What a great six months its been so far. After a family visit to Europe at Christmas this year, it was straight into work.Firstly, with Riverland Youth Theatre Company with a creative development for ...  Read More

So Ive been a busy girl with 400 friends in the Dunstan Playhouse foyer! This was a workshop run recently as part of the Something on Saturday program. This workshop related to the show by Circa in th...  Read More

Come Out Festival ( and therefore the Future Garden Exhibition) opens today. I have been a very busy chook lately! Heres a video of an installation of the Airport Exhibit. ......  Read More

The notion of audience engagement excites me. How can you involve audience in the process of the making of the work and the thinking that goes into the work? It’s an opportunity to show community that...  Read More

 At the 'Come Out Festival' we are in the process of creating a Come Out Festival Future Gardens Blog.This year’s brief is for participants to create 'garden plots' from junk, then collectively presen...  Read More

It's not very often that designers get to work on the floor with a company while they are producing new pieces.Such close proximity means the design process can be more 'useful' in helping work find i...  Read More

Patch is investigating the idea of audience participation and it's importance in our contemporary community. There is a wonderful new dialogue taking place about the benefits and techniques for audien...  Read More

Playing with Patch at the moment has opened up a whole new quest for understanding of some of the technologies available for more expansive audience engagement. We are playing with the notion of the c...  Read More

This work on the Come Out Festival has made me investigate the different areas of Recycle Art. This is a notion that I carry very close to my heart. I embrace 'responsible' art making where we create ...  Read More

This is the latest blog on the Come Out Festival site. The participation form has gone out to the schools and already the schools are expressing their interest in making their gardens. Its so exciting...  Read More

This is me experimenting with popular household items which have already become unloved. There is something so happy about a basil kettle or a growing keyboard..........  Read More

“Gardens, scholars say, are the first sign of commitment to a community. When people plant corn they are saying, let's stay here. And by their connection to the land, they are connected to one another...  Read More