Essays and teaching
This is a talk I gave in August 2005 to 3rd year landscape architecture students at the University of New South Wales to expand their understanding of what hand-cut stone pieces might contribute to their future landscape designs.
I took 'succession' as my theme because I was speaking to the annual conference of Regional Botanic Gardens Associations and I wanted to link the thought of artists and their work changing slowly over time with the idea of botanic succession. I also wanted to consider the 'apostolic succession' of lettercutting artists, an unfashionable idea in some contemporary art circles, where novelty is the driving value.
Brief thoughts about my time at Hill End and the other inhabitants of that artistic village.
Reconciling lettercutting and the nomadic life
For my Chinese friends and students
I have prepared the following short discussions for my lessons and talks in China in 2006: