News

University of Melbourne has contacted me... I have been awarded the Milan Scholarship to undertake preparatory research studies on the intersection between art and medicine in Milan.

I am so happy I could cry.

Waiting

nervously waiting for some news...

Montalto, Red Hill

Following an early morning bay ride, flirtations over coffee at a local Elwood haunt and a meandering Sunday drive along the Mornington Peninsula, we had an alfresco lunch and local wine overlooking the Montalto vineyard. Afterwards, I wandered through the expansive property of vines, groves, wetlands and grasslands exploring the 10th Annual Montalto Sculpture Exhibition. A beautifully relaxing, sundrenched and inspiring day - just what my soul needed.

A Little Room

The illumination of  the private moments. The dreaming against the mundane. A slow meditation into grief. A Little Room is Contemproary image theatre. One that bleeds movement, text, image and sound.

Weaving together elements of text, image and sound A Little Room is a startling visual and aural performance piece. Writer-animateur Michelle St. Anne has created a work of heightened detail that transports the viewer between the ephemeral world of memory, and the (not so) present.

A Little Room took us into the lives of three women at different stages; sharing the joys and agony of new found love… and of love lost. Caught in a web of their own making, they wait for the spell to break. These are their stories. Stories about the struggle to cope, about temporary instability, and how memory is instrumental in finding comfort.

It's cold and raining outside and I'm cosy inside, going through my draws for my warm old socks. 

William Kentridge

William Kentridge was born in Johannesburg in 1955. His animated films, or 'drawings for projection', explore personal and social conflicts in the context of both apartheid and post-apartheid landscapes, using mainly pastel and charcoal drawings on paper, which he changes and sets in motion by rubbing out and drawing over things. Originally a fine art painter, draughtsman and engraver, Kentridge turned his attention to animation in the late 1980s through his increasing interest in time; its passing, the traces it leaves, the memory that events, beings and objects leave when we close our eyes on the past. What technique besides frame-by-frame animation could better render an account of this phenomenon?

'All of my work is about Johannesburg in one form or another.thematically I suppose I work with what's in the air, which is to say a mixture of personal questions and the broader social questions. Questions this year, questions last year, responsibility, retribution, recrimination, before issues of what histories are hidden in the landscape. Often they're fairly broad questions but generally they arrive through quite a personal or particular starting point.' Interview with William Kentridge

In my...

late teens I completed the Victorian College of Education at Genazzano College.

early twenties I completed a Bachelor of Nursing at La Trobe University.

mid twenties I completed the Graduate Diploma in Advanced Nursing, Critical Care/Emergency at La Trobe University.

thirties I submitted a Master in Nursing (Emergency) at Monash University from Florence, Italy.

forties I am commencing post graduate studies in Art Curatorships at the University of Melbourne.

Wow what a treasured life I feel that I have lived.

Fingers crossed

If I reach forward, I feel as though my fingers will touch the stars.