by Aldona Kmiec Professional Photography Meire De Mello in Carmen Miranda outfit Meire De Mello is an inspiration. A skilled migrant she has lived in Ballarat for over two years and now works helping refugees. She is also a President of H.O.L.A. Home of Latin Association in Ballarat and if that is not enough, she runs Zumba classes…
ABC Ballarat Lily Partland interviewed participants of We R You faces Ballarat public art project. Great stories from great people – thank you again for your participation, energy and sharing your beautiful stories. The City of Ballarat’s arts and culture unit has been working with various community groups and services on an inclusive public art…
Commissioned work for Central Highland Arts Atlas For My Australia Photo Exhibition at the Backspace Gallery from March 28th – April 14th 2013 Alfred Deakin Place Ballarat I set up a temporary Open Photographic Studio and invited the public to come in to be photographed by me or themselves using a camera remote control. My latest article features…
Commissioned work for Central Highland Arts Atlas A friend of Shiree Pilkinton’s recently said “so you’re Maori-English-Croatian, you speak French and you live in Australia….how did that happen?” Not surprisingly, she is often asked this. It does seem like an unusual mix, but as Shiree points out, there were a lot of Maori-Croatian intermarriages back…
I recently had a pleasure of meeting artist Anu Patel who lives in Bacchus Marsh. Anuradha or Anu Patel was born in Gujarat, India and came to England in 1972, having spent a few years in Uganda, East Africa. After receiving secondary education in Essex, she went onto study BA Fine Art at Lanchester Poly in Coventry.…
Commissioned work for Central Highland Arts Atlas Fine Art Portraits Photography “Say Cheese”!! Nothing worse than those words when the camera is pointed your way. That’s why these words aren’t often in my photography vocab. I sometimes use the same word in my native Polish language which sounds exotic, or wait. Personal connection with the subject is perhaps the only method of capturing…
Commissioned work for Central Highland Arts Atlas New world new opportunities When I first moved to Ballarat in late 2010, I didn’t feel ‘at home’ straightaway. No friends, no family, no ties with the new land and new culture. It was pretty tough. Since then, Australia has just become my second home country and, after leaving…