Plum Birdy

Plum Birdy Plum Birdy is an artist & educator based in Lutruwita/Tasmania.

The annual showcase of works by resident artists at Salamanca Arts Centre is on now. My Wonky Cat series is on display...
18/05/2025

The annual showcase of works by resident artists at Salamanca Arts Centre is on now. My Wonky Cat series is on display alongside some other pretty cool stuff. Do check it out 😊

Until 28 June 2025

Contour
Studio Gallery
Salamanca Arts Centre
Level 2, 77 Salamanca Place

This pretty much sums up the first half of my week (thankfully, things improved!).
09/05/2025

This pretty much sums up the first half of my week (thankfully, things improved!).

Such great vibes at Paint Jam #22. What an awesome bunch of people! A big thanks to Vibrance .
05/05/2025

Such great vibes at Paint Jam #22. What an awesome bunch of people! A big thanks to Vibrance .

Some more images of beauty and devastation from the recent Bob Brown Foundation Art for Takayna residency that I was par...
28/04/2025

Some more images of beauty and devastation from the recent Bob Brown Foundation Art for Takayna residency that I was part of.

Takayna needs our protection… let’s call on our politicians to nominate Takayna for World Heritage status as a National Park, and return it to Aboriginal ownership.

Such a privilege to be involved in the Bob Brown Foundation Art for Takayna residency.I joined a group of big-hearted c...
23/04/2025

Such a privilege to be involved in the Bob Brown Foundation Art for Takayna residency.

I joined a group of big-hearted creatives and forest defenders in a very challenging part of Takayna…our patch of old growth forest was meters from a clear-felled coupe. Confronting, especially at 7.16 am on Monday when the machinery started up again!

Beauty and devastation.

A big thanks to Anh and the family from Torchbearer Wines Tasmania for providing a wonderful experience full of incredi...
16/04/2025

A big thanks to Anh and the family from Torchbearer Wines Tasmania for providing a wonderful experience full of incredible colour, shape, sound, taste and plenty of wisdom! The grape harvest is providing bucketfuls of inspiration for a new exhibition. 😊

I absolutely love Salamanca Arts Centre after dark! There are ghosts…lovely ghosts…I’m sure of it! Here are some behind...
12/04/2025

I absolutely love Salamanca Arts Centre after dark! There are ghosts…lovely ghosts…I’m sure of it!

Here are some behind the scenes pics of us bumping in/out my two recent shows, Once Upon A Forest, Far Ago and Bevan’s Day.

Thank you to everyone who came along for a look. 😊

The fish swims only where there is water. But my thoughts swim constantly.Made of old family love letters, spilt coffee...
06/04/2025

The fish swims only where there is water. But my thoughts swim constantly.

Made of old family love letters, spilt coffee, and memories. LAST DAY TODAY (Monday 7th April) to see the fish floating aerially amid lichen encrusted branches, and ponder what it all might mean.

Exhibition viewable 24/7
Lightbox
Salamanca Arts Centre
Ground Floor, 77 Salamanca Place
Hobart 7000

Tea Cup Memories: We still ourselves with a cuppa, and journey backwards, forwards, sideways in our mind. A ghost tree...
06/04/2025

Tea Cup Memories: We still ourselves with a cuppa, and journey backwards, forwards, sideways in our mind.

A ghost tree stands proud and once mighty – a memory of Bronte Park and its Hydro lakes circa 1950’s. A roughly hewn broom lays in the moss – a recollection from a Siberian prison camp in 1940.

Flashes of a life and its stories, in a teacup.

LAST DAYS
Exhibition viewable 24/7

Once Upon A Forest, Far Ago
Lightbox
Salamanca Arts Centre
Ground Floor, 77 Salamanca Place
Hobart 7000

These Paper Trail Babushkas are paper-mâchéd in family documents and tell some of my grandmother’s stories. Using copie...
04/04/2025

These Paper Trail Babushkas are paper-mâchéd in family documents and tell some of my grandmother’s stories. Using copies of love letters, arrival documents, Renunciation of Allegiance papers and more.

As a child imprisoned in a Siberian labour camp, my grandmother had to work collecting sticks and firewood. I have drawn on this imagery, decorating the dolls with bundles of sticks, knapsacks of what few possessions they had remaining, and antlers to symbolize those times when they were treated as less than human.

By paper-mâchéing the dolls, and attaching paraphernalia to them, I’ve subverted the natural order of these dolls – they are no longer able to stack inside each other… things are not as they should be.

LAST DAYS… closing 7 April 2025
Once Upon A Forest, Far Ago
Lightbox
Salamanca Arts Centre
Ground Floor, 77 Salamanca Place
Hobart 7000

“It was cotton country, and to get rations of food we had to go to work picking cotton. It is beastly stuff to work with...
03/04/2025

“It was cotton country, and to get rations of food we had to go to work picking cotton. It is beastly stuff to work with, very prickly.”

My great aunt wrote about her time as a child refugee, orphaned in the Uzbeki cottonfields.

The prickly imagery stuck in my mind, so I worked it into the central motifs of this installation. Tree, timber, paper; alive, dead, transformed into something else.
It is symbolic of my family’s journey.

To those that have asked… the smallest Babushka is paper-mâchéd in ‘To Ostatnia Niedziela’ (The Last Sunday) tango sheet music. 😊

Once Upon A Forest, Far Ago is on show now.

Lightbox
Salamanca Arts Centre
Ground Floor, 77 Salamanca Place
Hobart 7000

Bound Memories; Love Letters and Spilt Coffee.This notebook contains copies of my grandmother’s love letters. Two water...
02/04/2025

Bound Memories; Love Letters and Spilt Coffee.

This notebook contains copies of my grandmother’s love letters. Two watercolour goldfish swim on the front cover. Memories feel watery to me. Slippery. Otherworldly.

Displayed with cutlery, and lichen gathered from the forest floor,
I wanted to create a scene where narratives overlap, and time and space merge.

Lightbox
Salamanca Arts Centre
Ground Floor, 77 Salamanca Place
Hobart 7000

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