I have been completely lax in my updating of this blog - and a few amazing things have happened - I am determined to update this blog more often - it worked so well as a visual diary during my honours year and now it will be used to organise my thoughts - SO over the last year the following has happened:

- Highly commended in Veolia Environmental Services National Art Award at goulburn gallery 

- finalist in the outback art award - broken hill gallery

- finalist in Waverly art prize

- Finalist in Sculpture in the Vineyards in the hunter Valley where I won the Cessnock Gallery prize - an exhibition with 5 other artists at the gallery. 

- Been awarded a residency at Fraser studios in chippendale through to june  next year!

- Been awarded a matching grant through the city of sydney - you can read all about it here: greatbuckinghamstreetproject.blogspot.com

- Been offered a place at brenda may gallery in waterloo for a emerging artist group show in april next year!

- Been accepted into ACU for a teaching degree in Visual Arts and Religious education

So busy busy - Quitting my job when I get back to work in the new year - My VERY supportive boyfriend has been nothing but lovely about this. 

off to the shops to get him something nice for dinner!

Will post pics as I can

 

Art Awards

Submitted work

In the effort to create more work but to also get more work out there and hopefully in return sell for / win money I'm entering everything that I can - Have entered the head on portrait prize and on thursday entered the Goulburn Art Award at the regional gallery - I used the postcards that i submitted for the postcards from the north - was supposed to hear back from them today but nothing as of yet, I keep checking my email over and over - but as they say a watched pot never boils - but would like to know if i need to get it framed or not as they have to be there in the next 2 weeks. Still have the churchie and another thing for natural history which is in SA which I'm doing new work for. This is stressful this waiting,

Postcards from the North

well I did well for myself at the show. I sold 4 works and won the mayors choice award. Not sure what that is but any award has to be good. Didn't get to the opening but they very nicley took a pic of the mayor infront of the works.

BACK

So its been a while – and all the works that I thought I would get to and the mammoth amount of drawings that I thought that I would have done have fallen by the wayside in a flurry of activity of going back to work – of catching up with people and having a Christmas every weekend of December.
So as a new year resolution I want to start out running and start applying for lots of things to get me making art again – and also to resolve the work that I started in the NT – make it into a body of work and get myself out there and not be so timid. So have applied for a group postcard show at ESP gallery which couldn’t be a more perfect way to get back into things – 10 small works post card size of course. Now all I need to do is make the work.
Index also is having a call out for works for their upcoming show “SMALL WORKS FOR A LARGE UNIVERSE” for which I am going to do some more works on acrylic – but as single blocks rather than the layering that I did for the work at Brenda May. I can’t re-call if I mentioned about the touring blake which I was lucky enough to be a part of? Need to do something new for that this year – its all in the think tank .