Active documentation

I have started actively documenting my thoughts and processes for my honours year work. If you are interested you can see it here: http://activedocumentation.blogspot.com/

It will be pretty random :-)

wowee

Wow! just found out that the Mater Hospital and Gadens Lawyers bought a painting each at the exhibition 'Test pattern' held at Ryan Renshaw Gallery in February. I'm pleased to say the least!

Into the swing

title: They intend to tap into a universal reservoir

medium: Acrylic, posca pen and gouache on canvas
size: 90 x 90cm

title: Resorts where southerners come to take the waters 2

medium: Acrylic, gouache and posca pen on canvas
size: 76cm x 101.5cm
year: 2010

This is the week when I get serious about painting. I have been having trouble getting back into the swing of things at uni. The honours year is a lot different and I have been giving into self doubt and procrastination. No more of that! I ended up staying back at the studio till about 8pm and it felt great. This will be a regular thing on a Monday i think as it was really quiet. This weekend will be a good time to be there too. I have quite a few ideas for new paintings and I would really like to get them out of my head.

Today I finished two paintings. One specifically for the Churchie and the other for myself :-) Resorts where southerners come to take the waters 2 is very similar to a painting I did earlier on in the year. I made this one to put in the Churchie art comp. The entry is due next Wednesday so i had a good reason to get off my butt and do the work :-) I will enter 3 paintings but I am not sure what the other two will be yet.

I also saw one of my painting supervisors today, which was good. It got me thinking in a more focused way. I have ideas for beginnings of paintings but nothing has really popped into my head yet. But it is early days yet. I think I will stick with painting and installation. I was thinking about video and performance but maybe I could do that just for myself later on.

I am going to do some oil paintings next. I think it might make me think differently and force me to try new ideas. Always a good thing :-)

Still wanting to look at warehouse/commercial space to set up a studio with some other people at uni... hopefully it will still happen.

The story continues

not quite finished yet


These watery blobs keep just turning up

Goin crazy!

I added a picture frame so i can have some art in my studio...



Added some abstracted trees on the left to resemble some of my paintings...
Then I thought some random lines might look good...



and then I just had to keep going. I couldn't help myself, i was having so much fun :-)

layers

Experimenting is fun

Some work

This one isn't finished yet. I am going into the studio tomorrow to work on this one.


An experiment


My new fireplace :-) This will be great for winter.

New furniture

Started getting some new furniture for my studio. It needs to be more homey ;-)

Honours

Honours is going to be pretty full on. I am starting to realise how much work is involved. Not freaking out so much now though, cause my muse is back from holidays. thank dog!

The cultural geographies of cities

Developing concern within academic, artistic and activist circles with exploring critically the cultural geographies of cities. This includes practices of studying, representing and telling stories about cities; it also involves ways of sensing, feeling and experiencing their spaces differently, and with contesting 'proper' orderings of space to allow something 'other' to emerge.


Arts of urban exploration
David Pinder
Cultural Geographies 2005
htpp://cgj.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/12/4/383

Franz Ackermann

Franz Ackermann

Happy happy joy joy

title: He barricaded the door with a bureau

medium: Acrylic, ink and posca pen on canvas
size: 91.4 x 121.8cm
year: 2008

title: He created a smokescreen to conceal his true identity

medium: Acrylic, ink and posca pen on canvas
size: 91.4 x 121.8cm
year: 2008

Picked up my paintings from Ryan Renshaw Gallery today. I sold one painting to some serious collectors!!! and one is on hold. Happy happy joy joy :-)