Last Days of the Mill

New Projects

Pete Hay and Tony Thorne are continuing their collaboration in words and pictures with two recent public art commissions.

The first is for the Central Highlands Health Centre at Ouse, where we will be making art for the central corridor inspired by the scenery of the area and the stories of the locals. (Top two images).

The second is for the new gymnasium and walkways at Risdon Prison. The bottom image is a style guide for what will be sandblasted at a huge scale onto the gymnasium wall.

New Last Days of the Mill Shop

Buy books, original prints and postcards at our new shop:

http://www.etsy.com/shop/TonyThorneArt

From the Advocate

Last Days Wins People's Award

The Tasmania Book Prize - People's Choice Award

For the best book with Tasmanian content in any genre

"Last Days of the Mill", Pete Hay and Tony Thorne (Forty Degrees South)

Thanks to all those who voted for the book.

Vote

There are only a few days left to vote in the Peoples Choice Awards for the Tasmanian Book Prize.
Vote for Last Days of the Mill here.

Tasmania Book Prize

Last Days of the Mill has been shortlisted for the Tasmanian Book Prize.

A quote from Dael Allison's review of Last Days of the Mill
from “famous reporter” 44 (2012)
ISSN 0819-5978

The Poet

Pete Hay was born and raised on Tasmania's North-West Coast. He is a poet, essayist and social theorist who taught geography, politics and philosophy at the University of Tasmania until he retired to get a life. He has worked as a political minder, and has dabbled in activism and public affairs commentary, but is a refugee from all that, too. His once-endless slate of interests have now shrunk back to the beauty within language, music, cricket, football, the extraordinary cacophony of life on earth - and the marvellous stories that ordinary people carry with them. Except that he is of the opinion that no person is truly ordinary. His most recent publications are Main Currents in Western Environmental Thought (social theory), Vandiemonian Essays (personal essays), Silently On The Tide (poems) and, with the photographer Matthew Newton, the photo essay with text, The Forests.

The Artist

Tony Thorne is a Burnie boy. He is an animator, an illustrator and an artist who learned to draw on the Burnie Bond paper his grandfather would bring home from the mill. In the summers while at art school he would work maintenance shut downs at the mill.

He has illustrated books of Tasmanian aboriginal poetry and worked for magazines such as Australian RollingStone. He has animated on many feature films including several in the Harry Potter series. His art for Last Days of the Mill has been exhibited in both Burnie and Hobart and some of the works are now held in the Burnie Regional Art Gallery collection.