DocArt Festival Thursday, 8 July, 2010 Putting my somewhat old and battered Medical hat back on I participated in the recent DocArt Festival which had a most positive outcome. Have a look at DocArt   By the book Monday, 15 March, 2010 I have just been informed that my work has been published in a book originally printed in London in 2006 but re-printed in March 2010. It is titled: "50 Distinguished Contemporary Artists in Glass". Not sure why I didn't know about it earlier given that we live in the age of instant communications.   Exhibitions Tuesday, 2 March, 2010 Architectural Glass Design Australia will present an exhibition of large panels suspended in the foyer of Federation Square in Melbourne in September. I have been selected to submit one of the twelve entries out of a field of 27. It will be a major work of 2.5 square metres and hang in a metal frame 4.5metres above the floor.   RANAMOK Glass Prize 2009 Tuesday, 7 July, 2009 My cast glass block titled 'CAPRICORNIA' is touring in the current 'RANAMOK Glass Prize' making me one of the 33 finalists from 105 entries. My last foray into this competition was in 1999 when it was known as the RFC Glass Prize. The exhibition will travel around the country: details available from www.ranamok.com   Large Architectural Commission Thursday, 4 September, 2008 The Wolper Jewish Hospital in Woollahra, Sydney commissioned a fused glass 'donor' wall comprising 84 individual panels. In time, each will be inscribed with the name of a donor to the hospital. The project is over ten square metres in area situated in the entrance foyer. It will replace a previous commission, the Tao of Medicine which has been re-located to a new lounge. This will be the third time I have been invited to design and build an art glass work for this institution.   Genesis in Chicago Friday, 18 July, 2008 EB Smith, founder and patron of the Smith Museum of Stained Glass Windows on Chicago's Navy Pier, has commissioned a panel of fused glass for the collection. It is the first piece from an Australian glass artist to join the contemporary collection. I am most honoured to have been asked to make a piece to hang alongside those of my mentors, such as Poensgen, Shaffrath, Shreiter, Klos, Buschulte and the other post war modernist pioneers of contemporary stained glass with whom I studied in the 1980s. The piece specifically requested is an interpretation of my Genesis: The First Dreaming design. It was exhibited at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry under the title: "Genesis: The First Discovery".   The Chapel of St Francis at Garangula Friday, 11 July, 2008 Ten years ago I completed all the windows for a Chapel in rural NSW. It has finally been blessed. In conjunction with World Youth Day, H.E. Cormac Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor, Archbishop of Westminster officiated. During the service he made an interesting observation regarding my windows, of which I had not been cognizant. He said there is only one other Chapel in which the whole Christian story is told, from Creation through the Old Testament to the story of Christ and the final Judgment and that is the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican. That's as close to Michelangelo as I am likely to get.   Angry Art Friday, 24 August, 2007 I came across a two page glossy advertisement for a plasma television which claimed that if you bought one you would never need 'another' work of art. This really made me angry, but if it is only art when it's on television I figured I might as well go with the trend. This is my offering.   Fonts Tuesday, 28 February, 2006 I made a new Giant Kiln formed Glass Bowl to function as a Baptismal font for a Church in Brisbane. This is now the third such piece I have made and according to some research done through the Vatican, my glass fonts are the only ones of their type in the world.   Medical glass Tuesday, 19 July, 2005 Nemaline myopathy is an unusual genetically transmitted muscle wasting condition. This unfortunate condition has been the inspiration for an artwork commissioned for the Children's Cancer Institute at the Children's Hospital at Westmead. The design is based on microscopy of muscle fibrils and the DNA anomaly which causes the condition. This has been an opportunity to apply my knowledge of matters medical to my art and make something of beauty from an unpleasant reality. Have a look at more medical glass here   Career Change Monday, 13 December, 2004 An article has been published in the Medical Journal of Australia about my transition from medico to glass artist. Feel free to look into my soul.   Larapinta Series Monday, 24 February, 2003 Imagine a Mountain Range worn down by the elements over an incredibly long time. The dust settles and in turn becomes rock which is lifted by massive Geological forces to make a new Range. This is twisted and folded, eroded and worn and is what we now call the West McDonnell Ranges, near Alice Springs. Here runs an ancient river, possibly the world's oldest which the indigenous people call Larapinta. This series is inspired by that landscape.

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