Cockatoo tailings
Left overs from the cockies stripping a local gum
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1 comment June 7th, 2010
Dancing with tomatoes
Tomato salsa
As seen on the dining room table.
The Star
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3 comments April 26th, 2010
Spare chair
'Spare chair'
At last I’ve processed some of the photos of the chair I designed and made for the Alumni exhibition last year. The spare chair is lightweight in mass, design and use of materials. It is designed to be easily carried out onto the deck or anywhere it’s needed.
detail
Material is Tassie Blackwood (Acacia melanoxylon) and dyed nylon monofilament (ie fishing line).
The backrest supports are cantilevered through the seat frame and anchored to to back stretcher.
detail of back support
The supports are not glued to the seat frame so that the seat is free to flex to absorb stresses.
3 comments February 14th, 2010
Peewee chorus
We have a breeding family of Peewees (Grallina cyanoleuca) in our back yard. The colloquial name comes from their call. In the peculiarly Australian way they are also known as Magpie-larks as they are related to neither magpies nor larks. Our pair currently have three young.
When feeding the chooks yesterday I noticed them all sitting on the overhead cables so raced inside to get my camera and long lens. I was lucky enough to catch them being feed.
All shot on a Canon 7D with a Canon EF 70-200mm.
3 comments February 7th, 2010
Just finished!
Finally my chair for the ‘Chairs of the Alumni’ exhibition is finished. You will have noticed the lack of the promised progress reports. Just too much on I’m afraid but I have the photos and will publish some ‘making’ posts in weeks to come.
'Spare' chair - decent photos coming soon!
The exhibition which runs in parallel with the George Ingham Retrospective opens this Friday. Details are here. I’ve put up a skeleton website about George, the book about his work which has just been published and the two exhibitions here. I will be adding lots of material from the book and exhibitions over the next month or two.
Woven with dyed nylon mono-filament
Stay tuned.
7 comments September 29th, 2009
