UAB Exhibition: Drawn to Place

Dropped my pieces off this morning. Looking forward to opening night!!

Come along - opening night this Friday 6th December 2013 6-9pm

Exhibition: Drawn to Place by UAB (Urban Art Binge)

 exhibition continues until the 10th December as follows

Saturday 7th, Monday 9th & Tuesday 10th December

Tassie Trip - homes & gardens

Holding the camera to the window of the mini bus and clicking is a really fun way to work, heavily relies on pot luck and full of surprises. This is the method I used as we zoomed along, it's no fuss and lots of fun. While I do enjoy the digital SLR it is also fun to have a camera that one is not so precious about, it fits in the pencil case and can be operated one handed. The old homes and accompanying gardens especially in and around the Hobart area are delightful and we captured a few through the lens and we also paused in a few spots to sketch - a perfect balance.

Tassie Sketching Adventure

 Incredible views, lots of inspiration

 even 1270metres above sea-level mother nature astounds

 the cold wind didn't stop our enthusiasm to sketch

 time for the ink to dry

here we all are, on top of Mount Wellington

What a treat to have a full week of sketching, photographing & discovering our island state - Tasmania. A state so full of preserved heritage, beautiful scenery and delicious produce. The sketching trip was organized by UAB (Urban Art Binge) and we enjoyed five sketch filled days based in Hobart. A mini bus was hired which enabled us to day trip down to the Port Arthur area, Royal Botanical Gardens and up to Mount Wellington. Following the five days two of us hired a car and stayed on a few more days before flying out of Launceston.

End of Year Exhibition

Dropped off my pieces this morning, I'm looking forward to opening night

Gorged on Creativity...For Now

An Exhibition of Works by Participants of Urban Art Binge 2012

                               7th - 12th December 2012

Opening night will feature a free sketch event, live music, dancing, and fresh food from SFA Street Food Australia.  The exhibition gives a unique insight into Brisbane’s diversity and spirit in what we believe to be a first as it shows the city through the eyes of 45 budding Brisbane artists. Images will range from the Port of Brisbane’s cranes through to the pirouettes of a Saturday morning ballet class in Bardon.

  Opening night: 6:00pm - 9:00pm    

Friday 7 December 2012  

Jugglers Art Space 130 Brunswick St, Fortitude Valley, Qld

Exhibition runs 10:00am - 4:00pm Saturday 8 to Wednesday 12 December 

(excluding Sun 9 December)

 

from the sketchbook

Last weekend was awash with rain. I'd signed up for a drop in sketch day with Urban Art Binge initially the plan for the day was to meet at the City Botanic Gardens and sketch our way round to the Kangaroo Point Cliffs. With all the rain a more indoor venue was sort and we met at the State Library and enjoyed some sketching from the reading areas with the fabulous river and city views, 

lunched in the cafe and then across to the QLD Art Gallery to sketch statues and artifacts

another wonderful day sketching

Open Studio Day & Urban Art Binge

Joannah Underhill and Emily Fong the co-ordinators of Urban Art Binge will be hosting an Open Studio Day tomorrow Saturday 13th October at Emily's Woolloongabba Studio as part of the BARI (Brisbane Artist Run Initiative) Festival. The Studio address is 58 Maynard Street, Woolloongabba.

The Studio will be open 12noon - 4pm join them for chat, tea/coffee/beer, cake

sketching and mixed media

Urban Art Binge (block 4) - journey so far

My confidence when drawing/sketching isn't the same as it is when I'm working with textiles, photos, stitch and collage. It's been in back of my mind that my next creative growth steps would include breaking down this barrier and embrace drawing/sketching. Sometimes when it's meant to be, the right tools appear and this is certainly the case when I stumbled across a link to Urban art Binge

Everything about the workshop appealed. My recent first solo exhibition 'Sunday Drives' drew inspiration from my immediate surrounds. So to be building my confidence towards drawing through a workshop which incorporates live sketching sessions around my home town is a perfect opportunity. The format of the workshop is two sessions per week for 6 weeks - one session in the studio and the second out in the field sketching various Brisbane landmarks, locations & events.

The workshops are co-ordinated by talented and inspiring local artists Emily Fong and Joannah Underhill

Each week Emily and Jo have shared with us many techniques, guided and inspired us to have a go, built our confidence thus ultimately enabling us to enjoy the journey. So far we have live sketched at the Home Festival, Queens Street Mall and Boggo Road Jail and we still have a couple of weeks left in our block to enjoy and continue growing. The next workshop block will be starting on the 15th October 2012, go to Urban Art Binge for full details/enrole.