Magic of the Daintree Belonging Travelling Exhibition Melbourne Royal Botanic Gardens - 2004 Sydney Australian Museum - 2004 Canberra Museum & Gallery - 2005 Orange Regional Art Gallery - 2005 Adelaide Botanic Gardens - 2005 Brisbane Museum - 2005 Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery - 2006 1995 Gold Medal for Animation, Palma International Festival. Family, society, sustainability, the environment, car-free urban spaces, Australian outback and wildlife. Her work focusses on a diverse range of issues including. A series of her collages created for the book Belonging formed part of a travelling exhibition 2004–present. These collages are considered works of art in themselves. Jeannie Baker is known for her use of mixed media to create detailed and elaborate collages, she has developed a very individual style that is distinctly recognisable. Observed through the window of a house, a city street gradually becomes a place to call home as the inhabitants begin to rescue their street by planting grass. Jeannie Baker is an English author and illustrator of a number of children's picture books, the most notable of which is perhaps Where the Forest meets the Sea.īaker was born in Croydon, England and attended art college at Brighton Polytechnic before emigrating to Australia in 1975 and becoming a children's writer Designed to be read side by side - one from the left and the other from the right -these intriguing stories are told entirely through richly detailed collage illustrations. Their lives may at first seem quite unalike, but a closer look reveals that there are many things, some unexpected, that connect them as well. In this ingenious, wordless picture book, readers are invited to compare, page by page, the activities and surroundings of children in two different cultures. Meanwhile, in a small village in Morocco, a boy and his family go through their own morning routines and set out to a bustling market. Somewhere in Sydney, Australia, a boy and his family wake up, eat breakfast, and head out for a busy day of shopping. (An innovative, two-in-one picture book follows a parallel.)Īn innovative, two-in-one picture book follows a parallel day in the life of two families: one in a Western city and one in a North African village.

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