Garry McDougall
Visual Arts , Mixed Media , Digital Media , Fiction , Literature , Non-Fiction , Painting , Performance , Performing Arts , Photography , Poetry , Urban Art
Garry McDougall
Visual Arts , Mixed Media , Digital Media , Fiction , Literature , Non-Fiction , Painting , Performance , Performing Arts , Photography , Poetry , Urban Art
Location Wollongong
Artist Type Semi Professional
Complex, intense, expressive work inspires me. Whether its photography, painting or writing, I prefer to explore and speculaterather than distill to the simple.
Lyricism, drama, humour and the exploration of the past, are my natural inclinations.
Worked for decades on creating long-distance walking track (Great North Walk), photography, painting and writing, with greatest devotion to writing travel, poetry and novels, plus a liking of photography (plus ten years teaching it) and experimentation.
Always interested in collaborations.
member of Write-On Authors, and other groups.
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About
I work mainly as an author of fiction and travel, always informed by the poetic and lyrical I am a anti-romantic romantic, meaning love and beauty are central but history is a cruel mistress (or master if you wish). So my novels, sent in 1988 to as far back as 1503, are people in the grip of history. One way or another they must to come to terms with it.
Travel writing centres of France and Spain, in particular the Camino de Santiago. With ten works on or about it, I am its most prolific author.My other passion is photography. After representation in twenty European exhibitions, I have turn to explore our coastal Intertidal Zone, between low and high tides.
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Biography
Author, poet, traveller, lyricist, photographer, artist
Contact: 61(0)441525086; utravel9@gmail.comNovels -
Belonging
Starts With C
Knowing Simone
Blacksmith and Canon
Travel -
New South Walks Heritage Walks
Great North Walk, two editions
Pilgrimage series (10, eBooks and paperbacks)
Damn! Creative Journey Across Spain.
Inner Flash
BordersIn Process
A Blacksmith’s Life
The Intertidal Zone (photography)Member: Diverse Poets, Write-On Authors.
Numerous painting & photography exhibitions, from 1978.
Feature Poet, Sydney Writers Festival, 2017
Numerous performances, Sydney plus.
Winner, Peter Cowan SS Prize, 'Patting the Dog', 2015.. -
Awards & Career highlights
1988 - Great North Walk Published. The Track and Official Bicentennial Project
1996 - Built first Ecotourism Lodge in NSW
2008 - Series of Six Pilgrimage eBook at Smashwords
2015 - Winner, Peter Cowan Prize for Short Story
2020 - Completed fourth Novel, Blacksmith and Canon. ORepresented in twenty European Photo Exhibitions,
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Studio Address
16 Alanson Av
Bulli NSW 2516Please contact the artist to arrange your visit.
Featured Works
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