Connections.

Finishing high school is a whole lot more work than slack time. Instead of feeling great about going out on weekends, I'm stuck stressing about all the time I'm wasting when I could be doing something productive, and with my exhibition to be held in MARCH next year, doomsday is a-loomin'. I really need to start thinking of ideas and pumping out some art. Frick!

Mrs. Williams took me into Crate59 (local artspace owned by Liz Dunn) today so we could connect with Kristen Tennyson, who'll become sort of my mentor artist when I finish school. She said she'd be happy to check out my work and ideas as I progress through my body of work, and for that I am so so damn thankful! She's an amazing artist; I'd own every single piece of her art if I could, and I still need to save up to by one of her tote bags..

But yeah, the pieces she's working on now are just mind blowing. Casting lace into resin skulls! I wish I could think of something that awesome. But what she's making looks a helluva lot like my necklaces I've been making with my El Día de los Muertos skulls and that makes me all depressed coz everyone knows just how much her work influences me, and before today I hadn't seen or known of what she was working on, but my necklace and her new pieces just look so identical, everyone is going to think I've been ripping her style! Gah! Besides that, I've very excited to be able to have her there to guide me.

Also! Recieved my cheque from the Peninsula Art Educators today, total of $300! It came in a little envelope full of animal sequins and a balloon, so I guess it's party time? HURRAH!

I need to think of a theme of my exhibition, I need to think of a NAME for my exhibition, I need to start thinking of ideas, I need to start taking photos.. I need to contact Naomi from work about her girl guides.. I need to make my Jesus costume for Halloween! That's right, I'll be rockin' it Old Testament!

Kayla lent me her fisheye lens for the weekend, so I'll take loads of photos and this page will be full of niceness again. I need to read my frankie magazine I bought yesterday, so I can get all inspired.

I need to clean my house. I need to create a budget. I need to organise formal. I need to do my schoolwork.

INEEDTOBECLONEDSOICANGETEVERYTHINGFRICKENDONE!

my first public exhibition!

Last night was the opening of the exhibition 'All Today's Parties' at Crate59! We were given around 4 days to develop an idea and create an artwork based on the thoughts of what we do today for fun and our social fabric, trends, etc. We were asked questions like "what consumes you?" and "what is 'cool'?". I had a piece exhibited and it was so fulfilling to watch people smile and tell me they like my art, and that they agree with my artist's statement. Here's my response to the question, what consumes you?



The curator arranged and displayed it so wonderfully!



"This Is How We Live Now
Prior to creating this piece I was asked the
question, "What consumes us?" Simply: technology.
We've woven such intimate relationships with
technology that we can no longer see ways to live
without it. People develop anxiety over the loss of
a mobile phone and insist on paying hundreds
of dollars to upgrade to a flashy, newer
version of something they already own.

It's terrible quality as I just enlarged the first photo and didn't actually take a separate photo of the artist's statement. More enlargements:

"this is how we socialize."

more enlargements.



"this is how we tune out."

more enlargements.



"this is how we read the news."



"this is how we live now."
"this is what consumes us."



on the wall. The Medics were playing live, and the music fit well with the setting and theme of the exhibition, so it turned out to be a good end to the night :)





the local kids, sitting around while The Medics play live.



post-Medics, when everyone was either lounging around or leaving. I left. I was tired!

Yeah, it was a good night. Next week is the opening of the Energy Exhibition at The Tanks, where two of my photos will be shown, so I'll be sure to post that as well!

I'm real shit at..

REMEMBERING TO WRITE ON HERE! SORRY!

so my last real post was during.. CGen? yeah. so CGen and Brisbane was FANTASTIC! I really should have written up up as soon as I got home so it was fresh in my mind.. our awards ceremony was on the last day of our trip and my beautiful friend Zoe came! it was great, I didn't realize how much I'd missed her, so we got a sweet Polaroid of us together, being gangster and all:



and got a Polaroid of the CGen kids with Grant Marshal.. doing his trademark pose, ROCK WARRIORS! totally lame but also, totally kickass!



going home was sad :( and I didn't even get to have another look at GOMA. stupid Tim Rogers distracting me!

anyway, I've been back home for around 3 weeks and so much stuff has happened since then!

I had a workshop on Sunday as part of the REACH art program, and the piece we created that day will be exhibitioned in the local indie hip art gallery in town, Crate59! it's at 7pm this Friday and local indie band The Medics are playing so all you local kids should come down and check out some sweet art created by other local teenragers.

THEN next Friday night is the opening of the Energy Art Exhibiton at the Tanks Art Center in Edge Hill. not sure what time it starts but my photos of Kayla in the dinosaur suit will be there so come along and make me feel loved :D

that's all I can really think/be bothered writing right now. plus, my neighbor has been making Chewbacca noises for the past 20 minutes and I can't concentrate on what I'm actually writing.