The circle

Unrolled, rolling and re rolled up. My work went up on the walls of bus gallery with the help of my most wonderful friend lucas and all the patience that goes along with mounting enormous pieces of paper to a wall. People came to the opening, my little brothers were wearing matching clothing (blue satin vests, white shirts and board shorts - they dressed themselves!), my mum made fruit platters with almonds and cloves and my beloveds brought me flowers plucked and added to the show of drawings, books and dried magnolias.
It was a really beautiful show and thankyou to everyone who came and checked it out, also to all of those who helped put the production together and BUS for having me.

Im going to put up photographs of the show in installments. There were three pieces in the show, A PERFECT STILLNESS WHERE EVERYTHING MOVES which I named LEFT< CENTRE < and RIGHT.

There were two book works as part of the project, A catalogue named after the show and a book of botanical illustrations of the Gymea Lily titled Illustrious Botanae.

All the work is for sale and books can be ordered. Thankyou.

Counting fingers now

Its only Eight sleeps until my show now, hands covered in white paint, to do lists listing on the walls of my studio. There are flyers circulating the streets and pockets of people, they are limited edition colour prints on ivory laid paper, you can find them around (I left a huge stack at Alice Euphemia near Flinders Lane). I hope to see you at the opening. There are three other shows opening at Bus that night that also sound quite beautiful.




The press release for my show is up here:
http://www.theprogram.net.au/eventsSub.asp?id=5078&category=0&state=3&selDate



Plus I just found a really amazing australian artist in here called Benjamin Forster, have a look at this drawing: http://www.emptybook.net/Images/Page2-3.jpg and then have a look at the other ones.

The White Room Exhibition

Ive got an impromptu retrospective of work from the last year in a new artist run space in prahran. Im calling it "Looking over my shoulder". Featuring work from several different shows so there will deffinately be something you havent seen, its up for a couple of weeks so check it out if you have the chance.

The White Room, 39 James Street, Prahran (comes directly off Chapel Street, down the windsor end of things). http://thewhiteroom.net.au

The lillies

Previews of the illustrations that will be apart of the book work i am making for my upcoming show at Bus Gallery.

A perfect stillness where everything moves

This is the ad that appears in the latest art almanac, the shiny september version, photography of the drawings is by Max Milne (http://home.exetel.com.au/m2photography/ ). My show is proudly supported by the City of Melbourne. Thankyou.

Gymea lillies

Ive been drawing these lillies, Gymea (the indigenous name) or flame or spear lilly (Doryanthes excelsa is its botanical).
Apparently aboriginal people used to roast them over the fire and eat them, and the stems can be up to 6m high but more often around the 2 to 3.

This is where Im going

Gaps of time between us, and now our interaction is pushed forward into the current moment we are both standing in.

Set free to the movement of the Nightingale

This drawing features my friend Sohi, two fake birds called Yietta and Unknown, a chair and the Japanese Aralia plant Tim gave me. It was too hard to take a photo of the whole drawing so again here are details from it. This drawing and the two below (Aralia and Okra to Autumn) are part of the works on Paper show at Brunswick Street Gallery currently on and running until 10 may.

Aralia and okra

The first drawing is the silhouette of a Japanese Aralia plant over several layers of house paint on drawing paper.
The second drawing is called Okra to Autumn and is the silhouette of dried okra and autumn leaves repeated, deconstructed, drawn over. There are areas of detail and areas of generalisation. Was a really interesting process. Think Im going to do more of this kind of thing.

faustina y ricardo

This is a silhouette drawing of my friend Faustina and a green lowrider bicycle named ricardo. It is mainly 6B greylead on drawing paper and some orange scent house paint. Its quite subtle so difficult to photograph.

work in process

ive been documenting the dying process of cut flowers with silhouettes and drawn detail. i think a lot about this process and making connections and generalisations with the process of flowers with all life. This drawing is on a large slab of wood, more lines to be drawn soon.

taking photos of new exhibition

Works on Paper 07

Im putting up a couple of new drawings in the Works on Paper show at Brunswick Street
Gallery next week, a drawing and printmaking group show.

The opening is on Friday 27 April at 6pm
Show runs until 10 May.
Brunswick Street Gallery can be found at Level 2 of 322 Brunswick Street in Fitzroy (opposite Bar Open)

A tangle of things in the works. Id give you a sneak preview but I dont have a camera anymore. Ive been spending more time inside the making and less time in the documenting. Outcomes coming and some already being, still.
My exhibition HOLDING a moment still to VIEW IT is still up in the window at 107 smith street fitroy for another few weeks, until the end of april. I plan to swap the existing drawings with some new ones at an unexpected moment.
Im thinking about making a new zine this week called DRAW A LINE with some drawings from my sketch book for the market on saturday.