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On Wednesday night I went along to the launch of Daniel Hollier’s art exhibition ‘Shape Shifter’ at Liverpool Street Gallery in Darlinghurst Sydney. I loved Holliers work. He shapes his canvas into unconventional shapes. Parrallelograms, triangles, hexagons, octagons – say good bye to the square. In shaping the canvas his art takes on a 3 dimentional . . . → Read More: shape shifter by Daniel Hollier Last weekend I visited the Elisabeth Cummings exhibition at S.H. Ervin Gallery, at the National Trust of Australia (NSW). Cummings is an incredibly talented Australian artist who flies quietly under the radar, relatively unknown in comparison to her creative peers. The exhibition is a survey of 50 years of her work. The paintings are mostly landscapes, . . . → Read More: Elisabeth Cummings – S.H. Ervin Gallery (National Trust of Australia, NSW) Christmas time, sparkly gifts and blingy lights on every corner. The silliness is seeping in. Big boxes of Christmas branded Maltesers catch my eye. Flashing “Season’s Greetings” ornaments wink at me from shops. Beautiful shoes adorn most windows. Shopping centers that I never visit have a sudden appeal. Everything is a Must Have. Yes. Must have . . . → Read More: Christmas Frugal Fun – This year I ‘make do’ Wikipedia defines a ‘Drop Dead’ or ‘dead letter box’ as a location used to secretly pass items between two people, without requiring them to meet. The term is usually associated with spies and espionage. Think James Bond. Recently, I learnt of the German artist Aram Bartholl who has taken the concept of a ‘Drop . . . → Read More: Dead Drops
Have you ever gallery sat for a day? Well, today I’m gallery sitting at Oh Really Gallery In Newtown. The guy that usually looks after the gallery on Sundays wanted to go to Newtown Festival and he was looking for someone to help him out and he asked me nicely, so I thought why . . . → Read More: Access All Areas – A day in a gallery How It Feels by Brendan Cowell My rating: 4 of 5 stars After spending four days with Brendan Cowell’s main character, Neil Cronk, it has taken me a week to figure out what sort of head trip Cronk took me on. All I can come up with is that it’s a bit like sex with the ex. Oh . . . → Read More: It’s a bit like Charles Bukowski meets Judy Blume on crack. The Ghost of the Big Day Out (2006) Rock’N’Roll first came into my life when my Christian mother confiscated my younger brother’s Ramones tapes off him. “You’ll not be listening to that filth in my house” she declared with much wrath. Her reasoning was, that if you weren’t for God, you were against him. But aside from . . . → Read More: Ghost of the Big Day Out |
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