New year’s resolution: get back to work!
Category: painting
Love Maya Hayuk!
Grad show opening
I was so happy to see my Psychedelic pink coral painting hung on a wall with a fire extinguisher and fire sign. Danger! Fluoro colours!!
Submerged
I finished my big painting (152 x 152 cm) on Monday. Our assessment was today, so fingers crossed I went OK. Not sure when we find out our results.
The Substation Contemporary Art Prize
Fauxtopia, ACAB Collective, 2012, mixed media
I went to the opening of the Substation Contemporary Art Prize on 21 September, and revisited the exhibition last Saturday.
There were 50 finalists who had produced sculptures, installations, video works and paintings.
The winner was Ash Keating, who did a video about his mother’s death, A New Lifelong Landscape. I liked paintings by Dane Lovett (who I voted for in the People’s Choice Award) and Hamish Carr best, and an installation by ACAB Collective, a group of young artists who turned a basement room into a crazy fairy grotto.
New cells experiment
I’m continuing to use organic shapes made up of cells, but adding layers… I’m now painting a larger one on canvas, this was a test on cheap board. The pale layer tones down the fluoros which were very extreme!
Coral diptych
Finished!
I’ve finished my new geometric painting… I’m quite pleased with it.
New painting
My new painting in progress… about half finished. It’s based on a photo of coral underwater (very loosely) and using acrylic and oil paint.
I haven’t finished the random geometric one yet… I’m still thinking about what to do next.
Gemma Smith
Gemma Smith is one of my favourite artists. Her paintings are made up of geometric colourful ‘shards’, giving a sense of perspective and depth. She also makes multi-sided perspex sculptures she calls ‘boulders’. Her new works (Tangle paintings) are much more painterly and use organic shapes. I love her use of colour and the way she uses both geometric and organic shapes.
Work from 2011 here.
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