Refuge(e) Exhibition CPM Member Heather Matthew

Harley, a rescued Greyhound is also a refugee and looking for a home. He had a wonderful time at the opening of Heather's terrific exhibition Refuge(e) and every CPM member should look in and see the works.
Michael took this picture of Harley and Me (nothing to do with that sickly movie), as we walk through his installation at the entrance of CPM that set the scene and supported the theme of the exhibition

The Edge - a development

I've been working on small A5 or 15 x 10cm postcards about the destruction of unwanted Greyhounds once they finish racing, or deemed too slow. Over 5000 just disappear in NSW, and only 1% Australia wide (there's 20,000 Greyhounds) are re-homed. Most don't survive between the ages of 2 - 4 years. In the past, Greyhounds were dropped over the edge of cliffs south of Sydney, which took me on the path of The Edge. I thank Michael for the connection, I've just been making art to see what happens.

Refuge (e) - Member Exhibition Heather Matthew

See more of Heather's artwork and installation at CPM Art Space opening on Saturday 10 April 2010 at 3 pm and continues until 6 June 2010. CPM's first edition Zine "On The Edge" will be launched. Support CPM by buying a copy only $10.00, a collector's item.

Group Lunch at Grafton Regional Gallery 20 March 10

A great photo by Graeme Eggins of everyone enjoying lunch in the courtyard at the Grafton Regional Gallery.

zen edge

"when we are experiencing nonverbally we are walking the razor's edge - we are the present moment. When we walk the edge the agonizing states of separateness are pulled together, and we experience perhaps not happiness but joy. Understanding the razor's edge (and not just understanding it, but doing it) is what Zen practice is. The reason its difficult is that we don't want to do it. We know we don't want to do it. We want to escape from it."

"When we walk the razor's edge we're not important; we're no-self, embedded in life. This we fear - even though life as no-self is pure joy"

From "Everyday Zen" Charlotte Joko Beck

"EDGE" wall at CPM

As you can see what started on Australia day at Coolangatta has grown. Several artists have offered their 'edges' and really got us asking interesting questions. Just when we think it's taking shape as a single work someone with a different style or take on the idea creates a detour and causes us to think outside the edges of the our comfortable'box'. This is an exciting part of collaboration. But how do we amalgamate all these 'takes' into a cohesive, understandable whole? Or do we? Are we any closer to the edge?
What's your 'edge'? What do all our 'edges'have in common? Are 'edges' to be feared? Is there an archetypal symbol, colour, etc. for the edge?
The wall at CPM is big. Come and collaborate.

EDGE and the void

From Mental Health, Art and Transpersonal Experience 2

THE EDGE

"Existentially and energetically, the edge is the state which we may approach intentionally or quite unconsciously in which there is a risk of being radically other than we are typically.
This can describe situations where physical death is imminent, social death is close (annihilation of the social self), the void is encountered, and all situations of entering a zone of *ineffable potential............................"
Dr. Ralph Locke


*ineffable- indescribable- incapable of being expressed in words.