Playing with light

Photography by Max Milne

Photos from the exhibition at Bus

A few photographs from the show (taken by Lucas Maddock), for more detailed shots of each piece on its own please scroll down futher to older posts. Thankyou to everyone who supported this project, including the City of Melbourne Arts Grants Program.

Book works

Two books were produced as part of the Perfect Stillness exhibition and can be ordered by contacting me at chayya.clancy@gmail.com

Illustrious Botanae
(29 x 35 cm) $95

Artists’ Book, limited edition of 20. Printed on lana dessin 220gsm
drawing paper, sewn together with an antique industrial sewing machine and fabric.
Featuring twelve illustrations of the indigenous plant Gymea (sample above)



A perfect stillness where everything moves catalogue
(14 x 14.5cm) $10

44 page catalogue, produced in a limited edition of 200, printed onto conquerer
laid paper. Featuring photographs of the exhibition, line drawings and text. A part of and an extension from the exhibition.

LEFT

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left
(2.3 x 2.4 metres)

Fabriano Artistico 300gsm hot pressed watercolour paper (Italy), oriental spice and hot ginger acrylic house paint, conte, graphite.

Featuring the silhouettes of Sohi and Claude, bamboo, ferns,
gymea lilies, japonica, protaceae, and birds

CENTRE

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centre

(1.1 x 2m approx)

Fibre board, orange scent and candelabra acrylic house paint, conte and graphite.

Featuring the silhouettes of Mandy and red parrot tulips

RIGHT

right

(3.2 x 2.4 metres)

Fabriano Artistico 300gsm hot pressed watercolour paper (Italy),

acrylic house paint, conte.

Featuring the silhouettes of Ben

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.