piranessi and the aboriginal bark paintings.
Biennale
Thursday 15. 05. 14. Went to another Biennale site yesterday – Cockatoo
Island. An old convict prison and shipyard. The site was more interesting than the installations! Also did the superb Barracks Museum showing early convict life in the colony.
Sydney encore
Tuesday 15. 05. 14 Today went to Museum of Contemporary Australian Art and the NSW Art Gallery. Both excellent. Also stumbled across the Australian Biennale which was really good too.
Sydney
Monday 12. 05. 14 arrived here yesterday at 7.30 in the morning after 14 hour flight from LA. View of harbour from hotel.
Hemingstone
Monday 31. 03. 14 Started a couple of new paintings today based on my stay with Chris and Viv in Hemingstone, Suffolk. One is their house and the other is St Gregory’s church.
London, West Sussex, Suffolk & mudlarking
Saturday 29. 03. 14 Got back this morning from a week in the UK. Did all the usual galleries plus the Viking show at the British Museum and Treasures at the British Library. Highlights were the Hockney print show at Dulwich and the Richard Hamilton show at the Tate Modern. Both excellent. Other highlights were a visit to Morgan and Oz in Hassocks. Morgan and I hadn’t seen each for ages when we worked together in another life and another country. I also visited Chris and Viv in Hemingstone where I played Newmarket with their grandchildren, Charlotte and Harry, at 8 in the morning before they went off to school!! The above photo shows some bones, a stone and a bit of pottery that I found mudlarking along the Thames just below Tate Modern.
Ryerson Image Centre
Thursday 30. 01. 14 Saw 3 expos at the RIC this morning. The Phil Bergerson show was particularly good.
Cuba
Monday 20. 01. 14 Just back from a week at Cayo Guillermo with Daisy. A very relaxed week in the sunshine. Tough coming back at 3.30 this morning though.
House guests
Monday 30. 12. 2013 Besides our French guests we also had another – Jake. Daisy was looking after him whilst Maryann and Greg were in the UK for Christmas.