Brief details of following three items
recently appeared on the lds.org.au website
and a more detailed account is given below
2010 - Early in the year I felt I should enter a poem in the 2010 Cultural Arts Submission so I did. Later in the year I received a letter dated October 7, 2010 from The Cultural Arts Evaluation Committee informing me that my poem titled 'Thy Will Be Done' had been included as a finalist in the poetry section and that a presentation of selected finalists works would be made in the Chapel of the Joseph Smith Memorial Buildiing in Salt Lake City on February 4, 2011. This was the first time I had entered a poetry competition of any kind.
2010 - On October 20, 2010 I spent all day in a recording studio and recorded nine songs. Two weeks later I received an email from APRA of which I am a Full Writer Member. The email informed me of their APRA Professional Development Awards which is a nation wide songwriting competition held every second year and I felt to enter three of the songs I had just recorded. On January 25, 2011 I was informed by email that around 2,500 songwriters had submitted entries for the eight categories being judged. A total of 224 entries were selected as finalists and I was one of them.
2011 - Early on the morning of June
6, 2011, I was sound asleep when woken by a unexplained loud bang on
the brick wall near my bed. As soon as I woke into my mind came that
I was to create a sculpture of 'a mother and child' for the Ninth International
Art Competition and that it was to have a smooth finish.
I created the sculpture from a piece of southern Silky Oak Grevillea
robusta, it is 7 feet tall and weights 150kgs (around 300lbs).
A number of other specific prompts came over the following weeks and
the sculpture took just over a month to complete working on it part
time, it was finished only a few days before entries closed.
I then received an email dated December 9, 2011 which informed me that
I was a finalist in the competition and that I had to ensure that the
sculpture would arrive at the Church History Museum in Salt Lake City
during January 2012 and it arrived there on January 17. The last time
I had worked on a sculpture of any kind was 31 years before in 1980.
On February 9, I received an email from the Church History Museum saying
that my sculpture was in the exhibition and would be on display from
March 16 to October 14, 2012.
On February 16, 2012 I received an email from the Church History Museum
which informed me that a total of 1155 entries had been received from
43 countires around the world and of those 1155 entries only 198 had
been selected for display in the exhibition.
Photo taken on August 31, 2011
Photo taken on August 31, 2011
