Alphabet Foundation

I've been a bit lapse of late and the reason is that I've been lending a hand to M's charity, the Alphabet Foundation, which he set up with his long term friend Peter. Peter spent some time in the refugee camps on the Thai/ Burmese border and came back vowing to do something about the lack of educational support for kids in camps throughout SE Asia.

To mark the official opening, the Alphabet Foundation have teamed up with a number of Australian big name artists, sports and television personalities who have created individual art pieces based on the letters of the alphabet. These will be sold at a silent auction which will be held at Art Sydney next weekend.

Some of the paintings are political, and reference the regimes under which the refugees live. Others, like the sculpture by 'V' by Vince Frost or 'F is for Frog' by Cash Brown, were based on the artists own childhood. There are a couple of newsworthy paintings too - including 'X marks the spot', a collaboration between artist Adam Cullen and a Roger Rogerson, where the latter has pretty much admitted a crime he was held responsible for in the court of public opinion but let off in the early '80's. M has also done a painting and has got lots of press for it too.

One of the artists, the now NSW Minister for Arts, Peter Garrett, was the lead singer in the brilliant band 'Midnight Oil'. He hasn't changed a bit... wish I could say the same!