Received some good news last week, one of my tiny paintings has made it into the Paddington Art Prize. The Paddington Art Prize is a $20,000 acquisitive prize for a painting inspired by the Australian Landscape. You can see a preview of the exhibition online: 2008 Finalists
Judges:
Nick Waterlow, Director, Ivan Dougherty Gallery
Geoffrey Cassidy, Director, ArtBank
Kerrie Lester, Artist
Drinks tonight at Mary Place Gallery, 12 Mary Place St, Paddington.
To be opened by Professor Ian Howard, Dean of UNSW, COFA.
From 6 - 8pm.
Exhibition dates: 11th - 23rd November 2008
Hope to see you there!
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Have taken a long sabbatical from making work… so thought it was time to get back to it.
There are two projects in the works: 5IGN5 and Untied.
5IGN5
“It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting…” - Paulo Coelho
The project explores ideas about whether ‘signs’/maxims exist in the world that speak to us on a personal level and help us live better lives.
The project will run for about a month. Process will be documented on http://www.keiro.tumblr.com
Have acquired some space. New online process journal: Keiro
‘heard some good news today, looks like my “artist book” will be traveling down to University of Tasmania in Hobart and then it’ll go onto Launceston. Wish I could go with it. ^^
Just got back from a trip to London. the london summer was pretty bad so luckily we took a detour through switzerland and italy.
Some happy snaps in series: To Vals
Been very busy lately and haven’t had much time to post. Blank III came round and went.
Finally managed to put some stuff up down below:
Blank III
hoping to get more time to work on a new series soon.
There have been a few delays as the Year of the Pig kicks off.
Blank III expected to arrive in my mail box any day now. Meanwhile, check out work by Karen, Joh and Tree. Some nice collage work: blank
And Red Magic toy is due to come out in 3 colour versions in September 07 sometime. It’s been a long wait:
In the mean time, back to doodling.
Going to be involved in Blank III. A travelling collaborative sketchbook. This one’s going to have more of an international flava than previous volumes. Can’t wait to see what’s in there. I’ll get to hit 10 pages early January.
For a peek at the first two volumes, check out blank
In other news, Artquake raised $17,000 for the earthquake relief in Indonesia. Thanks to the organisers and fellow artists who were all involved.
Current series: Miso.