yesterday.

DREAM BIG!

This Wild Song is an idea I dreamt up over a year ago and I didn't know how I was going to make it happen but just started the project anyway.  Fast forward to today and I have 25 amazing Australian artists who have agreed to have their portrait taken and be interviewed.  I admire all of these women and have been following their careers for a long time.

Last night I took a step back and realised I'm totally making my dreams come true!  I think my brain just registered what I have accomplished so far and I'm a little stunned.  Moral of the story is to DREAM BIG, you never know what will happen!


As far as the project goes there are currently 3 interviews on the blog, I have shot another 2, I have another 20 planned, and there are still about 5 artists who are possibly maybes.  It's the most ambitious project I have ever undertaken.  It will probably take me 2 years (at least) to complete these works when you take into account how long it will take to build sets and costumes, and to work in with the artists schedules.  I have so much energy for this project and to promote the wonderful talent of the artists (who happen to be women) we have in Australia.  

You'll find Behind The Scenes posts on this blog showing how I've made the photographs, and the completed portraits and interviews at thiswildsong.blogspot.com

winter.

gah.

Gah.  My files are a mess.  I thought I remembered editing some awesome photos of the kids but no.....  Deleted.  Gone.  So many snapshots.  One terabyte in fact!  I'm on a mission to sort my hard drives out and back up back up back up and print.

Creating Beautiful Studio Lighting - workshop

So excited that my ace friend Jason Lau is hosting a studio lighting workshop at The Art Room!  Jase and I went to Uni together and he's always been brilliant at the technical side of photography, I'm more conceptually minded so I can't wait to pick his brain!  Plus I'll be styling the model, tres exciting!

The workshop details are;

Sunday June 22nd

12 - 5pm

at The Art Room, Melbourne

places are limited, book via www.the-art-room.com.au

Find Jase on the interwebs at;

http://jasonlauphotography.com/

https://www.facebook.com/jasonphotographer

http://instagram.com/jasonlauphotos

onefourfour: April

Our onefourfour theme for April was FORM and this is my piece.  I put on as many dresses as possible, was pretty hot under there.  Plus I forgot my remote so lucky Erika was there to press the shutter!  Check out the other eleven awesome works at http://onefourfour.blogspot.com.au/2014/05/april-form.html

I've realised that my three projects (onefourfour, This Wild Song, and my upcoming show thisplace.  about motherhood) seem to be overlapping with themes of camoflague throughout...

onefourfour: March

For the onefourfour project we work to a different theme every month, and March's theme was COLLAGE. 

It took me a little while to come up with an idea for this theme as it was so broad, so I started where I always do - thinking about where I was at in my life at that point.  And it so happened that I was feeling pretty jaded with the arts industry and questioning my arts practice.

I had splurged and bought the Art Collector magazine, I didn't even finish reading the mag and started cutting out the pretty pictures to make a collage instead.  Once I removed the colour images I realised I preferred what was left behind.  I found my favourite page where you could see glimpses of the rest of the magazine and turned it into a mask that I could tie on my head for the photo.

I shot this in the afternoon using window light.  I set up the camera, put my dots on then realised I had 10 minutes before I had to pick my son up from school!  I tied the magazine to my head and wrapped the string around my hair to keep it in place.  I knew exactly how I wanted it to look so I used the remote to take a lot of photos, and continually moved my head to ensure I photographed the magazine at the right angle.

I love how it turned out and it looks beautiful printed on cotton rag paper.  My idea for onefourfour came about from wanting to push my practice further and develop ideas that have been floating around my head for a long time, and it's working!  I love this project and I love promoting female Australian artists, there are so many talented women and I hope you enjoy the works that are being created for onefourfour.  Good times.

http://onefourfour.blogspot.com.au/