Bimblebox 153

Time to pick up the pace after what has been a week of staying in and the days dragging. 

Took the hubby to see this magnificent Exhibition in Beaudesert called Bimblebox 153 and Bird Reflections. We were the only people there with our masks on. The exhibition is about Bimblebox, a Nature Refuge near Longreach which has for years been threatened by coal mining. 158 birds are featured here and each bird is given an artist, a writer and a musician.The project began in 2013 and 450 artists worldwide have contributed to the works, the music and the recordings of the birds to draw attention to the plight of these birds in Central Queensland. The mediums used were very varied from watercolours, linocuts, screen printing, ceramics and ironwork. It is an immense curating feat which is not only admirable but will serve as a record of birds in this area. It is moving, beautiful and well worth a trip to Beaudesert to see it. It is on until the 5th of February. 

Brown Honeyeater Madeleine Williams 

Common Bronzewing Peter McLean 

Emu - Head in the Clouds- Clare Cowley 

Crested Bellbird - Sandra Pearce

Zebra Finch -Kate Hudson

Yellow billed spoonbills - State of Grace - Timothy Gowcott 

Red browed Pardalote - Brenda Dyack

Brown Falcon - Beatrice Carlson

 

Judith Wrights book of Bird Poems comes to hand with thanks to Verity Mansfield, and I quote from the poem Reminiscence : 

I was born into a coloured country 

spider webs in dew on feathered grass 

mountains blue as wrens 

valleys cupping sky in like a cradle,

christmas- beetles winged with buzzing opal,

finches, robins, gang- gangs, pardalotes 

tossed the blossom in its red streaked trees. 

Percy by Colleen Lavender.

Heartening stuff in our otherwise pandemic life.