I’ve had four little paintings exhibited at Gallery 1855 as part of a group community exhibition called “Besties”
It closes on February 6th, so check the gallery hours and go have a peek if you are up that way.
These paintings are all part of my life long project – drawing from life (usually on an iPad these days), then using those drawings to inform paintings.
Winnie resting 2020 Oil on board 36cm x 46cmWinnie Posing 2020 Oil on board 40cm x 30cmWinnie Gazing 2020 Oil on Board 40cm x 30cmWinnie Waiting 2020 Oil on Board 46cm x 36cm
We are all working from home more, and out of home opportunities for Artists have for the moment mostly vanished.
I’ve noticed that this website is sorely in need of update – a good COVID19 iso goal! So watch this space.
Also, SALA (South Australian Living Artists festival) this year is likely to be very different, so over the next few posts I am going to be experimenting with how I might share my work online in SALA style.
I hope to show some of my drawings and how they were made, and how they might then give rise to other work.
As a starter, here is a drawing I made this morning, and if you follow the hyperlink on her name you will see the drawing replayed, including the squiggly play where I was testing out the new unfamiliar app that I was using today.
Introducing Winnie, my new moving muse and bff. iPad drawing.
Working on this project involved several months of immersion at “F Block” where the grapes were grown for this 2017 very special shiraz.
I made a number of iPad ‘drawings’, measuring the changes over time in the landscape and the vines. The final label design grew out of these works, expressing the unique qualities of “F Block”.
The exhibition continues throughout August 2019, 11am – 5pm daily at Hentley Farm Cellar door, Corner Gerald Roberts and Jenke Roads, Seppeltsfield. Work is for sale, you can enquire via this blog, or details provided on the floor sheet at the exhibition.
“Mulching the Terra Rossa”, zoomed iPad drawing printed on aluminium, 28cm diameter
The Saint Ignatius Art Show opens this evening and continues all weekend for SALA. It is a popular biennial fixture in SALA, where a broad range of local Artists show their work.
I will be exhibiting a small group of paintings and iPad mash-ups. Making this body of work I was thinking about cultural and religious traditions and the timelessness of stories associated with them. Our stories needn’t be assigned to “museums” of thought. They are living and contemporary expressions of our connectedness. I also like to muse on the possibility of these stories crossing cultural and religious borders.
“Madonna” Sally Parnis 2019, Oil on Ply, 60cm x 100cm
Saint Ignatius Art Show is at Saint Ignatius Junior School, Queen Street, Norwood.
It opens Friday August 9th, and will be open for viewing Saturday 10th 10-4 and Sunday 11th, 10-4.
I am pleased to have been included in the 9th Prospect Portrait Prize exhibition, with my animated digital painting “DNA”. This work was previously a finalist in the Emma Hack Art Prize, and it is wonderful to have it out in the world again.
The 9th Prospect Portrait Prize opens this Sunday 26th November at Prospect Gallery, 1 Thomas Street Nailsworth. The opening function is from 3-5pm.
The exhibition continues until January 21st, 2018.
Set of six “stills” from “DNA”, mp4, manipulated iPad finger drawings playback, dimensions variable.