Monday, July 30, 2007

bain's bike ride

Here's a little home movie that Jon did of Bain riding his bike. Bit cute, bit fun.. Stayed tuned for more.. Jons getting as bit carried away (thanks Dean).

Saturday, July 21, 2007

me.. an artist..??..

*Warning: Long post below...sorry...

My friend Carly, who is currently doing honours in printmaking, asked me a while ago if I would like to apply to collaborate with her for an exhibition in Bendigo. I said yeah sure and didn't really think much of it. Well that is til about 2 weeks ago when she emailed through the proposal for me to check, and added that she had left it til
last minute (which I was exactly the same at uni) so it needed to be in TODAY. I also needed to add my artist CV (i did one at uni like 4 -5 years ago and thats it!) and a few of my works. Long story short.. and a weeks or so of waiting... we finally found out that we had been chosen.
The overall project is called 'Test Match' and will be run in Allan's Walk - Artist Run Space during November. Basically, there were four spots and we were chosen for one. Why 'Test Match'?, well it involves two artist, one being based in bendigo/central vic..Carly.. and inviting another artist.. being me.. to collaborate on works during a seven day period. We get $1000 as our fee, plus promotional material, a writer and photographer to document the 7 days. Its quite exciting and nerve racking all at the same time. Its all explained a lot better on the Allans Walk Website. Thought I'd also share the pics that I submitted with our proposals.









So what will we be doing? The vague idea revolves around rural woman and their domestic environment. The photos above are a perfect example. We will also explore being an artist in a rural community, and the divide between fine art and domestic art (like quilting, knitting, scrap booking, various craft etc). Firstly, we will start up a blog dedicated to the project, once we have a name. The blog will be used to up-load our works, being photos and prints which document our daily lives and environment, then use each others works to create new works. All of which will explore two rural woman's domestic spaces, which are both quite different. Me being a housewife, who works, has a child and hasn't really explored art since finishing uni, until recently starting my blog/on-line galleries. And Carly living in a share house, doing her honours at uni, working, and being involved in the art community and continually developing her career through various exhibitions. These collaborations will be pushed further during the Test Match, resulting in an installation piece.

Its quite exciting and I'm looking forward to it all, although the fact I haven't done anything like this since uni, makes me rather nervous. So stayed tuned for a link to our blog.


Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Another re-fashion..



Above is my latest project for Wardrobe Re-fashion.- boring brown top into something a little more me.
I designed the little motif and printed it onto computer t-shirt transfer paper. The white material was also recycled from another ill-fitting top, and then I added some free-sewing to create the little foliage bits.
The green pants above were the homemade ones I showed a while ago, but I dripped a little bleach onto the them near the knee. I appliqued a flower from the black/white material over the stain.. thats a wardrobe re-fashion trick!! I have a few other projects on the go, hopefully I can share them with you soon.
Your probably wondering what the little graphic is about below... its from the wardrobe re-fashion site and its very similar to your Monopoly board game 'get out of jail free' card. This can be used when you have a special do or a fantastic sale where you just have to break the rules of your pledge. You only get to use it once!
Jan(step-mum) and I were shopping just before Clinton's(bro) big 30th birthday party and I was a little disappointed about what I had to wear. Jan decided to buy me a new dress that she absolutely loved ( and so did I). She insisted that she would buy it for me, therefore I wasn't breaking any rules. But I decided to fess up, hence the card.


My 2 month pledge will be up at the end of the month but I actually think I will sign up again, but for longer, perhaps the 4 month. Although I have done a few things, I have so many re-fashioning ideas and really enjoy the blog community involved. There are some very creative people out there. But we'll see...
Cheers

Tuesday, July 3, 2007

i've returned...



Spent a week away, and I've been finding it hard to settle back into routine. I've been sick for a few days so that hasn't helped. I did catch up with my family while away and wanted to share a couple of my fave pics.




The main reason we were away, it was my brothers 30th birthday... seen here with a little montage of Bain having a great time. This has been borrowed from my project 365, which also suffered while I was away...