The world-leading research conducted at Griffith University’s Autism Centre of Excellence has been boosted thanks to a dedicated peloton of cyclists and the generosity of supporters.

The V1 Cyclery BMD ACE 300 Bike Ride raised almost $27,000 as cyclists rode 300 kilometres in a single day to support autism awareness and research.

Starting at Wellington Point, the 42 riders travelled to the Sunshine Coast and return, with the final kilometres completed on a looped course at Murrarie.

Race director and founder Glenn Williams, whose son Mitchell was diagnosed with autism at the age of four, said the challenging conditions of the ride did not deter the cyclists.

“The cause is the most important thing. Autism Spectrum Disorder affects thousands of families across Australia, but receives less than 5 per cent of research funding,” he said.

“I’m delighted with the amount of support this year’s ride received through the Everyday Hero sponsorship initiative and I know the money raised will be used well.”

Fellow organiser and participant, V1 Cyclery’s Stephen Geiszler, said there was great camaraderie among the cyclists.

“I have always wanted to do a 300km single day ride, but it needed to be something bigger than just me wanting to ride it for my own ego,” he said.

“What better way to do it than riding bikes and raising money for a cause that so many people I know personally deal with.”

Director of the Autism Centre of Excellence, Professor Jacqui Roberts, praised the commitment of the cyclists.

“It was an amazing effort. The cyclists started before dawn and finished after dark,” she said.

“The Autism Centre of Excellence is focused on research and learning programs to improve quality of life for people diagnosed with autism, opening doors of opportunity from early childhood to further education and into employment.

“Initiatives like the ACE 300 ride and Everyday Hero help us to continue that important work.”

 

Increasing the best practice use of vascular access devices within Australian medical settings would improve patient outcomes and provide significant cost savings to the economy.

This is the call from Professor Claire Rickard from Griffith’s Menzies Health Institute Queensland.

IV (intravascular) access using catheters, cannulas etc, is at the centre of modern medicine, with the devices being the most commonly used in invasive medical procedures in Australia, where approximately 30 million are used each year.

Set to speak at the inaugural National Scientific Meeting on Vascular Access in Brisbane (Friday 29- Saturday 30 April), Professor Rickard will present evidence showing that there are large gaps in IV research and best practice implementation, and that where research evidence exists, there is often a failure to implement.

“Improved IV practice in Australia is unfortunately, significantly lagging behind other developed countries,” says Professor Rickard, referring to findings published in The Lancet in 2012, which although acknowledged and implemented in the UK and USA, has not yet been fully implemented in Australia.

“It is clear from our findings, that it would result in improved patient outcomes such as fewer interruptions to therapy, less pain/discomfort from unnecessary needles and reduced risks of IV failure.

40% failure rate

“Research repeatedly demonstrates a 40% failure rate with IV usage,” Professor Rickard says. “At a cost of approximately $70 per IV that is $700 million. If we can just reduce failure form 40% to 30% as a result of better insertion and care, we could save $175 million nationally and improve patient experience.

“Emerging culture and research is greatly moving towards a far more informed decision making process for the individual patient, which starts with choosing the right device for them inserted by the correct professional from the beginning of the process.”

The call is supported at the event by Dr Vineet Chopra, aresearch scientist from theUniversity of Michigan, US.

“Use of the most appropriate vascular access device is the foundation of safe and reliable venous access,” says Dr Chopra. “Ideally, device selection is informed by numerous factors including clinical context, provider training and availability of specific devices or technologies. Such decisions should also be guided by available evidence and data regarding the safety, efficacy and durability of one particular approach versus another.”

In his presentation, Dr Chopra will review key evidence that informs decision-making in vascular access and will discuss the development of the Michigan Appropriateness Guide to Intravenous Catheters (or MAGIC) which shows that early application of this process is key to improving the use of vascular devices in hospital settings.

Meanwhile internationally recognised nursing researcher Nancy Moureau will talk on Vessel health and preservation: Applying evidence for the best outcomes.

“Unfortunately, little has been done to develop an intentional process for vascular access selection and management for this common invasive procedure,” says Ms Moureau. “Traditional vascular access is reactive, painful and ineffective, often resulting in the exhaustion of all peripheral veins prior to consideration of other access options.”

For more information and a detailed program on the National Scientific Meeting on Vascular Access, please visit https://avasasm.org.au

 

 

 

A Queensland innovation summit was the staging of an initiative intended to make Brisbane Australia’s home of high growth, high-tech industries this week.

The State Government used the summit to announce they were backing the establishment of start-up precinct in the heritage listed TC Beirne building in Fortitude Valley.

The Advance Queensland Innovation Summit was attended by Griffith University’s commercialisation and innovation office, Griffith Enterprise, as well as most of Queensland’s leading research institutions, entrepreneurs and new product designers.

Speakers included, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Bruce Dell of Euclideon, Digital marketer, Richard Sur, start-up expert Bindi Karla and others.

Griffith University has a strong record commercialising its research outcomes, with the value to the community of the university’s ventures spiralling into hundreds of millions of dollars. The impact of Griffith research can be seen, felt, bought, eaten, played and travelled along. Its services assist schools, families, councils, farmers, hospitals, high and low tech industries, tourism ventures and the natural environment.

Premier Annastasia Palaszcuk announced a $4 million commitment to the Startup Precinct to ensure Queensland’s growing entrepreneurs can collaborate, grow and reach the potential of their markets.

“The precinct will be home to some of our best and brightest start-up talent — a space where they will gather, incubate their ideas and learn from each other,” she said.

“Start-ups will be the job generators in the years ahead. Research indicates that high-growth technology companies can contribute up to $109 billion to the Australian economy and create more than half a million jobs by 2033.”

The Start-up Precinct will be anchored by River City Labs and CSIROs Data61 and will seek to bring together all the elements a successful start-up culture, from collaborative spaces, to mentorship, technology, office space and meeting places.

River City Labs founder and prominent Queensland-based entrepreneur, Steve Baxter has been a keen advocate for exactly such a space in order to enhance the energy of a sector that often feels isolated.

“The precinct is a great example of what the start-up community wants and the ability to attract top talent to Queensland,” Mr Baxter said.

“With the expanded facilities, River City Labs will be able to do more mentoring, increase the number of accelerator programs, help create more jobs and continue to contribute directly and indirectly to Queensland’s economy”

As producers of high end research across so many areas, Griffith University staff and students will be able to take advantage of the facilities, as well as the climate of business and investors looking for technology-based solutions.

Griffith Enterprise Director, Nick Mathiou was positive about the relatively recent increase in interest in start-ups, research commercialisation and new technologies.

“Better technology and more open markets have given more people more access to the tools and capital they need to convert their ideas into successful businesses. Griffith is well-placed, on the back of its excellent research to be part of this movement,” he said.

“Australia is quite clearly in a moment of great opportunity and change.

“While technology is the focus of start-ups at the summit, they can also include services and other sectors with innovative offerings that have the possibility for rapid growth. Griffith has an excellent reputation as innovators and good business partners across a range of sectors.”

The Queensland Startup Precinct is expected to open in October 2016.

 

 

The leaders of the world’s largest current research project into whistleblowing have called for comprehensive, evidence-based law reform to maximise the benefits of whistleblowing for corporate governance and public integrity — but warn that achieving this may require a change of mindset for some policymakers, organisations and the media.

Speaking at the launch of the Australian Research Council project Whistling While They Work 2: Improving managerial responses to whistleblowing in public and private sector organisations, project leader Professor A J Brown said there was broad consensus that new laws and standards were needed to support whistleblowing, but as yet little guidance on what form they should take.

“As a result, given the negativity that dominates much current debate over how to respond to problems of corporate culture, regulatory capacity and whistleblower mistreatment, we risk missing some of the greatest opportunities for solving these issues,” Professor Brown said.

Clear guidance

“Perhaps the single greatest opportunity is the high proportion of Australian companies who already know their own people can be the best and fastest way to find out about significant problems of wrongdoing or culture — but who, like all organisations worldwide, lack clear guidance on the tools and systems needed to properly encourage and protect whistleblowing in practice.”

“The same is true of regulators — it is too easy to criticise corporate leaders, attack regulators and paint a picture of whistleblowers as overwhelmingly ignored and mistreated, when we know that in both government and business, there are positive efforts and lessons, not just negative ones.”

“Given the extent of consensus on the need for new legal and governance standards, it’s time to turn our attention to what those standards need to contain, to best support internal, regulatory and public whistleblowing — rather than defeat ourselves by assuming that organisations and regulators can never get it right, or that all whistleblowers are destined to suffer, no matter what.”

Best practice

The Whistling While They Work 2 research project is focused on identifying current and potential best practice in organisational management of whistleblowing, based on comprehensive evidence drawn from the widest possible spectrum of Australian and New Zealand organisations.

The Australian-led project stands to be the largest in the world to date, and is the first to attempt systematic comparison of organisational experience in maximising whistleblowing, in a consistent way across the public and private sectors, and between countries.

Led by researchers from Griffith University, Australian National University, University of Sydney and Victoria University of Wellington, the project is supported by 22 regulatory and professional organisations including the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC),
CPA Australia, Governance Institute of Australia, Australian Institute of Company Directors and Transparency International Australia, along with the Commonwealth Ombudsman and leading public integrity agencies in all states, including all state Ombudsmen.

In April-May, every Australian public sector agency (federal, state and local) and all of Australia’s 31,000 public unlisted and large proprietary companies are being formally approached by these partners and encouraged to participate in the project.

An equivalently broad approach to public and private sector organisations is also underway in New Zealand, where partners include the New Zealand State Services Commission and Ombudsman.

Historic first

“This is the first time in history that integrity and regulatory authorities are known to have combined to approach every organisation in one country — let alone two — to get behind improved processes for effective disclosure and action against risks of public interest organisational wrongdoing, on such a comprehensive scale,” Professor Brown said.

There are two phases to the research — a threshold Survey of Organisational Processes and Procedures, which takes approx. 20-30 minutes and is open to all organisations, from now until June; and a more comprehensive survey of staff, managers and systems in those organisations that elect to participate in depth, called Integrity@WERQ.

Individual responses from organisations will be confidential to the university researchers, and participant responses in Integrity@WERQ will be anonymous.

“However, aggregated results at jurisdictional, sectoral and organisational levels will provide unprecedented evidence of what is currently working, and why, or why not, in the encouragement and management of whistleblowing within organisations.”

“This is the evidence that organisations need to help them get it right, and law reformers need to know what standards should be set in new or reformed legislation, or elsewhere, including clearer and better resourced roles for independent regulators,” Professor Brown said.

“For example, the research team has already resolved to place the results behind a proposal to write the replacement to the Australian Standard on Whistleblower Protection Programs (AS 8004), which was published in 2003 but is currently withdrawn.”

Other speakers at the launch, hosted by Governance Institute of Australia, included:

John McMillan AO, Acting New South Wales Ombudsman

Warren Day, Australian Securities & Investments Commission (Regional Commissioner — Victoria; Head, Office of the Whistleblower)

Brian Hood, former Company Secretary, Note Printing Australia (Whistleblower)

Judith Fox, Governance Institute of Australia

All organisations with more than 10 employees, based or with significant operations in Australia or New Zealand, are encouraged to help tackle some of the most vital but challenging issues of corporate culture, public integrity and social responsibility in the world today, by visiting the project website and completing the threshold survey:

www.whistlingwhiletheywork.edu.au

 

Griffith has a range of experts available to provide analysis and commentary on the 2016 Federal Election.

Arts

Professor Scott Harrison is the Director, Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University, Professor Harrison can discuss funding for the Arts.

Media contact: Lauren Marino, 0418 799 544, [email protected]

Defence and regional security

Professor Andrew O’Neil – is Professor of Political Science and Head of the School of Government and International Relations at Griffith University. Prior to 2000, he worked with Australia’s Department of Defence. Professor O’Neil’s expertise includes;

Media contact: Stephen O’Grady, 0408 727 706, [email protected]

Economics

Professor Tony Makin has research expertise including;

Professor Fabrizio Carmignani has expertise in areas including

Education

Professor Donna Pendergast is Dean and Head of the School of Education and Professional Studies at Griffith University. Her areas of expertise include:

Media contact: Deborah Marshall, 0413 156 601, [email protected]

Professor Glenn Finger is with the School of Education and Professional Studies at Griffith University.Glenn can discuss:

Media contact: Deborah Marshall, 0413 156 601, [email protected]

Environment

Professor Brendan Mackey

Media contact: Melinda Rogers, 0478 494 898 [email protected]

Foreign policy, refugees

Media contact: Stephen O’Grady, 0408 727 706, [email protected]

Health

Media contact: Louise Durack, 0419 649 516, [email protected]

Housing

Professor Paul Burton – is Director of the Griffith University’s Urban Research Program. His expertise includes;

Media contact: Melinda Rogers, 0478 494 898 [email protected]

Productivity; Employment; Union influence

Media contact: Stephen O’Grady, 0408 727 706, [email protected]

Superannuation, negative gearing, taxation

Media contact: Stephen O’Grady, 0408 727 706, [email protected]

Tourism

Professor Susanne Becken – Government investment in tourism; Tourism policy analysis

Media contact: Stephen O’Grady, 0408 727 706, [email protected]

Transport

Associate Professor Matthew Burke is with Griffith’s Urban Research Program. His areas of expertise include:

Media contact: Melinda Rogers, 0478 494 898 [email protected]

As a young girl growing up in a remote community in Queensland’s Mt Isa, Tiarnee Schafer, a proud Kalkadoon woman, never imagined how her life could be transformed through tertiary education.

Home-schooled throughout her primary years and then to Mt Isa for secondary, she finished school in 2011 and went straight into the workforce. She wasn’t sure she was ready for university, nor what she wanted to study. All she knew for certain was that she had a passion for working with and helping people.

The first in her family to attend university, Tiarnee is now in the third year of a double degree in business and psychologyat Griffith University and says her internship with CareerTrackers has opened doors to a world of opportunities.

She has interned with Caltex for two years and after completing her first internship obtained a part-time position in human resources with the company, working one day a week during university semester.

“The internship has given me a head start and has had such a positive impact on my life both personally and professionally,’’ she says.

“This internship experience has put me one step closer to achieving my goal of developing a career that I enjoy and am passionate about, as well as encouraging me to become a role model for other Indigenous people who want to attend university.”

Tiarnee has embraced her role as a student ambassador with CareerTrackers. Some of her roles include being an AIME mentor, a student ambassador with the Australian Society for the Study of Brain Impairment, Indigenous justice officer volunteer at a prison, mentor for opportunity hub Tamworth, student mentor for Mount Isa Schools for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students and encouraging students to pursue university pathways.

GUMURRII support

Tiarnee credits the GUMURRII Student Support Unit with helping her achieve her goals.

“Relocating to Brisbane from Mt Isa was one of the biggest challenges I have faced as I didn’t know many people in Brisbane and having to adapt to a completely different lifestyle was quite hard.

“But with support from GUMURRII students and staff I was able to meet these challenges.”

GUMURRI has also helped develop Tiarnee’s knowledge and experience. She will soon attend the first Indigenous-led suicide prevention conference in Alice Springs.

“This will not only help with my studies but also my healing journey,’’ she said.

 

 

 

Deputy Vice Chancellor (Engagement) Professor Martin Betts has launched Griffith University’s 10-year partnership with CareerTrackers Indigenous Internship Program at the GUMURRII Centre at Nathan campus.

CareerTrackers is a national non-profit organisation that provides a structured internship program for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander university students.

“Griffith is proud to have one of the largest undergraduate cohorts of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students in the country, and a focus for all of our students is to help them enhance their employability upon graduation,’’ Professor Betts said.

“Fifty-five internships with CareerTrackers have been completed to date by Griffith students, with seven students recently receiving academic awards for their efforts.

“I am also pleased to say that four of our alumni now work for CareerTrackers.”

Professor Betts acknowledged the organisations and partners at the launch supporting CareerTrackers’ students including Lend Lease, CBA, Gadens Law Firm, Supreme Court QLD, Indigenous Business Australia and Reds Rugby Union.

“As I have learned on the journey to draft our new Reconciliation Action Plan, the work towards better outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people is everyone’s business,” Professor Betts said.

CareerTrackers CEO Michael Combs said it meant a lot to have Griffith University as one of its ten-year university partners.

“The Griffith students who have come through this program have been phenomenal, and this is about growing those students, providing opportunities not just for the students today but for their younger siblings and cousins who come through the program.”

Director of the GUMURRII Student Support Unit Mr Shane Barnes said that the working partnership between GUMURRI and CareerTrackers continued to flourish with great outcomes and individual achievements.

“CareerTrackers plays a critical role in transforming vocational prospects of our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander student body.

“For many students, they are first members of their family to undertake tertiary study. And for this reason they are held in very high regard by their families. This aptly demonstrates that partnerships build success.”

Griffith Sports College is celebrating the success of its members this week with 10 student athletes qualifying for the Rio Olympics.

Six students, including Cameron “The Professor” McEvoy and para-athlete Rowan Crothers, qualified during the Australian Swimming Championships with other students qualifying in rowing and water polo.

Cam McEvoy, a Bachelor of Science with Advanced Honours student, has made headlines around the world after he torched the trials pool with wins in the 200m, 100m and 50m freestyle, with his 100m time setting a new Commonwealth and Australian record.

His swimming cap, which showed the signature of a gravitational wave as a tribute to Albert Einstein and his love of science, has also intrigued the world.

World champion 4x100m relay gold medallist Emma McKeon, smiling poolside

Bachelor of Public Health (Health Promotion) student Emma McKeon will make her Olympic debut at Rio.

Upcoming and coming swim star Emma McKeon, a Bachelor of Public Health (Health Promotion) student, is making her Olympic debut after qualifying in five events

“This is something that I have wanted to do from a very young age, so now that I’ve made the team I’m still a bit overwhelmed,” she said.

“I think it is just know that I still have a lot of hard work to do in the lead up to the Games is keeping me pretty grounded.

In the lead up to Rio, the Griffith Sports College will be working closely with its students to ensure they continue to balance their sporting commitments with their studies.

“The Sports College has supported me so much over the last few years in balancing my swimming and studies,” Emma said.

“It makes it a lot easier staying on top of things knowing you have that support when things start to get busy or overwhelming with training, competition and travel.”

Griffith Sports College Director Duncan Free OAM.

Griffith Sports College Director Duncan Free OAM.

Griffith Sports College Director and former Olympic gold medallist Duncan Free OAM said one of the best things about his job is watching our students on their journeys.

“It’s always extremely enjoyable to track a student’s sporting results, particularly leading into an Olympic Games,” he said.

“The support we provide them makes that bit of difference to allow them to achieve such great things and it’s nice to think that Griffith Sports College had a small role in that.”

Duncan anticipates another four students will also qualify for Rio with their trials coming up over the next few weeks.

Our Rio athletes

Bachelor of Public Relations and Communications student Rowan Crothers has been awarded the first Griffith University and Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games Sporting Excellence Scholarship.

Bachelor of Public Relations and Communications student Rowan Crothers.

Jess Hall, rowing (Bachelor of Psychological Science)

Madeleine Edmunds, rowing (Bachelor of Business)

Emma McKeon, swimming (Bachelor of Public Health, Health Promotion)

Jessica Ashwood, swimming (Bachelor of Psychological Science/Bachelor of Criminology and Criminal Justice)

Madison Wilson, swimming (Bachelor of Social Work)

Cameron McEvoy, swimming (Bachelor of Science with advanced honours)

Ashleigh Southern, water polo (Bachelor of Business)

David Edwards, para-cycling (Bachelor of Psychology honours)

Rowan Crothers, swimming para-events (Bachelor of Public Relations and Communications)

Matthew McShane, wheelchair basketball (Bachelor of Industrial Design)

 

Likely to qualify for Olympic selection

Domonic Bedggood, diving (Bachelor of Sport Development)

Tameka Butt, soccer (Master Business/Master Marketing)

Clare Polkinhorne, soccer (Master Criminology and Criminal Justice)

Nakita Pablo, synchronised swimming (Bachelor of Science)

One of Griffith University’s most generous and enthusiastic supporters, Mr Jock McIlwain (OAM, DUniv), has passed away. He was 89.

Acknowledged as a man who helped shape the modern Gold Coast, Mr McIlwain was a fervent believer in the value and power of education.

The former engineer, developer, city councillor and Chamber of Commerce president received an Honorary Doctorate from Griffith University in 2013.

Over many years Mr McIlwain and his wife Beverly formed a formidable philanthropic partnership, creating and supporting programs covering education, the arts and more to benefit the people and the city of Gold Coast.

Griffith University began its long-standing association with the McIlwains in 2005 with the launch of the Science on the GO outreach project, encouraging secondary students to pursue studies in advanced mathematics and science.

Mr Jock McIlwain side-on shot

Mr Jock McIlwain: “You never stop seeking and finding.”

“What I love about science has never changed in all these years. You never stop seeking and finding,” said Mr McIlwain in a 2013 interview before receiving his Honorary Doctorate.

“Everything you learn takes you to something or somewhere else, to some other door that needs to be opened. I like opening doors and finding what’s behind them.”

Griffith University Vice Chancellor and President, Professor Ian O’Connor, today paid tribute to Mr McIlwain.

“Every time Jock visited Griffith University he would talk about his belief in education being the key to the future,” said Professor O’Connor.

“He loved talking to the students and the academics and he matched that enthusiasm with such generous support. The University and the city of Gold Coast have lost a great friend.”

Born in Suva, Fiji, on Boxing Day in 1926, the course of John Robert (Jock) McIlwain’s life was influenced by the engineering work he observed being conducted in Fiji by the New Zealand and US militaries during World War II.

After high school he joined Fiji’s Public Works Department as a cadet engineer, then studied engineering at Sydney University before joining the Snowy Mountains Authority and becoming a leading designer on the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Scheme.

He moved to the Gold Coast in 1959 and was a major figure in an era of rapid development alongside the likes of Sir Bruce Small.

Elected to the city council in 1966, a year later Mr McIlwain first advocated the need for a tertiary presence on the Gold Coast.

“A university brings maturity and depth to a city and even back then I could see what that could mean for a growing city like the Gold Coast,” he said.

In recognition of the McIlwains’ commitment to education, Griffith University established the Beverly and Jock McIlwain Award for Excellence in Science.

Furthermore, the Science on the GO-McIlwain Award for Science Education is awarded annually to Gold Coast science teachers.

In June 2015, Mr McIlwain was awarded a Medal in the Order of Australia (OAM) for his service to the community through arts and educational organisations. That same year he was inducted into the Gold Coast Business Hall of Fame.

His wife Beverly continues Mr McIlwain’s legacy.

Words by Mostyn Bramley-Moore, Professor of Fine Art, Queensland College of Art

Like many Australians of my generation, most of my ancestors came from Britain. However, there was one elusive branch from Sweden.Those relatives were part of the diaspora of the late 19th — early 20th Centuries, when over 1.3 million Swedes emigrated.

The first organised Swedish population movement to Australia took place between 1871 and 1910, and those dates look right with regard to my family, but whoever the individuals were and when exactly they arrived, they didn’t cling onto their Scandinavian identities post-arrival.

Stories and bits and pieces of cultural practice have lingered behind them, but they anglicised their names and blended into the general population with such clinical efficiency we’ve never been able to properly document them.

I first visited Sweden in 1977, after finishing art school in New York, driven by family curiosity, a desire to see the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, basic wander-lust and possession of a Eurail pass. I’ve been back a few times since then, and always found it to be a thought-provoking place.

In 2009 my eldest son moved to Sweden with his family, when his wife was awarded a university fellowship in genetics. They’ve enjoyed living in Scandinavia, speak fluent Swedish and don’t look like coming back to Australia any time soon.

In 2015, on sabbatical from Queensland College of Art Griffith University, I spent all of November at the Valand Academy (University of Gothenburg). Valand kindly provided a studio, which I used nearly every day. Europe was in the thrall of a refugee crisis and financial dramas. I arrived over-heated physically and intellectually from the Venice Biennale, a Jean-Michel Basquiat survey in Bilbao, a hectic week in Berlin and an unseasonably warm autumn. I plunged into a period of cool self-reflection.

Sweden has an intriguing atmosphere of blankness, or so it seems to me, and it is therefore an eminently suitable place for soul-searching. I drew each day and thought about what I wanted to do over the next few years. I didn’t start with the idea that anything I was making would be exhibitable. I took a lot of photographs. I didn’t do anything large and I luxuriated in neither showing anything nor explaining anything to anybody. I don’t think I was quite a flâneur, because I was fairly driven with my self-questioning and planning, but this could be conceit speaking.

On December 1st I boarded a late night flight to Baltimore, carrying with me a suitcase full of crumpled clothes, books and papers. Here, in this exhibition, are some of those pieces of paper that most look like drawings.

SWEDEN
Drawings by Mostyn Bramley-Moore
Watters Gallery, Sydney, 27 April to 14 May 2016