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Read MoreCongratulations to our poet Chris Armstrong. Her poem, which features in the artwork titled Manggaarla, has now been published in Mascara Literary Review magazine.
Read MoreMark Graham takes ABC’s Bill Wedgewood on a journey to White Bluff and reveals the deeper history of the globally significant forests and coastal landscape of the site.
Read MoreMartin van Veluwen is the sound of the White Bluff Project - the only musician/composer in the diverse team of collaborators drawn together for this unique project. Now you can watch his musical take on all things White Bluff.
Read MoreThe White Bluff Project celebrates the opening of the final exhibition of works at Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery.
Read MoreWhite Bluff headland at Sapphire Beach – has been immortalised in an area-first exhibit at the Coffs Harbour gallery.
Read MoreRay Rixon is the man behind the idea - the main protagonist of The White Bluff Project. It is Ray who formulated the original concept of organic collaboration between multi-disciplinary artists. And it was Ray, who chose White Bluff as the nexus of inspiration. Now, after years of hard work, and despite some frustrating delays and a crippling pandemic, finally, The White Bluff Project is coming to life and, at the same time, coming to its end. We sit down with Ray and discuss the success of the White Bluff Project.
Read MoreA week before The White Bluff Project Exhibition opens and co-organisers Ray Rixon and Sarah Mufford joined ABC Coffs Coast Saturday breakfast presenter Bill Wedgewood to discuss all things art, science and collaboration.
Read MoreThe collaborator who has had the greatest influence, in bringing to life the White Bluff landscape for our artists, is botanist Greg Elks. Earlier in the year Greg sat down with our filmmakers Mark and Megan George to discuss his outlook on science and creativity and his involvement in the project. Here’s some of the highlights of that conversation.
Read MoreTori Donnelly is a young, aspiring artist and one of the most delightful additions to the White Bluff Project team of creatives. Her quiet wisdom and her enthusiasm for discovery and learning has been infectious for all those who have had a chance to work with her. She is influenced by stories, and her indigenous heritage. She is inspired by the biosphere and the ecosystem that is White Bluff.
Read MoreDiscover the post-invasion colonial history of White Bluff and its surrounds. One of The White Bluff Project’s science collaborators is historian Dr Lisa Milner, from the School of Arts and Social Sciences, Southern Cross University. Dr Milner gave a presentation to White Bluff artists at our first ever workshop, detailing the post-invasion, non-indigenous history of White Bluff and its surrounding areas.
Thanks to the resources of the Coffs Harbour Regional Museum she put together a slide show that was both incredibly informative and nostalgically entertaining. Who remembers the tourism campaign ‘Pacific Beautizone’ or the old Campbell house with its sapphire blue roof? Well, read on either way and learn all about this beautizone we now call White Bluff.
Read MoreToday we talk with White Bluff team member Mark George as he celebrates the opening of the exhibition, the knowledge on display the his White Bluff mantra – experiment, experiment, experiment.
Read MoreSculptor Jo Elliott is a unique White Bluff Project collaborator - the only member of the team able to put herself in all three categories of the project’s focus - art, science and community.
Read MoreAs a ceramic artist and teacher, he has long been making objects rich with associations of time and place, memories, and emotions. For The White Bluff Project Phil’s work has explored the rocky surfaces of the bluff in one of the most tactile and hands on approaches to the site of all participants.
Read MoreEpiphanies, resonance, beasts and the collaborative process - this week we meet sculptor John van der Kolk as he discusses all things White Bluff, a place he knows intimately having lived there for more than 20 years.
Read MoreJulie Nash’s artistic focus has been a perfect match with The White Bluff Project. As a visual artist and teacher, specialising in ceramics, her focus has long been on making ceramic objects rich with associations of time and place, memories and emotions. Julie aims to emphasise connections between a specific location and its history, which by extension creates a discourse on environmental issues.
Read MoreMegan George is tasked with the role of creating an ‘inside the artist’s head’ experience of the White Bluff Project. The final product, a 10-12 minute film, will be documentary in style, to be shown with the final exhibition and viewed online. Find out more in this week’s profile piece.
Read MoreAs a local artist and surfer, White Bluff is a place that JP Willis knows well - from the water and from the beach. Here we discover what he is thinking about and planning for The White Bluff Project final exhibition.
Read MoreThis week we meet painter Terri Butterworth as she explores the fluid boundary between mind and brain; imagination and reality. Terri sat down and generously answered our questions about collaboration, expressionism and the White Bluff site. As well as dropping hints as to what to expect from the final White Bluff Project exhibition.
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