Bundanoon Photographers Peter Gray and Meg Nurse have joined forces to present the Eclectica Photographic Exhibition at the Bowral and District Art Society, 1 Short Street, Bowral.

They have kindly invited me to join them to share the space. 

I have been busy framing some prints in preparation.

The final selection of my images is yet to be made but I am leaning towards featuring "Our Fragile Planet" - there are a number of stark images showing the impact of wildfires in our Alpine regions and contrasting images of beautiful patterns in nature - tree trunks and rock pools.

I intend to sell any of the framed images and stretched canvas pictures on display.

Bowral and District Art Society, 1 Short Street, Bowral
12-16 February 2026.
10.00am - 4.00pm.

The Federal Member for Banks held a Photography competition for residents of the Banks Electorate. Over 300 different photographers entered one image each. There were several given Commendation certificates and another few were Finalists. My infrared photo of the Oatley train station was a Finalist.

In Bundanoon there is a local group that have a small competition every month. For the November 2024 "Portrait" topic my picture of an interesting chap taken in the Rocks area of Sydney shared the President's Cup.

Images by Peter Kneen (C)

Measuring 1800mm x 1050mm across this magnificient bespoke solid piece of red gum would make a very distinctive dining table.

Images by Peter Kneen - Artisan and Photograhy

Design Work on the Spire from 1973

My initial involvement with Sir Roy Grounds and the design of the Spire followed on from a meeting with senior engineers from John Connell and Associates (JCA) at a Conference about Tall Buildings at the University of Sydney in 1973. As a result I was engaged to carry out a complete design check on the four large spaceframe roof structures proposed for the Collins Place Project and another four roofs for the Canberra Hospital Services Complex.

At the end of being briefed on these two projects, we were in Andrew Goad’s office (JCA) and on the wall behind there was a drawing of a tall tapering lattice tower. It turned out that this was the state of play for the design of the Spire for the Victorian Arts Centre - later renamed the Melbourne Arts Centre.