Kerry Shepherdson, Things and Thoughts, 2025. Image courtesy of the artist.
What: Poetry Workshop with Brenda Goggs
When: Saturday 7 March 2026, 2:00 - 3:00pm
Where: Gallery 2, M16 Artspace, 21 Blaxland Crescent, Griffith
Cost: Free
Writing the landscape: Seeing is believing
In a short writing workshop participants will have the opportunity to write poetry or short prose inspired by pieces in the exhibition Holding up then Sky. The artist will be on hand to lead, challenge and encourage would-be writers.
About the Artist:
Brenda Goggs has a foot in two worlds as a practising Visual Artist and former teacher of English. Exhibiting woven tapestry over the past 25 years, she has focused on Australian identity and the landscape as an ‘object’ in an imperial ‘cabinet of curiosities’ and during this time has witnessed a national shift towards a search for understanding of our colonial past and our culpability in a quest for ownership.
She is excited by connections between things, where art and literature, words and pictures collide and where everyday moments reveal the sublime, just for a moment. She insists that the world continues to be a place of wonder, even in the suburbs, and even when things go wrong. These ambiguities provided the inspiration for her first published poetry collection Cracks in the Path, (Ginninderra Press, 2025), about living in the national capital surrounded by the public monuments which frame suburban life.
As a visual artist, Brenda has interrogated literature and interpreted work by Gerald Murnane, Patrick White and David Malouf, and collaborated with poets Geoff Page and Alan Gould.
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