3 flights of stairs or an elevator ride up is Gallery on Waymouth's newly renovated open air gallery garden. This is an amazing environment you must see next time you are in the city of Adelaide.
The artworks displayed are thematically that of freedom and relaxation and rely heavily on the symbolism of birds and feathers. Nearby is the living wall, sprouting mint, oregano and rosemary. Sprawling beneath it is a network of custom built benches branching across the floor space in diagonals. These photos document some of the installation process of the artworks Gallery on Waymouth - Official Page This colander pot was the best find of the day to get those ben-day style dots on this pop art commission piece I'm working on. The pot catches the drips from the spray paint too. Wipe it clean after a while and start again!
Apart from a few odd works here and there I have decided to put aside clay sculpture for a couple of months to explore some other materials. I've been having a great time shaping animals from wire. Below is a close up of the giraffe I've been working on. He's getting taped up so that his spots can be spray painted. There's also a couple of cats I've made which are shown in the process of having stripes painted on. I've also made a herd of deers, a couple of chickens, some mice and a few other creatures.
I'm putting in an application today to run a wire sculpture class at Carclew in the April school holidays. Mythological creatures will be the theme and I'm looking at using the technique pictured below to finish the little beasts. The photo shows a couple of antelopes out of a whole family of multicoloured antelopes I recently made.
Here's some photos from "Damn the Man" markets, held at the Depot on Franklin Street. It's been a couple of very hot days here in Adelaide but a good deal of people came through the market and braved the heat. I took a selection of clay and wire sculpture and the odd painting along. The big sellers were the clay fish, wire animals, clay houses and the hex pots. Thanks to all those who came down!
I ran a class at Long Street Studio on Thursday night. We worked with wire creating a couple of pieces of jewelry and a sculpture of a creature. Here's some photos :
I'm tutoring down at Active Arts Studios on Saturday mornings, teaching 5-15 year olds. I ran my first session today, it was a lot of fun, nice little studio and excellent groups of kids!
www.longstreetstudio.org is now live and the studios renovations are near complete. It will be my home base for getting stuck into making art and running workshops.
I've been keeping quiet of late spending most of my time renovating a new studio but to start the ball rolling for 2013 I'm exhibiting in the Espionage 2 Year Anniversary Show.
The details are listed on this event page. Keep informed with whats going on by checking the Espionage Gallery Homepage. Finally, come along and get yourself some original, made in Adelaide art. I'm running a 3 day workshop for 9-15 year olds next week. We're going to look at Dali as an influence and create a sculpture aswell as a surreal landscape painting/drawing. It's running through Carclew Youth Arts centre. If you have young 'uns who like the arts then they should definitely look into some of the holiday workshops that they run.
For me, this will be the first workshop of many this year. I'm currently renovating a studio space which I can facilitate workshops from. I've got 2 workshops that I am planning to start with : The first is a Pop Art influenced workshop that takes participants through the the entire process of putting together a frame and priming a canvas, generating ideas, composing an image and creating the final artwork using stencils, paint and screen prints. The second workshop is hebel stone sculpture. Participants will be designing and carving out their own sculpture of a head, taking influence from the Easter Island stone sculptures and using traditional Balinese stone carving tools and techniques. Once the workshop has been renovated I will be posting information on these workshops, so until then keep watching this space! |
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