A video of the official opening of the exhibition including a speech by the Australian Ambassador to Sweden Finland and Latvia and a short speech in which I describe the history and intent behind the exhibition and the artworks.

A video of the official opening of the exhibition including a speech by the Australian Ambassador to Sweden Finland and Latvia and a short speech in which I describe the history and intent behind the exhibition and the artworks.

Sometimes the world conspires to be kind to you!! I was in the middle of explaining my artwork to a couple who had just walked into the gallery. They were enthusiastic and that tends to make me more loquacious. Suddenly, the woman quite rightly interrupted me and said “My husband is the publisher of Photo Review and he won’t tell you that because he is not prone to self -promotion.”

Surely, I must be the only artist in Australia who has been offered a 3-month residency/exhibition on the Russian border since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began. It is in the Mark Rothko Arts Centre, Daugavpils, Latvia (formerly Dvinsk, USSR) and the birthplace of Mark Rothko. I was originally offered this residency in 2020 after his daughter, Kate Rothko, Chair, the Rothko Foundation, had seen my work in 2018 whilst being exhibited in Riga.