South Australian artist feature unique art pieces in Flinders Ranges gallery

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Vegemite jars Bohemian cut vases and dolphin statues are among some of the treasures on display in a unique art gallery in the flinders ranges. An artist who has run out of room has come up with a unique way to share his work.

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00:00The passengers on this bus are more fragile than most.

00:05Can you stay? There you go.

00:08The light coming through shows up the colours of the glass.

00:12This twelve and a half metre former Adelaide Metro bus

00:15is the latest instalment at a unique regional art gallery.

00:19In place of seats, shelves show off an eclectic collection of glassware.

00:23The light comes through it all and it makes it really zing.

00:26The bus is an ingenious way of extending artistic pursuits in the Flinders Ranges.

00:32We've built so much on this block we're not allowed to build any more,

00:35but I'm allowed to park like a bus there, I can get away with that.

00:37I saw this one in Adelaide that a bloke had put his price down

00:41and we come to a deal and he drove it up for me.

00:44A house painter by trade, Geoff Morgan took the leap

00:47into becoming a full-time artist in 1990, a year after an industrial accident.

00:52His dyslexia has helped provide a constant stream of ideas.

00:56There's so many projects in my mind.

00:58It's part of being dyslexic. Your mind's all over the place, I think.

01:01I'm not even going to let my wife know all the projects I'm thinking of.

01:07A visitor with a background in neuroscience diagnosed the artist with dyslexia.

01:13He explained that normally people that haven't had formal trainings, their paintings are very flat

01:18and that mine had a lot of depth and he says that's a trait of dyslexic people often.

01:24His advice for aspiring artists? Following your dreams takes grit.

01:28Anything worth doing is often a struggle, so yeah.

01:34But just go for it, yeah.

01:36Because otherwise you'll die wondering.

01:39There's a very different kind of wondering happening here.

01:44Go for it when I see young people!

01:45Go, Go, Go, Go, Go, Go!

01:46Oh yeah..

01:47Oh snap!

01:48vai go gogoa

01:57water

02:05The looks of my face

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