I loved my time at VCA ( Victorian College of the Arts) but I mainly did installation and sculptural works there. This was great but I found at the end that I really missed mark making with paint and pencils, etc so got right back into it. Some of these works were made while I was living in Tokyo. Some of them are from when I was living in Brunswick, Melbourne.
As well as being incredibly good looking the male Regent Bowerbird is also artistically talented. They are known to mix a muddy greyish blue or pea green “saliva paint” in their mouths which they use to decorate their bowers – nests, like little houses on the ground. Regents will sometimes use wads of greenish leaves as “paintbrushes” to help spread the substance, representing one of the few known instances of tools used by birds.
No wonder the one that hangs around near here has 3 girlfriends.
Solo Exhibition at the Murwillumbah Community Printmakers
Judy Oakenfull Art 