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Tag Archive: poetry

30 May

soft ground

the underfoot sink
a soft musty cotton …
an audio visual poem, soft ground explores the senses and sensation of walking on this leaf littered Earth.
May 30, 2022 at 2:19 pm Leave a comment
21 May

modern housewarming decoration

Upended bank bags act as emptied prayers and are held together with running stitch – commentary on the current market and fast-rising housing prices.
May 21, 2022 at 3:17 pm
09 May

whole

I searched in glaciers and caves
to find the yarn to knit over
the holes in me…
May 9, 2022 at 2:34 pm
21 Mar

before before

I didn’t think to … did you?
I just held back from just falling in …
March 21, 2022 at 12:56 pm
21 Mar

‘learning Auslan’ & World Poetry Day

poem: learning Auslan. There are so many ways learning Auslan positively impacts my life. This is just a small ‘thank you for sharing your language with me’ kinda poem.
March 21, 2021 at 10:46 am 1 Comment
15 Sep

little love song

Lovingly hand-stitched, little love song is a response to the exhibition theme ‘Swatch’.
September 15, 2019 at 3:22 pm
02 Aug

Tram Stop 6 – Way To Go

Some years ago I wrote little concrete poems for a large, very concrete space. They were turned into street signs and pinned in place. They are still there…
August 2, 2019 at 12:07 pm Leave a comment
17 Sep

landing

landing explores themes of uprootedness, connecting and coming in to land.
September 17, 2018 at 3:52 pm
07 Sep

home

“a portal to those intangible things like love and kindness”
September 7, 2018 at 5:05 pm
22 Aug

tumbleweed

A sphere-like mess of tangled betrayal lies at the base of my spine.   A collation of mistrust and misdeeds, those fine strands of spinifex that bind together so easily…
August 22, 2018 at 5:22 pm 1 Comment
12 Oct

leaving

Encouraged not to alter the artwork, visitors are invited to leave with an individual leaf.
October 12, 2017 at 5:18 pm Leave a comment
29 Oct

apology

apology attempts to spin a bunch of love poems into a sorry that was never said.
October 29, 2016 at 1:41 am
19 Oct

waiting at the stop.

our breath exchange is paused. lingering …
October 19, 2016 at 12:14 am
08 Aug

Threads of Industry

  Threads of Industry – Changing Place, Making Place h.ART group exhibition Old Onkaparinga Woollen Mills, Lobethal SALA Festival 2016   works:  All lovingly created with artefacts from the old Onkaparinga Woollen…
August 8, 2016 at 1:49 pm 2 Comments
02 May

I Noted this for you

Didn’t make it to Noted but want a piece, a sense, a souvenir? Enjoy sneaky peeks at other’s mail? my Postal Project has you covered.
May 2, 2016 at 9:36 pm 2 Comments
11 Mar

postal project callout – Noted

Can’t make it to Noted Festival but want a piece, a sense, a souvenir? Are you feeling a little isolated – geographically or otherwise? Do you seek connective threads?
March 11, 2016 at 4:21 am 2 Comments
10 Nov

Flowers for ‘Abyan’

Today, I’m snuffing red rose petals remembering those times before social media when I would write poems not status updates.
November 10, 2015 at 11:12 am Leave a comment
03 Oct

blanket silence

blanket silence is a document designed to be worn when speaking is shut down.
October 3, 2015 at 9:26 pm
03 Oct

dust jacket

Collections shelved, these words they gather dust.
dust jacket explores the decommissioned nature of a work (un)published.
October 3, 2015 at 7:11 am 1 Comment
08 Sep

Poet Tree

A temporal public artwork.

Kings Park Spring Festival 2015
September 8, 2015 at 2:11 pm 2 Comments
21 Jun

(with(in)side) out – in progress

“human you are a cell within the body of the work”
(with(in)side) out is a thought-data experiment, invites you to dissect the uncertainties of your own form.
June 21, 2015 at 7:27 am Leave a comment
19 Jun

enveloping connection

To the very human you,
This project is bare bones seeking.
It’s a small, quiet experiment in reaching out and rethreading connection.
It’s about enveloping the atmosphere of moments, for them to be unwrapped later, somewhere else, by another.
June 19, 2015 at 8:10 am 5 Comments
08 Oct

in.definite

artwork title: in.definite  artist statement: This work explores the relationship between the human right to liberty and fair trial and the current laws regulating the treatment of refugees in Australia.…
October 8, 2014 at 10:14 pm Leave a comment
01 Oct

Cafe Poet residency – The Croydon Store

I had licence to poem up a cafe. Here’s what I got up to …
October 1, 2014 at 3:27 am
15 Sep

curiously omitting

I love …
that poetry never truly achieves its original or specific goal,
but touches upon another deeply and with no remorse.
September 15, 2014 at 8:19 am 3 Comments
31 Jul

Breaking Up

an unfortunate account of my first time in publishing If you asked me how I am feeling right now, the answer would be sad but simple: broken. I feel raw…
July 31, 2014 at 9:19 am 9 Comments
23 Jan

The Poetry of Object 0.1

“Eli creates her own unique language, a ‘poetry of the object’. In their ‘silence’ these pieces speak volumes …” Jordana Lennox
January 23, 2014 at 5:14 am 1 Comment
13 Nov

NEST

NEST residency and showing Sept 2013 For one week a gorgeous room in The Goodwood Institute gave home to the residency project NEST. This occasion offered space and structure to the whispered beginnings of an…
November 13, 2013 at 1:58 pm Leave a comment