Monday, November 24, 2008

Overseas Visitors and McLaren Vale

On Saturday, November 15 we took our friends Noel and Marie and Marie's son Steven and his partner Tina for a trip down to McLaren Vale. We met Steve and Tina a number of years ago at Noel and Marie's and we were really thrilled to be able to show them some of our favourite haunts in McLaren Vale. Steven and Tina are based in London and both are architects with Tina specialising in designing restaurants. And both like their food!

The itinerary for the day was a pre-dinner stop at Samuel's Gorge Winery which has wonderful views of the Onkaparinga Gorge wall and on the other side of the ridge, the valley that encompasses McLaren Vale, Willunga and McLaren Flat.

We then took them to our favourite restaurant, Fino, at Willunga. After about seven or eight courses (one loses count) we headed to Primo Estate (great architecture) and Hugh Hamilton (great views) wineries.



Marie at Samuel's Gorge



Marie taking a photo of Steven and Tina at Primo Estate



The group at Samuels' Gorge. It's a beautiful place



David at Samuel's Gorge



David and Noel at Primo Estate



Tina at Samuel's Gorge



The photo Marie was trying to get above. Steven and Tina at Primo Estate



Steven and Marie at Hugh Hamilton



Steven at Primo Esate



Noel at Samuel's Gorge



Us - taken by Noel or maybe Marie . . .

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Mt Artwork Published



I'm to be published . . . well an artwork of mine, originally seen in the 'Detours' exhibition, Aloft and Aloof, has found its way onto the front cover of a low volume anthology of new Adelaide writing called Small City Tales of Strangeness and Beauty.

This is only the cover concept and it may change and it needs an 'and' between the names of the two editors.

About the book - From the publishers Wakefield Press which operates out of The Parade, Norwood here in Adelaide.

Small City Tales of Strangeness and Beauty
EDITED BY GILLIAN BRITTON AND STEPHEN LAWRENCE
FOREWORD BY BRIAN CASTRO
PB 224 PP 210 x 135 B&W ILLUS ISBN 9781862548343
AU$24.95 NZ$32.90 Anthology/Creative Writing Wakefield Press December 2008
‘In these stories, poems and photographs with Adelaide as its theme, the city sighs with shifting sands. Its mornings swirl with readdressed mail and untended gardens, its afternoons seethe with melting bitumen and its nights crackle with heat, breakdown, the attrition of marriages. The city disgorges stories in the way waste yields coloured glass, not as a collector’s item but as something being halted from passing out of memory.’ - From the foreword by Brian Castro. Contributors include: Nicholas Jose, Jude Aquilina, Rachel Hennessy, Anne Bartlett, Carol LeFevre, Jill Jones, Ken Bolton, Graham Rowlands and John Tranter, writing as Mark Pallas.

A link to the original work:
www.flickr.com/photos/8622063@N04/597925743/

The exhibition it came from:
harveys-exhibitionism.blogspot.com/2007/06/detours-exhibi...