the COAL LOADER STUDIO STUDIES,

#itsnowalittleautumn

24 May - 2 July 2018

inTransit Art Space

North Sydney Council Chambers

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An installation of playful considerations coming out of a
10 month studio residency at the
 Coal Loader Centre of Sustainability, Sydney

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a special thank you to the supportive arts team!

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The Red Project at The Coal Loader is going to be huge... here is a sneaky preview of an exhibition of pollinators made by my little friends within my showing of Homeloader, Eve in the Heart Garden. 
It will be a show within a show within a show within a show.. sometimes a little too much is ok

the resi at the Coal Loader has been packed full and workshops are happening from all directions ... so good to have a little bush break near my #coalloaderstudio

Wrapper pile-up contains 130 watercolour cut-outs of found lollie wrappers from Sydney streets stacked here (detail) for the Hazelhurst Art on Paper show. It's not covered... the work sits on the plinth openly exposed for any finger fiddling.... so curious how it will end up

the new gig:

SydneyBAG 

Opens Up

IWOST (formerly LOST) Inner West Open Studio Trail

Annandale Community Centre

Sunday 14 May 10 - 4

... getting ready for 
Hazelhurst Art on Paper 
20 May - 16 July 2017

hard to admit.. things might have to get looser here with this ageing process of generalised vision... but I am a details gal!

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

8 Australian grapevine moths (Phalaenoides glycinae Lewin) are in flight for the MOTH MIGRATION PROJECT by Hilary Lorenz. I love these moths and did some googling .. the Lewin bit, I like to believe is after John William Lewin - my favourite colonial artist. So these moths are endemic to S-E half of Australia and are pests for the local vineyard farmers. The Indian myna was introduced in 1862 to deal with them and other insects but ironically and not surprising, this unsuccessful  bird is now the pest.

Back into watercolour... I have been getting new bits ready for a couple future gigs including the North Sydney Art Prize at The Coal Loader and it is an outdoor installation of unprotected watercolour on paper! A great lesson in letting go - from the precious to the abandoned once again

ps thank you to the marvellous installing gang led by Alison Clark... you made the day so enjoyable

hmm, which 3 things are mine?

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

getting ready for the local GreenWay art show

Šošo    inkjet print, pegs

Personal Histories International Artists' Book Exhibition 

UNSW - Australian Defence Force Academy - Duntroon

Academy Library, Canberra 

28 September - 11 December 2015

opening 5.30pm 1 October 

 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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work on fire for 

ABERRANT PLAY

7 hot artists who play with collage and print.... 

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opening 5.30 Fri 21 Aug

19 Aug - 11 Oct 

Grafton Regional Gallery

The studio looking sweet but can it transport... today off goes the applications, off goes works for the exhibition Personal Histories, pack up for FOUR and VAP and something for the Portland Artist Residency and these studio starters for Grafton...... lets go 

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

Thanks Noel McKenna for the Xmas card.... 
We had a great time of it.
Happy New Year all xxxxx

both images by Jo Grant.     Bird Books at Blarney Books & Art, Port Fairy

Working towards 2 ....actually 3 more shows to be seen in Portland and Port Fairy. I'll tell more when there - off now to  prep the chooks, home, garden and those other admin chores.