LEAVE IT IN THE GROUND opening and works

 Jamie Parker, our Greens MP, with chocolate frog reward for opening LEAVE IT IN THE GROUND 

and launching The Stuttering Frog #2, with Juliet Fowler Smith, founder of WRVAP.

Sharyn Munro speaking at opening of LEAVE IT IN THE GROUND

above photos: Noelene Lucas

David Watson 

Ralph Snowball New Lambton pit head, Adamstown  1897 

inkjet print (2013) from an original Ralph Snowball glass negative,

     courtesy Norm Barney Photographic Collection,University of Newcastle

David Watson Fuse  1:100,000 maps showing proposed 2014 walk

 following power grid from Rozelle to Hunter valley source

Information corner

Neil Berecry-Brown Social Licence  2013 inkjet print

Ian Milliss Viburnum with Coal  2013 inkjet print  

above  Toni Warburton coal clay water wood - some processes and relationships 2013. 

People are invited to submit words, images, patterns, marks from which the artist 

can select to draw onto clay beakers. Beakers will be glazed, fired and available 

for sale for $30.00 each on Sunday 1^st December. Photo Chris Ward

Noelene Lucas Living with Coal  2013 single-channel HD video

photo Chris Ward

Christine McMillan Sludge  2013 

coal sludge in snow-domes on shelf

Noelene Lucas, Rivers of Coal  2013 3-channel HD video 

Sue Callanan Going, Going, Gone  2013 

hessian bags, stencil paint,coal, wood, lights

Margaret Roberts Titled  2013

ply, hinges, live space/visitor-interaction 

David Watson  Mining Rash [The Drip]  2013 

inkjet print on aluminium

David Watson Checkout  + Ransom Note (with Denise Corrigan)  

2013  powerpoint 

Juliet Fowler Smith The Area of Affectation  2013

 installation, table, dowel, seats & found objects 

Wendy Bowman at 'Rosedale' (centre)  in Camberwell, 

with David Watson (left, with The Stuttering Frog #2) and Sue Callanan (right) 

David Watson and Sue Callanan 
distributing The Stuttering Frog #2 in the Hunter region

Video Doc by Noelene Lucas

LEAVE IT IN THE GROUND opens Friday 15 November at 6-8pm

To be opened at 7pm by NSW Greens MP John Kaye, MLC.

Open Nov 16 to Dec 1, 11am - 5pm

Galvanised by the crisis in global warming caused by the fossil-fuel industries, theWilliams River Valley Artists' Project (WRVAP) presents LEAVE IT IN THE GROUND with artists Neil Berecry Brown, Sue Callanan, Juliet Fowler Smith, Noelene Lucas, Christine McMillan, Ian Milliss, Margaret Roberts, Toni Warburton and David Watson.

David Watson / Denise Corrigan Ransom Note 2013

Press Release

Invitation
The Stuttering Frog #2 (pdf)
The Stuttering Frog #2 (issuu book)

The 2nd edition of WRVAP's The Stuttering Frog will be launched at the opening. As well as texts and images by the artists, there are also texts by activists Glenn Albrecht, Julia Mullins and Colin Imrie, Julia Sheppard, Sharyn Munro and Chris Ward, as well as some Nuggests and David's Very Crossword. 

WVRAP is indebted to graphic designer/layout artist Tony Fuery who generously donates his wondrous pre-press skills to produce both editions of The Stuttering Frog: tony@parslowart.net 

Also, there will be an information corner, including one hundred new Bimblebox books by Maureen Cooper will be available at the opening to take in exchange for donations in support of the court case against the Alpha mine. 

See previous WRVAP activities (including the highly successful participation in the campaign to stop the Tillegra Dam) on the WRVAP blog. These are included in the first (2010) edition of The Stuttering Frog #1 which can also be downloaded.

Noelene Lucas

image: Noelene Lucas; text: Ed Ruscha

image: Noelene Lucas; text: Ed Ruscha

Neil Berecry-Brown Revoked 2013

Sue Callanan Bulga Coal 2013