MELBOURNE TRIP November 2010

A train crossing on Charles Street near Merri train station in Northcote on a November evening>

Stylish young ladies in Melbourne using hanging out in a cafe working on a computer

INGLE FARM MURALS

Me at my vernissage public viewing of my artwork at ingle farm primary school, Adelaide.

After 8 weeks of part-time painting and workshops with the children of ingle farm primary school I have finally finished the term and it has been a lot of fun, quite exhausting and a wonderfully educative experience for me and hopefully for the kids too!

I painted 6 seperate panals which replaced the holes left by the old airconditioning units ... each one was about the size of a door and stood at knee hight. I painted 4 on aboriginal themes inspired by two aboriginal stories and the other two panels were based on a Russian fairy tale and an Indian epic. My thanks to all involved especially the Rita Martucci who made it all possible by inviting me and accomodating me and driving me to school and the kids who helped me with ideas, painting, re-enacting the stories and entertaining me! I am looking forward to doing more projects like this in the future!

'By the Pikes Wish', a fantastic Russian fairy tale about a lazy bones who catches a magic pike who grants him is every wish if he spares his life. He does so and then proceeds to magic everything he needs - chopped wood, water, automatic sleigh.... Eventually the Tsar hears about it and invites him to the palace where he drives sitting on his warm oven with the official messenger petrified by his side. He falls in love with the princess and magics her in love with him. The Tsar cant stand the idea of his daughter marrying a lazy villager so he kidnaps them both and puts them in a barrel and drops them in the sea but he magics them out of that mess and they become Tsar and Tsarina in the end and live very very very happily and he even magics himself to being more handsome and cultivated at his wife's request! No worries mate!

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RAMAYANA story

Above: sita in the jungle

Ravana on the rampage with Hanuman jumping in from Top Right stage and Rama

shooting his golden arrow as Sita is snatched in the foreground.

Finished mural!

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Me skipping during recess with some of the kids posing. There are many 'new arrivals', recent immigrants to australia from over 25 countries. Many from Africa, Afghanistan, Iraq, Russia, China and Korea and some SE Asian countries and they are helped intergrate into the Australian culture with native speaking helpers! Here a Sudanese girl and a girl from Congo are hugging a Russian girl as I borrow their skipping rope!

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Kangeroo and Wombat story I

Below: me and one of the nice kids from Congo who was so helpful

and would get angry if i did not let him help me in any way!

THANKS AGAIN TO EVERYONE.. LOTS OF LOVE

JIMBINO VEGAN

(aka Mr Gee)

classical music festival in Dorset... sept 2010

Miss Terburg playing at classical festival in Dorset

Some chick playing guitar at the festival

A dude playing guitar at the festival

HAPPY CHRISTMAS AND WINTER SOLSTICE EVERYONE!

HAPPY WINTER SOLSTICE EVERYONE! MISS YOU ALL AND HOPE TO SEE YOU SOON!

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ABORIGINAL MYTHS AT INGLE FARM PRIMARY SCHOOL no 2 HOW KANGAROO GOT HIS TAIL

HOW THE KANGEROO GOT HIS TAIL

The story of how it got its name is uniquely Australian. When some of the first whitefellas saw this unusual animal hopping about they asked the Aborigines what it was called. The Aborigines replied 'kanguru', which in their language meant "I don't know". Sometime later, the whitefellas discovered what kangaru really meant and then concluded that the Aborigines must have misunderstood the question asked of them. Of course, it is just as probable that the Aborigines understood the question but thought it would be a funny joke if the ignorant Europeans walked about saying "I don't know". *

* A similar communication breakdown/joke led to the naming of Melbourne's moomba festival. Aborigines told organisers that moomba means: "lets get together and have fun." In reality, it means "bum."

Above: Almost finished picture of Kangaroo and Wombat in the storm and in the summer

The first completed mural of Kangeroo and Wombat getting violent,
including a close up below of the upper part of the painting!

Sketches for the Kangaroo and Wombat mural

I told the children the Kangaroo and Wombat stories and they started sketching them with lots of great and inspiring results
Wombat asleep in his warm house by Noemi

Above: Jack's work

Above: ??? work

Above: Maria Hose from Columbia's picture. I loved her birds and
asked her to do the four corner birds in the finished mural.

Fatimah from Afghanisthan. A lovely little girl with little English but great
drawing talent. She did a fantastic job painting all the flowers in the final mural!

Above: My sketches for Wombat asleep in his cosy home and outside with Kangeroo

Abufazr from Afghanistans sketch of Roo and Wombat. He helped me paint the
flowers in the finished painting and was great help and and company!

Malaysia Kuala Lumpur for 3 days

Malaysian school girls at the bus stop

Dude eating in Kuala Lumpur, below is the photo of the same restaurant

sketches in Adelaide

Trees in the Botanical gardens in Adelaide

Drawings with colouring pencils in Belair national part not far from Adelaide