Riddells Creek

Who have you got tomorrow?

Did I hit you, idiot? I'd be walking over to Riddells Creek if I didn't.

[laughs]

Do you know how nervous I was? I'm, I'm sitting at this gig in Kyneton at the Albion Hotel.

I'll save that for maybe a couple weeks' time.

Uh, yeah, that, that was, uh, that was nervous times, Morgs.

Did you think I was walking to Riddells Creek?

I did, mate.

Uh, north of Melbourne.

A little place called, uh, Riddells Creek, I think they live now.

It's just near Hismans.

Hopefully come home one day.

I'm putting my, I'm putting everything on the line.

And if this doesn't happen, if George Pickens doesn't score a touchdown, I will walk the equivalent from South Yarra to Riddles Creek on a treadmill.

In fact, I'll do seven hours of commercial football on a treadmill in me lounge room.

I'm that confident.

Morag, thank you for sharing that.

Eric in Riddells Creek.

Hi, Eric.

Good morning.

But there's definitely a feeling of driving through small towns and on the weekends going with mum and dad all through to up to Castlemaine and to Dalesford.

And I grew up in sort of Riddles Creek, Gisborne sort of area, so underneath Mount Macedon.

So there was a lot of beautiful landscape to go through, but our farm was quite dry and arid and there wasn't much on it.

And I suppose observationally my work now is very much about the imaginary place and a sort of emotional climate more than a place itself.

So I never want to pinpoint it.

And I've never gone out and done plein air drawing or painting.

It's always important for me to... change the land the real landscape somehow in my mind so that it becomes more interesting to me yeah yeah i'm not i'm not one just to do observational drawings and just do it to get things right or to try to make it look like the real thing it's never interested me so i love the idea of the memories coming through and just small things that i might see that have come through without me knowing like autobiographically they could be like riddles creek had a lot of bridges for example old bluestone bridges so So especially now they've come through without me knowing they have come through in quite a few of the works recently and I do think back and think, okay, that's because we drove under them a lot.

Yeah.