Well I made the front page of the City Chronicle, by the usual method of being in the right place at the right time. In this case I was printing at Megalo Print Studio and Gallery when the team from the Chronicle turned up to write about the ongoing issue of the use of the Fitters Workshop.
Eleesa Lee took the photograph.
The collage and paper works of Gracia Haby and Louise Jennison are currently showing at the LaTrobe Regional Gallery (138 Commercial Road, Morwell) untill Sunday 1 April 2012.
As I see no likelihood of getting to see this show I was happy to ‘visit’ the show via Gracia and Louise’s tumblr page.
The one thing I find odd is that the beautiful birds that grace the wall of the exhibition appear to be rather obviously nailed to the wall – I think it really detracts from the delicacy of the work. [Please read Gracia’s comment which explains the choice of hanging method].
Thanks to the Craft Victoria Craft Blog for drawing this work to my attention.
These drawings were made at the Spirit in the Land exhibition, which is currently on at the ANU Drill Hall Gallery until 1 April (opening hours, Wednesday to Sunday 12.00 to 5.00pm).
I really enjoyed this exhibition, which gives a succinct summary of some of Australia’s best landscape artists, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous. I loved seeing Rosalie Gascoigne and Rover Thomas rubbing artistic shoulders. In the side room at the back right of the gallery is a great display of the work of Lorraine Connelly-Northey (Waradgerie and Irish background), whose re-interpretation of traditional Indigenous forms is continually innovative and exciting.
Along one wall hang a series of Narrbongs, (string bags or the Waradgerie word for the pouch of a marsupial) and in the middle of the room are ‘bark’ canoes.
Not only are the works themselves exciting to look at, but the shadows they cast are almost equally interesting.
This Narrbong is made of wire and a piece of pressed tin
and this one of rusted fencing wire.
I’m planning to go back and do more drawings soon.
Here is my most recent drawing, my lounge chair and footstool.
I’ve been playing around with long stitch on even count canvas lately, my own designs rather than pre-designed kits. I decided to use some of my drawings as the basis for some stitching. The colour is quite strong after a simple line drawing.
I’m keeping the canvas to the same size as the original drawings, in this case 15 X 20 cms. Here is my 2 January drawing of jugs transposed into long stitch.
I quite like the jugs floating against the space of the blank canvas.
The final version turned out to be more ‘decorative’ than I had intended, mainly because I wasn’t sure that I would have sufficient thread to complete the background. Of course it may well have been more interesting if I had sewn as much background as I could with the thread I had and then filled in with the second colour.
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