Or so I keep telling myself. This is a work-in-progress photograph from a piece that will be featured in The Australian Tapestry Workshop's Fertile Ground exhibition, featuring artists from their Artist in Residence program in 2014. You could say the work - completed after my residency - was a reflection on my time at the Workshop but also about the transition into the limbo of being a professional* artist. It jumbled altogether the ideas I have been working through since com

Finally posted this mind blurt. I took up residency - artistically, not quite squatting - at the Australian Tapestry Workshop from February to middling March this year. Having completed a weave internship there last winter as a part of my final years studies, they kindly welcomed me back. It's my first experience as an artist in residence and it's been quite an eye-opener. Having spent the last however many years of my life always having some sort of formal education or work

From the end of January through February, I have been accepted as an Artist in Residence at The Australian Tapestry Workshop. This is pretty exciting. I did a (technically) month long stint of work experience there last year as a part of my studies. I say technically a month, as during the time I had a heavy flu. Even under the influence of influenza I recognised what a brilliant space it is to work in. An exert from my statement of proposal further explains this: "I’m planni