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Bullroarer

The Dunkeld Museum and traditional owners of the Gunditjmara Nation and the Djab Wurrung have worked together to research and register the Dunkeld Aboriginal Object Collection...
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White Eyed Crow

The White Eyed Crow is now called the Australian Raven and often lives in areas where Hooded Plovers occur. Enter an arts-based conservation competition in The Wing Thing...

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The Queen of the Pacific, Patsy Wu

In the 1960s and 1970s Moomba included a Pacific region contest...
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Hooded Plover Habitat

Izabella Woinarski's painting was a finalsit in the The Wing Thing arts-based conservation competition. You can enter the current round now in The Wing Thing story...

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CV News Blog
The Wing Thing a finalist in the Victorian Coastal AwardsWednesday, 2 May 2012
Last Thursday we attended the Victorian Coastal Awards for Excellence at Museum Victoria and are proud to report that BirdLife Australia was a finalist in the Education Category for their Beach Nesting Bird Education Program, which incorporates the Culture Victoria … Continue reading
Linked Open Data – Melbourne WorkshopTuesday, 24 April 2012
Mia Ridge being in town provided the initial impetus to organise a Melbourne LODLAM event. On April 17th apx 35 people from a range of sectors, including memory organisations, tertiary institutions and government departments gathered at the Melbourne Museum. It … Continue reading
MUSEUMS IN SOCIAL MEDIA & THE WEBMonday, 16 April 2012
It was terrific to attend the inaugural Museums Australia (Vic) State Conference, meet people from across Victoria, put faces to names and hear about numerous exciting projects. Here are the links and references cited in my talk in the Social … Continue reading
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Wangaratta Textile Project
Following the ThreadWednesday, 31 August 2011
Well, I was full of good intentions….. A funny thing happens when there is no deadline any more. I imagine that this occurs in the case of many artists, not just me, but I’m so much less focused and easily … Continue reading
Gathering the threads again.Wednesday, 13 July 2011
Having finished my piece I was feeling very motivated to go back and follow the “threads” that I started exploring in my development process. However, there was a slight hitch in that I had an impending solo exhibition on a … Continue reading
Final StepsSunday, 22 May 2011
For the past couple of weeks I’ve been working non-stop on constructing the table runner and hand stitching details on it. I abandoned you all for a while but there wasn’t much to say except I was stitching and sewing together the … Continue reading