I am amazed at how much I am getting done while seeming to do very little apart from walking talking reading eating and sleeping. Somewhere in that list writing is getting done. All very Tao the art of inaction!

not sure if I am writing or drawing but I am working!

Although the lake lures you from the front of the house I wandered round the back and discovered sitting places and a kitchen garden. Now I have found the bookshelf of hundreds of books of poetry I am making discoveries. I've been particularly impressed with the work of Michael Coady.

Artists' Books Conference at the Centre for Fine Print Research UWE Bristol UK

with 65 attendees from UK, Ireland, Australia, USA, Denmark and Belgium

I've been making myself at home...putting up postcards in the bookshelf and starting to write.

Tyrone Guthrie Residency

Some installation shots of the Night Ladder exhibition by Angela Gardner, Lisa Pullen and Gwenn Tasker now on at Barratt Galleries in Alstonville, NSW. The Night Ladder project is supported by a Visual Arts and Crafts Strategy Grant from Arts Queensland.

All is busy at the moment as I get organised for the big trip away starting 5 July. First stop is an Artist Book conference at UWE Bristol 9-10 July, then an Australia Council residency to write poetry in Ireland for 6 weeks starting 15 July. But first there is an exhibition at Barratt Gallery in Alstonville NSW...and you are invited!

I spent a very hectic but very productive couple of weeks in Canberra at the ANU School of Art, Book Studio printing the text for two artists books due to be published by light-trap press.