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Yes back making the gallery rounds in Sydney, seeing lovely work and catching up with friends and sharing a few drinks as well. And the best place for a few glasses this week was the Veuve Clicquot bar / meet the designers night at The Strand Arcade. And you know what, The Strand really must be right up there as one of the most beautiful covered arcades in the world - yes truly, so don't forget to give it some thoughtful appreciation next time you go wandering through..
July saw the lunch of new -f-i-l-t-e-r- gallery at the previous Badger and Fox space; 201 Albion Street with Peter Maddison and Ian Geraghty moving the focus to contemporary art. Fridays and Saturday only. Scroll DOWN for more Shows & Pictures..
Peter Maddison and Ian Geraghty Opening of -f-i-l-t-e-r- gallery.
If you have ever wondered what Reductive or Non Objective art is all about; LINE AND SPACE: curated by Suzie Idiens ON NOW at Crawford gallery is a great show to access this style of work. Lynne Eastaway, PJ Hickman, Annelies Jahn, Pollyxenia joannou, Brent Hallard, Susan Andrews and Louise Blyton. A very nice show indeed.
Nyk Sykes, Catherine Hourihan, Dan “Ears” O'toole and Jessica Matino come together for “HER” at M2
Veuve Clicquot bar / meet the designers night at The Strand Arcade.
Anna and Anita; Harlequin Animalia by Anna Wheeler at Janet Clayton Gallery.
Congratulations to Anna Wheeler on another beautiful and shamelessly colourful showing of her paintings at Janet Clayton Gallery - On NOW - I loved it; and as you can see I was not alone!
Well the last two nights actually and it was paint, photography and design - fashion, ceramics, jewellery, craft - and the environment and I couldn't find the room sheet for what is a pretty special art/design show at KUDOS gallery, so a little light on some details, at least for the moment. The very first picture below is of artist Patrick Cremin. I saw some of this show, the photographs in January at First Draft the photos are fine but I loved this, 'Defence Mechanisms' the complete show with it's broken bottle in concrete, top of brick wall sculptures, the graffiti inspired urban cammoflage, you better be quick only today and the tomorrow the 8th!
Patrick Cremin 'Defence Mechanisms'
KUDOS Gallery was/is as mentioned above showing 'Designed By', fabulous show! And perhaps I should take this opportunity to point out to UNSW Art & Design faculty; that one of us is inept at supplying relevant information about the galleries and the exhibitions on their website! The exhibitors Facebook pages that are I assume meant to plug the gap are not always as useful as one might hope Q.E.D. this show below!
Julie Toke - Visceral Effect
Go Deeper.. Artist to be updated..
Tulia Carson
Joy Poon
Art Style - Rolled sleeves and cuffs, hoop earnings.
Hayley Megan French - 'Hints of things we know' at Gallery PomPom
Anthony Bartok 'new Work' at MOP gallery
Miranda Skoczek, 'Fragments and Fantasy' at Arthouse gallery.
Don't worry or-do, as there are NO nude photos on this page, you will need to visit the galleries to see those photographs.. there did however seem to be, at least to me; an excess of 'Real Lumber Jack' plaid shirts, at least on the men anyway and those pictures DO appear below NSFW? You decide.. Why the heavy loud plaid you ask? Perhaps that's because its winter now or perhaps that's because Photographers are real men.. or real men enjoy photography.. Oh hell! Apologies to all the lady photograp-hers out there, don't change a thing, just keep being fabulous and you may wear plaid because a plaid dress does not make you into a lumberjack no something much more stylish. And if you didn't click the link before, here's that lumberjack song.
Lumberjacks aside the Head On Photo Festival is already in full swing even though the Official Opening is TONIGHT at the Paddington Town Hall, see you there. And already I am caught up in the pictures, the crowds, the photographers and the FASHION! Speaking of Nudes, I submitted a very nice personal portrait to the portrait prize - of a friend of mine, with just a little nipple peek and it did not get selected! Which just goes to show that even if you know the organisers as I do, that does not mean you get in (although I have before). The selection is by a panel of judges so, you know, its all about the selection process, which is a good thing isn't it.
Artist portrait of Eliya Nikki Cohen at We all Went Walking
But back on track, I have now seen four/seven shows kicking off with Richard and Famous 2014 last Saturday at Westfield Bondi Junction; then last night I started at 10x8 Gallery Central Park Broadway for Lynn Smith's Nightrunner, (website not fully detailed but it's on) then, as you do when its Festival time bumped my way along to two other galleries. Eliya Nikki Cohen's romping in the forest and sand nudie pictures at The Corner Cooperative, see Eliya above and reflection of nudie pictures below. And some great shoe porn as well which as you know IS the kind of fashion Porn that built the web!
Fan (left) and Ingvar Kenne with Kenne book at Black Eye Gallery
What is it with the door bitches at Black Eye? I know they don't have them at every show but they had them at this one; my answer is always the same, "I'm not on your list so don't bother looking, I'm here for the show." Honestly this sort of thing is going to give art in Sydney a bad name - if you want to moderate the numbers in the space, by all means do so, if you want to worry about your drinks, try tickets as they do at White Rabbit; names on list? This is bad form guys at an art show, whoever's idea it is, get over yourself. Now back to the shoe porn and more nudes at The Pool Collective's group showing 'The Naked & the Nude'.
Bikini top added by yours truly - apologies to the artist.
