Trip to Parramatta

 

 

Clouds seen from the express from Central to Parra

 

 

A lawyers waiting room

 

Pie in the Sky Poets

 

 

Angela Stretch MCing the start of Pie in the Sky Poets, poetry night at Since I Left You - a bar centred on a courtyard and carriageway at 338 Kent St

The courtyard is in the space between 100 yr old multistorey tenements, one wall decorated with a very tall mural, and I've just painted The Flying Pieman on a large board to hang in the carriageway

I took it in on tuesday evening and stayed around to see the show, and got called up to say a few words I hadn't prepared for.

I did a few drawings of some of the poets and crowd but didn't catch most of the names, once I find out I'll add them

 

 

Jonathon reading his work

 

A mic got in the road here

 

 

Faces in the audience

 

Someone reading a text before the show

 

Buildings on Burwood Rd

 

 

I have to go to a Burwood Job Network appointment periodically, so I like to do some kind of drawing while I'm there

 

Fierce Violets at the Chippo Hotel

The complete show

Marguerite Montes

Peter Urquhart

Lou Steer

Charles Freyberg

sound by Brian

Below are the clips in order

Soundcheck

Marguerite Montes and Peter Urquhart

Introduction and Welcome to Country

Lou Steer

 

 

 

Peter Urquhart - Prelude

 

 

Charles Freyberg - brief intro

 

 

Charles Freyberg - Kate
 

 Charles Freyberg - to Elizabeth Burton

 Charles Freyberg - Art Starts Here

 Charles Freyberg -Trickster Spirits

Peter Urquhart - Interlude

 Charles Freyberg - Helen

 Charles Freyberg -Fish Park

 

 

Marguerite Montes and Peter Urquhart

 

Marguerite Montes and Peter Urquhart - No Quier Mas

I'm not sure I've got these titles correct sometimes, I'll fix them if I'm corrected

Marguerite Montes- Tengo Tengo Tengo

 

Marguerite Montes and Peter Urquhart 

 

 

Lou Steer - here comes the bride

 

The sad story of the inspiration for Dickens Miss Havisham, in Great Expectations, a resident of 19th century Newtown

Lou Steer -Blood Rose

Lou Steer - Old People's Love

 

Lou Steer - Happy Endings

stopframe Movies including Mixing Paint

 

Making Fluoro Yellow Oil Paint

 

Epoxying

Pie in the Sky - the Flying Pieman

 The Flying Pieman was one of Sydney's early eccentrics, the underachieving, misdirected son of a minor notable in early 19th century London who wanted him to go into the Anglican priesthood via Oxford. Young William was more interested in athletic pursuits, particularly feats of extreme pedestrianism. His family dispatched him to the colony of NSW.

 By turns he became an itinerant pie seller with a portable pie warmer who entertained the colonists with challenges - like walking 36 miles(60km) in 9 hours while carrying a 30kg dog, or selling ferry passengers pies at Circular Quay, then greeting them with more when they arrived at Parramatta, 20km up river, having hotfooted it there ahead of them

 

 

 

 

Finished but the photo has shine from the sky, which also seems to have fooled the AF as well. I'll take a better shot as soon as possible

 A tiny bit of  detailing and retouching still to do

Text is now all completed and I'm doing as much retouching as I can manage tonight and tomorrow morning before it goes in to Since I Left You, a bar in Kent St in the city, for its launch at the next Pie in the Sky Poets night on Tuesday 20 November - find out more at https://poetrysydney.org/

 

 

 with some text

 

 

Pieman with Pies! High in the Sky over Sydney- there's still plenty of finishing to do though, as well as a few words to add

 

 

The basics of the composition, with the pieman(on a tightrope?) high above some version of Sydney - which I still have to flesh out a bit - that's Pinchgut in the Harbour