Having returned from New York last week, I’m having a few days in Dookie, in country Victoria, where I grew up. It is quiet, and with the wheat crops yet to turn golden just yet, it is very green and pretty. My jetlag also means that I am waking full of energy before 6am (whichContinue reading “Dookie waking”
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Small town digging big art
Arthur Boyd once said he stressed the uniqueness of the Australian landscape and its metaphysical and mythical content. The Dookie Quarry isn’t exactly a natural landscape but it is certainly unique, and is becoming even more interesting. Located ‘up behind the showgrounds’ (or footy ground if that is more your language), the Dookie Quarry wasContinue reading “Small town digging big art”