Many of us are sad to hear of the death of Irish singer-song-writer Sinead O’Connor this week. Understandably, the world has showered accolades on her for her music and particularly her voice. But ironically, she refused to be a pop star; she refused to cash in on her natural beauty. For her, music was simply …
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Footscray Cathedral
I have the opportunity to prepare an entry for the Maribyrnong Council’s art exhibition for local artists, “Show Your West Side”, due June 16 2023. Here’s what I’ve submitted and the story behind the process. Cranes building the new Footscray Hospital dominate the Western skyline. To me they are spires speaking of human aspiration. Sculptures …
The Start of my Bleach Period, 22 years ago.
Embrace of the Cosmic Christ. 2000×1420. Acrylic and bleach on canvas. 2000 I had been chaplain to Flinders University for three years when veteran Italian artist Orlando Tisato visited Adelaide to participate in the 2000 Adelaide Festival of Arts. I went along to a seminar to hear him. I was sitting toward the back, diagonally …
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Transcendence
I was invited to create an altarpiece for a church. I decided to emulate painting as meditation which I had experienced when Italian artist Orlando Tisato held an open-air event to paint a piece for a Catholic school chapel as part of the 2000 Adelaide Festival. My painting, Transcendence, was undertaken at a Sunday morning …
Plastic Pollution?
Our Environment Minister, Tanya Plibersek, was on the radio this morning, having just returned from an international meeting to see if there could be global agreement on eliminating plastic pollution. I had almost forgotten that I had written a song about this, fifty or so years ago. It was inspired by a speech by environmentalist …
Father Bob
I did not know Fr Bob Maguire. I never met him.But when a State Funeral was offered for him, I immediately made plans to go. I wanted to honour him; and particularly his absolute commitment to the poor and needy. On the way to St Patrick’s cathedral yesterday morning, the irony of a memorial service …
The Lost Antidote
Have you stopped watching the TV News? Are you, like me, getting exhausted by the reports of crisis upon crisis at home and across the world; or fed up with the superficiality of banal police reports of crime and car crashes? Are you as perplexed as I about the obscene gap between rich and poor, …
Family Ties – a conversation with Verena in Greece
March 7. 2023 Geoff: Very sad to hear of the train disaster. Verena: Thank you Geoff. It is a nightmare as it shows that NOTHING is working here. Reprint of Facebook Post Dear friends abroad, how can | tell you? Slowly,as we overcome the first shock, | am trying tofind explanations for you, who don’t …
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Do We Need Evil?
The 7 O’clock News this morning had me jumping straight out of bed and heading to my computer. The Avalon Airshow is on again after Covid. Almost 800 companies are taking part in Avalon 2023, which organisers say will be the biggest in the 30-year history of the event. “This year, there will be 56 …
Compulsion
So we are in the season of Lent. If Lent is about giving things up (which some people seem to think it is), here is a list I spotted in a friend’s blog that gives me pause for thought! “The compulsive pursuit of perfection becomes impatient with weakness, angry and judgmental. The compulsive pursuit of compassion becomes swamping and …