the new gig:

SydneyBAG 

Opens Up

IWOST (formerly LOST) Inner West Open Studio Trail

Annandale Community Centre

Sunday 14 May 10 - 4

birds & bits,  a cut out concertina in the round, that has come home from its showing with the Manly Library Artist Book Awards exhibition

2 birds have flown 2 new destinations

The rainbow lorikeet here is for  BIRDS + US celebrating 20 years of TBN Threatened Bird Network and the art works will help towards raising their funds.   more info here

BIRDS + US 

15 -27 April

Claire Layman Gallery

4/640 Elizabeth St

Melbourne

With the end of summer, the birds in the garden seem more vocal...   did you know,  Australian birds were the first to sing... what sounds like celebratory pleasure from the adolescent-like rainbow lorikeets, hopeful reconciliatory call outs from the butcher birds and the solitary cries from the currawongs.... are my daily joy!

The new incarnation of Freeloader is taking a lot longer than I imagined... so I am trying not to struggle with the "duds" and just incorporate them into the final work... as I think the letting go of artist as genius syndrome and the preciousness we get caught up with - is pointless in the end...

loss is real and a part of life, bird numbers are on the decline.. that is real too but this loss is mostly due to our denial and self-importance... the bird, often for a lot of folk, symbolises freedom and hope... in ancient cultures, the bird as mediator between earth and the heavens....

Bird Spotting along the GreenWay  2013

I love when summer hits, the wattle bird dominates as her young chirp and test their wings in the trees  of my garden. The rainbow lorikeet in the showy grevillea, the cockies in the snow gum, the raven on the roof top... and in the last 2 years, its the butcher bird on the telephone pole singing its morning greetings and the Koels in lustful chase.. I must update this work .

getting ready for the local GreenWay art show

 Sydney BAG 

with Alphabet City Press 

Volume 2015 I Another Art Book Fair

presented by Artspace in partnership with Perimeter Books (Melbourne) and Printed Matter, Inc. (New York), an offsite event for Sydney Contemporary 2015

launch Saturday 12 Sept  3.15pm

Stack   

a collaborative pile-up of artists books by Avril Makula, Cathie Edlington, Cindy Tonkin, Gary Smith, Julie Bookless, Lisa Giles and Sandra Winkworth

Artspace, The Gunnery 43–51 Cowper Wharf Road Woolloomooloo 

Friday     11 Sept:  5–9 pm
Saturday 12 Sept:  11am – 7 pm
Sunday   13 Sept:  11am–6 pm

ABERRANT PLAY

opening 5.30 Fri 21 Aug

19 Aug - 11 Oct 

Grafton Regional Gallery

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Back from a big trip and stay at the light filled Portland Artist Residency. Missing the friends made, the dahlias and all those wonderful views especially from the apartment window.

Once in a line-up    monoprint, paper concertina story book   2013

Oh boy... I am happy it all fell into place and the opening night was met with more than overwhelming delight. The installing of my exhibition At home took a week and the 300 watercolours in Home Joy took me a year! It's just a beginning for a much larger work, oh dear what am I committing to! Again thank you friends for all your support - you are the best fans ever xx

lots of pics can be seen via Art Est. Art School and Gallery

at home in Hill End has come to an end for now. I'll miss a couple of the locals and the endless skies but Syd's home is full of north light, 23˚ days, my backyard pals are free ranging in safety and no more log stacking!

Yay, congratulations to my butch bantam Elena for your great work!

now back from old town frolicking.. here a couple winter skies and some of the locals of Hill End... ps it snowed already!

Fresh

... please read about clusterfuck aesthetics here and the original article by Jerry Saltz here

A wonderful weekend in Melbourne thanks to lovely friends and an extra huge thank you goes to Sandra Eterovic, the creator of the above bird dancing girl - please see her blog here and her shop here. It was a fully packed visit as I attended the inaugural Codex Australia Symposium and book fair, joyously catching up with Sydney folk as you do. The talks were all brilliant with lots of brain exploding moments as theories densified. I so needed that work out. now home to rest .... 

slowly slowly things are shaping up and for the first show this year is a 3d drawing 2 step Around the garden in Drawn Out at Art Est. part of Sydney's Art Month 1 - 31 March.

HAPPY DAYS to all! 

We are getting straight into 2014 with our heads down and tails up!

    more here at Cat Bailey's website

a fabulous show and not only because I am in it