An excerpt from Hugh Becker’s newsletter to friends. Hugh and his wife, Debs, took time from renovating their Sussex cottage to make the grand trek over to our village for the opening of the studios. Our arrival on the Riviera marked a distinct change of pace from the sleepy idyll of Correns, bordered by the [read more…]
Tags: Correns, Hugh Becker, michael francis cartwright, Michael Latz, Shona NunanIt 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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
We are honoured to announce the family, Nunan-Cartwright, have been invited by the High Commissioner, The Honourable Alexander Downer, to exhibit our sculptures at the Centenary celebrations of Australia House in London, 2018. We are so proud to be showing our art in the iconic Australia House, with our two beautiful boys, both men now, and [read more…]
Tags: australia house london, Jacob Cartwright, Michael Cartwright, Sculpture exhibition, Shona Nunan, Sollai CartwrightHappy 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…]
A short film of Michael hand carving marble at Montsalvat in Victoria, Australia
We are driving on our way back home to Italy and thought we’d share some of the artwork, drawings and paintings, that we did in Cill Rialaig, Ireland. Thank you Cill Rialaig Art Project!!! You may also like to read the other two posts on Cill Rialaig too: An amazing four weeks and [read more…]
It is wild. It has all been wild. The weather is tempestuous and volatile, changing quickly from a sunny bright blue day to brooding glowering storms and to dense heavy grey fog that submerge the land into nothing, all in one day and all within hours. The ground is sodden and covered in bright orange [read more…]