Melborne art fair 08

Melbourne art fair visit

I took three days off to go down to see the art fair in the cultural centre of the country, Melbourne.

It was quite a big show with commercial galleries that feel that representation at the this industry fair is in there interests.

For a guy in my place it was akin to standing on a hill and having a bit of a look around to the lay of the land.

Besides getting a look at what Ben Quilty is up to lately and a surprise seeing a john virtue painting, it was good to see how the galleries act and move and the same thing can be said for the buyers there as well, ortho most of the buying was finished by the time the general public got in the door.

So the make-up of the mix of people in the exhibition centre went like this.

Galleries owners/staff

Art fair staff 50%

Artist/art students 30%

Collectors (off the boil) but still looking at what could be next 15%

Others (like misguided tourists) spare change%

4min

I was told after the fact the it can take less than 4 min for malware to trash a unprotected PC in todays internet environment. ...
so my graphics pc is waiting for my tec'ie friend to wonce again to come up and help us retreve my nearly finished update of sams-art.com site and all the work I've done .

also started a graphic tafe coures, its called someing like Graphic prepres certII (desktop design)
it goes for a semester and Iam heaps excited, its what I've had on the radar for most for my working life, and hopefully I will get some kind of job with the quolfications and that in turn will being in some money and fire to my art.

pix of last show

this is from the last show I had in May with john .

gesso time!!

just starting to gesso over some spare canvass, still got the will , doing some scetchers and my livedrawing skills coming back to a high level so maybe work some what stroger again,

actualy ive set up a hapy retoine, a triangle of sourts bettween paint/jewllery/DTP, this wout have me waiting and willing

trip to hunt sydney

well yesterday I went down to sydney to drop in to some of the galleries to see what to see..
things I was looking for was a gallery parter to start a sydney relationship with in what ever that involes. also /more over I was looking for a quick walk in to see if the gallery has my kind of attraction, you know , like I get a good vibe from the place.
than maybe on top of that see if I can strike up a chat with the sitter and glem some stuff about the lay of the land in town (fugitively speaking).
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well the frist thing I found out was the maps that I got from the art animac and art gallery guide where both inaccurate and heavily incomplete and thats when you combine them as best as you can.
I got to, in my short time :
sabbia -- glass and crimics but nice high end
wallspace (skratching)
liverpool st --- aloft and high end
watters -- a bit more eathy , come with some good refrencers
gallery41 (skratching)
artspace -- down at the wattle walfs, was involved in the beinnalie so we out of my interest.
soho ---- got a good vibe off the place , clutted mliuti storey , has a dog in house, some issues with his marketing and computer system.
TAP -- I've got a long history with this place, and they have opened up down stairs. worth a poke if my work was more ... hippy
object (closed) - in a smik redvelopment, scolpure and designer toys
flinders street --- not bad actualy , would be a long shot indede,
rexlivingston, --- same as above
globlal galleries --- loved this place, marketed at my situation and looking pro'
and gallery at wentworth --- o- well just a tourist gallery

opening night at john payenter

ex-opening

well the opening when like a bourght one and had a good turn out of about 200,
there was a far few other things going on as well in the the complex. including ben's pre os residency show, he's prity hot right now , also a writers get together and a muso in the court yard.
so we could look at it like we where over shadowed but its defently got our work to a shit load more people than the opposite and we all agreed thats worth more on the day.

john's thinking of doing a show in the big smoek , sound good , it just feels too early and some what getting ahead of our selves right now .

what I do know now from the night , every one had different fav' of mine and they could see now where Iam going with this .

Ill put some pix up soon