Silence. Repetition. Rhythm.: 2016

Wednesday, August 3, 2016

Been feeling very up and down over the last few weeks - it's probably a range of things that are twisted up with the umbrella of Winter. Second week back at uni and it's really nice to be around the energy of other artists again. I feel like I need to be kept busy and distracted at the moment. I'm ready to make things and read and think and maybe write a bit (and maybe stare out the window for a while).

I've been working on this sad bedroom/studio setting for the last few weeks. Had an urge to put a bed under the window and paint the wall rose pink. Also an urge for paper draping down and quick drawings. It's all progressed from those initial urges. It feels good to trust those ideas and see them through.

Not sure where I'm heading next. I want to keep making quick drawings and larger drawings. I'm enjoying working with space; thinking about drawings in space and how drawing may compose a space. I'm a bit baffled with art theory at the moment. I'm more keen to research literature and biography as that is what feels relevant to my work. It will be interesting to see how things develop over the semester.

The window...

in its current form...

Thursday, July 28, 2016

Monday, July 4, 2016

WINDOWS XII

5th of July - 29th of August 2016

The Dirty Dozen - Campbell Arcade

Monash University’s 2016 Fine Art Honours students present Windows XII, a collective expansion, reconfiguration and relocation of the working studio. The windows are occupied as temporal capsules in order to extend the dynamics of studio practice, intersecting and traversing the social, solitary and relational in an exploration of contained and networked space. Through close and constant negotiation, notions of convergence and networked spatiality provide the potential for expansion, transmutation and collaboration over time. The encapsulated works are presented in transit, evolving, disappearing, checking for updates…

Maddy Anderson

Fleur Bain

Max Boland

Lara Chamas

Glen Clancey

Caspar Connolly

Robert Domanski

Joan Hanger

Silvi Kadillari

Lilly Kaiser

Amalia Lindo

Laetitia Olivier-Gargano

Madeleine Russo

Jennifer Rooke

Darcy Smith

Emilie Wright

Monday, June 6, 2016

Here in this room lately

There's been a little too much time.

I've found myself thinking back on some past sadness

Which has made me feel a bit funny

because I don't feel sad now.

I'm good.

But back there in the past the hurt is still real

and I don't think it can be changed.

It can only be moved on from.

Saturday, June 4, 2016

Mt Macedon

When you've had a cold all week and you really need to write an essay so you go say hi to Winter

And then you get home and you realise your heater's had it and you're going to be investing so much more love and appreciation into that hot water bottle of yours.