Friday, July 25, 2014
Saturday, November 16, 2013
LEAVE IT IN THE GROUND Opened by NSW Greens MP Jamie Parker
Opening of LEAVE IT IN THE GROUND
by Jamie Parker MP (left with chocolate frog )
with Juliet Fowler Smith WRVAP founder (right))
David Watson, artist and chief editor of The Stuttering Frog,
introducing Sharyn Munro
Sharyn Munro, author of Rich Land, Wasteland
Friday, November 15, 2013
LEAVE IT IN THE GROUND - the artwork
LEAVE IT IN THE GROUND at Articulate project space
David Watson Checkout + Ransom Note (with Denise Corrigan)
2013 powerpoint
David Watson Mining Rash [The Drip] 2013
inkjet print on aluminium
Juliet Fowler Smith The Area of Affectation 2013
installation, table, dowel, seats & found objects
Margaret Roberts Titled 2013
ply, hinges, live space/visitor-interaction
Noelene Lucas, Rivers of Coal 2013 3-channel HD video
Christine McMillan Sludge 2013
coal sludge in snow-domes on shelf
Sue Callanan Going, Going, Gone 2013
hessian bags, stencil paint,coal, wood, lights
Ian Milliss Viburnum with Coal 2013 inkjet print
Noelene Lucas Living with Coal 2013 single-channel HD video
above Toni Warburton coal clay water wood - some processes and relationships 2013.
People are invited to submit words, images, patterns, marks from which the artist
can select to draw onto clay beakers. Beakers will be glazed, fired and available
for sale for $30.00 each on Sunday 1st December.
Neil Berecry-Brown Social Licence 2013 inkjet print
David Watson Fuse 1:100,000 maps showing proposed 2014 walk
following power grid from Rozelle to Hunter valley source
Ralph Snowball New Lambton pit head, Adamstown 1897
inkjet print (2013) from an original Ralph Snowball glass negative,
courtesy Norm Barney Photographic Collection,University of Newcastle
photos Chris Ward and Margaret Roberts
Thursday, November 14, 2013
The Stuttering Frog is back in the Hunter
Delivering The Stuttering Frog #2 in the Hunter region:
left: David Watson with The Stuttering Frog,
centre: Wendy Bowman at 'Rosedale' in Camberwell
right: Sue Callanan, Singleton alumna
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
LEAVE IT IN THE GROUND to be opened by local Greens MP Jamie Parker, at 7pm tomorrow night.
LEAVE IT IN THE GROUND will now be opened tomorrow night, Friday 15 November at 7pm by Jamie Parker MP for the local seat of Balmain.
The previous arrangement for John Kaye MLC (who has also opened other WRVAP projects) to open LEAVE IT IN THE GROUND had to change when he became no longer available.
WRVAP is pleased and honoured to have our own local member and the only Greens lower house member of the NSW parliament to open its current project, LEAVE IT IN THE GROUND.
Sunday, October 20, 2013
WRVAP presents LEAVE IT IN THE GROUND
LEAVE IT IN THE GROUND opens at Articulate project space on Friday November 15 at 6-8pm.
LEAVE IT IN THE GROUND will be opened by Greens MP John Kaye on Friday 15 November at 7pm, and will then be open Friday - Sunday, November 16 to Dec 1, 11am - 5pm.
LEAVE IT IN THE GROUND will show the work of artists Neil Berecry Brown, Sue Callanan, Juliet Fowler Smith, Noelene Lucas, Christine McMillan, Ian Milliss, Margaret Roberts, Toni Warburton and David Watson, made in protest against the fossil-fuel industries and their role in the growing crisis of global warming.
exhibition planning by Noelene Lucas
The 2nd edition of WRVAP's The Stuttering Frog will be launched at the opening of LEAVE IT IN THE GROUND. As well as texts and images by the artists, it will contain writing by activists Glenn Albrecht, Julia Mullins and Colin Imrie, Julia Sheppard, Sharyn Munro and Chris Ward, as well as a coal map, some Nuggets and David's Very Crossword:
We are indebted to graphic designer/layout artist Tony Fuery who is generously donating his pre-press skills to produce both editions of The Stuttering Frog: tony@parslowart.net. It will be available at LEAVE IT IN THE GROUND and its pdf is attached above.
Also, one hundred new Bimblebox books by Maureen Cooper will be available at the opening of LEAVE IT IN THE GROUND to take in exchange for donations in support of the court case against the Alpha mine.
Other slogans we could have used - from images of recent protests sent by Sharyn Munro:
Sunday, June 2, 2013
Moolarben Coal Mine applies to be allowed to pollute Goulburn River when it rains moderately.
Since arriving back from the Drip last week, we have heard from Julia that Moolarben Coal Mine (MCM) has just put out on exhibition yet another Mine Modification – ‘MCM optimisation Mod 9”. She said it is applying to significantly increase the open pit size of the Stage 1 approval. This involves taking out most of a native vegetated hillside comprised of 171 hectares of native veg (including EPBC Grassy Box Woodlands) in the Moolarben Valley.
A stand out concern is the increased risk of downstream water pollution into the Goulburn River from these massive pits adjacent to the Moolarben creek (upper tributary of the Goulburn)
– MCO are applying for a ‘get out of jail clause’ to their Environmental Pollution License – so they can discharge with limits whenever we receive moderate train fall over 5 days period
“However, Condition L2.6 in the proposed EPL states that the limits specified in Table 2.9 and
Table 2.10 do not apply when the discharge occurs solely as a result of rainfall measured at the
site which exceeds 44mm of rainfall over a consecutive 5-day period”.
This clause is an admission that the only way to manage the proposed scale of open pits is to have free rein to pollute the river whenever moderate rain falls.
In the first 3 months of 2013 MCM would have been able to discharge at least 3 times under these non- conditions.
Submissions to the NSW Department of Planning and Infrastructure are due by 14 June 2013.
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