Holiday Lüt

The exhibition of my bird series, Fight/Flight, has been extended! The show was scheduled to come down on November 30th, but will remain on the lovely walls of Lüt Boutique until the end of December.

Need some gifts? Feeling spendy? How ’bout an original piece of artwork by yours truly?! Not so spendy? Affordable prints, clocks and cards are also available!

I’m gittin’ hitched!

Yee haw! That’s right, folks, I’m getting married. I proposed to my special man this past weekend, and here’s how I did it…

Luckily, I could take a couple days off work (I’m on-call) to busily put this together while Josh was at work. It was a slow process, but I’ve always wanted to try stop motion. It was well worth the effort and really fun, exciting and satisfying to work on something so personal. He’s a good source of inspiration, that one!
(music is “Robots” by Dan Mangan)

Lilly Piri

How beautiful are these coloured pencil drawings by Lilly Piri!? She spends something like 20+ hours per drawing because she adds so many soft layers. I love the delicate colours and her use of negative space. It’s sweet that she includes lovely little Aussie animals since she’s from Australia herself.

These drawings make me want to give my coloured pencils another look. I had a lot of fun drawing with them for the Drift weekend, but haven’t taken them out again. Maybe they’re getting lonely and this is the universe’s way of telling me so…

David Khang

I spent this afternoon with Josh and his MA classmates, visiting the studio of local artist David Khang. Much of his performance-based work is pretty intense and bodily, but I enjoyed the humour in many of his pieces and his refreshingly low-key presentation of his own work. One of my least favourite things about art school was the exaggerated seriousness of it all. Every piece, idea, lecture, discussion needed a new, multi-syllabic word not found in any dictionary. A long, convoluted paragraph to say something like: it’s big. All so self-important. I think that’s why I really like Khang’s piece Scrababble. Instead of creating words from letters, you create giant words from prefixes, suffixes and theoretical words of the moment. I swear I’ve heard postironiceroticaestheticliminalism.

(Yes, it’s been ages since I posted. Gotta admit I’ve been feeling pretty creatively drained post-show opening. Trying to muster some inspiration and get back at ‘er)