My painting ‘The Outside, Inside’ was recently short-listed for the Norah Heysen Centennial Award held in Hahndorf, South Australia. The paintings will be on exhibition at the Hahndorf Academy until early December.
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My recent painting ‘Seafaring Boy’ was shortlisted for the ANL Maritime Art Award in Melbourne . Even though it did not win the main award it has also been shortlisted for the People’s Choice award.
It is a rare thing for me to post something about my family on my website, but I thought I would make an exception in this case. My son Leo Baker received his Churchill Fellowship yesterday at a formal presentation by the Governor of Victoria Alex Chernov AO QC, at Government House, Melbourne. Leo was the recipient of The Churchill Fellows’ Association of Victoria Churchill Fellowship to investigate methods for sustaining production and creative culture in the Australian animation industry. He will be visiting major studios such as Pixar and Disney, as well as smaller independent producers and film/animation schools. He will be traveling to Japan, USA, Canada,UK,France and Germany,commencing his trip in September. Earlier this year the animated film The Lost Thing that Leo had been working on for several years as the sole animator won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for director/writer Shaun Tan at the 2011 Academy Awards in USA. I am extremely proud of Leo’s achievements and know how hard he has worked. I wish him well, and safe and exciting travels! Last saturday, 23 July I had the pleasure of being the guest speaker at Victorian branch SCBWI’s Winter Gathering at Di Mattina’s restaurant in Carlton. My talk was on the rise of celebrity culture and how it had influenced me to write and illustrate The Star. There had been a minor hiccup for this particular meeting as the original venue could not be used (the floor had collapsed!) and there was a last minute change to Di Mattina’s. All was well except for the fact that at the door immediately next to me the staff started to bring in trays of afternoon tea, coffee, cakes as I was half way through my talk. The audience’s eyes were well and truly on those cakes! However I soldiered on. It was great to catch up with other authors and illustrators and hear what Hazel and Regine had to say on e-books and book design respectively. Several people asked me to post my talk here on the website. I have now done so and you should see a heading on ‘talks’ at the top of the home page.
News just through that The Star has been put on the Children’s Book Council of Australia’s Notable Books for 2011. It is nice to receive a nod from the CBCA, and also to be in the company of so many other excellent authors and illustrators. Congratulations to fellow Ford Street author/illustrator David Miller for Rufus The Numbat which was also a notable book. I am very happy to be participating in a radio interview on Tuesday, February 8th February with Bernard Ryan. Bernard’s show ‘The Blurb’ is broadcast every Tuesday between 3 and 4 on Radio 94.7fm The PULSE, Geelong. We will be discussing ‘The Star’ and anything else that comes up in conversation. Stay tuned! For all of you who wanted to come to my painting exhibition but were unable to due to floods, droughts, snowstorms, airport closures, christmas shopping, hangovers, lost car keys or general flakiness – I have made a wee video. A bit rough, a bit wobbly, but here it is.
Felicity Marshall Painting exhibition Qdos Gallery Australia from Felicity Marshall on Vimeo. There is a flutter of excitement around the place. The Star has been nominated for a Cybils award, an international online children’s book award. There are over 1,000 nominations from USA alone, so don’t hold your breath! However it is nice to be nominated for something… Find out more about the Cybils at www.cybils.com My latest paintings will be exhibited at Qdos Gallery, Lorne. Opening on December 12th, the exhibtion runs until December 31. The paintings are concerned with beaches, paths, air, sea, wind. More images will be posted soon. Stay tuned…. Meanwhile locate Qdos on their website www.qdosarts.com for directions to the gallery in the forest behind coastal Lorne
Exciting news recently that the little trailer we made to promote The Star has been short listed in the Foreword Book Trailer Awards (USA) along with another trailer by Ford Street author Kim Miller! Unfortunately Foreword didn’t advise us until very late in the day that a) We were short listed and b) that they required a movie file of the trailer for their finals judging. We sent the movie file immediately only to be informed that we were too late for the finals!!! Frustrating! Nevertheless, it was a lovely surprise to be short-listed and I am grateful as always to my son Leo Baker and his accomplished animation skills responsible for creating such a nifty trailer. Also I am indebted to Christine Flemming who graciously lent me her elegant voice over skills to bring the trailer to life. More details are available on the Small Press Underground Networking Community website SPUNC. Or click here to link to the page. |
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