rex irwin

well alot has happened since I last inked these pagers.
my second place in this years BWTAS empowered the guest judge Nick Harding to prased my work and work ethic with a string of names bestowed on me .
one was Rex Irwin
making contact and a date I went to see him the next week ,
with out apology I was nervis like anyone should be.

he seemed to like what I was and added some new murkyness to my small anount of murk on my knowage of sydney.

I have also seen Sam Dickison and Jason Martin

but to date I havnet booked a date for a show.

Highly recondmenered BWTAS08!!!

on my final crack at the BWTAS , wonce again came in 2nd!!
this sounds worse than is it was.
being my forth entry and third finials and my second highly reconmendered, the the organizers let me know that there watching and willing to help what way there can.
also I got some photos and an interview by the daily telegraph, so maybe they'll turn up in the paper.

BWTAS08 short list!!

Alec from the gallery called my yesterday saying that my painting "subway No2" has got me into the short list of the compitition.
and asking if Iam avalable wednesday the 17th of september at 10am at the gallery.

BWTAS08

BWTAS08

I got a letter on Friday that my works have impressed the judgers for the 3rd time to make it on to the second round of the BWTAS this time 2008 they recon that ‘Subway No.2’ should be nominated and they with to see it in the roar for consideration for hanging is the exhibition for the prize.

And will be known to me I hope soon.

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 .