This is a snapshot of the picture featured in the article titled The Power and the Passion of Sport Art.
I became aware of this thing called Sports Art when I was commissioned to paint The Winfield Cup and Its 1986 Moment for a local patron called Simon.
Alina and her father
Clown Fish IImage detail)
Alina and another swim instructor
The articles I write reflect the community portraits I am doing.
This article is called Meet Alina Graham
A Proud Outback Voice with Deep Roots and a Passion for Cultural and Environmental Preservation
All the way out here in Outback Queensland, Alina Graham carries a legacy as engaging and challenging as the rugged landscape she calls home. Read more...
Collage of various paintings
Journal Notes on Expanding the Possibilities of Watercolour and Watercolour Pencils
The exploration will combine Inktense watercolour pencils and other water-based materials with rugged mixed-media in the context of large-format painting. It is an effort to broaden my practice to make murals more versatile, regain control of finer details, and take advantage of the vibrancy Inktense watercolours afford. Traditionally used on paper, Inktense combines the precision of coloured pencils with the fluidity of watercolour paint when activated with water.
Downcast Down Under: explaining this Trashy Tale
What happens when anger isn’t just destructive, but a catalyst for healing and change?
Overview
Pulped: A Trashy Tale (Balboa Press AU, 2026) is a young adult graphic novel that positions Martha Nussbaum’s philosophical concept of transitional anger at its core. When I use ‘pulped’ to refer to the reduction to a soft, unstructured mass, I intended it to be a metaphor for the process of breaking down and reforming identity. The characterisation illuminates how transitional anger initiates important change within the conditions of Liquid Modernity (Bauman, 2000).
Far inland in Australia, there is a vast, remote, and sparsely populated interior region of Queensland.
For the purposes of our story, we will focus on the opal-mining tradition that grew up around Eulo. It also stretched to Yowah and Lightning Ridge. Within this rich tradition, a “queendom” grew up. In the pub at Eulo, landholders mingled with opal miners from nearby fields. Imagine the landscape at the beginning of this century. Dusty, red dirt plains, spinifex grasses, desert oaks, and unique wildlife that became the domain of a loud, brainy lady who, at some point in her ‘out there’ career, was labelled the Eulo Queen.