Santa’s riding a heatwave this year. Stay safe, stay cool and have a brilliant 2024.

Lynn's flowers under blacklight
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Dreams of Verdant Decadence

I have an installation opening on February 2, 2024 at Umbrella Contemporary Arts, Townsville, in the downstairs Vault Space. For the past few months, I have spent most nights binge watching TV and making plastic flowers. Plastic flowers sound awful, I know. For decades, I have doodled flowers. I call them my fantasy flowers. Some of them have turned into sculptures. None of the flowers in the show are copies of real flowers. They are hand-coloured, ephemeral works. Some of them will fluoresce under UV light, others won’t. My friends know not to expect to see before the afternoon. I often see the dawn… and then go to bed. Everyone knows I’m a tad eccentric.

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Writing About Place Workshop

This workshop is one of the many fabulous events occurring as part of PUNQ

@Pop-Up North Queensland – PUNQ https://www.facebook.com/punqfestival

$50 per person | 2hrs | 8 participants | 18+
2-4pm Sunday 1 August 2021

Discover how words can reveal hidden insights into ‘place’ when you pick up a pen in this writing workshop. Beginners will be guided by Arts Townsville’s Lynn Scott-Cumming to write through the eyes of a character and demonstrate meaning and establish details.

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Draw the Little Stuff Workshop

This workshop is coming up as part of the fabulous Pop Up North Queensland arts festival in Townsville. See more at: @Pop-Up North Queensland – PUNQ https://www.facebook.com/punqfestival

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Time passing in the phases of the moon

Already there is less than a fortnight before most of the prints in Moon Phase: Chasing Transcendence are consigned to a drawer in my already art-cluttered house. It closes on the 23rd May. If you haven’t yet been, I hope you can make it in to Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts to have a look.

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Poetry & Print

Over a three month period this year, I wrote over thirty poems as an adjunct to my print exhibition, Moon Phase: Chasing Transcendence. I’ve inserted one page I designed with both the image and the accompanying poem. When writing I tend to use a phrase or line or even just a word and run with it to see where it takes me.

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Caught having a cuddle

After having been photographed numerous times at the opening of Moon Phase: Chasing Transcendence, I thought I could sneak a quiet cuddle in with my very supportive partner and fellow artist, Graeme Buckley! I was wrong. This is one of the many photos of the pair of us once our friends spotted us. This photo was taken by Rhonda Stevens, a wonderful artist who has as acted as an unofficial mentor to me since I joined Umbrella’s Makerspace Access Group.

Forty years together and we still enjoy a cuddle.

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Moon Phase: Chasing Transcendence

My exhibition, Moon Phase: Chasing Transcendence, is now on show. It is strange to revisit the work of a couple of years ago. Though a difficult hang, the wonderful staff at Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts managed it with aplomb and a lot of patience for which I thank them heartily. My photo doesn’t do it justice. At the opening of the show, I received lots of positive comment on the unusual hang. There are 87 unique state prints, all of which were created in Umbrella Studio Access Space (now known as Umbrella Studio Makers Space).

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Coming soon!

The culmination of two years’ work, my Moon Phase series, created from Dec 2017 to 2019 is rushing up fast. My exhibition, Moon Phase: Chasing Transcendence, is due to open at Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts at 6pm on April 16th.

The works were created in Umbrella’s downstairs studio. I am a member of the previously named Umbrella Studio Access Group, but which is now called the Umbrella Makerspace Access Group

There’s over sixty prints from which to choose, so I don’t envy the gallery director, Kate O’hara and gallery manager, Daniel Qualischefski, the task of selecting which ones to hang. Obviously some will be quite easy to dismiss but I like to think there will still be enough good ones to make the choice difficult!

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Whale Watching on the Sealink Ferry today

On a glorious day with a calm sea, we went on the inaugural SeaLink ferry whale watching trip. Our time out with the whales seemed all too short but it was wonderful to be there.

A whale tail hitting the water.

Watching the whales!

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