Mars Drum
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Artist / Educator |
| Location | Dimboola, Australia |
| Introduction | CURRENT ARTIST STATEMENT "Tis 2013 now, and I'm still hanging with Burka and Ned as the asylum seekers suffer more dismantling of rights and health at the hands of our current government....as our Australian media brainwashing machine works overtime to misinform the Australian voting public that asylum seeking is illegal. Australia is now turning boats back which arrive at our shores, and it is this which is illegal. We are breaking international law. In my paintings, Ned and Burka continue to serve as a reminder to all non-indigenous Australians that we or our ancestors have all been boat people, and that we've all chosen to call Australia our home at some point in the last two 230 years. Whether we are immigrants from the last century or the one before or the current one, which one of us has the right to incarcerate those fellow humans who are still desperately seeking asylum here? I urge those who support this barbaric system we have in Australia to check their own ancestral histories, check the real facts and stats on asylum seekers, and then check their own consciences. (updated October 2013) |
| Interests | An Artful Life. |
| Favorite movies | Updated 2011. Over the last year, my favourite movies... "Exit through the gift shop","Daisies" (again), "Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story", "The Sacrifice", "Rabbitproof fence", "The saddest Music in the World", "Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf", "Exterminating Angel", "McCabe and Mrs Miller"...this is way too hard... then there's DVD series: "The Misfits", "United States of Tara", "Breaking Bad", "Six Feet Under"... |
| Favorite music | Over 2011 I tuned into garagepunk.com playlists and got back into the surf rock n roll as well as secret agent stuff. |
| Favorite books | "Dirty Money" by Matthew Benns is the most shocking book I've read this 2011 year. It's about Australian Mining, ie. greed, politics and murder. It should be on every Year 12 Australian Studies student's list of essential books, but won't be while Gina's steering the country toward a head-on collision with Nature. "Nomad" was the most insightful book I read in 2010."I like you" and "The Slap" were my favourite books in 2009. "A Secret Country" by John Pilger blew my head off when I finally got to read it in the early 90s. "Caddie, the story of a Sydney Barmaid", "1984", "Madame Bovary", "The Concise Oxford Dictionary", "Night of the Rats", "The Outsiders", "To Kill a Mocking Bird" and "Roget's Thesaurus" were my favourite books as a teenager. "Where the Wild Things Are" , "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" "The Wizard of Oz" and "The Enchanted Wood" fascinated me hugely as a child...... And "Winnie the Pooh" was the book that finally enticed me to stop screaming and get out of the car and enter the school building on my very first day... |