My five-year-old could do that!
May 3, 2019
Have you ever watched a child make art? Do you, like so many of us, have as treasured items the results of those labours? Read why I think we can learn such a lot from those young artists.
Have you ever watched a child make art? Do you, like so many of us, have as treasured items the results of those labours? Read why I think we can learn such a lot from those young artists.
Walking into an art supply shop, to buy paper, can be one of the more overwhelming situations. Aside from the paper’s rag content, surface and weight, the fourth element is the factory where it’s made.
Armidale, Easter and I am about to open my tent for a pyjama-clad walk across the park. It would change my life.
When the producer of Radio National’s The Arts Show decided she wanted this image for the web-page, to complement the radio program I’d been in
It’s easy to get sucked into the vortex that is you-tube searching for all the answers before we even take the first step. But there are advantages to making your own mistakes.
Qu: When is a watercolour not a watercolour Answer: When it’s a painting. There are many opinions about what constitutes a “watercolour”. There’s fine lines
Six years ago, in September 2012, I was the judge of the first Holy Name School Art Show. Judging children’s art is always problematic, so this blog, which is a transcript of my opening night speech, addresses issues of competing and being an artist, even at primary school age. It gives advice to children and their parents’, that is relevant to all artists.
Years ago I used to tell people I worked in a bank, when I met them at parties, because it was easier than explaining that whole “artist” thing. Since then I’ve added the word “Professional” to how I describe my career. It’s made it easier. I still need to tell stories about how my day looks, this is one of those days.
What’s it really like when Christine gets out of the studio and into the field ? Three small videos about her time preparing for her Hundredth Shearing Shed exhibition at “Deeargee” Uralla.
I travel. It’s part of the way the whole thing works. I travel to teach (watercolour, printmaking or both)and I travel to create projects about
Susan Webster sat across from me at the cafe near the old gallery. She’s an Ag-journalist, but we we weren’t there for work, though we’d talked about her novel, and my paintings and the state of the dairy industry and more. Suddenly she said something about using photos in art. “Wait” she said, as I began, ” let’s record this”. So she did. This is a transcript of what she heard.
There are people in charge of curating private, corporate and public collections, but there is something very special about the personal collectors that Christine knows. This is a comment about how people collect, what it feels like to be collected, and how a collection is the intersection between one person’s creative episode and other person’s life episode.
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