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Back to studying craziness

2011-07-04T12:23:00.003+08:00

Although working in our bedroom was ok, going back to uni meant having a STUDIO SPACE! I am doing honours which is ridiculously time consuming and hard but I am also extremely lucky to have the amazing painter Greg Pryor as my supervisor :)

Beauties and Beasts show from April

2011-07-04T12:13:00.003+08:00

Works from the Elements group show 'Beauties and Beasts'. All are now sold so thank you Elements Gallery :)

Dust storm 1

2010-11-17T19:37:00.004+08:00

Another work for the 'Femme' show x

death of the party

2010-11-15T21:13:00.005+08:00

A work that will be in the Studio 281 exhibition 'Femme'. Opening this Saturday the 20th November and running until the 20th December. 281 Guildford Road Maylands, WA.
I love this painting, this has never happened before - it's probably because of the rabbitmoon x

Go Team

2010-10-26T21:38:00.002+08:00

Three Leaves Left

2010-08-19T11:37:00.012+08:00

whispers

whispers detail

the river beneath

flashing lights

flashing lights figure detail

flashing lights nest detail

These are the only works left from the Sydney show. If you are interested please contact Leon at Friends of Leon Gallery in Surry Hills. I was thinking of Nick Drakes Five Leaves Left in the title of this post. In that kind of mood.
Whispers is life size 120cm x 60 cm plus frame and the other two are 80cm x 80cm.
All works are acrylic and oil on Belgian linen.

Set up, touch up, framed up

2010-05-26T22:39:00.004+08:00

Milk and Whispers Invite

2010-05-07T14:57:00.000+08:00

one thousand islands, flashing lights

2010-04-24T14:49:00.002+08:00

collecting sticks, celestial navigation and a night in the desert

2010-04-17T15:18:00.005+08:00

Milk and Whispers

2010-04-14T11:54:00.003+08:00

Large painting for the Sydney show, can't wait to leave Perth for a little while for our first family airplane adventure.

First Sydney Works

2010-03-20T19:05:00.003+08:00

oops January

2010-02-06T12:23:00.003+08:00

So, I missed doing a January post - things got pretty busy and the month flew.....
The latest news is that I have somehow acquired an art angel :) His name is Leon and it means I have a solo exhibition to get ready for in Sydney at Friends of Leon gallery. It will be opening on Thursday May 13th, not far away and so that explains the busy January. I have made all my cradles and stretched them with linen and the vision is clear in my head, paintings are started and now I look forward to the surprises that making work makes!
Above is a detail from 'milk and rainbows' a painting for the Perth College exhibition in March.
In other news Nazario is getting all his milkymolar teeth in at once! - craziness.... :) and also just generally being either super ridiculously cute and distracting or grizzly and demanding. For this reason I am also super pleased to announce that we have a studio now that is not our lounge room. Hooray!
It is literally 8 houses away and Campbell and I share it with our friend James who is also a painter. Watch out 2010.

The Baby Universe

2009-12-02T20:54:00.005+08:00

Here is my work from the milktooth group show at free range. It's called 'The Baby Universe' and it is my first painting of Nazario with a few of his favourite things.

November

2009-11-30T19:45:00.004+08:00

This month we organised the Milktooth exhibition at free range gallery and had a stall at the Made On The Left market. We did the poster for the market which was really fun and I love how it turned out :) Campbell and I worked together on the drawings and then he did everything else for the poster, flyers and ads - he is soooo clever xxx
I have also been hunting for studio space (furry trout) and ended up finding something perfect at a neighbours house! Everybody needs good ones.
Milktooth went really well and it was beautiful to see our friends from art school again. Everyone has such busy lives so I am glad we can exhibit together annually to reconnect and be inspired xxx

clothespeg exhibition

2009-10-09T12:00:00.001+08:00

There will be prints of some of my work in the clothespeg exhibition group show. There will be super affordable and beautiful A5 prints by over 80 amazing artists at the Slaughterblouse gallery on Beaufort St Mt Lawley.

Blake Prize Directors Cut

2009-09-13T20:52:00.001+08:00

My work Milk and Sleep was accepted into The Blake Prize Directors Cut exhibition. It is an on-line exhibition of 100 works and will run from the 7th of October to the 7th of November.

http://www.blakeprize.com.au/entries/directors-cut-2009

Swimming Lessons

2009-09-01T12:41:00.006+08:00

Of course Nazario began his swimming life in harmony with what the Little Twin Stars are up to in August. Too. Cute.

July

2009-08-30T20:15:00.004+08:00

I know this is old, but, July was an amazing month and I knew it would be because the twin stars were RIDING A POLAR BEAR!

seNor fauxhawk

2009-06-17T19:56:00.004+08:00

I am thinking of putting these old drawings onto some baby onesies, the one of the horse finger puppet always reminds me of my brother. Spooky thing is that he just called to let me know about a great song 'Lisztomania' by Phoenix....

first baby

2009-06-15T22:12:00.007+08:00

This bag of bones kitten in Mexico chose us to be her parents for a while. We thought THAT was exhausting and difficult - then we had a real baby...
The wall work is one that we did for a gallery in Oaxaca, Mexico. We had just had quite a difficult experience involving dead animals and it was really therapeutic to make a work about things we were grateful for. I love Campbell's Schielesque self portrait.
I thought I was glad to see the back of those jeans and top that I lived in for a year, but now I just wish I could fit into them again!!

milk and sleep details

2009-06-09T22:06:00.003+08:00

I went into the gallery today to take some pics of my show. It felt good to be able to bring the images back home so I could remember them and start to hatch plans for the next body of work. Even though breastfeeding is time consuming it is an ideal time for plan hatching and daydreaming...:)

exhibitioning

2009-06-07T19:05:00.000+08:00

When you live and work in a 2 bedroom unit it is important that most of your exhibition is able to fit into one IKEA expedit niche.
Other important things include: mums serving hot chocolate at your exhibition, feedback from beautiful friends, and of course support from an amazing and (surprisingly) organised boyfriend :)

milk and sleep - what goes on 2

2009-06-03T11:50:00.000+08:00

As well as painting, a lot of ice cream eating and baby gazing has been going on.

milk and sleep - what goes on

2009-06-02T08:12:00.000+08:00

Here are some pics of works in progress for my 'milk and sleep' show. Yes, I am embarrassed that it has been over 2 years since I attempted to start this 'blog', but, the thing is that my boyfriend is far too good with all this stuff and I have been freeloading off his skills. Stay tuned - I may post again sometime this year :)

hello world

2007-03-30T12:03:00.000+08:00

I am still working on my content. Heres a cute thing though - from my graduate show last year.

This is called 'Born in the U.S.A'. There are 50 hanging dogs in stars and there are stripes of animal bone drawings on receipt paper.