Perth and onwards

Tickets are booked for tuesday the 6th - bags packed and all ready - Meeting Gary and christine who run the arts centre in Alice Springs and spending the night there so can stock up on everything. Staying with my sister and her family which is very nice!

OFF TO IKUNJI!!

Hi all, just a quick link to the arts centre that I will be heading off to on July 5th. www.ikuntji.com.au
hopefully I will get a chance to do some posts while I am there.

THE GREEN SHOW: Brenda May

I was lucky enough to be invited to put in a very late proposal to Brenda May Gallery in the Dank Street complex for a group show called – The Green Show.

I have been working at a company called Emergent Designs : www.emergentdesigns.com.au – which has given me access to all sorts of processes, materials and techniques all with a staff discount!

Emergent has done acrylic face mounting for a while but now have expanded into thick acrylic photo blocks in 20 and 30mm.

I saw a client with some duraclear prints that she was getting mounted onto glass and I thought it would be a great thing to explore.

I thought how I could tie my art practice of mapping and notation into a subject like that and then I saw along Circular Quay a series of brass plaques that have been installed to delineate where the shoreline was in 1788 and in 1841. As I researched this further I discovered that Bennelong point where the Opera House is situated was originally an island. This made me ponder what creates our boundaries and borders both natural and unnatural and how does environmental change affect their position.

So I looked at maps of environmental change – and made maps of my own environment and combined them into images that would work on a level as objects by themselves but also when grouped together would form a layered image – like stratas in the earth .

check out everyone here - link to GREEN SHOW

Brenda may gallery

http://www.brendamaygallery.com.au/pages/enlargement_exhibitions.php?current=23&workID=33785&exhibitionID=104&artistID=193

always the last minute

so all of jan i was working on another postcard series. This time i wrote about 150 postcards. I would write at least one every day, noting down what i saw, making my lists, sketching etc. These were then stamped in order, date stamped and then sent down to my fathers address in thirroul. i'm now trying to figure out the box that they are going to be contained in. in the proposal to brenda may I wrote that i was going to do a wooden box...but now i think a cardboard box would be better...found this image of Dale hickey

full time work is exhausting

Its hard working......I am a wuss for work.....first day of week two and I'mm ready to hide under the covers and sleep the day away.
but...this isn't how it works, apparently.
So this is where I am working www.emergentdesigns.com.au which is at least a little related.

So on the horizon - BRENDA MAY GALLERY

they have a paper show that I was lucky enough to get accepted into.