"Lifescape"

Dirty Linen awaits its artists booking in....so in these quiet times I can develop some installations, or whatever  works I fancy at the time.

This last couple of weeks I have been producing an installation of biscuit tins.  Actually, what you see here is really only about half of my collection.  I tried a couple  more complex arrangements, but the piece wouldn't work.  In the end I decided that simplicity was the answer.   I have been getting quite a lot of interest in this work.  Thankyou.

Till soon!   C x

Cabinets of Curiosities

Cabinets of Curiosities is the theme for an exhibition I am part of at BRAG this month.  Various artists have provided works for a show that is sure to be rather special.   Susan Hutton and I are going to see it this week.

My work is called  "For Louise" and is a tribute to  Louise Bourgeois, who is one of my favourite artists. It recalls one of her works I remembered seeing years ago.  A blue cabinet if I recall correctly.  Full of glass objects.

 

I was attracted to its strength and simplicity and the sense of the cabinet being  serenely self contained.

Alone again

Sitting alone again in my empty house.....previously faithful laptop on my knees. The pool filter hums its way into the evening, lulling me into a state of optimism.  "I will not be green in the morning!" it seems to promise.  I  have heard that before!

I can't go home to Bundaberg until I have stabilized it.  I think I am getting closer.

All week I have been wanting to get to the printers to have a test print done for my exhibition next month at Pine Rivers Art Gallery.  I hope to get there next week. I am planning to have the digital prints enlarged to 100cm x 75cm  if there is enough detail. The works will be printed on a pvc material and hung with magnets.

The pvc 'posters' will display the digital images and these images will be available as limited edition prints  on archival paper, limited edition prints on canvas, or whatever is required.

It has been hard to choose the best 20 out of the over 200 images in the series.

The 25 or so Suburban Goddess sculptures will be packed in to Susan Hutton's ute once again for the journey from Bundaberg.  They will be installed very quickly once their floor plan has been marked out. They are not glued or screwed together,  but stacked up like totem poles.

I'm hoping that some of you Brisbanites from the Just Ideas exhibition may be able to come. It would be great to meet you.

Till soon.  Cx

Eatons Hill

I guess you must be wondering where I have been lately.  Well I am  stopping in Eatons Hill  in Brisbane for a week or two while I am preparing my house there for rent.

I sit in the middle of an empty house. My previously faithful laptop is on my knees.   It has decided not to type the letter ' '   ...the one etween 'a' and 'c'. Sometimes it likes to add hyphens to the words I am typing.  It is very erratic.

So to get back to what I was saying.....I am sitting alone in the middle of this empty house.  Previously faithful laptop seems to be gathering objects to itself in contradiction to its original 'raison d'etre'.

Not happy with it's own keyboard, I have had to purchase a second plug in keyboard just to type the letter 'b'.  My laptop also has an object plugged in called a 'dongle'. Not a very elegant word is it?  But without a dongle, life would be hardly worth living.  For those of you who are dongle deficient...the dongle provides my wireless internet access.

Next to the dongle is a tiny plugin that magically frees my mouse from the necessity to have a tail.  I really love this idea...I think it is probably my favourite..

Plugged in on the other side is my usb port  that connects my two terabyte back up hard drives, the odd memory stick and of course my hot pink Lacie 30g mini hard drive that every one covets. Not to mention, my SD memory card from my digital camera.

Finally, there is the power pack which must be plugged in every twenty minutes or so or my laptop will shut down sometimes without even a courtesy to hint that it is about to do this.

The dream was all about portability wasn't it???   And what ever happened to 'user-friendly'??  c x

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year to all my readers.  Thankyou for your support through 2011.   I feel 2012 is going to to be a great year.  I have three exhibitions coming up this year, and a video bombing will be sponsored also.  I do hope there will be more of these video opportunities coming up.  Brad and I are going to have to do some planning when he returns from his trip to Cambodia.

I hope to have some interesting posts for you  this year and I would love to hear your comments.  Happy New Year!!

See below, a picture of the video bombing of the  Dirty Linen Artspace!

Talk soon!   C x