| Hello! I've noticed not much going on in this community, but it seems to be the only one around for Australian art. So, if anyone is interested, I made some icons of work by Tracey Moffatt who is my current favourite Australian artist.
Wire in the Blood x15
Spooks x15
Little Fish x30
Tracey Moffatt x20
  
( the rest at my journal )
In the endeavour of getting a discussion going, I'm also really interested to know who your favourite Australian artist is, and why? | comments: Leave a comment   |
| hi guys. I'm organising another exhibition, this time for Fringe at Fed Square. I'd love to see what you guys would come up with for it. Read on! (apologies for those who've seen this other places)
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This is an invitation to be a part of Totem, the latest exhibition presented by Omnific Assembly.
Totem is a group exhibition exploring self identity through the resurging craft movement. Artists are invited to create a self portrait doll, not of how they look on the outside, but showing how they feel about themselves or how they secretly see themselves on the inside. These dolls will then be hung in the Fracture Galleries at Federation Square in Melbourne from 22nd of September to the 13th November as part of the Melbourne International Fringe Festival.
These dolls can be created from scratch (sewn, knitted, crocheted, carved, glued etc), conversions from pre-existing dolls, sculptural assemblages from any materials, found objects or anything else you can imagine. They can be a human, an animal, a mythical creature or anything else. They can be as fantastical or ordinary as each artist feels themselves to be. Artists can submit as many dolls as they wish. The venue can cater for dolls from 30cm to several metres.
The Totem exhibition recognises we live in a growing culture of alienation which results in an increasing suspicion of strangers and shame of the self. The central premise of Totem is that no matter how different from each other we might seem on the outside, we all feel the same on the inside and it expresses this through individually created dolls which expose each artists deepest sense of identity, demonstrating that the realm of human experience is the same no matter who we are.
To find out more, please visit www.omnificassembly.com.
To be a part of this exhibition please contact curator Sayraphim Lothian on them@omnificassembly.com
Please feel free to forward this to anyone you know that might be interested. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| Anyone over the age of 20 that grew up in Australia will remember this guy..i couldn't help but crack up when i heard the blackboard say "hurry up".. i bet you will also, the memories will rush back. This was such an amazing show..i used to play Mr. Squiggle with my friends when i was a little girl..
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| I hope this isn't inappropriate, but I wanted to let you know about a new journal created for Dr Sketchy's in Perth.
Dr Sketchy's Anti-Art School is where burlesque meets art, buys it a drink and takes it to bed. This successful life drawing class is now in 50 cities across the world and now it's Perth's turn to join the craziness.
Dr Sketchy nights will be held at The Leederville where you can come and draw sexy burlesque girls and hunky boys as well as see performances by Perth's premier burlesque troupe, Sugar Blue Burlesque.
If you're interested, come and check out ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) drsketchyperth or take a look at our website. It's still under construction but has links to our MySpace and FaceBook pages.
Cheers!
x-posted around a bit
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| Hey everyone... I don't really remember posting to this community before. My name is Lee and I'm from Mandurah, Western Australia.
This is acrylic on canvas.
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Making connections through the exhibition theme and the use of mixed media Nexus exhibition presents site-specific work by emerging artists Stuart Burns, Jeremy Piert, Laura Wills and Karin Woithe.
The artists have been challenged by curator Heather Young to create work for a site-specific exhibition in the Nexus cabaret windows. Usually reserved for individual artists, the idea of a group exhibition in the cabaret windows is new to the gallery and creates the opportunity for each artist to develop a unique work for each window.
Curator Heather Young says she has been keen to see the four artists work together for the past two years. “I love their combination of styles and mediums. The location of the Nexus cabaret windows and the theme of ‘nexus’ will challenge us all.”
The mixed media installation aims to speak of the simplicity and complexity of the nexus between people, from the intimate to the personal, in a form that will be an engaging experience for viewers.
The exhibition accompanies the nexus themed members show in the Nexus Gallery.
nexus is just next to fowlers and just behind the mercury cinema in ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA | | comments: 3 comments or Leave a comment |
| I have recently been given the role of curating Out West's inaugural exhibition of local -- gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and interesex -- artistic talent with Reverend Karl Hand!
We are in the process of getting things together for this exhibition, and urgently need submissions!
We would like to have a exhibition that showcases a range of artworks, from at least twenty individual artists.
This exhibition is to be held at: 37 East St, Granville. During: Friday the 5th & Saturday the 6th of October (if need be, we may extend the duration).
The title is "Real Me Out", and we are especially looking for artworks that concern identity and sexuality within contemporary Western Sydney.
Guidelines for submission:
- It is imperative that you provide pictures and details of your submitted work -- i.e. the medium, dimensions, year of completion, and a blurb (150 words, maximum).
- Supply contact details (i.e. email address, mobile phone number, website/myspace/deviantart).
- If possible, provide images of other works that you've done, that we may also want to consider displaying.
- Please do not submit artworks that may cause a hazard (i.e. no fire, no shards of glass, no uncontained mess, no human bodily refuse). Kthx.
Artworks will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
Please send all submissions and queries to: raymond.haber[at]gmail[dot]com.
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The NEW 'beinArt International Surreal Art Collective' can be viewed at http://beinart.org It is still in development, but is fully functional and full of eye candy. Our online gallery features over 180 artists at this stage. It will be integrated with The Surreal & Visionary Art Forum in the near future.
Some of our featured International artists are: Ernst Fuchs, Mark Ryden, Robert Williams, Eli Tiunine, Chet Zar, Peter Gric, Alex Grey, Michael Hussar, Laurie Lipton, Wolfgang Grasse, Victor Safonkin, Terrance Lindall, Jacek Yerka, Naoto Hattori, Oleg Korolev, Daniel Martin Diaz, Maura Holden, Robert Venosa, Martina Hoffmann, Kris Kuksi, Artur Golacki, Andre Martins De Barros, Andrew Gonzalez, Sergei Aparin, James Sebor, Travis A Louie, Steven Kenny, Carrie Ann Jones Baade, Brigid Marlin, Prof Philip Rubinov-Jacobson, Zeljko Djurovic, Peter Hutter, David Stoupakis and many many more. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| 400 bucks for these babies:
If anyone is interested in buying these, then they'd have to top the price I'm selling them for :)
Artists Statement:
My initial idea was to express metamorphosis through a concept of change; new beginnings, starting again and re-creating your existence. Inspired by a personal experience, I wanted to use this concept as a way of ‘coming clean’ for my own reasons. I took my ‘metamorphosis’ concept and wanted to express it through the change of seasons, each season being a step towards becoming someone new, it’s a process and each stage carries its own emotion. I expressed each stage using: composition, light/shadow, object, texture, colour, focal point, symbolism, format, movement, contrast and facial expression.
Symbolism for Summer:
Colour: The red colour of the paint shows her emotion – angry, frustrated, eager restless and THIRSTY for something new.
Format
And Contrast: I made her face at a high contrast to show that her identity is simple. She’s covered in a block of clothing, with little detail, to show that she’s boldly covering herself up.
Texture: I used a hard cement coating and a textured interior paint before I applied the paint –this shows that she has imperfections or flaws, which she wants to get rid of. Summer has a very hard texture, to show that this is the beginning of her process of purifying herself from impurities. Put this next to ‘Spring’ and you’ll see that the texture in that painting it a lot less than the texture in Summer, Autumn and Winter. This shows the progression of change.
Composition: She holds her hand above her head, mostly to show confusion, she’s restless and using uses her hands to express this. She’s not centred to show that she isn’t centred in herself, this put in juxtaposition to ‘Spring’, when ‘Spring’ is in the VERY centre of the canvass. This shows the progress from beginning to end.
Facial
Expression: This shows the emotion I’m trying to express in ‘Summer’. The reasons I used this expression is much like the reason I used the colour for this painting. The expression she has on her face, is a feeling I’m trying create of boredom, frustration and restless.
Symbolism for Autumn:
Composition: I composed Autumn on the right hand side of the canvas, for the reasons somewhat related to why I composed Summer to the left hand side of the canvas. This is to show the ‘off centred’ emotions and securities. She’s going through the stage of “shedding her identity” “shedding every colour” as an autumn tree does during the autumn season, which means that because she’s “shedding her identity” she isn’t completely there. This is why she is “off centred”.
Light/
Shadow: Because Autumn isn’t completely there, as I discussed above, she has a dark shadow over the side of her face. It’s covering her eye, as her eyes are the windows to her identity. It’s also covering half of her face to cover her facial identity.
Texture: As I described in ‘Summer’, the texture is here to represent her flaws and imperfections, as the process goes on, her flaws ‘wash’ away.
Colour: Here I am using Autumn colours, to express my season better. I tried to include all colours that the autumn leaf would have. I used mostly brown, because an autumn leaf which is brown, would be considered to be ‘dried out’ and ‘dead’. This shows that she is dying on the inside. But all plants need to be cut off and ‘pruned’ of the dead bits to let the new growth grow through.
Symbolism: I used the symbol of a blanket, she is using to blanket herself from the world with. This shows that she is fragile, and beginning to be as fragile as a winter tree. She’s in hiding and about to be in hibernation, so she is protecting her wound as and one would, until it’s healed enough to be exposed.
Facial
Expression: I made her look off to the side of the canvass to show that she’s avoiding eye contact and confrontation. She appears to be scared and inferior, looking out and protecting herself.
Symbolism for Winter:
Composition: I put her close up to show the confrontation she’s giving herself. She’s confronting every mistake and ‘washing it away’, analysing and correcting everything she’s ever done. She’s purifying her body and eroding every imperfection and flaw she has (texture).
Focal Point: The focal point, I feel, are her eyes. I’ve made her eyes are shut to show that she isn’t letting anyone in. She’s isolating herself because she’s in ‘hibernation’- to hibernate is something the animals do during the winder time. She’s fragile like the trees and she’s breaking her self down to become strong again.
Texture: Again, the texture is getting lesser, to show that her imperfections are being ‘washed away to purification’. They’re eroding away and she’s ‘coming clean’.
Facial
Expression: Her facial expression (as I said in focal point) I’ve made her eyes are shut to show that she isn’t letting anyone in. She’s isolating herself because she’s in ‘hibernation’. She isn’t smiling, she isn’t happy, she looks like she’s looking at herself and looking at herself, analysing every mistake she’s ever made.
Symbolism for Spring:
Composition: I made her in the centre of the canvas to show that she’s now centred in herself. She’s strong and re-born. Every thing is in the past and she’s turning for the future. She’s spinning around because she’s ‘turning her back on the past’
Light/
Shadow: I have dark shadow on her arms to show a sense of space. The her body parts that are behind her are now in the past, in the background and that the only important things are in the foreground, which is where she is spinning around to.
Texture: Here, I’ve still used the cement texture, to show that there is no such thing as perfection; everyone still has flaws about them. But here, she’s gotten rid of all of the flaws that she can.
Colour: The colours I’ve used here are colours which come out during spring time. Greens on the leaves and grass, pinks and yellows on the flowers. This shows the beauty of spring, and the beauty she holds now that she has washed herself clean of her mistakes, imperfections and flaws as a person (none of these flaws are physical – only mental and personal) she’s beautiful this represents her inner beauty of her flawless personality.
Symbolism: She’s naked to express that she’s not afraid to reveal who she really is (put this in juxtaposition to Summer, when she first started off, she was covering herself up, afraid to show who she is). Now that she’s recreated herself, she’s not afraid to show who she is.I used butterflies as a symbol of metamorphosis, as butterflies represent change.
Movement: I used her hair to show that she’s spinning around. The lines of her hair show this movement well. With the bit of hair starting to come around to the front of her face, and the hair behind her rapping around. The movement shows that she’s turning her back on her past.
Facial
Expression: Her facial expression is here to represent her enjoyment, satisfaction of being free. I tried to make her smile a pleasant smile, she’s relaxed and I think this helps me express my emotion more. | | comments: 3 comments or Leave a comment |
| Spring spring spring spring spring spring spring. I've finished my final, final piece! 
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| Hello my fellow Australian artisans. ;)
I'm Chiara and I live in Perth.
I was actually wondering whether anybody has a copy of "Mourning Bride II" by Arthur Boyd. It is one of my favourite pieces. I can't find it anywhere online!
Thanks in advance! | | comments: Leave a comment |
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| My theme is metamorphosis, in a sequence of seasons. Summer has colours of red and orange, and red is normally the emotion of anger and restlessness, which is what I've tried to create with Summer. Autumn is about 'turning over a new leaf' and shedding your identity, so you can begin to start again. Winter is about erosion, and washing yourself clean, in a purification and process in hibernation. Spring is the end of the metamorphosis, and she's happy, clean pure and has started her new beginning as a changed women.
This is all based on a personal experience I had last year with a family friend I've known my whole life, who pretty much brought me up as a father figure. He taught me a lot, all in order for one thing - to rape me. I revolved my life a lot around what he taught me and I still catch myself thinking things he taught me, knowledge of intellect and wisdom, and some knowledge he gave me while "programming" me. It's a long story, but this is a way I suppose, have "come clean" in myself by filtering out what he taught me for good and for bad. These are the stages I've been through and - am still going through.
I used concrete for the texture behind, this is a symbol of imperfection. As the seiries go on, the texture softens.
 (I don't like her collar bone..)
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Spring is on its way!! I just need to get over this painting thing. One week I can paint solidly. The next I can't even look at a paint brush. I think I've hit my hiatus, again.
You can find more work at my livejournal, or at my deviantart page http://xx-paperdoll-xx.deviantart.com/ :D Check me out or sign up yourselves - it helps with support and it's a lot like this blog only a lot bigger. | | comments: 10 comments or Leave a comment |
| I would like to introduce to you the National Art School, and our predicament, {if you don't already know of}.
The issues our institution are facing are those which interest all who believe in independance, choice and are against homogenisation of, well, everything.
Please, if you care about the arts in australia, help us out!!!!
"What is art (and why does it matter)? And what price education?"
"The shame, for us as culture-making creatures, is that we cannot elect governments competent to make either decision wisely."
"The best art schools.. are the independents."
http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/imagine-a-world-run-by-the-rightbrainers/2006/07/25/1153816179994.html
"few thought the National Art School would survive such a takeover, or regarded the college's interest as anything but a land grab."
http://www.artshub.com.au/ahau1/news/news.asp?Id=101289
more importantly - our blog site. the first entry has an important counterpoint and its reply.
feel free to ask questions here!
http://nasindependence.blog.com/
before you go on, please understand that in our fight for independance we are NOT bad-mouthing ANY other universities or art schools, what we ARE doing is fighting for the CHOICE we have made, and trying to keep that choice for artists of the FUTURE.
{if this post is innapropriate, let me know and i'll take it down..}
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