NEW THINGS

The images for the clear acrylic part of the light boxes is being mounted and cut as i type - In the meantime I have been working on some more pieces see below:

1200x400mm pencil on wood

Birdy pics - 200mm in diameter

sculpture in the vinyards

Ryan and I went up to take down the works that I had up there - from a distance they were ok but close up the wood had taken on water and split in some places - So it was a valuable lesson that no matter how many times you prime something water can still get in. It was the first time that I have had something outside this long - so it was good to see how things weathered and to learn what I would do differently for next time. Basically I need to find a material that I am happy to work with and thats ok to leave outside - I guess wood will always weather and need attention so will have to look at other alternatives for future projects.

Anyway here are some pics of the work before we took it down.

New Pics and works in progress

Below is an extract from my application for Fraser Studio Residency:

The Home series will be a carry on from work that I have undertaken previously at Fraser Studios. While drawing remains my main medium – more recently, I have been exploring installation, using my drawing practice as a basis of the works. For Sculpture in the Vineyards, I created an installation entitled “Ikuntji Views” I’d like to follow this line of investigation to explore the notion of home.

Using the shape of the circle for its symbolic connotations of enclosure, as well as introducing a bird motif (for their symbolism in relation to home/nesting - birds have always been a common feature of my drawing), I am creating computer-routed plywood circle frames with layered Duraclear prints face mounted to clear acrylic and lit from behind, to create warm, layered, glowing portals of memories and essence of home. 

This is a mock up of what I am doing - the ply needs to be sanded - something that I won't be doing till they are glued together - there is a hot spot of light that will be absorbed by the layer of opal acrylic \that isn't in place. 

layered without the wooden circles

Close up  - 

side view (needs sanding!!) It sits 60mm proud of the wall

front of the work - it's 220mm in diameter-  not the best photo - trying to get a balance so you can see the pictures on the film which ends up having a really nice 3d layered effect - There will be eight of them - one for each of the houses that I have lived in.

The imagery will come from my drawings - photos and textures that relate to these home and the feelings that they evoked along with written memories of the houses.

 The birds come from birds that were around my house or were present in my house.

 

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 .