24 August 09
Traffic lights below South Road
The Sign and Dropper were shortlisted for the Heysen Landscape Prize! It is so exciting getting shortlisted for a prize exhibition and so awful if you aren’t, but this time I was so it was champagne that night.
The assemblage for the Whyalla Prize is finished, ready to be photographed for the entry form tomorrow and I’m working out something else for the Duke Prize in September.
In the meantime, the truck painting is almost finished and the next one well started. It is, however, very cold, windy and wet, the light is awful and the paint won’t dry fast enough.
Gave the talk to the local CWA (Countrywomans’Association) last week, for their birthday lunch, but without the Truck painting as I’d mentioned earlier in this blog. I found myself incapable of presenting something I really cared about in a tin hut to all those old ladies. But they gave me a bottle of champage and a bunch of flowers (which the dogs destroyed) and I have heard that I went down very well. They said that I was ‘nice’. Many years ago, Ken and I used to audit CWA financial returns for which we were given either cookery books or potholders.
19 August 09
Driving South from Blinman
Having left Pivotal Gallery and moved to Dickerson Gallery, I have again found myself expected to devote all my time to producing work for a far distant exhibition to the detriment of either building my career or feeding myself. I have therefore decided to simply get on with both my painting and sculpture on my own and, by entering the more significant competitions, perhaps achieve more statewide recognition than I would by accumulating stock for an extremely remote 3 week burst of glory.
Now that I am no longer under the obligations and restrictions of gallery representation, should you wish to get in touch with me, please use the Contact page.
The house at Blinman is wonderful. The third bedroom faces south and will soon become my alternative studio once the broadband satellite dish and dog fence are installed.
11 August 09
Entry for the Woollahra Sculpture Prize
The entry forms for the Heysen Landscape Prize got sent in, I finished a small, free-standing sculpture for the Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize and the entry form for that also got sent in. Also kept going on the truck, which is approaching completion, and will approach it a lot quicker now that those 2 competitions are out of the way.
Tomorrow, however, I have a day off to be Guest Speaker at the local CWA birthday lunch, in an unheated tin shed. I shall take the truck and a couple of the assemblages with me but what on earth does one say to a roomful of elderly Countrywomen. Apparently a lot of husbands are coming as well, me being quite a local celebrity now, thanks to the booklets.
Our purchase of the house at Blinman in the Flinders Ranges was completed on Monday and Ken has gone up there to see what needs to be done before we can comfortably spend a lot of time there (not very much!). Peace and tranquillity and a commuting lifestyle will then descend.