newsevents

Return tohomepage

The Milk Factory Gallery

Summer Group Exhibition

January 2012

open 7 days
31 Station St. (rear)
Bowral NSW 2576

Arboreal
Macquarie University
26 Oct-15 Dec 2011

I've been invited to contribute some paintings towards Arboreal
a mixed media exhibition at Macquarie Uni.
Along with artworks by Fred Williams, Hans Heysen and William Robinson
there are also video installations, photography and some amazing fossils.
www.artgallery.mq.edu.au

Interior Journeys
30 July- 30 Aug. 2011

click image for more details

Landscape as the Beloved

In conjunction with The Milk Factory Gallery my friends: poet & essayist Mark Tredinnick
& author, cultural critic Deborah Bird Rose and I will be presenting an evening over dinner:
Landscape as the Beloved. In which we will be discussing landscape, poetics and our changing environment in this age of extinctions.

The dinner event kicks of at 6pm and seats are filling past.
ph Links House for bookings: 02 48621077
dinner booked out!

WILD DOG DREAMING: Love & Extinction
my friend Deborah Bird Rose's new book will be out this March 2011.
It's a beautiful and deeply moving piece of writing. Congrats Deb!

My friend Mark Tredinnick's first poetry collection has just come out Oct 2010...
and it's already into it's 2nd reprint!
...and he's won the WA Premier's Prize.

Also out this November 2011 Australia's Wild Weather.
Words by Mark with a beautiful array of Australian photography.

3 States
a solo exhibition of paintings & pastels from
The Northerth Territory, NSW & South Australia

11 Feb - 11 March 2010
Weswal Gallery
Tamworth

Thanks to all those who attended my latest exhibition
RED EARTH COUNTRY
in Bowral, June 2009.

Thanks also to Shirley & Jim Becke
of the Milk Factory Gallery.

Extra thanks to the folks of the Southern Highlands.
You made me feel at home and your comments
and feedback are greatly appreciated.

To those who purchased my work: may you enjoy my pictures
as much as I enjoyed creating and presenting them.

Sadly my brother Ed & I lost our Mother.
Philomena Lucia Hoeft nee Praetzel
passed away after a long illness
Friday 24th April 2009.

Aufwiedersehen Mamma!

THE BLUE PLATEAU

My friend Mark Tredinnick's new book is out in June '09 with UQP.
Look out for him at the Sydney Writers Festival.
Visitors to my show in Blackheath will recall Mark's opening address and his words from The Blue Plateau which accompanied my paintings.

I've had the honour of reading several early drafts of this book : you're in for a very special journey!

my cat George purr-using The Blue Plateau

World Literature Today

I have 2 pieces of artwork featuring the Blue Mountains in World Literature Today Magazine (special green issue - out July 2008)
http://www.ou.edu/worldlit

They are accompanying an essay by Mark Tredinnick - Nursery of Fire
which is an excerpt from his forthcoming book The Blue Plateau

from the Sydney Morning Herald

SPECTRUM July 21 2007

Thanks to everyone who attended the

opening night 21 July and special thanks

to my friend Mark Tredinnick for his wonderful speech.

To read Mark's speech see his site at