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Momentum at Hawkesbury Regional Gallery

Momentum:18th Tamworth Fibre Textile Bienniale is currently on show at the Hawkesbury Regional Gallery in Windsor, about one and a half hours from the centre of Sydney. I wasn't able to get to the opening last Friday, but I had a day off yesterday and drove up there. It's a really good hang of the show, made possible by a good range of moveable barriers in the gallery space. My photos aren't great, just snapshots, some a little wobbly, but I've tried to get a shot of all the works so that they can be seen in context. The show continues until May 2, so if you're in Sydney, this is the closest it will get to you, and the best opportunity to see the show.

This is the view when you walk into the exhibition space:


Annabelle Collett's Neo-Camo Installation is on the left, and From the Heart 1 by Christine Atkins on the right:


From left to right: works from Annie Trevillian's Bodywrap Series; Tinkering with Nature - A Decorative Response by Vicki Mason; re-collection:specimens 1-67 by Louise Saxton; and a series of woven rings by Jane Bowden:


Lucille Martin's Lace Tree; Elefteria Vlavianos' the Touch series on the far wall; Fiona Gavino's Perspectives Shift on the plinth; and Cecilia Heffer's Shadow Traces:


Kelly Leonard's A Weaver's Perspective; Burn Out Series by Mandy Gunn; my work Six Degrees; and then 2 printed textiles from Maningrida's Babbarra Designs - Susan Marrawar's Black and White Fish Traps, and Deborah Wurrkidj's Purple, Orange and Green Dilly Bag and Fish Trap:


Elefteria Vlavianos' the Touch series again; Liz Jeneid's work Tea Party; My Eiffels by Debra Porch; Kelly Leonard and Mandy Gunn's work again:


Debra Porch's work is quite small and I don't think I've had a close-up detail of the work before:



The entrance is on the left here. Penny Malone's Gum Blossom and Fashion Fan is on the right:


Two works by Melissa Hirsch on the far right wall (the red and white coral works):


Jill Kinnear's work are on the left - Diaspora Paisley 3 Shawl and related works:


Hilary Green's 70 Tonnes Per Scoop is in the centre, and another shot of Jill Kinnear's work:


Ainslie Murray's An Architecture of Thread and Gesture is behind the first barrier, and the three white works are by Robyn Glade-Wright:


Demelza Sherwood's stitched drawings are on the right:


Here are Elisa Markes-Young's works in the show:



A very poor shot of Alana Clifton-Cunningham's Second Skin series:



When I went to the gallery I met Prue Charlton, from Marketing and Audience Development at the gallery. Here's a photo of me with my work, and with gallery volunteer Tarja Wright:

New Paintings

I haven't posted anything recently. I've been busy with, well, I'd like to say my art, but just life really. I have managed to finish off some new works for a show of paintings I'm having in June. I'm calling the show Prêt-à-Voir, and it's going to be at the Art2Muse Gallery in Double Bay.

Blue Paintings

This is a series of paintings that I've referred to elsewhere. I've only recently finished the last of the panels. The first four that I finished are included in the Liverpool City Art Prize, which continues until February. They have been temporarily joined together as the last image shows.
Each work is acrylic and carbon on panel, 15 x 20cm.

Hate and Envy and Crime and Darkness and Pain 3

I've got three posts (here and here) about the exhibition Hate and Envy and Crime and Darkness and Pain which I had in 2007 at Kudos Gallery . I thought it'd be better to spread them out rather than have them all in one post. All three posts are starting with these four shots of the overall exhibition:





This post shows the hand-made paper collage works which all had hand stitching. The work on the right is Una Nox Dormienda, the next is A Sleep From Which You May Not Awaken, and the three small works are all from the Violence, Abjection and Ecstasy series.


All these unframed works are from the Violence, Abjection and Ecstasy series (some of these pieces are also shown here):

Hate and Envy and Crime and Darkness and Pain 2

I've got three posts (here and here) about the exhibition Hate and Envy and Crime and Darkness and Pain which I had in 2007 at Kudos Gallery. I thought it'd be better to spread them out rather than have them all in one post. All three posts are starting with these four shots of the overall exhibition:





I had these five hair boxes at the front entrance, in lieu of the title of the exhibition.



Here is a series of light globe sculptures. The hanging works are Comfortably Numb. The work on the right is Visions of the Apocalypse. The piece in front is Life Be In It, and the one at the back is Untitled (Life Be In It II).





Three grid works - top left is Hate and Envy and Crime and Darkness and Pain, on the right is Walking Among the Fires of Hell, Delighted With the Enjoyments of Genius, Which to Angels Look Like Torment and Insanity, and bottom left is The Stepford Wives.

Wire doll works - from left to right, Fall of the Rebel Angels, The Part That Wants Beauty to Suffer (a title I've used for another work in the past - and this work, when it was covered in chicken skin, was known as The Man Who Eats Meat Cannot Sneer at the Butcher), and Weltschmerz.





Some small sculptural works: The drawing pin cup is Tea and Sympathy, the shoe is Happily Ever After, and the ceramic eggs are Population Explosion.






This floor work is made from burnt light tubes. It's called the Dan Flavin I'd Like To See.