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Technology Comes Of Age In The LTC World
The goal of sensor technology is to identify possible future chronic illnesses.
Long term care and technology are becoming more comfortable partners in the drive to improve the lives of seniors and to create new economic efficiencies.
But the form of this push for high-tech solutions is moving beyond just the latest advances in software for electronic health records (EHRs) and telemedicine to other specialized fields, like sensor technology.
It is here, experts say, that real promise is being shown in advancing from relatively basic sensors that track heart rates and oxygen flows to more precise and in-depth health monitoring for seniors living independently and in skilled nursing care or assisted living communities.
What Sensors Can Do
The goal of sensor technology is to allow clinicians an early peek at possible future chronic illnesses for those not yet under full-time care.
Then, later it can be an unobtrusive companion in a facility setting to detect falls; measure restlessness while sleeping; and keep nurses, doctors, and residents and their families informed with the latest cutting-edge data.
Sensors and tracking programs like imaging technology are by no means the norm in every skilled nursing care or assisted living community, but the hardware does represent another option for providers to consider.
Sensors Deliver Data
Sensor technology developers say the up-front cost of buying their creations is well worth it, as the aim is to make quality of care better and cheaper in the long run. They point to new-generation hardware that allows not only for the increased safety of the elderly, but also the ability to collect data that will benefit individual seniors and the broader long term care community.
In seeking a closer look at these tools, it makes sense to start with the University of Missouri. This is where sensor research and development have a home base, considering that the school's innovative multidisciplinary Center for Eldercare & Rehabilitation Technology and real-life seniors' health research "laboratory" Tiger Place (named after the school's mascot) are here.
Researchers working across the nursing, engineering, and computer fields at the university have come together to dig into the issue of how sensors and imaging hardware can be used to keep seniors living independently for longer durations than was previously possible. And, once in a facility-based setting, the hardware attached to software in EHRs can improve residents' lives by tracking chronic conditions more ably.
New Vistas
Some examples of these projects—which have won grant awards from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), among others—include subjects like Linguistic Summarization of Sensor Data for Early Illness Recognition in Eldercare, EAGER: An In-Home Health Alert System with Remote Care Coordination, and Technology to Automatically Detect Falls and Assess Fall Risk in Seniors Housing.
Current and past research at the university is attempting many different things, but the overarching goal is to set benchmarks for those studied at Tiger Place and elsewhere for gauging how sensors and imaging can shift the quality and cost dynamics, says Marilyn Rantz, curators' professor emerita, nursing lead,
School of Nursing at the University of Missouri in Columbia.
"When Tiger opened [in 2004], we hoped that we would have infrastructure in place to test the development of sensor technology…to give us technological solutions to help people age in place," Rantz says.
"So two years before Tiger opened, I went to the College of Engineering and said, 'We need you to help us and come on this journey.' I did a presentation and challenged them to build technology to help address the complicated problems of aging, because as a researcher I've seen the same problems essentially throughout the whole 40 years of my nursing career."
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Typical 'Senior Problems'
Those "same problems" revolve around functional decline, incontinence, malnutrition, and cognition slippage.
"Many of us had been researchers who had attempted to define good solutions to those problems, but really over the long haul, we have not made much of an impact," Rantz says.
But when the engineering department stepped forward, notably in the form of Marjorie Skubic, PhD, then things started to happen, she says. Skubic is Rantz's longtime co-conspirator of sorts in seeking technological advances to aid seniors. She is the director of the eldercare center and a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Missouri, Columbia.
Over the past decade plus, the two, along with others at the school and across the country, have advanced the case for sensors. In the initial days of their work, the team at Missouri developed methods for automating a new depth image sensor, since patented, which focuses on fall detection and fall-risk technology.
"We did an interesting grant that was funded by AHRQ where we looked at radar technology, and Marge had a hit at the same time on a National Science Foundation grant. So we combined our efforts and installed at Tiger a whole battery of different potential sensors to do the fall-risk assessment and measure it simultaneously while we were doing a clinical trial on measuring fall risk against standardized instruments that you typically used to measure fall risk," Rantz says.
What the pair discovered is that vision-based sensors worked better than radar-based devices for the purposes of commercialization, and that is where they continued to put their efforts as new versions of their sensors were developed over the years. The vision sensor looks like a camera with its "eye" or lens, but does not take traditional pictures as it instead "searches for measurements on distances of moving objects in front of it," Rantz says.
The Ultimate Goal
All told, the lessons learned at Tiger Place are that one can increase the length of stay in seniors housing by 2.5 years by adding sensor technology, along with nurse care coordination, and improve lives in the facility setting.
"It's stunning. You can actually do this and measure this," Rantz says. And it is not terribly expensive and will get cheaper as time moves on, she adds. "With nurse care coordination it is $300 to $350 a month to pay for sensors and the cost of storage for the data."
Tiger Place researchers are also working on other applications of technology for facilities. For instance, Rantz says, as part of a project funded by a CMS grant, her team is running a demonstration in 16 skilled nursing care centers. Staff in the centers are learning to use secure communication technology in addition to EHRs. Secure communication with other providers speeds up and improves the accuracy of the work of advanced practice nurses who are providing care to residents with more acute illnesses.
"For many of [the nursing centers], the only part of the health record that is electronic is billing and for MDS in the nursing home setting. And assisted living is even further behind," Rantz says. But her team has encouraged the centers to start using secure communication methods and portals to capture EHR
information to straighten out medication records when a person goes back and forth to the hospital. "And they're getting up to speed," she says.
The research team also is working on assisted living applications. It is installing sensors so that automated alerts from the data become part of the normal workflow to inform staff decision making. With the sensors helping them, staff can detect increasing fall risk and health changes two to three or more weeks before the resident falls or has a serious change in health that requires hospital care.
"These are new ideas for clinical staff. At first they react with a healthy dose of skepticism, but after awhile they come to rely on [general] fall-risk alerts, health alerts, and real-time alerts of falls detected by the sensors," Rantz says.
Technology Evolves
From the engineering side, it has been important to make the technology as invisible as possible to the user, Skubic says. Her research team began by using simple motion sensors, coupled with a basic sensor (about an inch wide and several inches long, flexible, and about one-quarter inch thick) that was positioned on top of a mattress under the person's upper torso, which was not ideal as far as keeping the sensor hidden. The sensor detected energy changes from the person and transmitted it as a wave form that could be analyzed.
In the case of Skubic's work of caring for the elderly, the first such sensors deployed on tops of beds and allowed researchers to gauge whether bed restlessness, qualitative heart rates, and respiration rates were low, normal, or high. But the system in use today has evolved and improved with a much better bed-sensor device that is now placed below the mattress, making it less obtrusive. "Some residents had complained," Skubic says.
These newer sensors also do much more than their predecessors, giving quantitative measurements of pulse rates, respiration, and restlessness.
"These are actual heart and respiration rates, and through the data you can see clear ballistocardiogram signals of people as they sleep without the sensor having any contact on the body," she says. The term ballistic refers to the mechanical effect of the blood flowing through the body. It is similar to the well-known electrocardiogram that most people are familiar with, which measures the electrical activity in the heart.
Data Predict Fall Risk
The Missouri researchers also have been using depth cameras, or depth sensors. These produce a depth image wherein each pixel of the image is measured for its distance to the nearest object.
"We use that depth sensor to track people. And what we get is a three-dimensional silhouette of people moving around" protecting privacy as the image is not overly detailed, Skubic says. "From that we can compute walking speed, gait parameters, walking time, stride time, stride length, and sway, which sometimes represents balance issues."
These walking measurements and movement data are invaluable in determining if fall risk is on the rise for patients. "Of course we would like to eliminate falls," she says. "So if you know somebody is at increasing risk of falling, then if you can get them some kind of intervention, and usually as this has something to do with balance issues, then you can prevent the fall. We also do automated, immediate fall detection using these same depth sensors, so that people don't end up lying on the floor for a long period of time."
There are other ways these and related sensors can give nurses and other clinicians very early warnings to potential health problems. An example Skubic gives is that sensors indicate when somebody may have a urinary tract infection (UTI). This can be detected through analysis of the sensor data and imaging because some of the many signs of UTI complications, even before they become a full-blown infection, are related to gait and bed restlessness, as well as more frequent use of the bathroom.
"By monitoring with these motion sensors, it is pretty easy to detect changes in behavior," she says. "We have caught congestive heart failure because of sleeping patterns, as another example. It is all about breaking the cycle of rehospitalization, which is where these conditions, if not caught, will likely lead."
A Company Is Born
The commercial offshoot of the work being done at the University of Missouri is in the control of George Chronis, PhD, chief executive officer and co-founder of Foresite Healthcare in St. Louis, Mo., which started operations in 2013. The company markets products on an exclusive basis from the work done at the university for, among other things, the early detection of strokes and fall prevention, Chronis says.
Foresite has two products for two different platforms. One, called Foresight Patientcare, is for acute care, and another, Foresite Eldercare, is for assisted living, skilled nursing, and memory care centers, as well as independent living, Chronis says.
The Eldercare platform consists of the actual sensors, the computer software to turn the data collected by the devices into actionable medical information for a patient, and the services that connect the technology to medical staff. The goal of the product is to increase both resident safety and the length of stay for patients at their current level of care.
"So if you are in independent living you stay there. If you are in assisted living, you stay there as long as possible," he says.
The way the technology works is by having the system of sensors installed, which range from motion sensors to bed sensors to imaging sensors and through these devices collect data over long periods of time. This in turn, Chronis says, allows the system to create algorithms via artificial intelligence (AI).
AI allows for the analysis of the data that can compare changes over time so that caregivers can look for patterns in patients' medical conditions and behaviors.
"When such matches between the changes of data are found, then the system will issue an illness alert to the health care professionals," Chronis says. This allows the nurse or doctor to go into the system and look at what these changes are and potentially discover how they have affected the health of other residents in the past. These benchmarks can lead to better care coordination via shareable EHRs as issues arise and are documented.
A Big Plus For Patients
The combination of having data from sensors for use on the clinical side is where patients can benefit with better and smarter care, and where providers can save money from getting to a problem before it blossoms into something much more serious.
"The effect we have seen from this technology in length-of-stay statistics is that the stays have more than doubled, almost tripled. We have seen studies by our clients that have shown length of stay moving from 1.8 years to over four years," Chronis says.
Like any technology, the sensors have an up-front cost. "But you don't have to wait too long to see the [return on investment]," he says. "Say you are in independent living and have to have a home nurse: a costly service, present five hours a day for assistance at $20 an hour, which is the typical rate. It is much more efficient and cost-effective [to have] a system like this that can send data and monitor remotely for $200 a month. If it turns out a nurse is needed, they can take it from there."
Home Monitoring Assistance
Another player in the commercialized sensor space is Right at Home, which provides in-home monitoring services, according to Mike Flair, vice president of franchise business solutions. He says the company offers two different remote care systems through its partnership with Philips: Well-Being Monitoring service and Routine Check-In service.
"The Well-Being Monitoring consists of small sensors placed in key areas of the home based on a client's normal activity. When changes in pattern are examined, Right at Home will contact the client for a well-being check," he says.
The Routine Check-In service also schedules virtual, face-to-face visits with clients on a provided tablet in order to engage in light social interaction as well as note mental awareness and hygiene. "At the moment, we have more clients participating in the Well-Being services," Flair says.
For seniors not yet in need of skilled nursing or other supervised living, the sensors allow for individuals to live independently in their homes, yet still keep their family members and care providers aware of their health.
As for privacy concerns or the devices disrupting normal life, Flair notes that feedback from users and their families has been "very positive," since the technology works for such an important purpose.
Putting IT Into Perspective
Bringing technology to bear in health care and, more specifically, in long term care, is something that Gregory Alexander, PhD, a nursing school professor at the University of Missouri, Columbia, has been examining for years. His work has delved into many different aspects of the issues of why technology in long term care has lagged, with the obvious reasons being tight profit margins, along with a lack of executive leadership and a workforce to manage sophisticated systems.
"I don't think it is just money. For example, there are differences in for-profit and not-for-profit [long term care providers]," Alexander says. "The not-for-profits tend to have greater sophistication of IT than for-profit, but we don't necessarily know why."
It is also not as easy to say there is better technology in more urban skilled nursing care centers or assisted living communities vs. their rural counterparts, with some rural operators quite ahead of the pack on bringing technology into their daily operations. It just depends on whether the leadership of a center or chain makes technology upgrades a priority or has experience in tech-related work.
But there are monetary and market-based incentives, like referrals from acute-care hospitals, to avoid rehospitalizations and other medical problems, Alexander says. Citing an initiative in Missouri to improve quality, he says communication and tracking of patients is at the center of the effort, be they with sensors and EHRs or solely EHRs and sharing the documents of care.
"The overall goal is to reduce avoidable readmissions. Both hospitals and nursing homes are being held accountable for readmission rates," he says. "If we can eliminate them, it helps both sides of the equation."


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(NASDAQ: AMZN) — Amazon today announces the launch of Amazon Music for Brazil, bringing customers millions of songs and thousands of playlists and stations ad-free, with two music streaming tiers. Beginning today, customers can access Amazon Music Unlimited, the premium music streaming tier with unlimited access to more than 50 million songs, including chart-topping releases from Brazilian and International artists including Pabllo Vittar, Post Malone, Ivete Sangalo, Billie Eilish, Gustavo Mioto and many more, along with locally curated playlists and stations, developed specifically for today's music fan in Brazil. This follows Tuesday's launch of Amazon Prime in Brazil, offering members a selection of more than two million songs at no additional cost to their Prime membership. Customers can learn more about Amazon Music, and begin a three-month free trial for the Unlimited tier today at amazon.com.br/music.
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GDPR and CAN-SPAM – A Comparison for US Emailers
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If you're an email marketer in the United States, you're already familiar with CAN-SPAM – at least I hope you are! Since its inception in 2003, the CAN-SPAM Act has provided a framework enabling companies to email their clients and prospects while remaining compliant with regulatory rules. The law is fairly straightforward and after almost 15 years, marketers have shown it is entirely feasible to build a highly productive email marketing program, while being compliant.
In May, 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into being and provided a whole new set of rules with regard to the collection and usage of consumer data – creating major impacts for companies marketing into the European Union (EU). Many digital marketing channels have been dramatically impacted by the new regulation, as noted in plenty of articles, white papers, and other published content. While the impacts on programmatic advertising, location-based marketing, and numerous other areas have been covered extensively, I haven't seen that much discussion about email marketing.
For email marketers already running successful programs under the auspices of CAN-SPAM, how is GDPR different from what they are already doing? (*Note – I'm going to keep the comparison at a high level. For more specifics on the similarities and differences between CAN-SPAM and GDPR, you should look at each piece of legislation and compare the details.)
This is one of the major differences between CAN-SPAM and GDPR. CAN-SPAM allows the sending of unsolicited email to recipients, as long as an appropriate opt-out mechanism is included in the message and unsubscribe requests are honored in future campaigns. GDPR builds on the already existing requirement in the EU that email recipients must have provided consent (or opted-in) prior to receiving email. A similar opt-out process is also required.
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Q: Apex Email Error: Invalid toAddress I am receiving the following exception when trying to send an email through Apex:

Exception: System.EmailException: SendEmail failed. First exception on
  row 0; first error: INVALID_EMAIL_ADDRESS, Email address is invalid:
  "jfort@gmail.com": [toAddresses,
  "jfort@gmail.com"]

Apex code to send email:
    try {
        // Create an email invitation for everyone in the contacts list
        if (!contacts.isEmpty()) {
            List<Messaging.SingleEmailMessage> emails = new List<Messaging.SingleEmailMessage>();
            for (String contact : contacts) {
                Messaging.SingleEmailMessage email = new Messaging.SingleEmailMessage();
                System.debug('TO ADDRESS: ' + new String[] {contact});
                email.setToAddresses(new String[] {contact});
                email.setOrgWideEmailAddressId('0D250000000TQTP') ;
                email.setSubject('Invitation');
                email.setHtmlBody('Please click the link to accept invitation: Invitation' );
                emails.add(email);
            }

        // Send the email invitations
        List<Messaging.SendEmailResult> sendEmailResults = Messaging.sendEmail(emails);

        // Returns feedback message if email was sent successfully or not
        for (Messaging.SendEmailResult result : sendEmailResults) {
            if (result.IsSuccess()) {
                emailSent = true;
                System.debug('Email sent successfully!');
            } else {
                System.debug('There was an error. The email was not sent.');
                System.StatusCode statusCode = result.getErrors()[0].getStatusCode();
                String errorMsg = result.getErrors()[0].getMessage();
                System.debug('Status code: ' + statusCode);
                System.debug('Error msg: ' + errorMsg);
            }
        }
    }

} catch (Exception e) {
    System.debug('Exception: ' + e);
}
}

Can anyone shine some light on this issue? It will send the email successfully when I hardcode the contact email like so email.setToAddresses(new String[] {'jfort@gmail.com'}) but not when I dynamically set the address.
EDIT:
    public void sendInvitations() {
    // Send out email invites to all contacts on list
    if (emailAddresses != null) {
        sendHigiInvite.sendEmail(emailAddresses, UserInfo.getSessionId());
        }
    }

contacts gets passed to this email method as a parameter List<String>. I check if it is null before passing it to the method. My log shows this as the value for contacts

10:22:03:007 USER_DEBUG [28]|DEBUG|CONTACTS: ("jfort@gmail.com", "jfortich@yahoo.com")

A: Do you perhaps have the quotes in the included string? As in "aaa@gmail.com" instead of just aaa@gmail.com? That could be it.

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Season after season, an army of Chelsea youngsters are sent out on loan all across Europe. This year, there are 40 Chelsea hopefuls eager to impress the Blues , but none are succeeding like Reece James.
The young full-back joined Wigan Athletic this summer to replace the coincidentally-named Reece James, who remained in League One with Sunderland.
The 18-year-old is drawing a huge amount of praise, with The Sun now claiming he is a £10m-target for Brighton and Hove Albion.
This is James' first taste of senior football, and he is truly excelling. He has made 17 appearances for the Championship side this season, of which 16 were starts, and has been one of Wigan's top performers.
He was named as the club's Player of the Month for both September and October, and could be in with a shout of winning his third consecutive award after netting his first senior goal against Leeds United. However, to those who have been closely following James' development, this will come as no surprise.
Many would claim that he is already the finest crosser of a ball in Chelsea's entire squad. During his time in youth football, James built a reputation as an expert crosser, offering one expert delivery after another, whilst his defensive ability has also never been in doubt.
Wigan's recent run of four consecutive defeats has seen them fall to 16th in the Championship, but that is by no means a fair indication of James' abilities. His crossing skills have been catching the eye all season, and his undying stamina has seen him develop into a superb influence at both ends of the field.
This is not the first time that a member of the Chelsea loan army has enjoyed a successful time away from the club. However, they rarely return and make an impact on the first team, but there is a serious belief that there may be a regular space for James at right-back next season.
Backup right-back Davide Zappacosta has failed to impress during his first year at the club, whilst first-choice defender Cesar Azpilicueta has been showing signs of decline. The Spaniard has been one of The Blues' most reliable options across the defensive lines in recent years, but superb one-on-one defending seems to be slowly disappearing from his repertoire.
Azpilicueta has recently turned 29, meaning he is certainly entering the latter stages of his career and, whilst there is no suggestion that his recent struggles are down to his age, Chelsea would be foolish not to be considering his long-term successor.
In an interview on Chelsea's official website, head of youth development Neil Bath admitted that the club prefer all their players to have at least 150 appearances in senior football before they enter the first-team at Chelsea, whether that be a youngster or a new signing.
By this logic, James would need at least two more full seasons away on loan before permanently returning to the club, but Chelsea should certainly look to accelerate his inclusion in the first-team, before another club opts to do so first.


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How to Write Great Support Letters
You've pushed through the awkwardness of asking the various friends, colleagues and acquaintances you know for an honours support letter. People are busy, and asking them to write a support letter feels like an imposition. (Maybe you've used our services to help.) But just getting any old letter really won't be sufficient. In order to support a nomination, a support letter needs to contain a few critical elements. So, what makes a great support letter? We'll break it down.
First-hand experience
Above all, your supporter must know your nominee personally. Everything they write about in their supporter letter should be from first-hand experience. So, that means you'll want to avoid hearsay and 2nd hand accounts. For example, let's say your nominee hosted a charity dinner for 100 guests and raised £125k on the night. That's great! It's exactly the sort of thing the committee would love to hear about. But to write about it, it would be great if the supporter was actually there. It also follows that friends of friends, superiors with no direct interactions or heads of organisations who have never met your nominee are not the ideal candidates for supporter letters.
Goes beyond the job
So few awards are given out each year and that's why it's so important that they go to the most deserving among us. So, your support letters should detail specific instances of accomplishments that are beyond 'just doing your job.' It's best not to assume the committee knows the context either. You'll want to provide enough flavour and backstory to bring the review panel on the journey, to show them why your nominee is extraordinary. Remember, this shouldn't read like a list of awards. You'll want to provide the right positioning to help the honours committee understand the significance of any award or accomplishment mentioned in the letter.
More than a CV
Similar to the prior topic, your supporter letters must be more than a CV. You'll want to avoid just listing the roles and positions your nominee has held. Being the CEO or Chairperson or Founder of anything is not (in and of itself) significant. There are thousands of people who create companies and organisations in this country every year. For your supporter letter to carry more weight, you want to set the scene for your nominee's important work. Perhaps look to answer the question, 'how has their career enabled them to reach the pinnacle of achievement?'
What makes them different
Your support letters should help the honours committee understand what makes your nominee different from others who are doing the same work. Do they have a personal connection? Are they overcoming a medical condition or disability? Have they been recognised as the pinnacle of their field by a reputable source? Remember that thousands of nominees are submitted every year and your supporters should; through their writing, help set your nominee apart from all the others by clearly outlining their uniqueness.
Be a legitimate source
It goes without saying that your supporter should be a person of good standing in the community. As with any character or professional reference, the more relevant they are, the more weight their words will carry. It could be considered particularly useful to request your supporter write only about what they are a qualified expert in observing. So, for those doing charity work, getting a letter of support from the local councilman who accepted the donation would be an excellent choice. They could speak on the direct impact your nominee's work has had on their constituency and share solid facts and figures.
Understandably, many people want help securing great support letters that will further a nomination. If you need assistance, let's talk about what Bayleaf Honours can do for you.
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In 2010, Woo was included in an exhibition at the Samstag Museum in Adelaide titled Abstract Nature. In 2008, Woo was awarded a $20,000 New Work grant by the Australia Council Visual Art Board and was included in the Biennial of Australian Art in Adelaide. She has completed major commissions for corporations including Visy Corp Australia, the Chinese World Trade Centre, Beijing, Shangri-la Hotel, Beijing; Four Seasons, Hong Kong; and the Ritz Calton Hotel, Shanghai, as well as being represented in private and public collections in Australia, Britain and Asia.
are evocative intimate visions, embedded with individual experiences. Painted in strong saturated tones, they portray expressive seascapes with tumultuous, unpredictable seas and stormy skies and often include images we may all recall of diving or tumbling into too-deep, dark waters.If they went only this far, they could be viewed as outward looking, non-sensual depictions of nature. However, there is something deeper going on. From their composition and palette, the paintings capture my mood and are imbued with a strong sense of emotion, illuminating the ever-present forces of nature.
In the isolation of my studio I immerse myself in imagined landscapes. These elicitations have their basis in reality, referencing plein air studies, but are more produced from a memory. They remain deeply sensual works and at times heightened with imagery of disturbing experiences – capturing the fear and awe that one experiences when confronted in nature by both the things we can see and the things we cannot.
My paintings are deeply personal; posing a metaphor for the fears and anxieties that gripped me as a child. I know I am not alone in these life experiences so I hope to emotionally engage, confront and connect with the viewer using such familiar symbolic images and shared experiences in the tradition of the Romantic painters of the past.
Dale Richards was offered his first solo show, when he was sixteen years old, in Devonport's The Little Gallery owned by Jean Thomas who supported a number of emerging artists from the NW Coast area.
Dale won the Owen Tooth Memorial residency and travel grant to France in 1974.The exposure to French culture and art was a huge inspirational lift to the young painter with great European artists work being easily accessible. After returning to Sydney and doing odd jobs, but always painting, Dale moved to Berlin in 1982 spending almost a year there, had a solo show at a renowned commercial experimental art space – Gallery Dia. Travelled through Europe for a while eventually returning to Sydney after a stint in New York and held a solo show at the Rex Irwin Gallery, Sydney. Dale shared studio space with numerous artists including Gary Shead who regards Dale as a very good painter. Despard Gallery first exhibited his paintings in 1993; the exhibition was titled 'The incoming Tide'.Since returning to Tasmania twenty years ago, Dale has lived and painted in the Opossum Bay and South Arm area, about 40 minutes out of Hobart, overlooking the Derwent.
Peter Hjort is a Swede turned Australian. When the family moved to Tasmania in 1979 Peter re-educated himself to attain an Assoc Dip in Fine Art (Sculpture), from TCAE in Launceston in 1982. He has now been in consistent arts practice for over 32 years, built up a considerable body of work and exhibited throughout the world. His reputation as a 3D and studio and public artist is well established, underscored by his inclusion in both the inaugural 'Who's Who in Tasmania', also 'Who's Who in Australia'. In addition, he is a winner of the Tasmanian Art Award for Sculpture four times since its inception in 2002.
Over the years he has exhibited consistently interstate and in Tasmania and was a finalist in this year's inaugural $10,000 'Artentwine' acquisitive Award. Hjort works with many public and private business to develop conceptual designs in single or multi media.
His large public sculptures can be seen around Tasmania, in Launceston, Hobart Devonport and Bridport.
Born in Perth Western Australia, Mike Singe received a Bachelor of Fine Art from Curtin University in 1990 and established a prominent profile within the Perth art community before moving to Tasmania in 2009. His work is represented in major institutions including the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Murdoch University, Curtin University and the Kerry Stokes Collection. Singe has also been the recipient of multiple development grants through ArtsWA.
In 2009 he was awarded an Australian Postgraduate Award to undertake his Master of Fine Arts at the Tasmanian School of Art. The focus of this research, completed in 2011, into the shifting human behaviour and cultural systems in response to the climate change debate continues to inform his practice. In his predominately sculptural practice Singe utilises readily available utilitarian products as the primary material for his intricate constructions. Each product is specifically selected for its conceptual links to the subject of the sculpture, rather than its apparent ease of manipulation. This approach results in some inventive and unique works.
WEATHER is the driving force for many wild species. Without it, stagnation would have seen many disappear throughout the evolution process, the strongest survive and flourish. They instil wonderment in us, we revere their freedom. Their pure form has developed from –"form follows function" and their form is perfect for their survival.
To an extent, our species insulates us from the natural world around us, we build shelter from basic requirements to elaborate palaces, we have developed technologies for buildings and even cities that can completely control and insulate us from any contact with weather, and we defer from natural selection.
Even with our most sophisticated technologies, weather can interrupt or even halt our intentions to march forward, and after the storm, we eventually look around and see species have survived and flourished – without our gadgetry.
With substantial knowledge of two and three dimensional design and construction processes gained over many years in diverse industries such as, Construction, Automotive, Shipbuilding and Mining, Sculpture works have been interwoven with these, were high technical skills have been captured to produce quality unique works of art.