by jennilivins | Mind Drawing, Mind Drawing Stories, Writing
What a wonderful afternoon at my delightful friend’s book launch at the Belgrave library! Here she is reading one of the poems from the book. Yvette Stubbs reading The Jingle Jangles: Enjoy. Oh! And if you would like to see Yvette in action, come to the Dan...
by jennilivins | Mind Drawing, Mind Drawing Stories, Writing
I know I recently said most of my writing of late has been applied to my arts business but when inspired I have penned a few first drafts of children’s stories and oodles of poems. This post is about the latter. The back part of my notebooks is reserved for creative...
by jennilivins | Four leafed clover, Mind Drawing, Mind Drawing Children's Stories, Mind Drawing Stories
NaBloPoMo – Day 18 Another behind the scenes post: The Mind Drawing Children’s Stories exhibition was delivered across the State and is now installed at Blarney Books and Art in Port Fairy (as seen on day 12 https://www.minddrawing.net/nablopomo-day-12/ ). What is...
by jennilivins | Four leafed clover, Mind Drawing, Mind Drawing Children's Stories, Mind Drawing Stories
Another peek behind the scenes of an arts practitioner’s life: In an earlier post this month I mentioned I’ve been spending a large proportion of my writing time lately, writing exhibition, funding or residency applications. I’m pleased to let you...
by jennilivins | Four leafed clover, Mind Drawing, Mind Drawing Children's Stories, Mind Drawing Stories
Q. Why do you hide a four-leafed clover in your Mind Drawings? A. For fun! I enjoyed looking for the hook in Jeff Hook’s cartoons in The Sun newspaper when I was a child. I want others to have the chance to seek something in my work. Q. Why a four-leafed...
by jennilivins | Mind Drawing, Mind Drawing Stories
I leant something interesting at the Shakespeare Symposium at the University of Melbourne, where we heard lectures from Dr Sarah Olive from the University of York; and from the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham: Dr Erin Sullivan, Professor John Jowlett...
by jennilivins | Mind Drawing, Mind Drawing Children's Stories, Mind Drawing Stories
This post is about knowing your goals and staying focused even when opportunities come knocking. If you’re a capable person who likes to help others, sometimes it is difficult to say, ‘no’. I recently received another request. Without revealing...
by jennilivins | Mind Drawing, Mind Drawing Children's Stories, Mind Drawing Stories
Here’s the final behind-the-scenes peek at working in public and community engagement as I prepared for Mind Drawing Children’s Stories Exhibition. After drawing at venues in Casey and Yarra Ranges, my last stop was the Cardinia Cultural Centre in Pakenham,...
by jennilivins | Mind Drawing, Mind Drawing Children's Stories, Mind Drawing Stories
Today I’m trying something new – a link to the video I posted on YouTube to support my application for an Australian Artist’s Grant to use towards creating the book of Mind Drawings that everyone has been … er … strongly encouraging me to...
by jennilivins | Mind Drawing, Mind Drawing Children's Stories, Mind Drawing Stories
Continuing the behind the scenes peek at my preparations for the Mind Drawing Children’s Stories Exhibition, here is a look at SECAN’s gate 6 community collaborative drawing, produced on the Open Studios weekend as part of the City of Casey’s Winter...
