ReFlex - GraduArt 2009

our Graduart exhibition is opening soon!!! It is on at Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery and the USQ Arts Gallery Foyer. Official opening is at our USQ venue, at 6pm on Friday the 13th of November :)

so close...

Yesterday brought me and the rest of the third years exhibiting in out graduart exhibition one step closer to the end. All artwork has now been delivered to Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery for 'ReFlex - GraduArt 2009', and most of us are going back sometime today to assist the gallery staff to install our work (secretly we dont trust them to do it right haha). Evan, who is co-ordinating our show is very helpful, friendly and knowledgeable, and i fully believe that our show will be overall amazing!

On a not so great note, when i had a huge glazing day, and put on a big firing in teh afternoon...i accidrntly missed a pile of my plain saucers. When i unpacked the kiln on Sunday i thought i didnt quite have as many smaller ones as i had originally imagined...hopefully i will be able to fit them into a kiln somewhere before TRADESHOW! My great friend Daniel Qualischefski will also be in TRADESHOW with me, along with 10 of our uni buddies :).

Photos coming sooooooooon!

g.g.g.g.g.g.g.g.glazing!

well as i spent last week at home, today was a day full of glazing. i finally got the kiln packed and set and off it went...just in time to unpack for progressive assessment on wednesday! will take plenty of pretty pics of my many cups and saucers :)

the tight squeeze

well ive been working hard lately and had to work even harder this morning to fit all my goodies into a bisque firing! i told dnaiel id squeeze a few of his in, and luckily they are small and fit between my cups :). All these, plus more, will be getting glazed and fired the first day back at uni, as im off home for work and a break for all of next week. They will be out in perfect time for my Project progressive assessment on the wednesday!

ill definatley be putting up some pics...

enjoy the rest of your weekend! x

saucier and saucier!

well since my progressive assessment a week or so ago ive been working on making some saucers to go with my plethora of cups. i made some complicated 2- piece moulds but they turned out to be too fidley to be practical and just werent working for me, and thankfully after some testing it turns out that a dodgy one-piece mould of the reflection of the inside of the cup is the best thing for the job!

even though we are on 'holidays' my little studio buddy Daniel and i have still been hard at it, Daniel creates some amazing forms, you can check him out here...

semi-newbies

these cups ventured out of the kiln a little while ago but i only got around to photographing them today. the markings are 'scribbles' applied with thickened and/or coloured slip to either the outside of the cast while still damp, or the inside of the mould before casting. i was hoping the black was a little blacker but i think black black wouldnt look quite right against the cream of the body. admittedly i used black underglaze powder as a colourant (just for a test) in these instead of black body stain or multi-purpose stain. this gave it a funny blueish hue. i think next ill try a lighter grey, probably with body stain.

should have an unpacked glaze firing by the end of the weekend, so will keep you posted!

Renee's rings...

The fabulous local Australian jewellery designer Renee Blackwell recently had an offer on her 'stackable rings'. Both my best friend and i recieved one each, and they are absolutely divine! You can wear as many as you can stack on your finger! www.reneeblackwelldesgn.com/www.adornmentsofthesoul.blogspot.com/.

Check her out!