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Natasha Bieniek, Becc Orszag & Joshua Yeldham

Last week I had the pleasure of attending two gallery openings, the first was Natasha Bieniek’s at the Dianne Tanzer Gallery. Which is a great space and the exhibition was fantastic. I have heard about...

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Of late

I unpacked a whole lot of vintage cameras and pieces last week. Some of them still work and I really want to use them, but alas – I have not the time! For now, I will just slowly clean them. My...

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If you see a lady struggling with a pram & stupidly large canvases in...

Today I got in my nanny so I could go to Brunswick, pick up three canvases newly stretched, go to my framers and pick up two paintings freshly framed, throw it all in a cab and get back here within two...

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No time for anything but sketching

My partner is still interstate working on Baz Luhrmann’s new film ( I hope Baz is thankful! ) The Great Gatsby and I’m finding it very hard to find time to work. Almost impossible in fact. I was trying...

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That’s it!

Well this blog has been quite. It used to be where I wrote to share my thoughts, travels, anxieties and joy but since it was hacked mid year and now turned into something I still don’t know how to use,...

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New works in progress

I have set up a new space. It’s bright with natural light, completely the opposite of the painting cave I had in Berlin – though the cave did serve me well! I do have to paint in a sunhat though, the...

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Monique Revell at the Nouvel Organon

I ‘discovered’ Monique Revell through another artist I admire, Eric Henshall. Monique’s work is what I’d describe as raw – but not in that wound and aching kind of way, in that natural kind of way....

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Work, work, work!

The months I had for preparing for my solo exhibition are now just weeks! I am a mixture of emotions as this is the first big show I have had in my home town in such a long time. I’m working on...

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Sick BUT excited!

I think I have a lot of work ready for this exhibition. I think. But some part of me is telling me to make more, to keep going. However, I’m sick now and I have been for days and I’ve been trying to...

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I thought I’d write

I thought I’d write because I haven’t written here in a while. My Berlin Domestic project is what I think about when it comes to blogging – this site is due for another overhaul but my other half is...

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Out with the old and in with the new

Old thing: Recently I decided to end my Berlin Domestic blog project. I hadn’t been feeling good about it for a while and after some pretty unsavoury exchanges – over email, of course – I decided that...

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Some recent illustrations

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PERSONAE Invitation

PERSONAE exhibition with Heidi Yardley, Ron Francis, Lily Mae Martin & Matt R Martin. Scott Livesey Galleries  Opening Saturday August the 31st from 1 to 3PM On view from August 31st to September...

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Go Figure, article by Ashley Crawford

This article written by Ashley Crawford was in the Financial Review on Thursday the 11th of July. It mentions Juan Ford, Sam Leach and Del Kathryn Barton. It has quotes from each artist that will be...

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New painting – Georgia Fields

I like painting but I struggle with oils. It’s smelly, it’s sticky and I really can’t do it inside the house with a small child. I’ve been playing with water colours and gouache for about a year now...

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Back on the oils

The exhibition is opening THIS Saturday. I’m trying to do all the things and more and more I am beginning to understand that I cannot. Like in my art I like to do many different things with my life...

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Drawing and painting – 33 weeks

I put a call out for people to sit for me – to draw and paint them from life. I had such a huge response, I still haven’t gotten back to everyone but I am incredibly excited about it.( I will get back...

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Face, tum & feed drawings

I guess I sketch and draw compulsively. It’s incorporated into my everyday doings as much as toilet habits, getting dressed and possibly a little moreso than my eating and sleeping habits. I have many...

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New painting

I just finished my new painting – 33 weeks. This painting is oil on board, I did it very differently to how I have previously painted and enjoyed it immensely. When I started I thought this would just...

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