Success with Cradle Coast residency for 2013!
Some news!
It's been a while since I've been here and much as happened. So in brief here goes...
December - off to bad start. Twisted my back awkwardly in late November and pop goes my lower few spinal disc's. Muscles spasms get worse and I'm out of action for 3 weeks. My lower back has only just repaired when there's good news. Success with receiving a fully funded Artist in Residence through Cradle Coast Campus UTAS in the North West of Tasmania. Very exciting news. Now I can develop up a series of new drawings relating to the community of the NW, whilst in the NW for my exhibition at Burnie, in the NW, next year.
November - sketching and finally back into the studio after a long break and preparing new works for two upcoming exhibitions in May 2013 at Handmark Gallery in Hobart, and the other December 2013 another solo but at the Burnie Regional Art Gallery in NW Tasmania. So much to do, but pop there's goes 3 weeks of studio time through a twisted back...
September and October - travel to Europe. In fact Dubai and Croatia, followed by 2 and half weeks in Rome, Siena, Florence and Venice (Renaissance, Renaissance, Renaissance) with the final stop a week in Paris. There is so much to write about this but I won't go into details suffice to say that I felt like I have had an up close and personal, face to face art history lesson. So many master-pieces that I had only previously seen in books for most of my life, right there in front of me. Some a little underwhelming, others extraordinary. And then there were also countless surprises to be had along the way. (The space, chiaroscuro and sheer monumental size of Tintoretto and the seductive landscape backgrounds within Bassano to name a few)
Anyway, that's enough for now, I'll post some new work up here soon.
Stay well and best wishes to all...
David
It's been a while since I've been here and much as happened. So in brief here goes...
December - off to bad start. Twisted my back awkwardly in late November and pop goes my lower few spinal disc's. Muscles spasms get worse and I'm out of action for 3 weeks. My lower back has only just repaired when there's good news. Success with receiving a fully funded Artist in Residence through Cradle Coast Campus UTAS in the North West of Tasmania. Very exciting news. Now I can develop up a series of new drawings relating to the community of the NW, whilst in the NW for my exhibition at Burnie, in the NW, next year.
November - sketching and finally back into the studio after a long break and preparing new works for two upcoming exhibitions in May 2013 at Handmark Gallery in Hobart, and the other December 2013 another solo but at the Burnie Regional Art Gallery in NW Tasmania. So much to do, but pop there's goes 3 weeks of studio time through a twisted back...
September and October - travel to Europe. In fact Dubai and Croatia, followed by 2 and half weeks in Rome, Siena, Florence and Venice (Renaissance, Renaissance, Renaissance) with the final stop a week in Paris. There is so much to write about this but I won't go into details suffice to say that I felt like I have had an up close and personal, face to face art history lesson. So many master-pieces that I had only previously seen in books for most of my life, right there in front of me. Some a little underwhelming, others extraordinary. And then there were also countless surprises to be had along the way. (The space, chiaroscuro and sheer monumental size of Tintoretto and the seductive landscape backgrounds within Bassano to name a few)
Anyway, that's enough for now, I'll post some new work up here soon.
Stay well and best wishes to all...
David