Protest at Whitehaven AGM

For the polite protest outside Whitehaven AGM against Whitehaven's rude destruction of the Leard State Forest, protesters are asked to wear red and purple, the colours that weather charts are starting to use to forecast the 40+ degree temperatures that are becoming the norm each summer now. 

David and Margaret colour coordinated against Whitehaven's promise of No Future

Pacific Climate Warriors Flotilla, Newcastle Harbour

Yesterday WRVAP artist David Watson witnessed and participated in We are not drowning – we are fighting!, the Pacific Climate Warriors Flotilla on Newcastle Harbour.  see more

Mikaele Maiava from Tokelau

paddling partners - Caitlin Rawding (Australian Youth Climate Coalition) and David

Climate Warrior George Nacewa from Fiji with a message for the current Australian government

Leardblockade Shenanigans

We learned a lot from the #leardblockade shenanigans and hope to be back for more. 

http://www.standwithjono.org/

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

The Stuttering Frog #2

The title of this exhibition is taken from a popular song, a version of which you can see and hear here

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 1^st 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

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