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Gold leaf, inherited materials and newly made jewellery come together in a reflection on memory, value and the things we choose to wear.

There is something particularly moving about seeing a sculpture you made more than twenty-five years ago being cared for and given a new life. My two large bronze sculptures, Lola Black and Lola Pink, have recently undergone conservation at Canberra Museum and Gallery, where they are installed in the garden at the entrance to the museum. The photographs sent to me by Assistant Curator Vanessa Roth show the process beautifully: the bronzes being heated, their colour restored and the surfaces protected before being returned to the garden, which itself has been substantially replanted and developed over the past year. The...

Every so often I rediscover a story that reminds me why I became an artist. Recently, while researching my family history, I came across old photographs, newspaper cuttings and memoirs that revealed more about my great grandmother, Charlotte Hewish. As a young woman, Charlotte was an aerialist. Together with her sisters she trained in Paris before touring Europe, Russia, Japan, America and Canada. Depending on where they performed, they appeared under different names, including The Onetti Sisters in Europe and the Patterson Troupe in America. These remarkable women performed astonishing aerial routines, often without safety nets. My grandmother later wrote...

Specialist one-to-one art sessions for adults with SEND in Deal, Kent, focused on building confidence, independence and genuine creative achievement.

While sitting in my gallery, I looked up and found the inspiration for my sculptural spheres right outside — Deal’s historic Time Ball Tower. Its daily drop of the black sphere mirrors the quiet rhythms of my exhibition Celestial Ancestors, where stone, light, and time converge.