Two shots of John Waterman just before he passed away, April 2002 Sunday, Jun 16 2013 

His last 8 tracks come up on my iTunes ‘shuffle’ lots, his set of French copper saucepans are used every day. His last gift to me was a London printer’s coded contacts diary with every possible detail about sourcing, pricing and storage of metal, ink, paper and tools of the trade. He is still in our lives, daily . . . there is not a week goes by where an internet search for John collides with our viewer site

I’ve shared these with Pam & Lydia already – two cards I missed on eBay Thursday, Jun 6 2013 

I have one more book cover with a bow and arrow on file, I’ll dig it out . . .

Eighteen slides for 2013 Mercedes Fashion Week – a cascading history shots from Barbara’s Brisbane archive Thursday, Jun 6 2013 

These are what we have prepared and supplied to the curators and facilitators, it is up to them what they include and use . . . we hope these whet your appetite for the group discussion in August. Enjoy and follow the links already posted for the other exciting activities scheduled.

ABOVE: 1985 Photo credits – Barbara Heath (Anna Bourke with Barbara Heath)

ABOVE: 1986 Photo credits – Barbara Heath (Barbara Heath with Leigh Cholakis)

ABOVE: 1990 Photo credits – Malcolm Enright

ABOVE: 1998 Photo credits – ‘Net’ Christopher Hemmings  - 1999 ‘a tree a rock a cloud’ David Sandison

ABOVE: 1991 Photo credits – Malcolm Enright (design and realisation)

ABOVE: 1992 Photo credits – Peter Budd

ABOVE: 1993 Photo credits – Malcolm Enright (design and realisation)

ABOVE: 1997 Photo credits – Peter Budd

ABOVE: 1987 Photo credits – Andrew Campbell

ABOVE: 1989 Photo credits – Lehan Ramsay

ABOVE: 1998 Photo credits – Peter Budd

ABOVE: 1989 Photo credits – Monty Coles

ABOVE: 1995 Photo credits – Quenten Bacon

ABOVE: 1999 Photo credits – Guy Heritage

ABOVE: 1990 Photo credits – Warwick Orme

ABOVE: 1987 Photo credits – Peter Kent – Malcolm Enright

ABOVE: 2007 Photo credits – Barbara Heath

ABOVE: 2007 Photo credits – Barbara Heath

 

I’ve just updated Barbara’s c.v. for 2013 as she has a gig at Mercedes Fashion Week in August Wednesday, Jun 5 2013 

The session info and link is here – “A conversation about – Queensland Style” and how it translates across disciplines, should be interesting. The text blurb: Tuesday 27, 7.30pm / SLQ Auditorium 1, level 2, State Library of QLD, South Bank / Free Admission.
Join fashion curator Nadia Buick with artist Michael Zavros, architect Stephen Cameron, academic Dr Courtney Pedersen, and “jeweller to the lost” Barbara Heath for a conversation about the aesthetics, themes and distinctiveness (or lack of) in Queensland’s sub-tropical design.

You will find the link to Barbara’s c.v. top left corner in our pages section . . .

Early design and strategy work from 1987 for Jonathan Sceats – Eyetech in Australia Saturday, May 25 2013 

My wife Barbara Heath did titanium frame designs for Johno early on and we had numerous trips to Sydney, met Jean-Pierre, Susan and his partner Mark. As I always do I couldn’t help but ask pertinent questions about the marketing and the shape of his organisation . . . it ended up in my partnering with Johno to completely change-force his brand and in the end we managed to buy back his own name from N.Z. businessmen. His own signature became synonymous with his own products, the Jonathan Sceats brand was given the edge that he himself so naturally displayed. We went back into his own family history and seriously re-jigged it reflecting his own ‘Aussie-ness’ and his 3D love of the ‘skull’ element. Our marketing strategy was our product promise . . . gutsy stuff for 1987.

Johno-1

 

I posted this to my FB page on Friday night when there is not that much traffic, so here it is to all of our viewersite clients & friends, enjoy the history ride . . .

Barbara’s third ‘Prado’ talk was at ‘up-late’, last Friday evening (October 5) at the Queensland Art Gallery Thursday, Oct 11 2012 

Our two wrist tags from the night, I should be posting this to ephemeral-male blog where X’s and O’s are one of the visual flavours. The QAG blog is uploading Barbara’s texts, here are live links to each of the 5 selected paintings (four are up as of today, I’ll update once the fifth is uploaded) : - 1  - 2  - 3  - 4 – 5. There will be a fourth talk to a group of Debra Fisher’s fashion students at 2:00pm tomorrow at the QAG.

The ‘leaf lattice’ Georgian (black dot) paste brooch I found for Barbara’s birthday gift Tuesday, Jul 10 2012 

c 1780′s style and an era we are both madly in love with . . . and in absolute great condition. Call me and I’ll reveal the source close to home!

Eleven wood ducks on the beach at Adventure Bay, Bruny Island Sunday, Apr 8 2012 

“I’se always has one at eleven” goes the old Sydney pub slang . . . if I can’t shoot eleven I can always do a wee bit of (photoshopping) and send to the ‘collect eleven‘ blog site run by Trevor Allen.

Just so you know . . . Monday, Jan 2 2012 

. . . also the Darwin Awards link

Ride’em cowboy . . . my new workbox unveiled on the first day of the new year – a grandly good omen Sunday, Jan 1 2012 

Xeon 64 bit workstation Mac Pro running OS X Lion. I managed to trade my water cooled power Mac G5 tower which has run everyday for the last 8 years without a hiccup, basically because it has run via a UPS that has saved the central processor from spikes, power outages and storm surges. It is being sold by Coremac as is and will be used as a server down the track.

Data migration and system updates have all been performed and it runs maybe 4 times faster that the old work horse, I’m chuffed!

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