'To Hold an Ancient Story Told of Amour'

I was happy to have a work included in the ‘Love Collage’ - group exhibition, at Lot 19 from 1st Nov - 17th Nov.

I created the Oil Paint and Illustration as Collage work for the show, ‘To Hold an Ancient Story Told of Amour’. (71cm x51 cm)

I created this painting while thinking about self love as a form of healing, thinking about how self love benefits not only myself but everyone and every living thing around me. The more I am able to bring about love for myself, the more whole and of service I am able to be. The drawings around me are the beings, memories of experiences, seen or unseen, that assist me in my process of healing and self actualisation. Some of the drawings depict many stories and are filled with layers of meaning and food that have gone to enriching my experience of living in this lifetime, in this body. ❤️MAY LOVE HEAL❤️

Dark Sky Dreaming

I'm delighted to have two poems included in this beautiful Anthology about the night sky as seen from Regional NSW, edited by Merrill, Findlay

“When you look up at a midnight sky, what do you see—mottled stars and a full Moon trying hard to compete with the street lamps for your attention? You might be situated in a city, or its sprawling suburbs, where the ever-present urban glow tends to keep your gaze horizontal, missing out on the beckoning mysteries of the Universe.

This Skywriters anthology will change all that. Through the eyes and creativity of people who write about south-eastern inland Australia, we’ll redirect your vision upwards to a brighter Moon, the subtle presence of nearby planets, the cosmic spectacular of our Milky Way galaxy and those celestial bodies even further away.

You’ll find inspiring stories, poems and essays by a great diversity of Australians responding to what some have called the ‘Inland Astro-Trail’, which connects rural and remote communities with world-class astronomical observatories such as those at Parkes, Siding Springs and Narrabri. Some skystories are “literary”, others intensely personal, but all are guaranteed to widen your horizons—upwards!”

A Spell of Poetry and Song at Nati Frinj Biennale

I am appearing at the Nati Frinj Biennale this year at Natimuk Soldiers Memorial Hall, 3.30- 4.30pm on Sunday 3rd Nov.

Ive a new instrument so i look forward to adding song among the poems.

Love Collage Group Exhibition

Beautiful Folk!

I've been creating a work for this 'LOVE Collage' Group Exhibition.

This is an invitation to the show, if you wanna come gander at what has grown out of my heart and through my finger tips.

I haven't exhibited any art in Castlemaine for ages so I'm excited to be included in this show. I shall by exhibiting my new collage and oil work titled: ‘To Hold the Ancient Story Told of Before’

Opening from 5-8pm Friday 1st November .

Gallery Hours: Friday, Sat, Sun 11-5
1st-17th November at Lot 19

McShanags Road Castlemaine..

Leslie Thorton "Grandparents House Woodford, Queensland", 2010

Reading at Manning Clarke House

I will be guest poet of Hazel Hall at Manning Clarke House on Thursday 22nd August, 7 for 7.30pm. 11 Tasmanian Cir. Forest, ACT

$10

I am sharing the podium with Denise Burton and Laurie MacDonald.

At the beautiful Wicken Fen, Norfolk, U.K.

Poetic Voices

Last year i was invited by Anthony Fisher at Enfield Poets, London, to submit a spoken poem to their Poetic Voices collection.

This is my poem:

'Whence' in The Poetry Review

I am honoured to have my poem, Whence, go to live in The Summer edition of The Poetry Review alongside such stellar poets whom i greatly admire, including Jen Hadfield and Mary Ruefle.

I can’t wait for my copy to arrive at the post office so i can walk down to collect and on the way home, sit where i wrote the poem and tell the trees and grasses and the kangaroos all about it.

Arwork by Marion Wadi

Enfield Poet of the Month

I was invited by Enfield Poets to be their June Poet of the Month. THis entails have a A1 poster of my poem displayed in the window of the Dugdale Theatre Centre in Enfield, London.

And this is a link to the previous Enfiled Poets of the Month

Black-Throated Finch

Black-throated Finches are endangered and their ecosystem is under threat from the proposed Adani coal mine in QLD.

Theses precious and irreplaceable creatures are our canaries in the coal mine and they re just holding on by a feather.

This is my drawing of one of these beauties, as a part of the !000finches project, to add voice to their existence..

If you would like, you can support and donate to the Wangan & Jagalingou Traditional Owners Family Council who have been at the literal coal face for the past eight years, fighting Adani over Land Use Agreement.

Below is a the link to the Wagan and Jagalingou Family Council.

Absence Embodied

I have a poem included in this free online edition of Westerly. Link to the download is in the button below.

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International Women's Day – Open Mic

Friday 8th March

11-2pm 2019
Women of Mount Alexander sing, tell stories and recite poetry at a highly entertaining and educative International Women's Day Open Mike with Felicity Cripps, Trudy Edgley, Meg Nightjar, Allis Hamilton, Maggie Jackson, Elizabeth Scanlon, Cate Mercer, Kavisha Mazzella and surprise guests…

A family friendly event.

All Welcome $5 suggested donation
Snacks and drinks by Friends Of Castlemaine Library
money raised will support FOCAL Women’s Prison Literacy projects.
Venue kindly supported by Mount Alexander Shire Council
PA kindly donated by Castlemaine Artists Market
Thank you to all Musicians have donated their time.

Poster drawn and created by Kavisha.

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Bimblebox 153 Birds

This excellent project is still touring the country.
I have a poem, White-necked (Pacific) Heron in this project, and created sound impressions of the Diamond Dove, in the project.

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Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing 2019

I am honoured to be a finalist in this prize alongside some amazing artists, judged by the brilliant John Wolsely. Here is the invitation to the show, if you are wanting to go and have a squizz.

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A Suitcase Full of Eels

Today my little Eel drawing made its way back home. It's clustered in here among 137 other Eel illustrations by 71 artists. Published by Guillemot Press, in conjunction with Plymouth University, U.K. to raise awareness of the plight of the magical and threatened Eel.

Link below to the Eel site:

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Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing 2019

I am a finalist in the $25,000 Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize, judged by the brilliant John Wolseley.

This is my shortlisted work, 'Nantiberry Spring, Warraweena', which I created using oil pastel and pencil on paper, en plein air in the Flinders Ranges in 2018.

The work will be shown among the other finalists from 2nd March until 29th March at the Adelaide Perry Gallery, ‘ The Croydon’, Corner Hennessey and College Streets Croydon, Sydney.

Artists Statement:

My artistry reveals itself through various mediums, from drawing, painting, music and poetry. I am driven to express my impression of the blessing of life into works that can feed the hearts and minds of the viewer, listener and reader. 

I began this work on the final day of a drawing trip to the Flinders Ranges last Autumn. I often set out around my home in central Victoria, packed with a boiled egg, thermos and hat, to perch on the earth and transpose the vista about me onto the blank page. So to find myself creating within the majesty of the Flinders Ranges was a humbling and thrilling experience.

For this work I settled myself on the grey, blue, and purple pebbles of the drying creek bed, around the corner from the seeping spring, where wallaroos dig among soft gravel to lean on their elbows and drink from their freshly dug pool of water.

While I drew my impression of this awesome waterway, that reveals itself in layer upon layer of shale, I watched a family of wild goats traverse the far horizon, making their way down to the life-giving spring while above a magpie called in the still, enormous air.

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Chase of the Light

Here is 'The Creel'. It's an anthology published by Guillemot Press, U.K. to raise awareness of the endangered European Eel. I am thrilled to have my work included among such fine company:

An anthology of contemporary poetry about eels, featuring Matt Barnard, Simon Barraclough, Rachael Boast, Eavan Boland, Traci Brimhall, Andy Brown, Sarah Cave, Jenna Clake, Claire Collison, Hugh Dukerley, Andy Fentham, Jerome Fletcher, Imogen Forster, Tim Gardiner, Stephen Grace, Ann Gray, Allis Hamilton, Sarah James, Fawzia Kane, Michael Longley, Jane Lovell, Rupert Loydell, Talia Marshall, Andrew McNeillie, Sam Meekings, Edwin Morgan, Paul Muldoon, Elizabeth O’Connor, Caitriona O’Reilly, Alice Oswald, Jeremy Over, Astra Papachristodoulou, Robert Peake, Rachel Plummer, Wendy Pratt, Susan Richardson, Robin Robertson, Elisabeth Sennitt Clough, Ben Smith, Danica Soich, Nic Stringer, Sneha Subramanian Kanta, M. Stone, Alex Toms, Gareth Writer-Davies, Marc Woodward, Tamar Yoseloff.

This is a very limited edition. Only 50 copies are available individually, printed on Mohawk Superfine with Fedrigoni end papers, with cover art by John Kilburn.

Here's to the eels and their ecosystems!

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Eels

So eels are not having the easiest time. There is this project in the U.K. between Plymouth University and Guillemot Press to publish some books around the topic of eels to raise awareness of their situation.

My friend would tell me of the eels her family watched every year near Ballarat, in the local creek that flowed all year round. Now that creek is dammed and no longer flows, thus no more eels travelling along their ancient pathways. (Regenerative farming methods have solutions for much healthier ways to manage water on properties that value and protect water and build up healthy ecosystems and allow for creatures to do their natural thing) . Anyway, I've an eel drawing and a poem in this eel project. This is my drawing towards the aid of the mysterious and majestic eels.

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PoetiCas reading Sunday 18th November 2018

After being one of the co-conveners of PoetiCas, Castlemaine’s monthly poetry reading, for the past four years, I am this month our guest poet.

PoetiCas:
featuring ALLIS HAMILTON.

Sunday November 18th

2pm for a 2.30 start

at The Maurocco Bar

4 Templeton St

Castlemaine

Open section as usual,

limited to 3 minutes per reader.

$5 donation at the door includes a raffle ticket
All welcome!

Allis Hamilton creates poetry, art and music. Her poems appear in anthologies and journals such as The Poetry Review (England), Australian Poetry Journal, Overland, Southerly, Plumwood Mountain, The Caterpillar (Ireland), and ‘Flightpath’– an anthology about migrating birds, published by Hallowell Press W.A. She has new work coming out in Eyeware (England), and in an Eel Anthology published by Guillemot Press, U.K. Allis was a guest poet at the Summer 2017 launch of the Poetry Review, London. She released a self-published site-specific collection, 'Cry of the Curlew – Poems of Pinchgut Creek', in June this year and has created a limited edition chapbook of poems and drawings, ‘Storm Music’. www.thestorytellingtent.com

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Pop-Up Art

I have a few small drawings in this show.

If you are in the area, drop in to have a squizz.
Exhibition Dates:

2018 Exhibition touring and viewing:

Riddells Creek Station
Thursday 8th – Monday 19th November

Castlemaine Station
Wednesday 21st – Thursday 29th November

Bendigo Station
Saturday 1st – Monday 10th December

2019 Exhibition touring and viewing:

Bendigo Marketplace
Tuesday 15th January – Tuesday 12th February
116-120 Mitchell St | Bendigo

Arnold Street Gallery
Thursday 14th February – Tuesday 19th March
189 Arnold Street | North Bendigo

Castlemaine State Festival | Open Studios Program
Thursday 21st March – Monday 1st April
Castlemaine V/Line Station | Castlemaine

 

A travelling feast of miniature art works from a collective of Central Victorian Artists

Small art works, curated and presented to a high standard, will ‘pop up’ at different destinations along the historical railway line from Melbourne to Bendigo. This group show is taking art to the people, allowing broad public interaction with local art and arts practice.

A group show with a BIGGER purpose

Artists will be selected according to curatorial policy, developed via community consultation, with the aim of building a professional arts marketing cooperative. This model allows local artists to leverage individual effort into collective group initiatives, sharing resources for exhibition, presentation, marketing, communications, and distribution of their work.

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Cry of the Curlew

Cry of the Curlew is a poetry collection anchored in and around Pinchgut Creek on Wiradjuri country. Allis Hamilton fetched poems from the wings of birds, wrestled words from the mouth of the wind, notated the movement of grasses into verse that will lead you to the hills of her home.

 

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