Catherine Campbell

Guess what… I got myself a new studio! It’s an excellent studio, right in the middle of the city, up many winding stairs at the very top of this amazing building. I haven’t had a studio since I moved out of the little gallery/studio in Northcote last June so it is great to sit at my old desk again and feel like I have my own nook.

When I get to the top of all the stairs and open the door I’m greeted by a whole range of interesting characters.

That’s because the most talented Cat Rabbit is here too! Also, soon to move in are Andrea Innocent and Nior.

I am studio happy.

P.S. Do you live in Brisbane? If so you should go and meet Cat Rabbit and these little fellows in person at the Finders Keepers market this weekend!

extended play...

That's the name of our new gallery! Extended Play will be opening in October with what will hopefully be a fantastic little group exhibition (more details soon).

We are quickly settling into the studio (which sits behind the gallery) so everything feels like it's coming together.

Hope you can come visit us when we open the doors!

(p.s. We will be taking the frosting off the glass when we are ready to go.)

building a wall...

This past weekend we made some walls. Well some very excellent and generous friends came in and took control of the job for us. It was very exciting, okay not that walls are usually that exciting, but these walls have now divided our little space into a front gallery area with studios behind. They are beautiful walls. They are going to make fun things happen I think.

We should have them painted and finished by the end of the week and then we can take the frosting down that is on the front windows and we will have a... gallery! 

We are hopefully going to get excellent people to put lovely art on these walls, and we will open the doors and you can come and have a look if you like.

This whole process has been quite a funny, one thing leading to another type process but hey, we have gallery! Now to organise a show...

p.s. On a different note, I've had a few enquiries so I thought I'd mention that I'm planning on updating my shop on Tuesday afternoon with a lot of new prints from the work that was in my recent show. The virtual shop, not the real life one you see above.

quick sticks...

Not much art happening at the moment, I'm working full time in the real world for a little while which always annoyingly gets in the way of things. This morning however, I have woken up and realised I have an exhibition opening on Wednesday at Kick Gallery in Northcote. It is a similar exhibition to one I was in last year where each artist is given two canvas' to work on.

So I have to get busy. Like last year I think I might use embroidery and I have also heard about some fabric that you can print straight on to, so I'm off to find some of that too.

That's a detail of one of my pieces from last year... sorry if you have seen it before!

new curtains...

This weekend I made some crazy patchwork curtains for my studio out of an old tablecloth and some material scraps. Recently we did a room swap with the bedroom and the studio so I am slowly sorting through the clutter, trying to turn the studio into a nice little place to be. Now that I have the curtains out of the way I need to find lots of inspiration to cover the walls!