My first artist residency at the South Australian Museum

The wonderful people at the South Australian Museum last month welcomed me to a unique experience with their Cretaceous marine reptiles.

For some years now I've been working with the idea of Australia's inland sea deserts. The South Australian Museum has one of the two best collections in Australia of fossils, some of them opalised, from these areas. (The other is in Queensland.)

My guides at the Museum kept me strictly on the Cretaceous path whenever I was tempted to deviate into say, Pre-Cambrian treasures. Ignoring my pleas: Are you sure there were none of these ferns in my inland sea?, my palaeontologist and carer would steer me towards a fabulous Icthyosaur with opalised bones.

Next post: In the Museum Vaults