goodbye 2009, hello 2010!

Well 2009 is well and truly gone now, as we all head strongly into the new year, good ol' 2010!

here are some pics the lovely Cindy Laine took at my Final Assessment last year (Thanks!!). The one at the botton with the three vessels, is my collection of handbuilt spoons that i made as a little side project last year when i needed a bit of a break from the millions of cups and saucers that i was producing! i love the way the handles look - a pity you cant show that plus the scoops of the spoons...ill have to get more pics! i think this line of work is a strong candidate for the work ill be making this year as part of my Honours degree (providing if i ever hear of my acceptance!). the use of cuttlery as part of the domestic experience is something that also quite interests me as well as the use of crockery and other such items. :)





Lets hope that 2010 sees some great new work from the students in all levels at USQ!

Project B : Tradeshow 09

A few days ago a selection of 12 third year Vis arts students participated in the USQ Artsworx Tradeshow, and had our Project B Exhibition. All the work looked just fantastic, and the little artist talks (an assessment piece) went really well too.

It was unfortunate that there werent as many people there as we were hoping, and also that they took the wine away very quickly, but on a great note, the amazing Mel Robson was able to come along and check out all our work! She was so lovely, it was just fantasitc to meet a practicing artist who actually manages to develop and maintain her arts practice in this crazy world, and also that she took time out of her busy life to come and meet us and to see our work. Thanks Mel, so glad you came!

my work - Stitchware (cups and saucers) - 2009

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...