With this blog, my aim is to post a slather of ideas, lines, colour and inevitably a little bit of babble. I would like it to be a place where Architecture meets Art, falls in love and procreates. This is my passion, brilliant, unguarded and unafraid.
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Tuesday, May 15, 2012 at 6:39PM 
Today I had a v. productive meeting of creative minds, bought some oil sticks and drew on fabric! I've been wanting to print onto fabric for a while now.. Putting it to rest and I'll come back to it tomorrow.
Monday, May 14, 2012 at 11:37PM
Urban Art Binge gorged on this most beautiful private garden on Saturday morning. Designed and built by Stuart Bull from SOD design, Brisbane. We sampled textures and played with lines in a fresh and exciting way. Perfect weather for it!
Monday, May 14, 2012 at 11:24AM 
Life Drawing at Jugglers Art Space 90512I love drawing the body. I draw it as if I am touching the curves, the shadows cast, the structure of bones and flesh. I love to draw traces of life, those permanent scars and marks that we take on board with new adventures. Whether those marks are left from events of joy or events of pain, they are written on the body. Whether they are made by us or by something/someone other. They are ours to own. To carry.
I love my body. I love your body. I love the lines between.
Tuesday, May 8, 2012 at 8:58AM 
Jugglers Art Space in Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley have been trialing an artists event space called White Silence. I participated in White Silence II last Friday and was blown away by such a powerful concept. The premise being that in between the bustle and noise of our time, we are often forgetting to just stop, listen and be. Just create. Peter Breen, director of Jugglers has created a space whereby artists come to the Gallery all dressed in white and ready to collaboratively create art, without talking for 75 minutes. We were encouraged to collaborate on the works and react to eachother both physically and through notes.
This sketch above, using rose conte pencil and ink felt pen illustrates the connection created through art of a group of strangers, artists and friends.
A wicked idea, can't wait for number 3. If you're in brisbane and keen to join in, either actively or passively, visit the Jugglers website for contact details and how to register your interest.
Monday, May 7, 2012 at 2:33PM 
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This week past, my piece titled Dancer in the Dark was featured in Dan & Dani's main bedroom challenge on The Block! I received a call from Danielle in a state of panic wondering how fast I could paint a painting that would suit their room. I went out straight away to buy a canvas and it took me one day of SPEED PAINTING to finish. The couple then flew me to melbourne to deliver it the next day. What an adventure, thanks for the opportunity guys!
This painting is roughly one metre squared in charcoal and acrylic on linen. If you are interested in having a unique piece commissioned please don't hesitate to contact me.
Monday, April 23, 2012 at 9:11AM 
Mixed media on canvas.. polychromos crayon, charcoal, acrylic + oil,
This piece I started last week is work in progress but I'm happy with where it's going. I arrived at my studio after having just finished 6 weeks of UAB workshops and had so much energy and colour to release onto the canvas. I began with no particular image in mind so just started to collect things around the place create a composition. The figure in the piece is a manequin named Gloria that I borrowed from Kristy Morgan's studio adjacent to mine. The piece she's wearing around her neck is a creation of Ruby and Prankstar.. captured with a little of my creative licence! On the left is a machine/creature I sketched over a year ago at the industrial park of Duisburg-nord in Germany. To the right is an oragami parrot made by by friend Lauren. It's a dynamic piece and I can't wait to get back to it!!
Monday, April 23, 2012 at 9:06AM
For 2 days a week I am a sessional academic at the Queensland University of Technology, teaching Architectural/ Interior Design Visualisation. This sketch was of a lunchtime tutorial at the Artisans cafe. I'm going to make it a ritual to be drawing throuout the days I am at QUT. Just to keep up the momentum!
Sunday, April 15, 2012 at 11:14PM 
Joannah Underhill drawing at SLQ as the Kookaburra Queen floats by quite quickly
Drawing Brisbane's Skyline from the State Library. I'm conflicted by the mess of transport on Northbank so I have chosen here to simply ignore it!
Sunday, April 15, 2012 at 11:06PM Drawing with Urban Art Binge at Southbank this Wednesay night, I found a discarded lighter in the garden and was inspired by Marissa and Lisa to do some painting with my red wine. This was the result and I'm pretty happy. I like the depth of the burnt skyline, layered over text. I used a wet brush to blend the text from bottom to top to dramatise the shadow of the top layer. A pop up drawing of sorts. I like how that City Cat, burnt into the page, is a way of illustrating how these water taxi's make their mark on the river's surface like a rippled carpet. The wine helps with the fluidity of this image.
UAB Drawing with wine + fine liner
warm-up sketches, southbank
