About this Blog

I have decided to keep this blog going, particularly because my eldest son Alan will be in London for a year studying Aviation medicine. He will be able to look in on the blog from time to time.

I have been packing up some folders with pictures of my collages. I will be sending them to interior designers in Brisbane and on the Gold Coast. It is so difficult to sell work these days.

One of the girls in my small art class suggested that fabric designers may be interested in some of the 'Broken Woman' images I have produced. Worth a look I think.

I had a buyer make an offer on my house and gallery today. I will shift to Brisbane eventually, but not in the near future I feel. I'm sure it will be good for my art practice to relocate there in the future some time.

I will book my train ticket to go to Brisbane for the SNAP! exhibition at Pine Rivers. Exciting. I'm planning to see Jip tomorrow to give him a copy of his panorama. I guess he will paste it up on one of his walls!

I had best put a new image on the front page of my blog...I'll see what I can come up with.

My latest video was posted on Youtube today...'Broken Woman' Part 2. Check it out and let me know what you think. I seem to be having sound issues with Youtube. I am looking into the problem.

Till soon

C xx

Susan Hutton's exhibition opening

My friend Susan Hutton had her opening tonight at Gatakers Artspace in Maryborough. Good attendances and a fabulous opening speech from Jennifer McDuff. Susan's show looks beautiful. No sales yet, but it's difficult times to sell. Brisbane next she says...sounds good.

Heard from Kathy D. I'm so glad Willow is keeping you company Kathy. Love you!

C x

Gladstone Results

Well I had no luck at Gladstone's Art Awards, which was disappointing, but one must take the good with the bad.

I just received an email from a friend saying that the Major prize was withdrawn because the winner failed to meet some of the competition requirements...ie the work was not created within the last 12 months.

The prize was awarded to another artist.

I guess this has been quite stressful for the gallery staff, but they seem to have resolved the problem.

Now that the major prize money is $10,000 people are going to be that bit more interested in the results. Anyway, I will enter again next year.

c xx

Bill Cunningham

I travelled to Brisbane with my panorama for the Pine Rivers ‘SNAP’ exhibition.  It will be stored at my son’s house and he will deliver it to the gallery in a week.

I am really happy with the work and have been exploring further possibilities with panorama software. Attached is a photo of my

biscuit tin collection.

I caught up with a dear friend and we attended a showing of the ‘Bill Cunningham’ documentary at the theatre in Newfarm.

He is an 80 year old New York fashion photographer. This documentary is just fabulous, so try to catch it if you can.

I have finally finished Clinton’s slide show.  It’s great.  Have a look at it on Youtube. Link below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbP5qoAZvDI

I have to tie up a few loose ends from the Suburban Goddess exhibition, and finish the website I have been working on, and then I can get down to some new work.

It was great to spend some time catching up with family over the weekend.  My eldest, Alan is off to London soon. Next time I see him it will be in Paris or  Rome I hope.

 

Till soon   C x

Farewell to all at Gatakers

Sue and I left early to travel to Maryborough to pack up the Suburban Goddess exhibition.  Our friends Ken and Beryl came to help.

 

I didn’t take long at all to unpack the ute of Susans’s artworks  and refill it with the many parts that make up  the Goddess sculptures.

Trevor from Gataker’s helped Susan with the hanging of her show.  He is very good at this as you will see from the pictures posted.

Susan was delighted  with the presentation of the work…and so she should be.  It‘s a beautiful show. (See attachments below.)

I have a website to finish uploading for a client sometime this week. The work is all but finished now.

Jip’s panorama is finally  at the printers…so fingers crossed they do a good job.  Then the print will be off to the framers, where I will spend a small fortune.

I went to visit  Jip the other day and he presented me with a bunch of freshly picked flowers from his garden and toured me around the garden once again. 

I took a few photos of his interior roof for the latest panorama.

That work will be taken to Brisbane for a photographic exhibition at Pine Rivers Art Gallery.

On the weekend I took works up to Gladstone for the Martin Hanson Art Awards. It is an excellent  Award exhibition and one that has been fairly good to me in the past.  I took one of my “Mother’ assemblages and a small Goddess.

According to tradition I stayed overnight at the ‘Rusty Anchor’ Motel.  It had been ‘spruced up’ somewhat….but still very much the ‘budget’ stopover. It was a noisy night with barking dogs rasping out their guttural threats to  the many  wanderers  and  drunks that dared to venture near.

There seemed to be a lot of those.

I took the quieter coastal roads home and found myself quite enjoying the trip. Solo time to think and plan.

I really need  to get into some new work  asap. I can hardly wait a minute longer.

 

I will list my Youtube videos when I get a chance.

Till soon,              C     xx