Sidney Nolan Trust Residency, August 2022

Hail the holon, the ghost in the machine of that intractable, intermingled complexity, revealing that we are - everything is - in itself complete and part of the whole.

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Ghosts and weeds - an affront to order?

This is a story woven at the Sidney Nolan Trust, at The Rodd (‘the clearing’), during a week’s residency with 8 other artists at the invitation of Jony Easterby in August. Jony had suggested we might focus on two themes from his residency: ‘in praise of shadows’ and 'something to do with plants’. I threw in a weed, and the gardener threw in a ghost. What, I wondered, is the connection?

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