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October 28, 2005
I flew into Brisbane this morning from Adelaide to give a paper on health care reform tomorrow. I return to Adelaide on Sunday, then fly to Canberra on Monday. Brisbane city looked very green as I viewed the cityscape from a taxi window. The rains have returned after a long drought in the last 2 weeks, but the rain is not falling in the catchment area, so the city remains on water restrictions, said the taxi driver.
We had a long conversation about the state of health care in Queensland. Premier Beattie, it seems, is on nose. He promises heaps but delivers little. The Queensland health bureaucracy sucks big time.
I'm currently working in a back corner in Barbara Heath's jewellery studio in Newmarket.
Many of the jewel and token works are designed for 'off the body' and they become tiny or minature sculptural pieces that are aesthetically pleasing and visually intriguing. An example is the work from the 'Love token' series, 1987-91.
Barbara Heath, Skulls Love Token, circa 1988
Two love tokens:
Malcolm Enright
These "sculptures" are often assembled from the scrappy shapes and materials left over from the craft work process.
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