So things have been happening i have been very busy but also felt i have had a rare breathing space to take stock and so I am now planning to get funky with latex!

Ok well not so funky as you might imagine, but I have made friends with a very talented puppet maker down my way and we are planning a joint project to create some truely fantastic Puppets that should challenge us both. I am hoping biddley the bunyip might also receive some much needed attention from this relationship.

I have been busting my arse to get into some art prizes, but no luck yet.
I have been planning a new major project for the end of the year about spirituality, cultural difference beauty and I am hoping i might be able to enter it for next years blake prize but we will just have to see how it all pans out. I had a similar time frame set out for the spiders conception and that took three years to finish the first time and it is still not finished. I am unfortunatelly from the school of thought that an artwork is never finished if i can still get my hands on it there is always something i want to fix or continue on with. It is very frustrating as many more of my works would be finished now if i would only let sleeping dogs lie.

so what else? I am just feeling generally inspired. To do what? It does not matter!
I challenged myself recently to approach sculpture in the same way that i have seen some deviants approaching what they call a speed paint and making lots of sculptures in an evening and seeing which ones made the grade it was quite effective and i will post some pics of the results once i finish the last few. It has helped me shake the idea that i have to agonise over my work i would like to be more prolific but as people keep telling me i have to sell some first but why not make em and flog them all off when i am dead and gone.

There used to be an Irish man work in our foundry he told us of an old sculptor from Ireland that had said when he goes his works are to be buried with him if they didn't want to pay for them while he was alive they sure as hell weren't getting them once he was dead! I like his style and i wouldn't rule out doing it myself at this stage.