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Serious Bling – online incarnation
Radical Jewelry Makeover supremos Susie Ganch and Kathleen Kennedy presented Serious Bling at the Fuller Craft Museum earlier this year, and like many other shows it was forced to shut early due to COVID-19. It’s now reopened, with the Fuller Gift Store also set to reopen on the 16th of this month. If you can…
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Richard Bell
“So, basically, right-wing governments, just one the first things they do is just slash the arts budget. What that says to me is that art must be very powerful, if the first thing that the politicians do is to cut arts funding. They are trying to disappear art in this country. Whereas the creative arts…
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Zoom artist talk for A/US
Too far/locked down to make a visit to Bridget Kennedy Project Space? Me too… It’s ok, put the Zoom artist talk in the calendar and we can say g’day while Bridget shows us the exhibit! If you are in Sydney you can head along to Bridget Kennedy Project Space, 53 Ridge Street, North Sydney on…
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Now open – Declaration of Sentiments!
Meant to open in Munich in March, the show Declaration of Sentiments has finally opened overnight in Ghent, Belgium at Galerie Pont en Plas. Our local maker, Nevin Arig, kindly sent along some images of works and the opening. Gallerists Nicole Thienpont and Aline Vandeplas are carefully masked up and ready to welcome you. If…
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Everthing Must Go, 2020
This was a really fun one to make. The rack was an artifact of the capitalist system, made obsolete. I resented its presence on my street, yet I suppose I also felt sorry for it. And I sensed its opportunity. What can I say, I can’t hold myself out of this system. The logic for…
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A/US opens today!
Time to schedule a visit to Bridget Kennedy Project Space – or put my Zoom artist talk in the calendar. If you’re far away, come say hi over Zoom next weekend – Sat the 12th of Sept at 12:00 midday Sydney time and at: – Friday 11th 7 p.m.: Seattle 10 p.m.: Pittsburgh – Saturday…
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going, going, go…
Progress images of the apple green rack being eaten/improved.
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What would you do with an apple green sales rack that had clearly seen better days?
Well here’s what I’d do. I’d take a photo of it as if it was a museum-destined object, measure and record its vitals as if it were a patient on a guerney with cascading symptoms, then start the remodel like it was a kitchen with asbestos linoleum floors – carefully. And so I went, layer…
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A/US opens this week
As a part of this show I’d like to introduce a new work: Everything Must Go. I found this green sales rack back in March, as I was heading to my local cafe to have lunch with a friend, which turned out to be our last lunch before lockdown. I remember talking to her about…
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lgo
to borrow from a fave band, Life Without Buildings, lets get out! in September! (safety first y’all) I will be in Sydney (fingers crossed) for the opening of A-US, my solo exhibition at Bridget Kennedy Project Space, on Thursday the 3rd of September. Look out for updates about virtual artists talks/Q+A in the upcoming months.…
