Common room
March 23, 2012
Online show
March 8, 2012
A bunch of paintings and drawings will be posted here Saturday March 24, from 11am. All work will be pulled down Wednesday March 28. If you have any queries, or if you would like to see the work in the flesh (woody painted flesh!) please comment here or email me using the form below. ¡Muchas gracias!
No show
February 9, 2012
Wow! it’s been over a month since I’ve updated my blog. Shame. Since my last blog post I’ve celebrated Christmas, moved house, said goodbye to our old volvo and applied for a show in the Canberra Contemporary Art Space (CCAS) in Manuka. Sadly, the two week time slot CCAS offered me is in May when I’ll no longer be in the Can. Poo. Instead, some time in March I’ll have an online show, stay tuned for more details about the work I’ll be showing and when!
Meanwhile check out this video I found via frankie I’ve always wanted to arrange our books by colour but I’m not allowed!
Wine label scribbles
November 30, 2011
A lovely friend of mine asked me to do some drawings for two wine labels. Here are my original drawings and the finished labels below. It was a great project, particularly inventing the messy type face. The wine was made for a wedding and the brief was to capture two lovers on a motorbike, bless. Oh and I needed to restrict the palette to just black and white, which in some ways is a challenge, but in other ways quite liberating!
Art Writing Workshop
November 23, 2011
This week Jacqueline Bradley and Bettina Hill – both fantastic Canberra artists – organised a writing workshop which was held at the Canberra Contemporary Art Space in Braddon. Speakers at the event included David Broker, Director CCAS; Helen Ennis, Associate Professor ANU School of Art; Kate Murphy, Lecturer ANU School of Art; Yolande Norris, Festival Producer, Freelance Curator and Arts Writer; and Kiki Skountzos, Arts Development Officer ArtsACT.
It was a great night and each of the speakers shared their writing secrets – from writing an effective artist’s statement or proposal to applying for grants or writing for websites, even just writing as part of general arts practice. One of the key messages from the night was to keep writing clear, accessible and without using overblown artist (pronounce that artiste, preferably while wearing thick horn-rimmed glasses) or overly academic words. David Broker showed us a clip which I want to share with you here, I think it’s pretty funny!
Hello sailor
November 14, 2011
This beautiful shirt was a birthday present from my gorgeous friend Amanda (she’s featured in my blog before). It comes from a little vintage boutique in Jervis Bay, NSW called Claire Louise Vintage. I think it’s pretty spesh.
A happy birthday, courageous caravan and a penchant for cats
October 30, 2011
Amelia is a cool cat and it was her birthday early this month, so I made her a cat! Here she is lovely little thing and the cat’s not bad either, tee hee hee. To celebrate her birthday we decided to wipe a few years off the end of our lives with some artery clogging fare from the caravan of courage – a fast food van that has grown into the grass on a vacant block in Canberra – which happens to be 5 minutes walk away from our respective desks. Amelia had the taco (she asked for two but was advised by the friendly waitress that one was enough!) while I went for the Mexican roll, it came in a paper bag which turned a translucent orange by the time it arrived at our plastic table, yummmeee.
The beautiful birthday girl
Machine Dreams
October 6, 2011
The Machine Dreams Album cover is designed by Japanese artist Hideyuki Katsumata – you can view his crazy myspace here.
Little Dragon
October 6, 2011
A song I have on repeat while I’m working at the moment is my step by Little Dragon, I just love their album Machine Dreams which they released in 2009 – I’m yet to discover and listen to their new album Ritual Union which which came out this year… anyway, just nice music to work to!
This film clip is a bit cute.
Comiques
October 4, 2011
Anne Emond is a comic genius. Every morning when I get to work the first thing I do is check her blog where nearly everyday she adds to the comic that chronicles her life in New York. From late nights in the studio, to singing loudly with her earphones in, to prematurely predicting the change of season the heroine in Comiques (who I can only assume is Anne herself) must be my long lost sister. Here are a couple of my favourites, enjoy.
