Networking on the Gold Coast

Have had an uplifting saturday morning viewing creative artwork and chatting to creative minds! My ever supportive Matty drove me down to Broadbeach today to finally visit the new Contemporary Art gallery Retrospect. We stumbled across this little gem last month while holidaying in Byron and discovered they have a sister gallery on the coast ...basically this gallery showcases emerging and established contemporary artists with affordable price tags. The gallery is perfectly positioned in the new stylish precinct directly opposite Max Brenner (bonus). I met one of the artists who works at the gallery part time (Mari Harati) and she was super helpful in dishing out some very good advice for getting my work out their and further developing my CV and portfolio.

We then made our way down to Miami to check out Rabbit and Cocoon...another very exciting cultural advancement for the G.C. This warehouse space is catered to all artists (visual and performing) as well as fashion designers on the coast looking for studio space to work, collaborate and run workshops! Now we just need to keep these exciting ventures alive by getting on board and supporting them.

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rabbit + cocoon: ABOUT US

rabbit + cocoon: ABOUT US: "rabbit + cocoon is a multi-arts hub launching to the public early 2011 at Miami, Gold Coast. The not-for-profit hub aims to address the ..."

The very thought of you

Have been listening to the beautiful voice of Billy Holiday a lot lately and started googling images of her. I noticed some stunning portraits of her with a flower in her hair and I saw a huge resemblance between this image and a recent commission I painted with a Samoan influence. What do you think? I am now determined to squeeze in some Billy portraits as soon as I get the chance...who needs sleep anyway!

Zodiac Beauties

Here is a super sneak peak of a current series of 12 portraits I am working on. There is one 70s beauty for each star sign. What's your star sign? I'm an Aries.

In love with Neo-Pop

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Consumer thoughts

Made my first visit to 'Made' yesterday to see the gallery space I am exhibiting at in October and have further ignited the motivation and excitement for the show. Have had thoughts bouncing through my mind all day of new concepts for paintings that revolve around my obsession for aesthetics in all aspects of life and the fuel this provides to buying, desiring and wanting material 'things'... because they are beautiful. But why? How does this make me feel and why does it become a strong desire? Surrounding ourselves with gorgeous things doesn't make us different on the inside, but it certainly does make us appear different to those viewing our lives from the outside. Does this make me shallow? I don't quite know. However for me, these beautiful 'things' are a reflection of my tastes in design, history, culture and life I guess. 

Going to purchase a brand new visual diary to start documenting all these ideas visually...before they fall from my mind!

Here is a clue as to what some of my exhibition work will include...the jar will serve as a metaphor of the depth of our consumer driven lives. How shallow are you?