Love Me, Leave Me (for one night only)

(photo credit to smashing Alex Kwong)

Oh my gosh. What an absolutely crazy week it has been! I am still reeling from the stress/excitement/craziness of it all! But the point is, the exhibition was a smashing success and we all had a great time. Josh and I managed to sell 34 pieces of art in the span of 4 hours, which I deem a splendiferous effort. In addition we had over 400 people through our doors, who appeared to be quite thirsty as they cleaned us out good at the bar! We made two giant bowls of punch, of which not a drop remained by the end of the evening. We got a whole bunch of features in local publications and mags including fivethousand, Adelaide Matters, and a whole one page interview with me in Rip It Up Magazine, which I think had a lot to do with our success. We are already planning our next one night only event, so stay tuned!

words and things

[my idea of a tea party is evidently one with garlic on your head.]

During this last week I have had a little taste of what it would be like to be a journalist. In its most basic form, I'm sure! The good people at fivethousand gave me the opportunity to stretch myself and write two "previews" of upcoming exhibitions for them. Naturally I jumped at the chance and wrote about PRETTY/UGLY on show in Adelaide's own Reading Room and The Saatchi Gallery in Adelaide: British Art Now which just opened at the Gallery of South Australia.

fivethousand is a super duper production part of thethousands, a series of cultural guides to the big cities in Australia. I've been a reader for ages now so I am really excited to join the ranks as (hopefully) an occasional freelance contributer to the LOOK! section.

In other news, I now work at Espionage Gallery! Yay! I've known the head curator/director Josh Smith for a while and through chatting we realized we would be a superb team. I truly truly have no idea how he has managed to run the whole gallery program by himself up til now. Its crazy. Either way I am super-psyched to now be co-director, with my official title being "Chief of Getting Things Done". Pretty suave eh? so look out Adelaide because we are going to transform this place into something amazing and indispensable! Starting with Crafternoons and artist workshops. Who else is excited?

grimy floors and rain

It has been a while since I posted some of my photographs, and what better time to share them than right after a shoot? My lovely long haired Belarussian friend Vera and I have been getting together to photograph for well over a year and have had lots of adventures and odd encounters doing it. We hunt for delapitaded buildings with children building fires from stolen library books and strange trees with twiggy branches. This time we traversed the alleys of cloudy Adelaide and discovered some interesting spots to document. I think I will be sending some images to fivethousand as it seems like a really great little online venue to be seen. I enjoy reading the cafe reviews especially, and will be sure to hunt down that cute little place in Croydon they so highly praised..

For now I will get back to my quiet sunday of tea drinking, music hunting and painting. Have a nice sunday and stay warm! x