Bombing Sam

Brad and I had another productive night video bombing with pictures of our young friend Sam. She is off  to art college next year and she is sure to do very well. She is already a brilliant photographer and has been making interesting videos as well.  She made a very beautiful model for our video bombing.




We watched Sam's video under a nearly full moon.  What a treat!

Talk art soon!

On the streets

Two digital photos merged. One taken on Quay Street while video bombing last week. The other photograph is of one of my shop mannequins, Adel.

Visiting Susan

I had a couple of reasons to visit my artist friend, Susan Hutton today.   Firstly, I was picking up some  artworks on paper for display at Dirty Linen now that I am going to be opening the gallery every Sunday.

She had some lovely works I haven't seen before.  I also came home with three ceramic pieces of Susan's. They will all look wonderful in the gallery and will be interesting talking points.

I also had to take a portrait photo of Susan for an exhibition coming up at BRAG. The exhibition will feature photos of local  artists in their studios.  I have four portraits to take and have completed two already.

There are a number of very talented artists living and working in Bundaberg.  Their studios are bound to be unique  and interesting.  I will post some of my pictures after the exhibition starts.

Dead Matron's Society

Local writer Di Wills came to Dirty Linen last week to discuss a project she has been developing, titled 'Dead Matron's Society'. 

The concept: A stage play that examines a group of women 'stuck' after experiencing sudden and unexpected deaths, and how they now fill their days. The play examines the value of women's friendships, both now and beyond. 

Artists will be a part of this collaboration, and I am excited that this play will take place at Dirty Linen  in approximately 3 months.

I will work on some digital projections for this event.

Di will be blogging the experience and you can find her page at the following link:

http://deadmatronssociety.blogspot.com.au/

Back to video bombing Bundaberg!!

I love going out into the balmy Bundaberg nights with my friend Brad.  Our mission is to find a wall. a building... a special place over which  we can  project our video images.

 

 

 

 

 

 

This process demands new methods of working and throws up technical challenges along the way.   Sometimes we are the only  people who will see and know a successful outcome to any given projection event.   I try to document our stories.

Contemporary Works on Paper

Dirty Linen  generated its usual buzz of excitement last Friday night.  There was another great exhibition installed at the artspace.

This time it was Contemporary Works on Paper, curated by Bundaberg artist Clinton Cross.  Interstate and local artists contributed works on paper.  Subject matter was diverse.

Seventy to eighty people attended the opening.  Clinton introduced the artist's works and then the red dots came out!  Over thirty two works were sold.  A brilliant achievement!

Thanks must go to Clinton for curating these exciting exhibitions.  He is already making plans for his next two shows!!

On Sunday, I opened the gallery from 10 -2pm and will be doing this every Sunday excluding public holidays.   I will have a permanent display of the works of established Bundaberg artists.....and. just in time for Xmas, I will be opening the small gallery at the front of Dirty Linen as a shop that will present artistic creations of many types, sculptures, fibre works, ceramics, art cards  and so on.   I hope the shop will be up and running this Sunday.  So look in between 10 and 2.

In the meantime I am formulating  ideas for my art practice in 2013, and will be finishing a large board I will be showing in Brisbane in January.

 Above, three superb drawings by Selwyn Rodda from Clinton Cross's  'Contemporary Works on     Paper' exhibition.

Till soon.  cx

Clinton's exhibition

I took a trip up to Gladstone last weekend to catch their Art awards. Bundaberg did very well capturing 5 awards over the 13 different categories! Sadly I missed out this time,but I have had my share of wins over the years and can't complain.

Clinton Cross and I have been preparing for another of the group exhibitions he has curated. This show brings together artists from interstate and New Zealand also. Hope you can come.

On Sunday, I am inviting people to come to Dirty Linen, perhaps to do a little work (writing, painting etc), have a coffee and some homemade cake....maybe join in on the new Poet's Corner. Come along and catch up with your fellow artists!

Talk art soon!! c x

Design for Sarah

 

I was recently in Alpha visiting my son Ben, his lovely wife Sarah and my gorgeous grandaughter Eden.  While I was there, Sarah asked me if I would be able to produce a design for her business cards and flyers etc.

 

I was really excited about this project.

 

I took a photo of Sarah, some of her jewellry and fabrics.   Using filters in Photoshop Elements 9, . I put together this image, which Sarah was very happy with.

 

cx

Last words on Alpha

Alpha is a town that has it's stories...no doubt, but it keeps them 'close to the chest'.

The houses here stand far apart... and silent. From brilliant blue, a powerful sun blasts down, baking the hardy weed-patched red soil of their yards. Gusts of wind play havoc with dust, dirt and leaves whirling through the gray galvanised wire yard fences that seem redundant here. Nothing holds back the dust which infiltrates everything.

There must be people behind those closed doors. Stiffly sun baked towels like colourful planks and tshirts and socks that look and feel like cardboard cutouts decorate the clotheslines. They all disappear sometime through the day, prised off the hot as hell metal lines .

Unwashed cars laze under tall leafy trees or dingey carports, recharging their batteries. Occasionally I would see a car travelling on one of Alpha's main roads. Some of these empty roads are as wide as four lane freeways.

A considerable number of the locals seem to be itinerant workers. They come and go and are forgotten. Some are teachers, like my son Ben whom I had come to visit. He is doing his 'Country Service'.

Ben takes me on a tour of notable landmarks in Alpha. It takes us half an hour. He has been here long enough now to have developed friendships and a sense of community with the locals. He has been out with 'the boys' who play hard capturing wild pigs, riding horses, shooting rifles and the like.

I visit the tourist information centre where volunteer Nola points out the marks on the building which show the heights to which three separate floods had inundated the town. She shows me a shed which houses a small collection of dusty cobwebbed museum worthy objects. Maybe one day, someone will clean them up and arrange them in some kind of display.

It's good to be home in Bundaberg tonight.




　

　

 

　

　

Capturing Alpha - Some photographs

 

 

Above: Main street Alpha (Population 400+.  630ks NW of Brisbane. Inland from Rockhampton).  I came to visit my son and his family   (Currently working in Alpha.)

 

                                                                                   Above: Railway Station Alpha

 

 

 

 Below:  Railway Station Alpha

                                                Above  Air strip Flying Doctor only. Hoon strip too by the look of it.

 

    Above: Flying Doctor's airport