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["Ian Marr" <ianmarr@zzzzzzzzzzz>]

         I should add current projects to the last message:
               *We are planning an organization similar to Harriet Fraser's
excellent "Memorials by Artists", for the region of Australia, New Zealand,
& the Pacific.John Pitt & Jamie Sargeant, (who have both recently abandoned
the quiet provincialism of England in favour of the more cosmopolitan buzz
of Australia (:-) > , raising their levels of vitamin D in the process) will
be involved, but we also warmly invite other lettercutter/designers with an
interest in beautiful, individually conceived , hand-made memorials, to make
contact & become involved.Initially, please contact me: we hope to lease a
workshop overlooking Sydney Harbour at Chowder Bay from the Harbour Trust.Of
course, clients seeking such memorials , from Pitcairn Island to Parrabadoo,
should also make contact.
               *I want to post soon a draft guide to lettercutting, which I
have prepared for an adult education workshop here in Orange in January,
2005, & when I do will welcome some peer review.
                *Please look out , in a minute, for my "Wine Alphabet: from
Ampelography to Zinfandel", cut in Ravensfield Sandstone ( known to
stonemasons as Kurri Shincracker), which will be available online at my
site, with original music by Nero Leadstone.
                *An exhibition of stone & drawings will be opened at the
Washouse Gallery, Rozelle, Sydney, entitled WORKS & DAYS (from Hesiod) on
October 26, 2004. All welcome. Chamber music from Rosemarie Joblonski,
Olivia Joblonski, & Campbell Barnes. http://www.washhousegallery.com.au
                  *When you-all come to Australia, you must come & visit,
for as one stone (from Homer) says ," No stranger shall go empty from our
door, for we ourselves have eaten the bread of strangers in other lands."

 I was born in 1957, married to Penny, an editor, & two children, Isobel &
Thomas.
Well, I've told you far more than you needed to know, but far less than I
have to say.    Ian.