So, I missed doing a January post – things got pretty busy and the month flew…..
The latest news is that I have somehow acquired an art angel 🙂 His name is Leon and it means I have a solo exhibition to get ready for in Sydney at Friends of Leon gallery. It will be opening on Thursday May 13th, not far away and so that explains the busy January. I have made all my cradles and stretched them with linen and the vision is clear in my head, paintings are started and now I look forward to the surprises that making work makes!
Above is a detail from ‘milk and rainbows’ a painting for the Perth College exhibition in March.
In other news Nazario is getting all his milkymolar teeth in at once! – craziness…. 🙂 and also just generally being either super ridiculously cute and distracting or grizzly and demanding. For this reason I am also super pleased to announce that we have a studio now that is not our lounge room. Hooray!
It is literally 8 houses away and Campbell and I share it with our friend James who is also a painter. Watch out 2010.

Here is my work from the milktooth group show at free range. It’s called ‘The Baby Universe’ and it is my first painting of Nazario with a few of his favourite things.

This month we organised the Milktooth exhibition at free range gallery and had a stall at the Made On The Left market. We did the poster for the market which was really fun and I love how it turned out 🙂 Campbell and I worked together on the drawings and then he did everything else for the poster, flyers and ads – he is soooo clever xxx
I have also been hunting for studio space (furry trout) and ended up finding something perfect at a neighbours house! Everybody needs good ones.
Milktooth went really well and it was beautiful to see our friends from art school again. Everyone has such busy lives so I am glad we can exhibit together annually to reconnect and be inspired xxx

There will be prints of some of my work in the clothespeg exhibition group show. There will be super affordable and beautiful A5 prints by over 80 amazing artists at the Slaughterblouse gallery on Beaufort St Mt Lawley.

My work Milk and Sleep was accepted into The Blake Prize Directors Cut exhibition. It is an on-line exhibition of 100 works and will run from the 7th of October to the 7th of November.

http://www.blakeprize.com.au/entries/directors-cut-2009

Of course Nazario began his swimming life in harmony with what the Little Twin Stars are up to in August. Too. Cute.

I know this is old, but, July was an amazing month and I knew it would be because the twin stars were RIDING A POLAR BEAR!

I am thinking of putting these old drawings onto some baby onesies, the one of the horse finger puppet always reminds me of my brother. Spooky thing is that he just called to let me know about a great song ‘Lisztomania’ by Phoenix….

This bag of bones kitten in Mexico chose us to be her parents for a while. We thought THAT was exhausting and difficult – then we had a real baby…
The wall work is one that we did for a gallery in Oaxaca, Mexico. We had just had quite a difficult experience involving dead animals and it was really therapeutic to make a work about things we were grateful for. I love Campbell’s Schielesque self portrait.
I thought I was glad to see the back of those jeans and top that I lived in for a year, but now I just wish I could fit into them again!!

I went into the gallery today to take some pics of my show. It felt good to be able to bring the images back home so I could remember them and start to hatch plans for the next body of work. Even though breastfeeding is time consuming it is an ideal time for plan hatching and daydreaming…:)