Riverfront Gallery, Denmark

I was pleased, this week, to be invited to hang my work at Riverfront Gallery in Denmark, Western Australia. As the name suggests, the gallery is located right across the road from the magnificent Denmark River. The gallery space has been expanded in recent years and...

Woolorama winners

I was very pleased to hear today that two of the paintings I entered into this year’s Wagin Woolorama have won prizes. Rural Morn 30x25cm oil on board. © Andy Dolphin SOLD Rural Morn placed first in Class 1 – Oils & Acrylics. (This painting had a...

#CensusFail – the ABS explains

As the Census fiasco rolls on… UPDATE: And with somewhere less than half the expected Census forms submitted a week after Census “Night”, the saga seems set to continue for quite a while yet… Hopefully I won’t have to make too many more...

#CensusFail 2016 – hashtag cloud

With the Australian Census now pretty much declared an international embarrassment, a farce, a fiasco and an exercise in unwarranted bravado, the larrikin in me couldn’t help itself. On Tuesday morning the ABS chief blamed the system failure on “an...

Election 2016: Front page caricatures

I forgot to mention this. As Production Manager at the Great Southern Weekender, I was asked to illustrate the front page of the newspaper for the 2016 federal election. Unlike my previous election illustrations, which were produced after election day, this one was to...