Medium : Vinyl - Hardware/Plump Galleries Enmore

What a difference 24 hours and a move to The West makes; well the inner west of the very-in Newtown/Enmore stretch-the area we never thought could manage to be cool! 'Medium : Vinyl' takes Street Fashion Sydney from Camilla's BoHo Chic you-can-buy to BoHo-Land proper and an exhibition split across Enmore Road and two exhibition spaces; Plump Space & Hardware Gallery. And although I have attended shows at Hardware before it was my first visit to Plump, though being a bit of a westie I have seen a few openings taking place as I cycled my way home.

Hardware has the saleable art and there are some great pieces I loved, a 50's dress made from 45s; still unsold when I left, a large Binary piece [0001 100 000] that sort of thing cut from, yes, records. And 'Stop Play Pause' tape deck controls on Vinyl; a double homage to analogue that was so clever and sleek I bought it myself!

Plump had the 'Art Happening' happening and the records stuck to the wall; was that an obscure Phil Spector 'Wall of Sound' reference...













www.hardwaregallery.com.au/

And considering everything 'West is Left' or at least used to be 'back-in-the-day' I will leave this post with a video of Australia's very talented Robyn Archer who's Hans Eisler/Bertolt Brecht recordings dominated my turntable in the 80s...



On till 11-06-2011, Enjoy!

Chambord Shine Award Sydney - Design Federation InDaHouse.

Lucky me!

I was asked by my friends at Design Federation to help them cover the 2010 Chambord Shine Awards on Wednesday night at The Loft bar in Sydney. It was a lovely evening with plenty of fashion, nibblies and Chambord cocktails all night long. Being in the company of lovely Design Fed ladies Jordan (Twitter operations on the night) and Kat Roth (notes and commentary) was of course a very agreeable bonus as well. As was; a chance to catch up with Carl Kapp (Judge), Shadie from Lulu in Chains (made it through to the next round) and Kath Purkis from online boutique Le Black Book (and publisher of Le Magazine).





















Design Federation have put up a complete set of my shots on their Flickr account here if you would like to see more of the fashion and selected portraits from the night. Design Fed's report from the Melbourne and Sydney parades is here. Or vote & follow the updates on the Chambord Facebook page here.

Till next time. Enjoy!