Even though I am back home from a one month art residency in Alice Springs, I am still posting about the exhibition I had at the end of this independent research project. I am enjoying revisiting this grand adventure, and hope you are getting something out of my multiple posts about the trip! I can’t wait to get into the studio and explore this research further over the next year or so and then exhibit more refined and finely wrought work.
Olive Pink is an inspiring historical figure in the botanical world of Mpartntwe Alice Springs. I started writing letters to her while I was there and will continue to do so as it has been fruitful! I warn that the first letter is melodramatic as I fell off my bike which bought a bounty of emotions to the surface that I shared in this letter.
Bougainvillea was in flower and looked spectacular on my daily bike rides. Coincidentally, I was given a stack of old magenta folders by Ellen at Central Craft and used them to investigate and craft some of these beautiful structures.
Jodie Goldring 
Hi Jodie
I really enjoyed reading Air – EI4! I love how you’ve expressed your experiences and emotions in such creative ways through your art. Your handwritten letters to Olive Pink on the sepia treated paper evoke a strong sense of past and present time and your artistic response to the bouganvilleas are beautiful. I’m so pleased that your time in Alice has been so enriching. Thanks for sharing.
I’m going up the Mark’s shed tonight. Be good to see you there if you’re going.
Gayl x
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Thanks for your comments Gayl! Lovely to hear…