contemporary art – Page 2

Resisting Societal Norms Part 1: Resisting Failure is Futile

Part 1 Resisting Failure is Futile

fa

I am making a text wall work for Put Up Your Dukes! Part Two. It is a caption from The Modern Art of Flower Arranging by Elisabeth de Lestrieux, originally published 1982, (published in English 1986 Hamlyn). A rather fantastic book that I found at an op shop which has sat in my studioContinue reading “fa”

New Hairy Object

I made a new hairy object today. I was tidying up the studio and decided to re-crochet a failed carrot trial into an upright object with a base to fit a recommissioned trolley that was also waiting for a home. Guidelines for the undertaking were: taller than it is wide but remaining self supporting, withContinue reading “New Hairy Object”

Put Up Your Dukes!

Put Up Your Dukes! Blue Oyster Art Project Space, Dunedin 18 June – 20 July 2013 the latest Achronological Manor project is Put up your Dukes! an exhibton/pulicaton/performance played out as a visual debate between Gabrielle Amodeo and myself. The project utilised the structure of the Douglas-Lincoln debate format used in the campaign for the Illinois senateContinue reading “Put Up Your Dukes!”

Mid-west

I found these images when I was sorting through the files on old hard drive. I really quite like this series of paintings, they ended up a little bit orphaned as my practice move on in other directions and they never got to be shown. I quite like the way they are a bit un-coolContinue reading “Mid-west”

Gow Langsford Window Project

The Week Of The Horse

after incubating for some time in my studio the horses are set free next week: Horse #10 is at the Wallace Awards at the Pah Homestead, opening Monday 3 September. and this pony is joining a line-up of sock ponies, accompanied by the carrot, in the Gow Langsford Window on the corner of Wellesley andContinue reading “The Week Of The Horse”

crochet carrot

I have been crocheting a large carrot, it is not a crafty feel-good thing, nor is it a post feminist reclaiming the soft arts thing. It is just that my my drawings have almost always been of crochet carrots, so it seemed only right. Suffice to say I will not be one of those granniesContinue reading “crochet carrot”

Paper Bag Research Forum

Ah how quickly it came and went…. Or more how quickly the three weeks following it went, what with mid-year assessment casting its long shadow over art school and my husband breaking his collar bone only one week after officially recovering from breaking his other collar bone. And breaking off a wee bit of hisContinue reading “Paper Bag Research Forum”

My One Day Wonder

These are some studio trials for my one-day exhibition this Friday, 18 May. It is part of the One Day Wonder project, a series of 24-hour shows at the Pearce Gallery, Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design. My exhibition is an experimental installation developing some of the ideas I have discussed in previous posts onContinue reading “My One Day Wonder”