Tomorrow is set up day for the Osmosis Exhibition. It is going to be an exciting show with work in various media. If you haven’t had a chance to have a look at the Osmosis website yet, then it has quite a lot of the work that will be in the exhibition on it so it is a good browse!.

The exhibition will be at the Sidespace Gallery in the Salamanca Arts Centre from the 8th to the 21st and we are having an opening night on the 10th at 5.30pm. Come along and have a pre dinner nibble and a glass fo wine to celebrate the beauty and diversity of Bruny Island captured by twelve Tasmanian female artists!

There is an exhibition opening in Brisbane tonight at the  Graydon Gallery 29 Merthyr Road, New Farm, Queensland for a group of six female artists working in a range of painting media. Jay Dee works with beautiful watercolour creating a dreamlike image of flowers and you can read more about her work on her blogger website.

Working together the women have developed a thematic and strong approach to exhibiting work, and if I was in Brisbane today, thats where I would be! Good luck with the opening ladies!

Finally I managed to take some time out to visit a couple of exhibitions in Hobart. Ben Richardson is a potter working with wood firing and using locally sourced materials. The photo above is detail from a vase I bought about 12 or more years ago which takes pride of place in my home. He curated and participated in an exhibition of work produced using wood fired kilns at the Carnegie Gallery. The website introduces the show…

“This exhibition will present the work of three Tasmanian ceramic artists who are renowned for working with woodfire processes; a technique that leaves traces of the fire marks within the work. Working Fire will be a rare opportunity to see three differing approaches to this technique in the one exhibition. ”

Set in a gallery with black walls and spot lighting, the work is diverse between the artists and when you connect the work with the process, which is revealed in a short and beautifully created film on one wall of the gallery space, appreciation for the skill and beauty of the pieces is hard to ignore.

The exhibition is on at the Carnegie Gallery which occupies the upstairs floor of the Maritime Museum, 16 Argyle Street, Hobart and it continues until June 21st.

Belinda Kurczok is currently showing her superb bird paintings at the Sidespace Gallery in Salamanca. Her skill is undisputed really and the paintings feel as if the birds will suddenly take flight and leave the frame! I can’t find the details for the length of the show, but I imagine that it will be closing very soon, so if you have an interest in our feathered companions then this is an exhibition not to be missed.

This is an invite to an exhibition in Melbourne at the Utopian Slumps Gallery. I thought the Leah Fraser paintings were very interesting and if by chance I happen to be in Melbourne at the right time – Between May 30 and June 13, then I will surely pop in and have a look!

Last night Abi had a phone call asking that she attend the opening of the Watermark exhibition at Cygnet. She had won one of two student awards!

Lara Giddngs did the honours of handing out the award, a gift certificate of $100 to spend at Artbeatin Kingston, along with the president of the Huon Art Exhibition Group who run the biannual event.

Abi’s painting, acrylic on canvas titled “Escape” is a really beautiful painting and definitely reflects her passion for the ocean. Within a short time of her award being announced the painting was sold!

The new owner (on the left of the photo) was very excited and ‘looking forward to getting it home” which is really what it is all about at the end of the day.

Congratulations to you Miss Abigail Giblin!

The exhibition runs until March 23rd and there is a large number of really great artworks on view.  Just a few prints, some beautiful photographs, ceramics, sculptures and every kind of painting you can imagine!

four layer etching, 59 x 59cm

Yesterday I slipped away from the computer and the seemingly endless task of writing the paper to print for  the morning. I have been planning this print for a while, and I’m sure all the artists out there know how it feels to have a work bouncing about in the head day and night waiting to be tickled into life onto paper or canvas or whatever. Anyway, it was a great relief and the printing moved swiftly. This will be in a group of four, and having done one I’m confident about going ahead now and doing them all.

desert bones, oil on canvas, 91 x 61cm

The studio downstairs is also a favourite escape from the paper writing. I’m still battling away with the oil paint and loving it. I have no idea about where they sit in the art world though – funny that.