The Twin I Never Had

I have always been intrigued by identical twins or just twins/triplets/etc in general. Having a sibling the same age and growing up together from day one. I like to imagine the special relationship I may have had if I were to have had a twin sister. Would we be mischievous? Most certainly. Would we have stayed up late talking with each other about our issues? I'd like to think so. Would we dress the same? Just for the fun of it.

Well now I can bring to life the twin sister I never had. The memories we would have shared and games we would have played. Just for the fun of it.

October 2010 'My TV'

October 2010 'Together We Float'

The 5th Gawler Art Award

The official opening for the 5th Gawler Art Award was held at The Gawler Community Gallery this afternoon with an eager crowd of locals and reports listening to the lucky winners of the section awards. Well done to all the artist that won an award. There is still one award to be given out and that is the People's Choice for visitors of the gallery to vote for.

Below is a photo of me standing next to my photograph 'Fishy Physics' hanging just inside the door of the downstairs gallery room.

I would like encourage everyone to go and check out the exhibition which will be showing until October 10th. There are some brilliant art pieces there and certainly do not envy the judges who selected the winners of each award.

The 5th Gawler Art Award

The Gawler Community Gallery Inc is proud to present The 5th Gawler Art Award in 2010. Entries invited from Artists both locally and nationwide for the following exhibition and category awards:

Exhibition Awards:

(Works in all categories will be judged in these awards)

Best overall work in Exhibition Acquisitive prize

The Town of Gawler $2,000

Best work with Flora/Nature Theme

Kindly donated by Vadoulis Garden Centre $250

People's Choice

Kindly donated by Gawler Books, Books to the value of $150-$200

Category Awards:

Watercolour Award in Any Theme

Kindly donated by Adams Family Framers $100

Depiction of Sport or Recreation Award in any Medium

Kindly donated by The Bunyip Newspaper $100

Painting with a Gawler Theme in Any Medium

Kindly donated by Mr. Tony Piccolo Member for Light $100

Open Theme Award in Any Medium

Kindly donated by The Gawler Community Gallery $100

Hanging Textile Award in Any Theme

Kindly donated by Adelaide Road Clinic $100

3D Original Award in Any Theme or Medium

Kindly donated by The Sanctuary Hair by Patricia $100

Youth Award in Any Theme or Medium. Ages 10-14 years

Kindly donated by Zollo Art Supplies, Painting and Drawing Classes valued at $60

Youth Award in Any Theme or Medium. Ages 15-18 years

Kindly donated by Zollo Art Supplies, Painting and Drawing Classes valued at $60

Exhibition to be held at The Gawler Community Gallery September 9th to October 10th.

I have entered my manipulated photograph 'Fishy Physics' into the Open Theme Award in Any Medium and also put it up for sale for $60. It is exciting to finally show work at The Gawler Community Gallery after being a member for over a year. If you happen to come across the exhibition don't hesitate to vote for the People's Choice ;)

'Fishy Physics' 2010

XVI / Practice in Progress Space Opening Night

The Practice in Progress Space supported by the SASA Gallery on the UniSA City West Campus had the opening night on Wednesday 28th of July during the XVI exhibition. It was a fantastic turn out and at times was so crowded no one could move, but the most important thing was that everyone enjoyed it. There was a marvelous range of techniques and styles displayed by the 16 artists, including myself, with paintings, drawings, photographs, sculptures, bookmaking, stop motion animation and installation.

Here are a couple photographs from the evening before it got too crowded.

XVI Exhibition

A multi disciplinary exhibition of artworks by 16 Second Year Bachelor of Visual Arts (Specialisation) students.

Forward,

Sixteen is the first exhibition of the Practice in Progress - 120 Artists in 12 Weeks project that has been supported by the SASA Gallery and organised with the generous help from Mary Knights. Throughout the 12 weeks, 120 artists from the Visual Art (Specialisation) course will come together to exhibit their own work that has been developed whilst studying at the University of South Australia. Each individual group has been designated a number of days to display their work in an attempt to allow the students to experience the ins and outs of organising and preparing for an exhibition. The final goal is to hopefully propel the students into their own professional practice and allow them to see what it takes to be a professional artist.

In the XVI exhibition I have showing my 'Far From Gravity' series of computer manipulated photography which I developed in my Computer Manipulated Photography (A) class in Study Period 2 this year.

The images portray the effortless defiance of gravity bringing dreams to life. I have always dreamed of floating or flying and I wanted to share the ideal reality I had dreamed of through these photographs.

C.C. - Code Geass Cosplay

This is my very first attempt at creating a costume from scratch. It is the character C.C. in a once off outfit from season one of Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion. I made this costume specially for AVCon '10 and will be showing it off at the cosplay marshalling. This is a new and exciting (as well as nerve racking) experience for me. It's going to be great :D
I have to thank cosplaydna who supplied me the wig via ebay as well as my best friend Steph who bought me the fabric!

Far From Gravity

These 'floating' photographs were inspired by some photography I saw by Lucia Holm. I created a matching set for a Computer Manipulated Photography (A) assignment.