by Jeannette Davison | Sep 17, 2012 | Exhibitions
What better place to launch the local yarn bombing spectacular – The First Train to Allwood – than at the 2012 Hurstbridge Wattle Festival? The festival was held one week before National Wattle Day (1st September) and thanks to recent high rainfalls, the...
by Jeannette Davison | Aug 22, 2012 | Exhibitions
A guitar is shaped like the body of a beautiful woman. All sensuous curves and smooth ‘skin’. Any wonder that they’re capable of making such seductive sounds. I’m a lapsed classical guitarist. For my teaching diploma I learnt classical...
by Jeannette Davison | Aug 21, 2012 | Exhibitions
One of the really lovely things to happen since beginning Isiiad has been the making of connections at Dunmoochin. It’s meant, life drawing sessions, exhibition openings and opportunies to meet many of the fine artists who take up residence there....
by Jeannette Davison | Aug 2, 2012 | Exhibitions
Photograph courtesy of the artist. Just when I thought Montsalvat couldn’t possibly do anything more to delight me, I met Mariella McKinley. She’s been working away there over the last few months, preparing her new studio space....
by Jeannette Davison | Jul 19, 2012 | Exhibitions
Juan Ford Ultrapilgrim, oil on linen, 168cm x 214cm © Juan Ford Archibald Finalist 2012 The 2012 Archibald closed at TarraWarra Museum of Art on the 8th of July. Over three thousand people attended on the last day. I feel a bit wistful as I write that…the...
by Jeannette Davison | Jul 19, 2012 | Arts, Exhibitions
Simon Icarus BAIGENT Caviar Spoon 1995 gold, ebony, mother of pearl, diamond, ruby 0.5cm x 5.5cm x 2.0cm ©Simon Icarus Baigent (Photo by Silvi Glattauer) Collection: Nillumbik Shire Council If Ekphrastic poetry is the conversation...
