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20 December 2012

CALL OUT for artists/artist mothers/mothers

Please share this with your friends, I'd love a wide range of responses to these projects thank you!!

see. (2nd version)

I had previously posted a different version of this image, but when I was sorting through my files the other day I realised this is the right one as it expresses what I needed it too. Hope you like!

14 December 2012

December exhibition x 3

December? Busy? Nahh... there's plenty of time to go and check out some exhibitions!

tracings of you at Heritage Hill Museum & Historic Gardens

Showing until December 19

66 McCrae Street, Dandenong VIC

Hours: Mon - Fri 10-4, Sat 12 - 4

SUB $1000 at EDMUND PEARCE

Opening Tuesday, 18th December 6-8pm

Showing 19 - 22 December

Level 2 Nicholas Building , 37 Swanston Street, Melbourne VIC

Hours: Wed-Sat 11-5

and then there were five at fortyfivedownstairs

This show has been extended to December 21!

45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne VIC

Hours: Tues - Thurs 11-5, Fri 11-7, Sat 12 - 4

I promise you'll find it way more exciting than my two year old did...

07 December 2012

Jumping in the creek for this piece was THE FUNNEST thing I've done for ages! My recent self portraits have been little adventures and not surprisingly, this one was too...

It was a super stormy morning and I had limited time but I decided to take a chance, so off I went to the location which is a creek just around the corner from where I grew up. When I arrived the clouds were still holding onto the rain (yay) but there were horse riders around (not so yay as I prefer to avoid audiences when shooting self portraits!). I was really hoping to do a shoot that day so I got brave and trudged on.

As I walked through the bush orange butterflies danced out of the long grass with each of my footsteps which was quite... magical. I didn't even attempt to photograph them as I knew I wouldn't be able to capture the wonder of that moment and chose to enjoy, and absorb, it instead. The closer I got to the creek the darker those clouds became. They were quickly turning black, then along came the thunder and lightning. And not just little rumbles and flashes either...

I picked my backdrop for the piece and danced around it a little, deciding how the composition was going to work. The storm was almost directly above me now so I put my camera in a highly technical cover (a plastic bag) to protect it, ripped a hole for the lens and into the creek I went. I wore my flipflops in at first as I wasn't sure if there would be yabbies in there but I soon broke one, so as usual I was running around the bush barefoot in a frock. Which is, as I keep saying, when I'm happiest.

Creating this piece was such a joyous experience for me, it was hard to wipe the goofy grin from my face! Barefoot in the mud, splashing in the creek, in the middle of a storm, getting drenched in the rain, listening to birds singing as I worked, with no presence of time. So. Awesome.

A couple of outtakes below;

I really like the stance of the figure on the left but I find the lines of the rock behind the face distracting. And the image on the right is just me hanging out in the creek with potential yabby friends.

Here's one of my singers providing the background music, and I had to get a shot of the amazing clouds on my (soggy) drive home!

Ps. I don't normally use words like magical and joyous but they seemed appropriately goofy for this post...

Pps. When I told Dad about my adventures he suggested I should start doing landscape photography or get back to 'my painting'. Sorry Dad.

19 November 2012

portfolio reviews, an exhibition, & skype aka exciting stuff!

It's normally around this time that I'm starting to wind down, and focusing on getting organised for christmas so I don't have to go near the shops in December. But this year it'll be a mad dash to the finish line!

This Saturday I'll be doing portfolio reviews at Wood Street Arts Space (Laverton) as part of the Open Studios in the West weekend. I love a good chinwag about art so bring your work along and say hi!

I'm also really excited (okay that's an understatement) about exhibiting with Sharon Billinge, Celeste Chandler and Erika Gofton at fortyfivedownstairs in December!! I'll be doing an installation of the Dance, Sucker. series so if you missed the Substation show last year come along! We'd love to see you at the opening on Tuesday 4th December 5-7pm.

And lastly but not leastly, I had my first skype mentoring session this week! An artist in Perth is working towards his first exhibition so I was able to share what I've learned over the years and pass on lots of handy tips. I have to say I'm absolutely loving mentoring, it's something I'd never considered until another artist approached me this year so thank you fate/universe. Mentoring is the bees knees.

09 November 2012

tracings of you {exhibition}

Last year I was Heritage Hills' first Artist in Residence where I spent a day running around the home taking photos and filming. The work I created that day became the series tracings of you which consists of digital and film photography, and a short film.

I've written a guest post for Heritage Hill's blog about my experience, which you can read here: http://bit.ly/VJy6be.

06 November 2012

The White Cube Workshop - registrations closing soon!!

A huge thank you to Beat for the beautiful write up about The White Cube Workshop!

If you'd like to find out how I got my work featured in the local papers, Beat, Trouble, Art Almanac, Art Guide, frankie and Harper's Bazaar Australia, AND learn all about how to host an art exhibition AND get nuggets of advice from established artists AND have a portfolio review AND ask me anything in a Q+A AND join my mentoring group for continued support AND eat yummy food AND make new arty friends then this is for YOU.

It's going to be an action packed day as we have A LOT to cover, and there is only room for TEN peoples so BOOK YOUR SPOT RIGHT NOW!!! I am seriously super excited to tell you everything I've learnt over the years, including what not to do, so you can fast track to putting on exhibitions you are proud of. I wish there was something like this when I finished my fine arts degree 15 years ago but instead I just had to learn the hard way and make (embarrassing) mistakes along the way, and that's why I'm bursting to HELP AND SUPPORT YOU! :D

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