etsy shop update - dolls dresses now available!

Exciting news on the etsy shop front, there are now cotton rag paper prints of the a shoebox full of dresses series available!!

www.etsy.com/shop/ilonanelson

ig love

Since I finally got around to obtaining a phone with a decent camera I've gotten right into instagram.  I love that I can quickly capture the pockets of light I find and the little moments around me without having to drag my SLR around, and edit on the go!  I have a ridiculous backlog of editing to do on my personal snapshots of the family so I don't want anymore to pile up.  Us mums are time poor creatures.  I have plenty of ideas written for when I can actually get out and shoot, but being able to take these snaps in between makes me feel like I'm still creating which makes me happy.

please come say hi on instagram @myfavouriteshoesarenone

ps. I don't do many food pics or selfies (except for that one above).  promise.

Book | Film | Painting

One day when I was clicking around the internet I stumbled across Stuart Pilkington's project he curated called Someone I Know.  He had given selected artists the brief of photographing someone they know and I love the simplicity of this, and how beautifully everyone's images work together.  I emailed Stuart, and later he wrote to ask if I'd like to be involved in his next curated project Book Film Painting and create an image responding to either a book, film, or painting.  I chose Rachel Power's book The Divided Heart: art and motherhood and created the above image of my eldest. 

Geek speak: I shot it on a Nikon FE with 28mm lens on Fuji film, and it's a double exposure created in-camera.

view the complete Book Film Painting project on Stuart's website

and check out the accompanying Facebook page

film is rad.

I've recently welcomed a new camera to the family (geek speak = Nikon FE with 28mm f2.8 lens) and these images are from my first roll I shot to test it out!  Pics are of my parent's pup Mitsy, the boys, out bush, and the hand one is a double exposure in-camera.  How cool is that function on a camera!?!  The answer is awesome.

Film is so rad.  I love sitting at the computer less and shooting film more.

hey little world.

 

abandon.

 

dispensation.

 

missing appearances.

 

totality.

 

tilt.

 

afloat.

 

screenshot of dissolve

 

falter.

 

inhabitation.

The hey little world. series was created at Federation Square, Melbourne, during my time at Visible Studios, a short term Artist in Residence program curated by Sayraphim Lothian.

Federation Square looks quite industrial with all the exposed steel beams so I wanted to bring human and nature elements into each performance, while still keeping the imagery quite dark and cold looking.  Before I started shooting I spent a day in the space working out where I'd be able to climb and cram myself into, and what movements I could perform in response to the environment I was in.  I also did some filming for each location so stay tuned for a short film.... shortly!

Visible Studios was an amazing and awesomely fun experience.  I love the freedom of creating to create, not for a deadline.

Ps. you can check lots of behind the scenes pics here.