Creative Connections

Maureen Sexton has done an amazing job of connecting disabled artists with poets and exhibited the results. I, along with many WA poets, was invited to write poems to artworks and each time, my approach was from the artists p.o.v., as if to give them voice which they often don't have. The results of three exhibitions can be enjoyed on the Creative Connection pages.


This is a favourite from the 2008 series:

No. 59Artist: Vivienne Sharp




Coral Bay

Snorkelling with rainbows
just past the breaking surf,
I see the red rocky shores
of the North West Cape.

Shimmering white sands where
Coastal Daisies, Starflowers
and Sturt Peas grope to grip
harsh hot terrain in fighting wind.

At Easter, a hundred yards off
the bay, coral triggers upside down
snowstorms to invite gentle giants
from the depths of Tantabiddi to feed

whilst in my imagination, I squeeze
the fish colours through my fingers
to paint pictures and feel myself
swimming with whale sharks.

Frances Macaulay Forde © 2008

Loads more here:
http://www.creativeconnectionsaape.net.au/pages/2008artworksandpoems.html

And here's a favourite from the 2007 series:

No. 21 Artist: Clayton Winmar

Country

take my hand

walk with me

through family

follow straight

railway lines

in the sunshine

leave hand prints

in caves sprayed

white sand hills

mountains of

red clay heart

brown beauty

take my hand

walk with me

through country

Frances Macaulay Forde © 2007

And again, loads more on here:

http://www.creativeconnectionsaape.net.au/pages/2007artworksandpoems.html