Retired life : 2022

Sunday, December 25, 2022

Oh, Christmas Tree, Oh, Christmas Tree growing silently on the side of the road...

Thought I would share a favourite Christmas memory from a few years ago... Imagine if you can it is December, I am pregnant with Belinda Gordon, and have been visiting my good friend Jen Burnie in a catch up before Christmas. She doesn't have a Christmas Tree and we have just had a conversation regards getting a real Christmas tree when I remember that there was one growing on the side of a nearby road.... Jen is very pregnant too... and we decide to go and get said Christmas tree growing on the verge. Our respective husbands are horrified and reckon we will get done for theft of a Christmas tree, and that they would have to come and bail us out..... (How negative of them) I suggested that if that should happen they should bring the newspapers or a television crew, cos, if we got caught, 2 x pregnant women taking a tree to brighten the Christmas for little children if it made the news I was sure that there would be lots of donations forthcoming to make Christmas for the family. It did take us a little while to get the tree and it was actually small.... but it did the job, and gave us both a lovely memory...

Friday, May 6, 2022

Recycled Art Exhibition Salamanca Gallery (Hobart) 2019

While working at Richmond Fellowship in Hobart (supported accommodation and Recovery Services -Mental Health) our clients had some artwork displayed in a Recycled Art Exhibition at Salamanca Gallery in Hobart. Exhibits came from schools, disability services and individuals, it was a very interesting display as can be seen from these photo's I recently discovered on my phone gallery.

I particularly liked this one featuring old spectacles turned into bugs... made me think of looking at them through a microscope.

I also liked this shower me with love, and the time traveller

I was amazed at the work and detail in these I love sculptures using rusty machinery.

I do tapestry from time to time and felt that this really captured the exhibition as contestents scoured the various tip shops around Hobart to find items to include in their displays.

These two would have been great at a bakery in Oatlands which has a display of film stars and film paraphenalia on display at all times. (even their public toilets have a dressing room feel about them)