Beinnale of Sydney: all our relations

If any of you live in or near Sydney then I would like to think that you have taken advantage of seeing these years Beinnale of Sydney. If you haven't or have no idea qhat I am talking about then listen up. The Beinnale is this hugearts event in Sydney that shows all these amazing artworks in these different venues. The theme surrounding this years was 'all our relations', which is about our relationship to the earth and also about making the works interactive with audiences. 

My favourite venue that its held at is on Cockatoo Island, which use to be an old ship yard and prison. Not only did it have some of the best works there, it's also so amazing to wonder around the island and soak up its history. The photo's above are some photo's I took of a few of my favorite works. The one on the bottom left is by far my favourite, it was this like open room with all these wind chimes. It was just simply beautiful to sit there as I never realised how relaxing wind chimes can be. So if you have the time I definitely recommend to go and check it out for yourself. Below I put the links to the Beinnale website and to the artists pages.

Beinnale of Sydney website
Artists works shown above: Jonathan Jones, Jin Nü, Li Hongbo, Lyndal Jones, Mark Licari, Fujiko Nakaya, Tiffany Singh, Philip Beesley

Back from Market

Stalls shown in photo's: Drawstring, alfalfa, Whiskers Lane, Stannard-inc, Fox !ink

I can't believe that I haven't shared these photo's with you guys yet. Well these were taken when I went to the Art & Design Market and couple of weekends ago. It was such a lovely day with the sun shinning and lots of people cramming in to wonder around and look at all the stalls. Unfortunately I didn't end up purchasing anything, but there were so many great things that I wish I could of gotten my hands on. I am already looking forward to the next market in November, which I'll probably purchase most of my Christmas gifts from.

I also just wanted to give a little shout out to Emma from Milk Thieves Art & Design who puts so much work into organising these markets. It is always such a great day out, so thank you Emma for all the hard work :)

Photo Credit: Photo's by me

The Harbour

Last Wednesday during my break at uni I went down to Wollongong Harbour to have lunch and to do some work for class. I spent about 3 hours just walking the harbour taking photos and drawing the rocks, it was so nice to just sit back and relax a little from everything that has been happening lately. So I just wanted to show you guys some of the photo's I took as Wollongong Harbour is such a beautiful place and if you ever come and visit Australia you should come here. I will also be sharing some of my drawings from this with you guys so I hope you look forward to seeing them :)

Photo Credit: Photo's by me

Art & Design Market

I am very excited to be attending the Art and Design Market in Wollongong this Sunday. It is always such fun and great day with the looking around at all the goodies and talking to the lovely vendors. If you live in the area then be sure to make an appearance and to buy a lot of goodies while your there. As for me, I'll be there bright and early so I can get first picks of all the great items for sale. Also if you are coming then be sure to let me know as I would love to meet you and say hello :)

To find out more about the market visit their facebook or event page. You can also check out some of my photos that I took at the last markets back in April here. 

 

Photo Credit: pearled

Echoes of Yesterday

If you guys caught my post where I shared some goodies that I had won in a giveaway then you might of already checked out Natasha's Echoes of Yesterday blog and esty store already. As a little thank you to Natasha I wanted to share some her amazing art with you guys that I adore a lot.If you haven't already you should visit her blog and check out some her other amazing artworks. I absolutely love the drawing of the bearded man as it has this really structural feel to it, which is what I really like about Natasha's work. You are able to purchase original artworks by Natasha through her esty store, where there also many other goodies up for grabs.

Photo Credit: Images of artworks courtesy of Echoes of Yesterday

Field trip to Sydney - Part Four

Part One | Part Two | Part Three

I've enjoyed sharing these photos from my Sydney trip with you guys, it's been making me think about sharing more about my visits to art galleries and such. Anyway the end of a series involves showing the best of the best and what better then to share then two major exhibitions at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. I was looking forward to coming here all day as it had these two amazing shows on at the moment. The first was the 'The poetry of drawing Pre-Raphaelite designs, studies and watercolours' and the other was 'The Mad Square - Modernity in German art 1910-37.

The poetry of drawing Pre-Raphaelite designs, studies and watercolours

'Study of head', John Everett Millais, 1852

'Study of Jane Morris for Mnemosyne', Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1876

'Oh, Whats That In The Hollow', Edward Robert Hughes, 1895

I was really excited to go and see this exhibition as the Pre-Raphaelite's are a huge inspiration to me. For newbies the Pre-Raphaelite's were a brotherhood back during the 1800's who were against the modernist ways of paintings. They followed in the steps of Raphael and Michelangelo with their Classical poses and elegant compositions and wanted to return to the old ways. The whole movement is so inspiring and it makes me wish that this would happen now in today's art.  My two favourite artists from this movement were John Everett Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti who both were founders of the group in 1848. The best thing about the exhibition was seeing the drawings that were studies for the artists paintings and larger works. I especially loved seeing Millias' 'Study of head' which was a study for his painting Ophelia, 1851–1852.

The Mad Square
Modernity in German art 1910–37

Left: 'Self-Portrait', Christian Schad, 1927, oil on wood

Right: 'Twice Hilde II', Karl Hubbuch, 1926, oil on canvas

Left: Tea service, Wilhelm Wagenfeld, 1930-31

Right: Table Lamp, Wilhelm Wagenfeld, 1924

Stacking containers, Wilhelm Wagenfeld, 1938

The Club Chair, Marcel Breuer, 1928-29

The second major exhibition that was on show was even more brilliant and fantastic, The Mad Square. If you remember from Part One of the field trip I said that the exhibition was in association with another more major exhibition currently being shown as well, The Mad Square looks at German art during the Weimar period when Germany became the centre of a whole range of Avant-garde movements in European art. Like I have mentioned before I have a deep love for German art during the Weimar period. I was blown away when I realised that they had some Bauhaus designs included in the exhibition. Last year I did a study in the Bauhaus School and I have been fascinated by it since. The Bauhaus school is considered the most important school of art and design of the 20th century with its new approach of to art and design. If I was around during the 1920's, this is where I would of wanted to attend art school. The best thing they had on show was the Marcel Breuer's Club Chair. Such an amazing piece of furniture that I would love to have in my own home one day.

The last couple of photos shown here were taken as I was walking back to the train station to return back to Wollongong. So in the end our trip to Sydney was that amazing that it was worth the four posts. I hoped you enjoyed it as much as I did and if anyone else went or is going to go and see any of the exhibitions I shared in my posts please share as I would love to hear what others thought of it.

Photo Credit: Photos by me, Images of artworks and pieces were found via Google Image.  

Field trip to Sydney - Part Three

 

 This weekend I will share my last two posts from my Sydney field trip the other week. So welcome to Part Three where we took a visit to the Martin Browne Contemporary gallery. Again this was another new gallery to me, but I was to surprise a picture in the gallery of how it came to be. The space was a run down building and a group of fantastic people brought life back to it. Anyway they had a exhibition showing, but it wasn't all that interesting to me (pictures of flowers). Then we went upstairs to like their storeroom and there they had these amazing sculptures.

They were these cute little creatures made out of chicken bones that were so cool that I just wanted to pick one up and take it home with me. To my dislike their wasn't any information about the artist or the title of the works, but I later found out that they are made by Melbourne artist Linde Ivimey. I particularly love both the rabbits as I could happily have one in my home. Upstairs as well they had this amazing chair, which was so comfy. I can't wait to own such a chair that I'll just spend hours sitting in and reading books.

You might of also noticed some new changes to the blog e.i. banner, titles, link bar. This has been in the works for a couple of weeks as I wanted a change from my banner. I hope you guys like the new look as much as I do. I also hope that everyone has a lot planned this weekend and be sure to check back tomorrow for Part Four of my field trip to Sydney.

If you are new here you can go check out both Part One and Part Two

Photo Credit: Taken by myself with the courtesy of the Martin Browne Contemporary gallery