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David Palliser’s ‘send nurse’ at Chapman and Bailey

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David Palliser, Triptych, at Chapman and Bailey
David Palliser’s Triptych at Chapman and Bailey

David Palliser’s exhibition ‘send nurse’, opened at Chapman and Bailey in Melbourne last night with this work being a highlight. The exhibition continues David’s exploration of gesture, tone, colour and space. They reflect David’s dedication to the subtleties of the painter’s craft and his work as a experimental musician.

With a seemingly perpetual visual play of elements, the works are anything but static. They reveal themselves slowly, reordering themselves in the viewer’s perception with any final resolution of the image, always postponed. Of particular interest to me are several works including the smaller works which seem to mark a development from David’s previous work. These have an exciting new fluidity which until now has been most evident in David’s drawings.

1 September – 8 October 2014
Gallery hours: Mon – Fri 10-5    Sat 10.30-4.30
Chapman & Bailey Artspace
350 Johnston St, Abbotsford 3067 Vic
Ph. 03 9415 8666

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Wedding Roses workshop

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Bridal roses workshop

The first of our series of Wedding Floral Design workshops will be run on Saturday September 13th. It will focus upon roses and participants will be working with:

Round, natural stemmed rose bouquet  with greenery

Button Hole – Wiring and taping techniques

Corsage – Wiring and taping techniques

For more information please go to:

http://artclassmelbourne.com/floral-design-course/

Drawing course still life, working with tone.

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Still Life arrangement in Drawing Class
Still Life arrangement in Drawing Class

This is a Still Life that we have used for working with tone in our drawing course. Yes, the fruit and vegetables you see are real and have been hand painted. Taking the colour out of the Still Life allows students to accurately see tones in the subject. When lit, it is beautiful to look at and fun to draw.

Our next 6 session Drawing short course will begin on Thursday August 7th and will be tutored by Jesse Dayan. See the previous post for more about Jesse and his recent exhibition. You can find out more about the course at:

http://artclassmelbourne.com/drawing/

Allende and Pinochet, Jesse Dayan

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MAC Drawing tutor, Jesse Dayan will be exhibiting at C3 Contemporary Art Space with Adrian and Daniel Stojkovich. The exhibition entitled, ‘Where Were You? All Things’, features reproduced images from major historical/political junctures in Latin American history. The artists are attempting to recover something from history that is only perceptible from a distance. Perhaps a narrative or an indication of the primordial conflict beneath the political?

‘Where Were You? All Things’

June 25 – July 13

Opening night Wednesday June 25th 6 – 8 pm

C3 Contemporary Art Space

1 St Heliers Street, Abbotsford VIC 3067 Open 10am – 5pm Wednesday to Sunday

Lauren Ottaway, Louis the Frenchie

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Lauren Ottaway, Louis the dog, 2013
Lauren Ottaway, Louis the dog, 2013

Aside from the abstract works which are described in the previous post, Lauren also paints some wonderful figurative works. This image of Louis the dog beautifully describes something of the dog’s personality.

Lauren will be exhibiting in Melbourne at Lentil as Anything from January 4th. For more information about Lauren, please go to http://www.laurenottawayart.com

Lauren is a participant in our studio art program.

Lauren Ottaway on preparing for her exhibition

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Lauren Ottaway, Abstract
Lauren Ottaway, Abstract

Lauren Ottaway is about to exhibit in three weeks, painting madly and in her own words, “doing some shameless self-promotion”.

Lauren is a Melbourne based artist and a participant in our studio art program. Her abstract paintings are bright and colourful, containing a rhythm and balance that seems to come naturally to Lauren’s painting process.

Lauren is currently blogging about her experience of preparing for her first exhibition. You can follow her journey at www.laurenottawayart.com

 

David Palliser moves to Block Projects

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Solar Headache, 2012 137 cm. x 105 cm., Oil on canvas
Solar Headache, 2012, 137 cm. x 105 cm., Oil on canvas

ESAP guest artist David Palliser has moved to Block Projects gallery in Richmond.

Children and art

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The following is an excerpt from an e-mail I sent earlier today which may be of help in understanding what I am trying to do in the Young Artist Program.

Until the age of thirteen or fourteen a child needs to be reassured that their own creative processes including experimentation and failure are all valid. I am trying to allow the children to emulate the creative processes that I see a mature artist go through. By doing that I am hoping that the child will be equipped with confidence and creative processes to deal with the challenges of anything they choose to take on. At some point the child’s vision widens and seeing skills they do not possess; they choose to acquire those skills. It is at that point that a systematic direction can be given. To some degree these two aspects are present in every child at every stage so I am trying to read the child to know when to let them go and when to give direction and I do that every class.

If the child were to produce mermaids and dogs every week I would not see that as being any different from Fred Williams producing landscapes. My role then is not to distract from the child’s vision but to support them in developing that vision and give technical advice when necessary (which at this age, may or may not be taken on). My other role is to expose the children to art and art processes which I try to do although the children are often so absorbed in their own work they barely seem to notice.

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Kevin Brennan will be asking; why do we make art and does art really matter?

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Why do we make art and does art really matter? Kevin Brennan, our guest speaker this Tuesday the 5th and Friday the 15th, will be exploring these questions.

Kevin has worked in the arts and cultural arena for over 25 years as artist, producer facilitator and entrepreneur covering a range of art forms and practice. Kevin is fascinated by creativity and its practice as well as in public debate and policy frameworks. He has extensive experience in teaching, facilitating community engagement, writing strategy and analysis and developing policy in this field.

Kevin was Artistic Coordinator of La Luna Youth Arts (1990-94), Company Manager of Melbourne Workers Theatre from 1995-1999 and Programming Co-ordinator for the Art of Dissent Conference for Adelaide Festival and Melbourne Festival in 2002. He has served on numerous local and state government committees and advisory bodies.

Through his business United Notions Creative Solutions Kevin has worked strategically through consultations & research with small arts organisations, diverse communities, government and arts industry bodies and the broader community and tertiary education sectors. Among many other projects, Kevin was Executive Officer of Arts Management Advisory Group (Victoria) from 2005-2011, Specialist Arts Advisor for Deloitte’s Research into Small Arts organisations for Arts Victoria (2007). He has worked on the development of Arts & Culture Strategies for Shire of Cardinia, City of Kingston and Shire of Golden Plains. Kevin is a sessional lecturer in the Masters of Community Cultural Development Course at the Centre for Cultural Partnerships (Victorian College of the Arts) and lectures in the Masters in Arts Management course at RMIT.

Jesse Dayan Life Drawing short course

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Jesse Dayan Before the Window, Oil on Canvas, 76 x 50cm, 2010
Jesse Dayan Before the Window, Oil on Canvas, 76 x 50cm, 2010

Due to Jesse having been invited to present at a symposium of the Royal College of Arts, the previously scheduled Melbourne Art Class short course in Life Drawing is now postponed to May. For more information please go to life drawing.