All sorts of stuff

I have been painting like a mad woman for this show. I'm really loving the red balloon theme!

Its funny coz the colour red and I have had a checkered history. I have tended to avoid it a bit as too much of it has the capacity to make me a little anxious. This show has proven to be a good way for me and red to become friends, such a whimsical and innocent application and surrounded by and large by friendly blue skies.

I think it would be worth doing a bit of highly rigorous and academic research (on wikipedia) into the psychological impact colours can have on people, particularly the colour red. (That will have to be the subject of another post!)

It will be a totally different opening to the elephant show earlier this year. For a start the venue is different. fortyfive downstairs is an awesome gallery with a reputation as a great inner city gallery that is accessable, dynamic and well respected as a hub for theatre, forums, performance as well as visual art. Brunswick Arts is a funky artist run space down a dodgy lane way in our favourite grungy suburb of Brunswick. Run by a group of young artists it is a lot more experimental and cutting edge. As opposed to the elephant show, which I had been working on for a couple of years and have long term plans in the future of, my plans for this show were to just have fun and break out a bit.

I am having all sorts of fun things going on... like a professional balloon man who makes animals out of balloons, lots of real balloons, a projected slideshow of images and probably access to the blogsite for Project Red Balloon. Oh yeah, also oil paintings and 99 little watercolours :)

I have decided to postpone the Thailand Elephant trip til March next year. I was being a bit unrealistic to think I could fit it in this year... with this balloon show in August, and another show I am curating in November and all of the rest of life and living as well. Yup, planning it for March is instantly less stressful and much more sane!

Red Balloons Show Coming Up

Hi
It has been a little while since I last blogged on this site... I have been working a lot on my new endeavour "Project Red Balloon"

The idea is to create a cyberspace equivelant of a helium balloon release. I painted 99 individual watercolour balloons and emailed each one to a different person. The idea is that people will forward them on and I'm asking people to let me know when they get one so I can track where they go. So far there have been some really fun and creative responses.

The real world, physical space manifestation of this concept will be presented at a great artist run space in Brunswick, Melbourne. Amongst other things there will be 99 little original watercolours on the wall, there will also be oil paintings, video and installation work....

Where:
Brunswick Arts www.brunswickarts.com.au
2a Little Breese St, Brunswick, 3056 (Melbourne, Australia)

When:
1-16 August 2008

Opening night:
1st August 2008
6-9pm

Gallery Hours:
Thu - Sun 12-5

Come one, come all!