My Folk Lover

alice in wonderland...

Thank you if you came down to my exhibition opening last friday, it was lots of fun! Very happily and surprisingly most of the pieces found new homes which was nice. Actually, there was almost a little too much fun had which resulted in a slight mishap with the keys to the gallery and a late start in opening on Saturday. Apologies if you came down on Saturday and found us closed, mmm... do promise to be more professional in the future.

Tomorrow, Once Upon opens in Sydney at Ambush Gallery and I'm sure it's going to be a great exhibition. If you are a sunny Sydney-sider pop into Ambush Gallery (4A James Street Waterloo) between 6 - 9pm. I'm not allowed to show you my full four pieces just yet but here is a tiny preview. Alice in Wonderland was my designated story...

 

 

 

friday the thirteenth...

Just a little reminder... my show opens tonight! If you are in Melbourne and looking for something to do please come along. Here are the details:

Opening Night Friday 13 November 6 - 9pm
Extended Play Gallery
547 High Street Northcote

Hopefully see you there!

p.s. Thank you for the lovely well-wishing running late comments from the last post. x

tall stories...

Here it is... my show! You're most certainly invited, along with everyone you know. Come and have a drink with me, the important details are:

Opening Night: Friday 13 November 6 - 9pm

Extended Play Gallery
 547 High Street Northcote

(Click on the invite for a larger version.)

show time...

Here are some photos of our little gallery opening last friday (from the morning to late into the night, it was a big day)...

 The sign man doing a lovely job

 ... and again

 Sorting out the picture placement

 Pictures up, Andy drinking a cup of tea

 Amy pouring drinks

 People arriving

 Lots of people!

 Benny and Andy (no longer drinking tea)

Then the rest got a little bit blurry...

(Thank you to Andy's lovely wife Ruth for talking most of these photos)

our first show...

'Black Stars'

This is the piece I have in the show at Extended Play Gallery (you should be able to click on it to enlarge). The opening night went really well. It was slightly more hectic and a little less glamourous than expected... I had to do the dishes three times because we ran out of glasses! Despite spending a bit of time out the back with a teatowel over my shoulder, I had a lot of fun and it was quite a success. We should have some photos up very soon...

The above lady was also accompanied by these two gentlemen, you can click on either of them to see them a bit bigger.

  

things happening...

Here are a few things that are happening over the next couple of months...

Frankie magazine are soon to release a photo album featuring the work of over 100 amateur and professional photographers. I'm in it! It looks very beautiful so I just thought I would let you know that it is available right here for pre-order.

This week is going to be a big one, Extended Play Gallery is opening this Friday! We are excited and a bit nervous, if you are in the area please come and share a drink with us, we will be very happy to see you! Here are the important details:

Extended Play Gallery

The grand opening of a tiny gallery!

547 High Street Northcote

Friday 2nd October 6 - 9pm

Then... in November I'm going to have another solo show. It will also be at Extended Play Gallery and I'm really looking forward to being able to show in our new space. Oh, I just checked the calender, that's only about five weeks away. Whoa. Hope you can come to that one too.

Finally, if you're a sunny Sydney-sider, I will be participating in the show Once Upon at Ambush Gallery in November. The opening night will be Thursday 19th November, i'll post more sooner to the date.

tall ladies...

Two more tall ladies from the show, and some slightly better scans:

wall pictures...

I have some pictures from the exhibition, they were taken rather quickly I'm afraid but they give the general idea.

I also wanted to say thank you to Meighan over at My Love For You, she keeps one of my favourite blogs so it was a nice surprise to see this today. Thank you!

p.s. I'm blogging from my new studio! I'm surrounded by quite a bit of mess at the moment but I'm quickly settling in.

show is on...

There isn't a lot of blogging going on at the moment, I don't seem to be doing much other than drawing. My show... it opens in exactly one month. If you live near by please mark it in your diary, I would love to see you there. The above image is the back of the invite, it has all the important details, such as:

Opening Night!

7-9pm

Friday 10 July

Kick Gallery

239 High Street Northcote

(I'm very excited to have it sponsored by Frankie magazine!)

the drawing room...

Now it's time to get busy and concentrate on my work for 'The Drawing Room' which will be at Thinkspace gallery in November. I'm glad I worked through all those pieces for the Brunswick Bound show because I feel like I'm in a good place to start this new work. Hopefully something to show soon...

If you would like to see the work of the artists involved, Audrey Kawasaki has created a little sneak peek over here.