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An update to the mural story…

I managed it! Ten metres of fence in one day.

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It was a fabulous day.

You can see more photos and vote for your favourite here. Voting closes tomorrow (Sunday 29th November 2015) at 6pm.

The winner will spend a week at the Prairie Hotel in Parachilna – in that splendid landscape!

I love all of the murals – so different, and I loved meeting the other artists.

I learnt so much, and it was physically very demanding. My quads are killing me today – who knows how many squats I did in that 14 hours of painting!

Thanks to Emma Hack for driving this fabulous event, also Splash Adelaide, The Prairie Hotel, North Adelaide Precinct Association, City of Adelaide and Stratco Adelaide.

More photos can be seen at Last Friday in North Adelaide.

I also want to thank the five Saint Ignatius College students who gave two hours of time to help with brush cleaning and in fill work! Couldn’t have done it without you!

Radelaide!

Mural in North Adelaide

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“Living the Life – in North Adelaide” – Mural design with imposed palette (iPad finger drawings collaged)

I’ve been lucky enough to be one of five artists to have my mural design selected to be part of a mural painting competition on Friday 27th November.

We have one day only to paint our work on a 10 metre stretch of fence on O’Connell street, North Adelaide.

I’ve never made a mural before and I’m really excited about the opportunity to fill such a large space with my work.

The criteria were quite strict – we could only use the nine colours supplied, so I reworked some of my previous iPad drawings and made a few more using the specified colours, then smashed them all together to come up with the above design – all made on an iPad. I hope the design reflects the diverse people who live, work, study and visit our beautiful North Adelaide, surrounded by park and very “Adelaide” structures such as St Peters Cathedral and the Adelaide Oval – with Mt Lofty in the background!

It will be a very long and tiring day but we will be helped along by entertainment, food and wine from 4-8pm. People will be asked to vote on site and online – come along and say hello if you’re in Adelaide, and vote for your favourite.

See Last Friday in North Adelaide for details.

Slippage

My small SALA exhibition opens at Jorells Face Hair Body, City Cross, Adelaide tomorrow. There are a number of patched and slashed digital drawings in light boxes, and four paintings. I’ve also made a very large light box using the salon’s advertising window and transforming it with an extra large print of one of my iPad drawing “mash-ups”.

It’s fun, and my own little plug for observational drawing and the primacy of “seeing”.

Drinks with the Artist are from 5-7, and the exhibition runs for a month.

Slippage invite email

VISTA – a group exhibtion

I like windows.

They allow vision, and the passage of light – great things for a painter.

My latest work indulges my love of windows, and continues to play with the possibilities of iPad drawing. I’ve also drawn on the work of the very many artists who have harnessed the narrative potential of figures and interiors. The story in these paintings and collaged digital drawings belongs to you, the viewer.

Vista is a group exhibition opening in two weeks time at Hill Smith Gallery, 113 Pirie street, Adelaide. My work will be shown along with beautiful paintings and sculptures by Melinda Brodde, Jessica Mara and Astra Parker.

The exhibition runs from May 16th until June 13th. I hope you can come along!

"Five windows with show lights", 2015 Oil on marine ply 100cm x 80cm
“Five windows with show lights”, 2015
Oil on marine ply
100cm x 80cm

Gleam – drawing to a close

“Gleam” finishes this Saturday, 22nd November at 5pm. It is my current exhibition of drawings and paintings at Hill Smith Gallery, 113 Pirie Street, Adelaide. The gallery is open from 10-5, Tuesday until Friday, and 2-5 on Saturday. My work is upstairs on level 1, and on the ground floor is a beautiful exhibition by Thom Buchanan. I won’t be exhibiting for a while, so if you can get along to see it I’d be really happy!

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To see images of the paintings click here. The drawings have been shown in light boxes, and I haven’t posted images of them. If you manage to go along, I’d love to know what you thought. IMG_4118

Gleam – an exhibition

I’m busy finishing off the last few paintings for “Gleam”, my solo exhibition opening in the First floor space at Hill Smith Gallery, Pirie St,  Adelaide on November 1st, and running until 22nd November.

Gleamscape 2014 Oil on plywood 76cm x 59cm
Gleamscape
2014
Oil on plywood
76cm x 59cm

Gleam is a collection of works about just that – the gleam of reflections on water, the gleam of the last or first rays of the sun… and the gleam of the back-lit screen of a digital tablet. Every one of these drawings and paintings has its origin in an observational drawing made “en plein air” on my iPad. Some works are the actual drawings presented on light boxes, backlit just as they are on the iPad. Some are paintings of the original drawings – re interpreted in oil on board. Others are paintings of my finger marks on the iPad – close-ups of cropped digital drawings where slippage begins to occur between “represented” and “representing”. My work is an apologia for the primacy of seeing – the intricate and very human process of perceiving an image of our outside world via the retina and a complex cognitive transformation. It is also a celebration of the effect new technology has, and has always had, on the practice of Artists. I am influenced by many other Artists – notably David Hockney, Richard Diebenkorn, Pierre Bonnard, Èdouard Vuillard and the whole Nabi group, and the wonderful group of “9 by 5” cigar box works at the Art Gallery of South Australia, along with their evocative frames. Which brings me to frames – you will see that the “frames” of these paintings are an integral part of the work. They are inspired by the way drawings appear on an iPad and encouraged by my dilemma with frames, framing and the effect of photography on the way we think we see the world.

Wild is the Wind

On Monday 28th July I’ll be installing some paintings at Adelaide Airport for “Wild is the wind”, an exhibition curated by Gloria Strzelecki for the SALA (South Australian Living Artists) festival.

Also exhibiting are Katia Carletti, Anna Gore, Tyrone Ormsby and Talia Wignall.

The exhibition continues from 1st August until 24th August, 4am until 11pm.

If you’re passing through Adelaide airport in August make sure you check out our work  – it will be throughout the concourse opposite the domestic departure gates. Or if you don’t have business at the airport, come and have a look anyway! It is a huge bright space for our large bright works!

"Bluescape", Oil on canvas, 150cm x 100cm
“Bluescape”, Oil on canvas, 150cm x 100cm

Gematria – an Exhibition

“Gematria is an Assyro-Babylonian system of numerology later adopted by Jews that assigns numerical value to a word or phrase in the belief that words or phrases with identical numerical values bear some relation to each other”

I am participating in “Gematria”, an exhibition curated by Gloria Strzelecki, opens at Adelaide Central Gallery, Glenside Cultural Precinct, 7 Mulberry Road, Glenside on June 17th.

Gloria has assigned 26 artists each a letter of the alphabet and asked us to make an Artwork in response to that letter. The works will be accompanied by a very brief statement or poem written by the artist.

The exhibition will be opened by John Neylon, author, curator and Art critic, at 6pm on the 17th June. It continues until 11th July.

Some of the works may be seen here.

"The Gloaming", oil on marine ply, 1200cm x 49cm
“The Gloaming”, oil on marine ply, 1200cm x 49cm

The Participating Artists are:

Michael Bishop, Nona Burden, Liz Butler, Patty Chehade, Ruby Chew,
Trena Everuss, Louise Feneley, Zoe Freney, Geoff Gibbons, Sasha Grbich,
Rob Gutteridge, Ingrid Kellenbach, Sue Kneebone, Jess Mara, Claire Marsh,
Debra Morley, Renate Nisi, Sally Parnis, Rebekah Rivett, Fiona Roberts,
Julia Robinson, Chris Thiel, Yve Thompson, Luke Thurgate, Sera Waters
and Lyn Wood.

Last Days, Parkland Art at the Adelaide Festival Centre Art Space Gallery

The Adelaide Parklands Art Prize exhibition ends this Sunday April 6th at the Adelaide Festival Centre Art Space Gallery. It’s open Wednesday – Sunday, 11am -4pm

My multi-panel animated digital drawing work entitled “En Plein Air” will not be shown again in its current format. The hardware is on the way out! So, if you’re even slightly curious, go and have a look. I also have two small paintings in the exhibition.

There is a huge diversity of Art work exhibited, curated expertly by Maggie Fletcher. I hope you can manage to see it!

"En Plein air", 2013. Mp4 on digital photo frames, approx 96cm x 100cm multi panel work.
“En Plein air”, 2013.
Mp4 on digital photo frames, approx 96cm x 100cm multi panel work.

The Adelaide Parklands Art Prize exhibition

Friday 14th saw the opening of the Adelaide Parklands Art prize at the Adelaide festival Centre Art Space.

This exhibition of 86 diverse works, curated beautifully by Maggie Fletcher of the Art space Gallery, is a wonderful first time exhibition celebrating our unique parklands. The very worthy winner was CJ Taylor with “Pasha of the Parklands“.

I was thrilled to be given  a “Highly commended”award for “En Plein Air”, my 12 panel animated digital drawing work. I also have two small paintings in the exhibition.

 

The exhibition is at the Art Space (above the Dunstan Playhouse) until April 16th, Wed-Sun, 11am until 4 pm, or whenever there are performances at the Playhouse.

I hope you get a chance to check it out!

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AKA Tulya Wodli (Memory 5:30am) Oil on plywood, 40cm x 30cm