Africa at Majorca and limited edition book

An exhibition of blown-up spreads from my book about Africa is on now in Centre Place, Melbourne, in the Platform gallery windows either side of the entrance to the Majorca building.

It's open 24 hours from 6-28 May 2011.

There is also a limited edition of 50 copies of the book. Some are for sale at Sticky Institute in the Degraves Street Subway.

Come and have a look!

Supafriquey

Went to Africa and got back the other day. Here's a page from my travel diary. This is when we met Mustafa in the Manyango Pub in Mto Wa Mbu, Tanzania. Each time we saw Mustafa, he opened his bottle of purple fanta with his teeth.

Mustafa is Mto Wa Mbu's ambassador for brushing your teeth thrice.

Long White Clown

Caroline chatted to me on the phone last night from her bean bag in Te Waka A Maui.

Hernan

I said merry christmas and happy new year.

COOKBOOK north/south

COOKBOOK north/south is a choice project that was co-ordinated by Lily, Shona and Kristy from Wolfgang, Shlomo and Max. It has recipes, stories and pictures from Melbourne chefs, writers and artists, who each describe an aspect of their experience of food and culture in a particular suburb of Melbourne. The type was letterpress printed at the Melbourne Museum of Printing and the pictures are all linocut. Here's my picture of Oly McLeish.

Chris by Joanna / Chris by Chris

Funny old night up at Gertrude Contemporary art opening

Friday 12th Nov, heavy rain. There was a normal art opening going on downstairs in the gallery. In the top space upstairs there was a nice party with some older people ballroom dancing to Taiwanese pop music. You could learn how to dance to that kind of music with one of the experts if you asked them, or if they asked you. There was home made party food which was made by Michael the host, and some other people, and Michael walked around with a tray and offered it to the guests. In this picture you can see Michael in the late stages of his long thank you speech. He didn't have any notes and he had a lot of people to thank. This is a picture of him trying not to forget anyone.

Jess

Tender Centre

Sunhill Police Station, that's the station I'm from

Chris, Monica, Smithy and Chris

by Chris O'Brien

Chris and I made a TV together with a scene in it from a police programme called Rush, made in Victoria, with Chris in it as a police officer. The other officers in the car are Joanna, Josh and Rachel O'Brien. There is an old crow called Paul going "Creak" and the house you can see in the background is Edmund the house.