English Un extrait du bulletin d’information de Hugh Becker à ses amis. Hugh et son épouse, Debs, ont pris le temps de rénover leur chalet de Sussex pour faire le grand trekking jusqu’à notre village pour l’ouverture des studios. Notre arrivée sur la Riviera a marqué un net changement de rythme par rapport à l’idylle [read more…]

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It was an honour to be invited by the Australian High Commissioner, Hon. Alexander Downer, to exhibit as a family at Australia House in London and to help celebrate its 100 year anniversary.                                             [read more…]

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Journeys is an exhibition of sculpture at Australia House, London, which offers the work of Australian-born Shona Nunan and Michael Francis Cartwright, along with their sons Sollai and Jacob Cartwright. The works, though diverse in terms of materials and aesthetic, are united by a commentary on, and celebration of life, nature and the universe. A: [read more…]

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We have a beautiful bald mountain, Prato Fiorito, (field of flowers), up in the Apennine mountains behind our small village. I often write about this mountain because it is so beautiful. It is a steep climb to the top, up a tiny goat track cut into the thick vegetation of grasses and flowers, a verdant [read more…]

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  Everyday we gaze up at Mount Altissimo and its falling debris of marble from the quarries up there. On one of our days working at the studio, an old artigiani, Romolo, pointed out Michelangelo’s cave, a gaping maw in the face of the edifice, known as the Capella, (chapel), where his excavation in 1517 [read more…]

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Happy Year of the Rooster! What an outstanding twelve months it has been for us.  The challenges have been huge, and the outcomes great.  We have loved 2016. We started in January with Montsalvat in Eltham Victoria, a lovely humble art residency where we hand carved marble left behind from an old lecturer friend 30 odd [read more…]

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A short film of Michael hand carving marble at Montsalvat in Victoria, Australia

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