This awkward looking coat hanger with its double metal clips would catch on other hangers and on other clothes in my wardrobe. It never sat straight, always on an angle. . . . → Read More: The day I threw out THAT coat hanger]]> For my entire life (decades and decades of it), I’ve had this awful coat hanger in my wardrobe. As a kid, as a teenager, as an adult.

This awkward looking coat hanger with its double metal clips would catch on other hangers and on other clothes in my wardrobe. It never sat straight, always on an angle. Snagging scarfs, tangling up with belts. The clips on it are too tight as well, making it almost impossible to open them to hang clothes on. I remember making a comment about it as a kid and mum told me that it saved space.

So I kept it. And I kept it. Disdainfully moving it to the end of my wardrobe so that it didn’t catch on so many clothes. I’d hang skirts on it that I never wore.

I went to hang a skirt on it this morning when a light bulb moment occurred.

Get rid of it.

That’s what I can do. After all these decades, I can just t h r o w out the awful coat hanger.

Like… put it in the bin.

Never have to lay eyes on it again.

Today is a great day people, I threw out that blasted coat hanger. Gone. Adios. Sayonara.

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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]]>

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 feel, even though the canvases are flat. His work would look right at home in a New York loft style apartment.

The Shape Shifter Exhibition continues until the 23 February 2012. Check out the exhibition page on the gallery website or the facebook event page that the artist has set up.

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)]]>

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, big luminous colours and impasto surfaces. Outback Australia features heavily in her landscape work.

What struck me about the work is the incredible balance she finds on her canvases. Eratic shapes, bold colours and textured surfaces somehow come together in a peaceful interesting conversation. Her works don’t yell out to you, they invite you in to absorb their colours, to feel comforted by her incredible balance and to feel the landscapes seeping out from within the canvas.

The works really don’t translate in photo the way they do when you stand before these large beauties. I highly recommend going along. The exhibition runs until the 12 February and costs just $7. It is beautiful up at Observatory Hill, do yourself favour and get up there for some fresh air, the view of the harbour and one of Australia’s great female painters – Elisabeth Cummings.

Below are some examples of her work, I’m not sure if all of these were in the show (photography is not allowed at S.H.Ervin Gallery). But the images will give you an idea of her style.