studio & residencies

studio journal from magpie hill

My garage studio backs onto a park called Magpie Hill on Ngunawal / Ngunnawal / Ngambri Country in Canberra, ACT. Living in Canberra I feel a deep appreciation for the seasonal shifts of Country & the loud presence of more-than human worlds.

I receive all kinds of regular studio visitors from Antslayer (a magpie) to Dreamer (a blue-tongue lizard).

My friends and I are slowly taking over the apartment block this garage studio belongs to & in the evenings we sit by the park with wine and berry pie (that someone has brought back from the East Lynne gas station on a trip to the south coast) and read each others tarot under the full moon. Sometimes the family of tawny frog mouths that live in the park will also come down and say hello and it feels like a dream sequence from a David Lynch film.

The studio transforms on a regular basis into hair-salons, tattoo parlours, dance-floors and lunch banquets. Find my archive of studio happenings here.

Studio haircut w Sarah. Photo credit: Niichi Hayashi.

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