Saw the million dollar artwork for Perth yesterday. Do I love it? Am I supposed to? Is that the point of public art? I’ll give it this much… it stands out. And I kind of like that about public art. It can’t always be tasteful and classic… a statue of the great and good… usually [...]
Visual Art
So we found the sculpture (pictured above) and now Narelle wants to find Nigel. Narelle being Alison, or at least Alison when she was 20, and fresh born into the city. The back story. The search. Anyhoo the thing is that Alison is in Sydney this week – and so is the artist that sculpted [...]
This sculpture was tall… an oversized bright red boy. I liked this one. I would have liked to have seen it in a more prominent position. This is the view from the end of the groin back at the beach, now sadly eroded. Usually the beach hangs around until winter… but it has been an [...]
The late afternoon sun came through the graffiti on the way home yesterday and I really noticed it. This morning, as I write this on my way to work the glass is gleaming and clear. What a difference. It makes me wonder whether they put some sort of covering on the glass that they can [...]
Friday night, Groover and I went back to the Art Gallery for the Opening of the Penny Guggenheim Exhibition. This is from her collection in Venice. Ahhhh Venice – so romantic, so beautiful. I went twice to this collection in Venice when we were there in 2005 – and we were only there for a [...]
Yes that would be us. You would have seen us swilling Sav blanc… or was it Voigner… whatever – it was wet, white and in a glass and it went down easily with the best of the Western Suburbs at this year’s Opening Night party for Art in Bloom at the Art Gallery of Western [...]
Following my last post, after two days in Sydney I can no longer fit into my daughter’s size 5 jeans (size 5 is about a 9 in real language). A pork roll from James’s favourite cheap lunch spot. Lasagne! At least I have avoided all the yummy pastries from the (count them) five gorgeous bakeries [...]
So last night my baby brother’s exhibition opened in Melbourne. If you live there – maybe pop along. More info on his Facebook page and webpage. I’ll be going to the Sydney opening (I think) and I can’t wait. I’m hoping to get a few pics from the opening but in the meantime check out [...]
My brother’s painting “The Investigator” has been entered on the UK Saatchi website. If by an extremely long shot he is this week’s favourite it gets hung in the Saachi gallery in London. If not, just getting him in the favourites means more people are likely to see his work. Anyone can vote and it’s [...]
Meet Belongum! He kindly invited me to the opening of Artsource Open House and I was delighted to meet a fellow blogger. We’ve been crossing paths this past year as both our jobs involve some travel to regional WA, I believe one time we might have even been in the same airport at the same [...]
