Friday afternoon, my weekend was off to a pretty fantastic start! Along with my family and my lovely boyfriend Josh, I went to the opening of the Energy Art Exhibition at the Tanks Arts Center, where I had two of my photos on display.
I went there hoping to get into Creative Generations for Visual Art, but I ended up getting 3 awards; the Ergon Energy Encouragement Award, the Peninsula Arts Encouragement Award and.. The Curators Award! Only ONE person wins the Curators Award and that means that next year I get to hold my own exhibition at The Tanks, about whatever I want, and I get $300 to spend on materials and such. I prefer that award so so much more! My mother cried when they announced my name, and my dad was off eating the free food so he missed the whole thing. Typical of my family, right? Anyway, this photographer lad wanted a tonne of photos of me and my artwork, and then some photos with our political member for our area Steve Wettenhall, who was wearing a tux! Spiffy! Oh yeah, and Kayla re-dressed-up as the dinosaur from the photos :D
Afterwards we bought Chinese food to celebrate, and went home to watch Scrubs, so the night was just unbelievably amazing. I could not have been any better than it was, and I'm so thankful for every single person who has supported and encouraged me. I personally don't think my work is too good, but thankyou for all my friends who see potential in me, I love you more than anything.
On Saturday morning I took a Trip to Taterine! Trip to Taterine is this brilliant installation piece created by Liz Dunn and Kylie Burke, inspired by the mind of one of their mentally handicapped students Mitchell Cole, who dreamed up this entire alternate world called Taterine.
They decked out a whole room in the Cairns Regional Gallery with this massive cardboard cave and crazy hallucinogenic lights.
You could write on the walls with chalk, so I draw a sweetfaced unicorn.
Inside the cave they projected this continuous film of Mitchell dressed as characters out of Taterine, dancing and doing some groovy little moves.
After the artist's talks ended, I met up with my lovely friend Arruna, who wanted to film me wearing a Rubix Cube he had made, on my head, and stand around places in town. It was so hot to wear! but also very cool, I really can't wait to see the film when it's done!
Laura wanted to go out that night, so we went to The Medics gig at the Smithfield YMCA. After various thumb wars, crayon fights and group singings of the Power Rangers, Transformers and Pokemon theme songs, we left. Here's some photos that I can't be bothered explaining:
My weekend was g-reat.
I went there hoping to get into Creative Generations for Visual Art, but I ended up getting 3 awards; the Ergon Energy Encouragement Award, the Peninsula Arts Encouragement Award and.. The Curators Award! Only ONE person wins the Curators Award and that means that next year I get to hold my own exhibition at The Tanks, about whatever I want, and I get $300 to spend on materials and such. I prefer that award so so much more! My mother cried when they announced my name, and my dad was off eating the free food so he missed the whole thing. Typical of my family, right? Anyway, this photographer lad wanted a tonne of photos of me and my artwork, and then some photos with our political member for our area Steve Wettenhall, who was wearing a tux! Spiffy! Oh yeah, and Kayla re-dressed-up as the dinosaur from the photos :D
Afterwards we bought Chinese food to celebrate, and went home to watch Scrubs, so the night was just unbelievably amazing. I could not have been any better than it was, and I'm so thankful for every single person who has supported and encouraged me. I personally don't think my work is too good, but thankyou for all my friends who see potential in me, I love you more than anything.
On Saturday morning I took a Trip to Taterine! Trip to Taterine is this brilliant installation piece created by Liz Dunn and Kylie Burke, inspired by the mind of one of their mentally handicapped students Mitchell Cole, who dreamed up this entire alternate world called Taterine.
They decked out a whole room in the Cairns Regional Gallery with this massive cardboard cave and crazy hallucinogenic lights.
You could write on the walls with chalk, so I draw a sweetfaced unicorn.
Inside the cave they projected this continuous film of Mitchell dressed as characters out of Taterine, dancing and doing some groovy little moves.
After the artist's talks ended, I met up with my lovely friend Arruna, who wanted to film me wearing a Rubix Cube he had made, on my head, and stand around places in town. It was so hot to wear! but also very cool, I really can't wait to see the film when it's done!
Laura wanted to go out that night, so we went to The Medics gig at the Smithfield YMCA. After various thumb wars, crayon fights and group singings of the Power Rangers, Transformers and Pokemon theme songs, we left. Here's some photos that I can't be bothered explaining:
My weekend was g-reat.
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