Installing Dreamscape

Dreamscape

I am installing an exhibition at T.A.H. Gallery at Cleveland today and tomorrow. For the exhibition I am presenting a video that you watch through a window of the gallery.

The drawing on the window is a layer that you look at the scene through. This installation is a 3d version of my paintings.

This is a video of the first day of installation.

tomorrow I will have more photos to show you :-)

Slacker!

Geez how slack have I been at blogging! Not one single blog in April!
Moving to Blackbutt has been really great and the pub is a real challenge. Now we are getting into the swing of it - well and truly - I will be able to dedicate more of my time to my art practice.

This weekend I am holding some workshops on how to create short films. The workshops are funded through the regional arts development fund and the South Burnett Shire council. It will be really fun and I am looking forward to it!! It is part of the Big Screen Film festival that tours Australia.

I have been working on some video lately to rear project in front of a window with drawing on it. If that makes sense?!?!?! I late May I will be setting up this piece at the TAH gallery in Cleveland. I will take some photos and video to document it :-)




I have also been painting my bum off for my exhibition being held at the Logan Art Gallery at the end of this month. I am so looking forward to showing all of my new work. It will be great!

Garage ARI Sydney

Here are some photos of my work that was included in +1, a group show held at GARAGE ARI in Sydney in February this year.

Quarry

Quarry 1

Acrylic on birch panel
45 x 50cm

This painting was based on photos I took at the Springwood conservation park in Logan. It has been converted from an old quarry. I like that the word 'quarry' can mean different things. 

A thing or person that is chased or sought

or

A large deep pit from which stone or other materials are or have been extracted

Heterotopia

dream home 1 (flagstaff)

dream home 2 (yarrabilba-north)

dream home 3 (greenbank central)

New fine art prints

I have started making fine art prints. After working on the Ipswich Hospital Expansion Project I have been inspired to make some prints for my next exhibition at the Logan art gallery from the 24th of May until the 6th of July.

They are giclée prints on Hahnemühle cotton rag paper. The work is made up of gradients, solid colours and high resolution scans of painted sections. I am going to a printer in Brisbane who do work for GOMA, the IMA and places like that in Brisbane.

Blackbutt Qld

Finally I have half moved to Blackbutt in Queensland. It is such a beautiful little town and I really like it already. At the moment I am looking for studio space. I was going to take one of the rooms in our pub but I think they might be a bit too small. I'll see how it goes. I am really hanging out to get back to painting so hopefully I won't have to wait too long.

We went for a drive yesterday and discovered this beautiful rock pool with a waterfall near Maidenwell called the Coomba Falls. Great inspiration for some new paintings!

Digital prints

I started packing up my studio today. All I can think about is moving now and I'm not really in the mood to paint. I did go to the art shop today though and buy some gouache and small pads of nice arches paper. I will go a bit crazy if I don't do something!

Happy Valley 1

42cm x 29.7cm

I have started making digital versions of some of my paintings in illustrator. I have never done prints before and I thought I might give it a go. I was going to get them giclée printed on a cotton rag paper like Hahnemühle with a rough edge and float frame it in a plain white frame. I will do a couple of experimental prints and see how they look.