tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40442518541471384262024-02-18T20:08:33.938-08:00brave botanicsObservations on all the things that make my heart sing...but mostly art, botanical design, heritage and the environment.Narellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18116933845079758002noreply@blogger.comBlogger45125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4044251854147138426.post-19392969838890036182013-06-17T01:26:00.000-07:002013-06-17T01:26:12.338-07:00Different flowers, for different brides!<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">To quickly catch up, I'd like to share some of the photos from the last few weddings from the <i>brave botanics</i> work bench. They have all been quite unique from each other, which is a treat!</span></div>
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Narellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18116933845079758002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4044251854147138426.post-23872259315059786092013-06-09T22:06:00.000-07:002013-06-09T22:06:03.807-07:00June...what?...<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Could it be June already?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Somehow the first half of the year has been consumed with all sorts of things other than blogging. Exhibitions at the gallery (more on this next time), school, weddings, sculpture, cooking, painting and all the more mundane day-to-day things.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Although I feel like I am too pushed for time to read, bake, watch and play (and therefore blog), my iphone has been my constant companion, so the quantity of photographs remains steady!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This post contains some pics I was really pleased with. Some random, some orchestrated...</span></div>
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Narellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18116933845079758002noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4044251854147138426.post-10878829797602925782012-12-28T03:17:00.002-08:002012-12-28T03:17:27.818-08:00Summer time...<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So I blinked, and it was December...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Well, December by the time I have gotten around to sharing the promised images from the <a href="http://www.sculptureonhigh.com.au/"><i>Sculpture On High</i></a> outdoor schulpture exhibition at Hillview Estate in Exeter, which was held in November. But here they are - with a brief summary.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I loved the exhibition! I took my Mum, </span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">as the boys were a bit over sculpture by now - who knew?, </span>and we escaped a potentially claustraphobic, and possibly volitile extended family situation (everyone in the house together for the weekend). We pondered the sculptures and rambled around the beautiful homestead, outbuildings and grounds of Hillview. Spectacular! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I think the event was clearly modelled on <i><a href="http://www.sculpturebythesea.com/exhibitions/bondi.aspx">Sculpture by the Sea</a></i>, which </span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">to be truthful, </span>is what we are all modelling our sculpture events on - with respect! My thinking is to begin with something which is done well, give it a shot and then personalise it to your situation/location/audience and purse size. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I loved that there was a healthy proportion of local sculptors included, what a great opportunity for them! What drove me nuts was that I was not allowed to take an exhibition catalogue - I was given one to walk around with, but had to return it.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> I was told all of the information was on the website. </span>This is the <b>second</b> exhibition like this where it's happened - <a href="http://www.sculptureinthevineyards.com.au/?page_id=423"><i>Sculpture in the Vineyards</i> </a>had some printing issues and so didn<i>'</i>t have any catalogues </span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">or list of works </span>to view which drove me INSANE. At S-in-V we were told we would be sent one in the post. Not much use when you are walking around viewing the sculptures, and I think a huge dis-service to the artists whose work was on exhibition - as a stop gap, why didnt they quickly run off some black and white photocopies and keep re-using these when visitors requested a read? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Anyway, that's just me, I like to take a catalogue or brochure home, I re-read them and keep them for reference and use them as starting points for research material when I'm curating a show of my own. Old school. I can<i> (and do!)</i> also use the website and the QR codes, etc etc, but I like the catalogue.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">One of the great things at S-on-High, was the sand sculpture hands on area for kids...brilliant. And I felt each sculpture was pretty thoughfully and well placed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Truck, Dave Ball</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Solar, Philip Walker</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Of earth and man, Mark McClelland</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hillview Moon, Judy Coverdale-Fronsnova</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Catching the moon in a bed of roses, Judy Coverdale-Fronsnova</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dual Cultural Communication, Britta Stennmans</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Tsunami 2, </span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Jacek Wankowski</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Containment, Dave Ball</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Four Winds, Philip Walker</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Global Peace Unit - 2006, Geoffrey Farquhar-Still</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Clinging to the Moon, Judy Coverdale Fronsnova</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">and my vote for the favourite....Ghost Trio, Philip Walker.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With sculpture out of the way, there have been birthdays (three...and one to come), Year Six graduations, end of year shenanigans and Christmas. We have all had a lovely time, I got a bonus week off before the kids finished school and frittered it away with cooking, a TINY amount of cleaning, and some Christmas shopping! One day I went back to bed once all the boys were out of the house!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We have managed a very relaxed, low key Christmas with our main goal now being to get to the ocean for a dip as often as possible. The boys begged for our traditional tree and all its trimmings back this year, which they got. Next year however, I am ruling with an iron fist and demanding my tree installation of weathered, lichen covered branches and ornaments of wood, shell, paper and tin. It has a much more relaxed, natural feel to it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My friends run the full gamut from Christmas nuts (all-embracing, all-excitable) to those who are conscientious objectors (trying to ignore the commercial Christmas going on around them)...I think I fall in the middle. Sitting on the fence...I enjoy Christmas for the chance to catch up with family, send good wishes and take the opportunity to give and share, because we dont make the effort at other times of the year. The thing I feel really strongly about is making some Australian Christmas traditions...I'm not into the hot pudding or the snowmen. Actually I really dont like that because I think its so unlike our Christmas season, so I try to wrap and decorate with things a bit more like an Australian summer...blue, sand, gums etc. rather than snowflakes, sleds and the like. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What a long, empty stretch it has been!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I have had the best intentions of sharing all things botanical, sculptural and domestic over the past few months but it seems I was too busy doing them to blog about them!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I have truly immersed myself (and the boys) in outdoor sculpture this year, as a direct and concerted effort to "get" the aesthetics and the practicalities of curating and delivering a successful exhibition of outdoor sculptures. I have one scheduled in my gallery program for next year. It turns out to be a great way to engage the boys in art (they are not overly keen to be bothered visiting galleries, or making their own creations) and we have been able to ponder, problem solve, critique and enjoy many, many works positioned artfully in the great outdoors.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Since <a href="http://www.sculptureinthegaol.com.au/">Sculpture in the Gaol,</a> we have visited the world-renowned <a href="http://www.sculpturebythesea.com/Home.aspx">Sculpture by the Sea</a> in Sydney and last weekend I also popped up to the Hunter Valley to see <a href="http://www.sculptureinthevineyards.com.au/">Sculpture in the Vineyards</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Here's some pics from Sculpture by the Sea, installed along the iconic coastal walking track from Bondi to Bronte beaches.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">With two great travelling companions, and a beautiful heritage house to stay in, the Hunter Valley weekend was such a treat. We called Maitland home for the two nights and it was a real surprise - over the top ornate public buildings, shopfronts and residences and a real creative, vibe going on. </span><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span></b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We did a spot of
shopping (!) and visited the Maitland Regional Gallery which turned
about to be another surprise. At least three great exhibitions on show, a
fabulous gift shop and a delightful and delicious cafe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On a work trip during what is usually my worst (ie. busiest, craziest, out of control) month of the year, it was fantastic to be able to also fit in visits with two special people - a cousin I rarely see (and her family) and a very new friend made on Instagram. It was so great to catch up with someone who has known me forever, and someone who I have only just met!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Just to keep the balance, I did a little bit of sculpture of my own. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I have been dreaming up these hanging botanical sculptures for a while, and had the opportunity to exhibit them as part of the <a href="http://www.newacton.com.au/ana">Art not Apart festival in New Acton </a>a few weekends ago. I was really pleased with them, and certainly got some appreciative comments from passers by while I was up the ladder to hang and then remove them! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I think there may be some more sculpture on the agenda this weekend - the <a href="http://www.sculptureonhigh.com.au/#!home/mainPage">Sculpture on High</a> exhibition in the Southern Highlands</span>...</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ciao</span></div>
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Narellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18116933845079758002noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4044251854147138426.post-4111703084490690352012-09-02T03:07:00.000-07:002012-09-02T03:07:39.795-07:00Sculpture in the Gaol and Spring arriving<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">
It has a been a busy few weeks!</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Plenty on the agenda to see and do. As well as being super busy at work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I recently had some time away which was so refreshing and such fun - the <i>Sculpture in the Gaol </i>competition at Trial Bay Gaol, South West Rocks, NSW.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It is a long way from Canberra (we flew and then drove!) but I would highly recommend the seaside town for a short break - it was spectacular scenery (from the Gaol on the peninsula, Arakoon National Park and the lighthouse at Smokey Bay) and the township was a comfortable, sentimental snapshot of the culture of Australia's coastal exodus come warmer weather - think Michael Gows'<i> Away...</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I was delighted to be invited as a judge in the competition, which attracted entries from interstate sculptors. My favourite things - art (specifically sculpture and even better, site responsive) and heritage sites. We stayed at a beautiful, historic guesthouse in the town, and I was able to take my little man as travel companion. We had such a great time; he was excellent company and never once complained of boredom. I treasured every moment with him, as he nears his teens and I am terrified of losing him to...I dont know what! High school, new friends, computer games, and his own little interior world. It was heaven to hang out, chat and laugh and plan things for the future!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The gaol site was spectacular, physically imposing and psychologically haunting - it was very easy to contemplate the difficult conditions inmates and then prisoners of war, would have had to endure.</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The site was abonadoned to time, the elements and vandals until taken into care by the National Parks and Wildlife Service.</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What a great job they have done, restoring and interpreting the site with local archeologists and re-invienting it for the broader public with a public art project like <a href="http://www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/arakoon-national-park/trial-bay-gaol/tourist-information">Sculpture in the Gaol.</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">These were some of my favourites - top, <i>Waved</i> by </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Greg Barnes</span> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">and above <i>Bufo Robusta </i>by Gary Smith</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Above, </span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Reflections</i> by Kylie Bowles</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and below my fellow judge Kate. She was so lovely and welcoming, but I was a big sook and let Kate do the opening speech all on her own...next time (if there is one), I will step up and share the spotlight! I will work on my fear of public speaking.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It spoke to us through its resonance with the site, its optimistic tone and the way it felt like it was made just for the claustrophobic enclosure, with black iron gates and high walls.</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As all the cocoons swayed gently on the breeze, our eyes followed the bundles upwards - scaling the walls, and escaping through the exposed roof of the gaol...into the wide, open, brilliant blue sky. The themes of escape, transformation and renewed life outside the confines of the granite walls were difficult to ignore.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Elsewhere during the weekend, there was plenty of inspiration on bushwalks, seaside walks and around town. Spectacular colours, textures and patina.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since that weekend, there have been inlkings of spring unfurling and happily, opportunities to be out amongst it! I am right in the midst of planning for my first ever <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/brave-botanics/344966025521349?ref=hl"><b>brave botanics </b></a>workshop in floristry - taking lots of time to "play" with flowers and brainstorm ideas. This is all research...</span></div>
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Narellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18116933845079758002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4044251854147138426.post-55398619155816682712012-08-05T04:02:00.000-07:002012-08-05T04:02:08.051-07:00finally...<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
finally...reporting back on the wonderful trip to Alice Springs for the Beanie Festival, and other happenings around here since then.</div>
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I dont know where the time went.</div>
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Way back in June a colleague and I were lucky enough to travel up to the Beanie Festival, which was such a great trip - I had never been to Alice Springs. My hope before the trip was that I would be impressed by the difference in the landscape - I really wanted the desert colours to blow me away, and I certainly wasn't disapppointed.</div>
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There was big sky, red earth, fascinating flora, a funky cafe, loads of crafty stuff, a freezing breeze every day, the most eye popping indigenous art everywhere and...beanies...</div>
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So as not to repeat myself (being a work trip I have already written two reports and made a power point presentation) I direct you to this <a href="http://greatgallerygarden.blogspot.com.au/2012/07/how-things-grow-in-alice-springs.html?spref=fb">blog</a> for The Great Gallery Garden (in September at the Arts Centre) where I have gone into a bit more detail and provided links.</div>
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I will share some of my favourite pics here though - </div>
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<br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We had such fun. Rhonda was a great travelling companion and we met lots of lovely people. We attended several workshops over the duration of the Beanie Festival, visited the <a href="http://www.opbg.com.au/">Olive Pink Botanic Gardens</a>, <a href="http://www.standleychasm.com.au/">Standley Chasm</a>, <a href="http://www.tangentyereartists.org.au/">Tangentyere Artists </a>co-op and paid a studio visit to one of our upcoming exhibitors, Sarah Brown (more about her later). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I bought some art (still at the framers!) and rather a few felted, crocheted flower brooches by Alice Springs local Donovan Hannis (examples above). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I missed the boys, but I think I could've stayed another week. And I have been wishing I was back there. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since Alice, I've also been to Sydney (Bienale and a reunion in Balmain) and over to the coast for school hols. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Next up, Rhys and I travel up to <a href="http://www.sculptureinthegaol.com.au/index.html">Sculpture in the Gaol </a>at Trial Bay historic gaol, South West Rocks. More about that later too, because I'm a judge! How cool - some of my favourite things together - sculpture, heritage buildings, coast!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We have been hurtling head-long into the new school term, things have been crazy busy working towards the Great Gallery Garden, and there is a very sweet surprise in store for me at work next year. Announcement in the pipelines...just around the corner...not far off...but I'm smiling already!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today we mosey-d around and had late breakky before catching the abstraction show <i>Word of Mouth</i>:<i> Encounters with Abstract Art</i> at <a href="http://www.museumsandgalleries.act.gov.au/cmag/exhibitions.html">CMAG</a> , Bryn started on his own abstract piece as soon as we got home! Inspired!!! We also took in our favourite Nolan works (Ned Kelly series from 1946) as well as a cool little collection of typewriters from all vintages, courtesy of collector Robert Messenger. The boys had a ball clunking away on manual machines, and it made me smile and think of mum - as a typing teacher she tried for many, many years to teach my brother and I to type - it was always the last thing we wanted to spend our time doing in the holidays!</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">To contemplate is to look at shadows. </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">They are sharper or fuzzier versions of their objects.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">They are stretched, exaggerated and abstracted in a lovely way!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I have been finding them unexpectedly and searching them out purposefully a lot lately, and have therefore been very contemplative! One of my favourite shadow pictures is this one, a fairly old photo from a road trip to a beach many years ago, it still brings a smile.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">in a similar style, this lovely one of the boys in the moment when they are aware of their figures shadowed and captured in the rockpool. I love the deepened colours of the sandstone where their joined shadow falls.</span></div>
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Another of my favourite things, is the shadows cast by sculptures. Do you notice these when you see three dimensionsal stuff in a gallery? Those above are from my little PIN sculptures.</div>
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I saw these in a great exhibition down at <a href="http://www.incineratorgallery.com.au/">The Incinerator Gallery</a>, Melbourne. Wall sculptures made from a conglomerate of found lace by textile artist Louise Paxton.</div>
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and from the web, pinned onto some of my very lean <i><b>pinteres</b><b>t</b></i> boards*. </div>
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*Unfortunately on pinterest, there are often no credits for images/artworks and so I am unsure of who these these two works were made by. The bottom one had a label L J Maxx, which I will run with today!</div>
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<br /></div>Narellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18116933845079758002noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4044251854147138426.post-86606969999009704812012-05-05T16:34:00.001-07:002012-05-05T16:36:48.245-07:00Snap happy<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">With the closing of the big project (<a href="http://bravebotanics.blogspot.com.au/2012/04/day-after-night-beforematerial-world.html?spref=fb">Material World</a> as previously discussed) and things quietish on the wedding front, I have been doing nothing much more than walking, collecting, looking, and snap, snap snapping pics as I have finally become a convert of <i>instagram</i>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I have stopped carrying my camera around with me every day. I have started snapping at every tiny little detail of awesomeness I stumble across. As well as the fairly ordinary.</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I have read</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">up on how to improve your mobile phone photography.</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I have joined someone elses' photo a day challenge, which is really no challenge at all as I take rather a lot more than one a day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As you'd notice from some of the pictures, I have been stealing a few moments to work on small (read: achievable) projects - a new scarf for winter, some multi purpose pom poms, and knotted jute pot hangers. All will become crystal clear when they are used for future projects - <a href="http://www.anca.net.au/exhibitions/315/repin/">rePIN</a> and <a href="http://www.tuggeranongarts.com/g_2011exhibitions.html">The Great Gallery Garden</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Also as evidenced in the pictures, we stole away from Canberra (to <a href="http://www.lakecrackenback.com.au/">Lake Crackenback</a> in the Snowy Mountains) to enjoy some of the beautiful autumn sun...I am relying on those golden, kodachrome coloured memories to sustain me through the grey which is just around the corner!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">XNarelle</span></div>Narellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18116933845079758002noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4044251854147138426.post-91332325439934078372012-04-01T05:23:00.000-07:002012-04-01T05:23:18.477-07:00the day after the night before...Material World from go to whoa<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As previously mentioned, last night was the official (but casual!) opening of <i><b>Material World</b></i>, an exhibition that Martine Peters and I have been co-curating for a good few months now. Its full title was <i>Material World - extraordinary environments made from ordinary things</i>. Spectacular large scale art works, wonderful artists and a nice grass rootsy feel opening which ended with a candle lit gallery when we switched off the lights to observe Earth Hour. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The artists were - </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ampersand Duck</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Tracey Deep</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mandy Gunn </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ruth Hingston</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ro Murray</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Flossie Peitsch</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Tony Steel</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Fiona Veikkanen</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This is pretty much a photo essay of the exhibition from go to whoa...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">There was wine (thank you Casella Wines), there was cheese (Martine's cousin), there were candles (Malinda - Doobie Designs), chilled music (Tim's band) and we even got flowers, from the lovely Tracey Deep (gush...one of my floral design heroes)</span>!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLCoVUXytlzj9Z0XqFj3Jet3XmS4QQ6GO7HANqt3kkqVpYxefaZ0Yp3Pe7KnnPvcUXD0kBPpfjDmR7qWfYSq74upTvRnQN9zjxnYxffy2_mV1gg0bTwMXooBb-GcXys0R68CWl5uIFonXu/s1600/2.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLCoVUXytlzj9Z0XqFj3Jet3XmS4QQ6GO7HANqt3kkqVpYxefaZ0Yp3Pe7KnnPvcUXD0kBPpfjDmR7qWfYSq74upTvRnQN9zjxnYxffy2_mV1gg0bTwMXooBb-GcXys0R68CWl5uIFonXu/s400/2.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">talk a bit</span>...<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(Narelle and Tony)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7I9YEySXZ8os28yTzSJ2HVwQ5FEeW5b-_IDm_VzAozeDvjpKONaeJ977s3byfb77iazGgr-5wqG9XBKCzD_Y-eOuFjY234G997840T8_cVibq0MfcbjSel5Bt-s1k5__CsYMbh09TROgQ/s1600/3.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7I9YEySXZ8os28yTzSJ2HVwQ5FEeW5b-_IDm_VzAozeDvjpKONaeJ977s3byfb77iazGgr-5wqG9XBKCzD_Y-eOuFjY234G997840T8_cVibq0MfcbjSel5Bt-s1k5__CsYMbh09TROgQ/s400/3.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">get up the ladder...down the ladder...repeat...(Caren aka Ampersand Duck)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"> <img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibwOMu1AqF3pKwfT4OCn-QMqVg86wX58eW37TRuslcQvOdmUR8PqTmHrqWiLEd21eOvQPkEM9Oikkl9fhuyl5sP_ZxvaqVbHjIeQRJgRxPkUT30tQBDqEHrNlTFuKRymR9ZWQS_YDhsdhE/s400/6.JPG" width="300" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">document...(Tony)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">P.S Here's what I wrote in the intro of the mini catalogue...in case you have a longer attention span than just pictures...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Developing <i>Material World</i> has been an engaging learning curve and an absolute pleasure.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">When confronted with the prosaic and pristine physicality of the gallery space, each artist responded with their own highly sensory creation. Presented with the premise of environmental awareness and the challenge to work sustainably, the artists have seized the opportunity to remind us of the responsible use of energy and technology, the need to recycle, reuse, reforest and above all, to respect.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Tactile and curious</span>, <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">obscure and fanciful</span> - <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">these constructed environments are at once comfortable and peculiar. The use of familiar, found and repurposed materials draws us into their tableaux so that we, the audience become part of their ponderings. We do this by wandering through and around the installations, by casting our gaze upwards to the unattainable, by passing under the washing line and by participating in a virtual, collective commentary. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We hope you enjoy exploring these extraordinary environments made from ordinary things." </span></div>Narellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18116933845079758002noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4044251854147138426.post-42072565368410248642012-03-30T04:03:00.000-07:002012-03-30T04:03:53.424-07:00bits and pieces of yellow<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Sometimes I seem to suffer from colour blocks - not sure if that term adequately describes it, a sort of pre-occupation with a particular colour where I start to notice it everywhere, use it and wear it...it is happening to me now with yellow...which I am finding a bit strange as a few weeks ago, I didn't really love yellow. There you have it...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Next post: <i>Material World</i>...the day after </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">XNarelle</span></div>Narellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18116933845079758002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4044251854147138426.post-45960965120829367572012-03-14T14:26:00.000-07:002012-03-14T14:26:57.993-07:00Blown away by Bob and art<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Yesterday I attended a lecture at the School of Art </span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>ArtForum</i>, </span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">( as a ring-in) by Senator Bob Brown</span>,<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> on Environment and Art.</span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wow.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">If you ever get the chance to hear him speak take it - rather than being preachy, overly political and doom and gloom, it was inspiring, gentle and encouraging. Positive.</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The overall message was to stop, look around, appreciate the amazing things on the planet everyday, to respond to them creatively</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">and to turn that love and appreciation into respect and therefore, logically into conservation</span>.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I have a few environmental heroes, but I think Senator Brown has just usurped them all for the moment. I was speechless</span>, <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">and so not too many more words on this blog post!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">However...I managed to take his advice and get out into the world to see some amazing things - not the Tasmanian Wilderness unfortunately, but the Petite Public Art tucked in and hidden around Civic as part of the YOU ARE HERE festival.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><a href="http://youareherecanberra.com.au/program/">http://youareherecanberra.com.au/program/</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"> I<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">t was great. I missed some stuff as I my parking meter was a-ticking but it was well worth the wander. You should check it out. Then head to the wilderness.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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</div>Narellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18116933845079758002noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4044251854147138426.post-46306231270769398452012-02-29T04:24:00.000-08:002012-02-29T04:24:13.341-08:00Kitchen gardens and the injustices of taking art away from the suburban extremities.<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Something happened when we got home from our lovely holiday. We went back to work and the kids had school, and there was tennis, music practice, more work, lots of rain, the boys got sick and I got tired. Possibly reality hit us with a large, blunt object. I think we're all good now.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The best remedy seemed to be to grab a camera, and grab a child (the one who has his own camera) and to head out and about. Somewhere with coffee and cake, mountains, flowers, trees, tumble down buildings and a comforting familiarity to it! We ended up at Lanyon Homestead, a regular haunt and indulged in some afternoon tea before a browse around the gardens. I know I have blogged it before, but I love the place - its position beside the Murrumbidge River, looking up to the Brindabella ranges and its very loud echoes of a bygone era. I love its garden, its house museum and the interesting collection preserved within and without!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We ambled around the garden, and it is looking in great shape. Beautiful perennials (which I learnt once were as near as possible to the original plantings, although not entirely sure of this) and a really healthy looking veggie patch. It is a decent size, and services the cafe menu so you are assured of something seasonal, fresh and very local! Coloured silverbeet, looking so big and strong. Some serious herbs - not your spindly, fine stemmed ones but vigorous, thick clumps of basil, thyme, parsely, chives and probably more but by this point I was going into overload! Artichokes! Marigolds! Beans! Blackberries and Raspberries!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">All that wholesomeness (including the chocolate fudge cake Bryn ate) got me thinking about kitchen gardens at cafes, and more specifically at cafes at art galleries or museums. I thought of a couple but I'm sure there are more (my friend Lou would know if she was reading!) </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">cafe vue at Heide, out of Melbourne </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.heide.com.au/#/cafe-vue-at-heide/menu/">http://www.heide.com.au/#/cafe-vue-at-heide/menu/</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">and the cafe at the Lewers Gallery (Penrith Regional Galleries</span>), <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">western Sydney</span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.penrithregionalgallery.org/cafe.php"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">http://www.penrithregionalgallery.org/cafe.php</span></a><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">These places nearly make my head spin and my heart leap out, because they have ART, HERITAGE, FOOD and GARDENS. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Oh that's right...Lanyon used to have all that too, back in the good ol days when the Nolan collection was housed in...the...Nolan Gallery, in the grounds at Lanyon Homestead. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Here's where the injustice comes in, and I get really frustrated, because the gallery used to house several collections of Sidney Nolan works, some of them specifically gifted by Sir Nolan himself with the express condition that they be</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">exhibited on the Lanyon Homestead precinct.</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">There's debate and conjecture from opposing factions (Lady Nolan vs. Commonwealth gov), but as far as I can tell (please correct me if anyone has insider knowledge and I'm wrong) the collection was moved after "some" storm damage to the building which</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">placed the important works in danger. Fair enough, move them to dry ground temporarily whilst refurbishing the building. Instead they were moved permanantly into locations in Canberra CBD, where authorities gloat that a broader and larger audience is able to appreciate them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">That's so unfair! It really was a huge cultural asset to have in the southern suburbs of Canberra - an interesting, significant and engaging collection where there is not a heck of a lot of other art. I'm sure more visitors eye ball the works in their current positions at the National Gallery of Australia and Canberra Museum and Gallery, but I'm also sure that more could've been made of their original, ethical home. I dont know the stats on the Nolan Gallery visitor numbers, or the cost of keeping it open, or of refurbising it to be a stable place for art works, but I dislike how swiflty and smoothly something of great value can be removed and never returned. I wonder if more time, energy and of course money could have been spent on promoting the gallery, and on attracting visitors and I suspect punters would still travel (30 minutes) from town to see an important collection.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Anyways...just a few days after our jaunt I read something interesting in the local paper....</span><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">oops...not that one (that's shameless self promotion)...it was this - an article entitled <i>Jewel in Canberra's crown</i></span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Not only does it picture the fabulous gardener, Alison McLeod, but it discusses ways in which the site can be opened up for more community use. It comments on the number of visitors, and the Arts Ministers' hope that local artists would be encouraged and inspired by the space, in the same way Sidney Nolan was. They are trialling an artist-in-residence program in the "Sidney Nolan Building" (read - gallery with the art works taken out of it). I love the idea of that, but I love the idea of having the Nolan works there too, for an even greater, deeper sense of place, relevance and history. So I guess I'll be responding to the call out for comments and input... </span></div>Narellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18116933845079758002noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4044251854147138426.post-30707892761347790082012-02-19T03:21:00.000-08:002012-02-19T03:21:13.564-08:00Beached as bro<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We've not long returned from a holiday in New Zealand, visiting my brother and his girl! It was a very lovely week, lots of relaxed afternoons and evenings, brunches, lunches, swims, walks and wandering. And a few unexpected things.</span><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A perfect balance between taking in some tourist-y "points of interest" and having a local, insiders' nouse. Bro takes great delight in being the perfect tour guide, so in addition to the standard activities, we went a little off the beaten track too. These pics dont really do it justice, he is a great photographer however, and I keep pestering him to put together a book.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">steam ship ride across the lake to Walter Peak, and then lots of flowers and some sheep</span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Walking along a river track, our friendly guide (my brother, of course!) said "hey...shhh...hear that?" It was the low background sound of these seed pods (from Broom, probably an invasive weed by now)</span> slowly popping one by one in the heat!</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> that's a pickled walnut in there...on the plate below, not in the backyard.</div><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">breakkie at a place which only does variations on their rolls - I love it when people find a winner and stick to it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A cute little cinema tucked away in Arrowtown, called Dorothy Browns. We saw Sherlock Holmes 2, loved it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Our most favourite unexpected thing was taking daily dips in Lake Wakatipu, water so clear...that's us in the distance!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">hitting the road for an overnight trip to Curio Bay, the Catlins, down in the southern most area of south island.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A very quirky place, the Lost Gypsy Gallery, roadside at Paptowai</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The week left us rested, and relaxed and nicely re-acquianted with those adventurous guys that we only see once every year or two. We also had a severe case of wanderlust...not so much to continue wandering infintely but to wander as far as Arrowtown at least, and find a nice little cottage to do up. </span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I found myself wondering</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">how others do it, if you really could sell up, pack up and just lob into a new place and start a new page</span>.<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Does the grass always look greener? </span><br />
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Are we too set in our ways and our routine?</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Would you make it work if you just jumped in?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And if<i> you</i> could do it, would you do it to the others around you, drag them along? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Do you need to consider the ripple effect if you make a move?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">If I had previously wondered about the ripple effect, then the look on my mums' face (a kind of unspoken, restrained panic) when we mentioned it was pretty telling.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> And I just started a new job, right?</span><br />
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<div></div>Narellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18116933845079758002noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4044251854147138426.post-38863797772433532942012-02-01T01:22:00.000-08:002012-02-01T01:22:38.531-08:00the ART thang....warning - a long post!<div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">How great is art? </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I love it. Seeing it, appreciating it, critiquing it, and especially absorbing it via the great outdoors, or through the arty types themselves. I have met some really, really interesting people through my work, and loved getting an insight into their practice.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A little dinner party last night degraded into a rather entertaining critique of the artworks hanging round here, so I thought I would share! Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, of course. Apologies to some of the artists whose names, or names of artworks I cannot remember. Bad form I know, I will try harder next time.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So that's what's hanging around!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Last week I started my new job, which has lived up to my expectations (phew). </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Here's the view from our office...that's right!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Here's a few snaps of what's been going on around here...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Big, bad tomatoes, but still green sadly...</div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4YNJsLnaW6hug2pKCiDc6_E7EJzkPgSN3QkTmEDR1bjXEDsU-gyDyf4x1f4LYUMU72kB4fVKt8FmGExMRAhJE1iT_LGH9C5bCxpOG-EZ-gpdcDjIuPR0N6c7H6RnZTagPtH8nAXdMGXA2/s1600/5.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4YNJsLnaW6hug2pKCiDc6_E7EJzkPgSN3QkTmEDR1bjXEDsU-gyDyf4x1f4LYUMU72kB4fVKt8FmGExMRAhJE1iT_LGH9C5bCxpOG-EZ-gpdcDjIuPR0N6c7H6RnZTagPtH8nAXdMGXA2/s400/5.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">weird pods (after Zantedeshia Lilies, commonly known as Calla or Arum Lilies) and funky patterned leaves</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">rosehips included in a buttonhole for the lapel. This one below is Snowberry - the most beautiful, whimsical little berries with a blush of pink or green on them. So pretty, and I saw some just this week as I was driving out of a friends' driveway....</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And finally, summer time means more time with the kids and we have had some lovely, lovely moments and relaxing days with the boys. Last weekend Bryn came with me to the markets and in the middle of the shopping decided he would buy me a bunch of flowers!!! </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"with my own money, Mum."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What a sweetheart, I have to say this kids' <i>emotional intelligence </i>is through the roof. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As I dont have a wedding this weekend I have been pondering the weather - and been grateful I haven't had delicate flowers to care for, manipulate and transport. It has been positively tropical here in Canberra...weird...clear, bright skies in the morning then a slow and accumulating stuffiness until the mid afternoon</span>,<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> when banks of gruff clouds appear to the west or south and threaten a storm.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Empty threats usually, but tonight some real rain after several hours of build up, and a 360 degree light show. The severe weather which the Bureau of Meterology have been issuing warnings for: large hailstones, flash flooding, damaging wind. Last time we experienced a storm like this our most treasured cat* disappeared and our outdoor terrace area was torn up by hail. So I've put the cats to bed already.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Anyways...the weddings. I have been thinking of the flowers which provide that real lush, tropical feel to a summer wedding and have included some of them here. The reality is that many of these are commercially available to florists (and punters) almost year round - Dendrobium Orchids, Vanda Orchids, large broad leaves and the like are generally greenhouse farmed crops. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">For a really authentic tropical wedding you would be requesting frangipani, hibiscus, gingers, heliconias, palm husks and berries but we dont do those sorta weddings in Canberra! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">One of my favourite floristry stories comes from when I was working for the most fabulous Juliet Justice in Balmain and making and learning so much. At the crack of dawn we would unpack a van load of flowers fresh from the markets and make up a long list of arrangements for corporate clients - this particular week using tropical stuff, freighted in boxes from north Queensland like this vibrant, long lasting Crab Claw Heliconia.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">To my surprise and delight, when I grabbed a stem I found a tiny brilliant green tree frog tucked neatly into the cavity of the "claw". Still alive but probably scared out of its wits, we popped it into the closest bit of garden - I dont know how well adjusted it would be. So cute, and such a good memory! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">XNarelle</span><br />
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</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">* of course we loved both of our cats equally, but Princess Lea was most treasured because she was SO unlike a cat, and so unusual. We have never had a cat with a personality like hers, and we never found her after the storm.</span></i></div>Narellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18116933845079758002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4044251854147138426.post-43136611177382313832012-01-05T18:39:00.000-08:002012-01-05T18:39:50.961-08:00latest wedding album from a lovely local bride<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Canberra has some really lovely venues for photography if you are after a relaxed, rustic tone. Plenty of grassy plains, meandering pathways, hillsides, heritage buildings in various states of grandeur or disrepair and lots of rural textures - timber, stone, corrugated iron etc etc!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Without further ado, here are some of the lovely images from a recent wedding I did for a Canberra bride and groom. The photos are by Mel Hill Photography <a href="http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150360596563588.372360.47867988587&type=1">http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150360596563588.372360.47867988587&type=1</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> and they do such a great job of portraying the relaxed atmosphere and the beautiful settings. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The bouquet was to be full and blowsy with old fashioned style roses - so was made of open roses, David Austin roses and Lisianthus. </span></div>Narellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18116933845079758002noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4044251854147138426.post-14595575303063030072011-12-30T01:33:00.000-08:002011-12-30T01:33:41.727-08:00Lists of lists...<div style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Today has been an odd day</span>,<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> I have a list of reasons why.</span></b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">There's been pain ( I managed to pull something in my back), disappointment, sadness and tears....and that's all just been me and I am not usually a drama queen!</span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I let some people down</span>,<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> who of course forgave me and have then been thinking about my Nanna, who passed away a year ago tomorrow. I wont forget in a hurry wishing Bryn happy birthday as he woke last year, knowing that I had such sad news to tell that same morning.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I have such fantastic memories of Nanna, who I think was a real stand out woman for her time. I was lucky enough to have some time to sit with her and record some of her stories and opinions in the year or so before she died, I might have a listen to them again tomorrow. As far as I can remember Nanna had an answer to everything, and it certainly was never good enough to say it's too hard, I can't or maybe not. She was a do-er, that's for sure and expected the same from others. Along with my parents, I would count her as one of the "forces" (my cousins will be laughing!!!) that shaped me. I miss her lots and many, many times when things crop up in the day to day, I think to myself - I wonder what Nanna would have done?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So, I love lists...every day... and am taking a leaf out of some other blogs to write a list of recent good things. Sometimes we need to remind ourselves! They are in no particular order</span>.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><ul><li style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> school holidays...enough time to relax AND to do stuff, like make curry puffs and satay sticks on a whim!</li>
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</div><ul><li style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">a lovely goodbye gift from a workmate. And lemon verbena in the garden to make tea from.</li>
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</div><ul><li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> the promise of the ocean next week...rain, hail or shine.</span></li>
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I have other lists of course - lists of books to read, lists of recipes to try, lits of music to get from itunes, lists of "things" to save up for, lists of ideas for when I start my new job later in January. Also a shopping list for cake ingredients...my littlest man will be 9 tomorrow...time flies.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Happy New Year</span>. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">X</span></div>Narellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18116933845079758002noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4044251854147138426.post-23236329534638098212011-12-27T00:24:00.000-08:002011-12-27T00:24:36.729-08:00endings in the gallery<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A weird week, as it was my last official day at work on friday before a beautiful break with few plans, and then my new job next year.</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Did you know about my last show in the gallery?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It was crazy and a bit risky, but all turned out for the best and was such a high note to finish on. When I curated WALLWORKS, I invited a little group of artist to come in and work directly on the gallery walls - paint, draw etc and this is what they came up with.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<i>Wall Works</i>, a constructed wall complete with windows, doors, letterbox and eventually a pile of discarded items including a TV, by Byrd and Hoon.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A 'bilateral' drawing (using both left and right hands drawing the same thing at the same time) by Tess Horwitz, which produced some lovely, interesting marks</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">An epic, story-like mural <i>Loves Last Lesson, </i>by Mariana del Castillo, Alex Asch and Gus McGrath consuming one entire wall of the gallery!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And the ghostly falling figures of Nicci Haynes, both on walls and floor!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I feel like it was such a boon to be given license to curate a show like this, and an honour to work with the artists on the project. Each time I stepped into the gallery to check up on them, it took my breath away and I will be grateful to them for contributing to WALLWORKS, which inadvertantly became my swan song at ANCA.</span><br />
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<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I will also of course, be grateful to the "painting guy", who begins his resurfacing work on January 11.</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">XNarelle</span><br />
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</div>Narellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18116933845079758002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4044251854147138426.post-68125740456441326092011-12-09T14:32:00.000-08:002011-12-09T14:32:46.809-08:00Sea Change<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">That predicted time of change and turmoil has hit (see previous post "Its been a while") and things are amping up towards the end of the year.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I have grabbed the bull by the horns and resigned from my job at ANCA </span><a href="http://www.anca.net.au/" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">www.anca.net.au</a>, <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">to take a position as Gallery Coordinator at Tuggeranong Arts Centre in the new year. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Tuggeranong-Arts-Centre/233189360075720?sk=wall"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">http://www.facebook.com/pages/Tuggeranong-Arts-Centre/233189360075720?sk=wall</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It is a completely different arts organisation to ANCA and I will miss all of "my" studio artists, but will be really pleased to focus on gallery stuff rather than arts admin for a change. The new job presents significant challenges, but also has an office overlooking the lake!! </span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It's quite a lot closer to home, so this move is a conscious shift towards a simpler routine and a smoother daily existence for us as a family</span>. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And...all things going well, I will get to ride my push bike a LOT more often (around the lake in my lunch hour for example), which is one of my favourite things to do. To celebrate, I am going to get myself one of these helmets-of-awesomness by Danielle Baskin on etsy. </span><a href="http://www.bellehelmets.com/helmets/dusk.php">http://www.bellehelmets.com/helmets/dusk.php</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBen-UlwcxEhtkGk8hUu_Lr6YCyVnrdPE0FpwumvELTjP2nn5KIXOnDZKKhFgDnPN6O2EBHC3tJYMqVwM3AXzgqCbtJEJdpWQ3RuFExk3Vbin9sW5Xp5eVU7U500MlEuFGtmTHf-8ZaOKh/s1600/dusk1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBen-UlwcxEhtkGk8hUu_Lr6YCyVnrdPE0FpwumvELTjP2nn5KIXOnDZKKhFgDnPN6O2EBHC3tJYMqVwM3AXzgqCbtJEJdpWQ3RuFExk3Vbin9sW5Xp5eVU7U500MlEuFGtmTHf-8ZaOKh/s320/dusk1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Anyways, Rhys and I took a trip to the folks down the coast on the weekend and thoroughly enjoyed the sea change, even just for one day! We helped them put up their tree, which is not over the top, despite the light up fibre optics at the ends of the faux pine needles! </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> We are spending Christmas (a few days) with them this year, which is a departure from the norm and after some beachcombing were struck with a moment of brilliance - a low key, natural kind of christmas tree for home - also something of a departure!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The boys were a little sceptical - they still like the annual fight with boxes of fairy lights, tinsel and stuff, but Mark was whole heartedly on board </span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">and I certainly felt like a change and the chance to hone it down to something like a breath of fresh air.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyihckp1jj6c8Foh5uN5VmprjwsoiwpC-0dOqZP8VhugcsYRa3789FMdqfCPtu3Zc6g4dHp2qpmytK5BLQkpwYYtiMDtVKamTXdAcKBOj3p5AeBjUpdrsS_hZOXCu6agsrvjdwGrM-YQeI/s1600/DSCN1680.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyihckp1jj6c8Foh5uN5VmprjwsoiwpC-0dOqZP8VhugcsYRa3789FMdqfCPtu3Zc6g4dHp2qpmytK5BLQkpwYYtiMDtVKamTXdAcKBOj3p5AeBjUpdrsS_hZOXCu6agsrvjdwGrM-YQeI/s400/DSCN1680.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I did add some fabric pom-poms, and then I got to thinking about how cool that would be another year - a completely pom-pommed tree! I saw a great window display in Melbourne years ago, and several variations on the theme on the internet.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Narellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18116933845079758002noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4044251854147138426.post-10904237625990370492011-11-27T02:21:00.000-08:002011-11-27T02:21:11.105-08:00Hanging gardens and Thyme bombs<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Hey check this out...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">the results of a few weeks planning (i.e talking, chewing over ideas, web surfing and delegating shopping lists for materials) and a very productive afternoon in the sun</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">with some lovely girls,</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">out in our favourite outskirts location...Tharwa.</span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1. The inspiration. <b><i>String Gardens </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.stringgardens.com/index.php?/perennials/">http://www.stringgardens.com/index.php?/perennials/ </a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.203341803044000.53134.203340969710750&type=3">http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.203341803044000.53134.203340969710750&type=3</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2. The ingredients - chicken wire, fresh moss, twine, various plant materials like trailing, flowering annuals (e.g petunias, geraniums), succulents (all the usual little rosette ones plus zygo-cactus), herbs (like parsley, thyme and strawberries) and we even put seeds inside some of them.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3. The method</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">- <i>varied </i>- you can make a shape, line it with moss, fill it with soil, enclose it and then tuck the plant materials in </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">OR you can make a ball of soil around the root systems, wrap a layer of moss around it and bind with twine. G&T obligatory on both methods.</span></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">4. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The results... works in progress no doubt as they fill out and lush up</span>.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">When you're finished...put your feet up (wherever you can), have a celebratory drink and survey all the green, hanging goodness!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The great thing is we all made something different with our own spin - mine were pretty full of flowering stuff, Michelle's were neat little bound balls of herbs, Leila's were imaginative diversions from the theme like a flowering pillow and bag shapes, Libby's were loose spheres of edible stuff and Ali fought with barbed wire to make another garden sculpture!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The possibilities of hanging gardens seem endless - these take my breath away - all images from The String Garden (web and facebook details as above) </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I am definately making some more of these - watch out if you are on my christmas list...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">XNarelle</span></div>Narellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18116933845079758002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4044251854147138426.post-72406497503475251702011-11-25T03:36:00.000-08:002011-11-25T03:36:55.067-08:00Its been a while...<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Yes, it has been a while but I have been doing "stuff", just not reporting on it! </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I got the chance to meet up with a lovely friend who I dont get to see enough of, we had lunch outdoors at a pretty swish cafe and browsed the nurseries around Pialligo -</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> I think this would be my pick of nice al fresco places to take out-of-towners to</span>!</div><div style="text-align: center;">http://www.podfood.com.au/photos.php <br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Front and centre this week is a little show at ANCA gallery called <i>Rituals, Relics and Icons</i>, which I have some small works in.</span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Australian-National-Capital-Artists-Inc/154676587880993">http://www.facebook.com/pages/Australian-National-Capital-Artists-Inc/154676587880993</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I had been thinking about them for ages, and so they came together pretty seamlessly. They are small assemblages made from found objects like book covers, birds' eggs, glass and silverware and botanical materials like branches, seed pods and some living stuff like moss and succulents. Fairly self induglent as they are just a collection of my favourite things really.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">There is a rather nice selection in the exhibition, with glass, sculpture, paintings, prints and tedxtiles represented. Because it was a festive, end of year show I also popped in some of those lengths of bunting made from vintage fabrics and papers. Pics below!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">You can also browse and order online.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="http://www.portraitgallerystore.com.au/">http://www.portraitgallerystore.com.au/</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It was worth the trip in this bucketing rain - plenty of interesting things and much productive shopping done with champagne glass held aloft.</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What a nice start to the weekend!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">XNarelle</span></div>Narellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18116933845079758002noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4044251854147138426.post-58094123232996772492011-11-09T03:15:00.000-08:002011-11-09T03:15:47.548-08:00colour everywhere<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">There've been zaps of colour everywhere lately...I'm just waiting for them to energise me into action for the <i>silly season</i> which looms in the back of my mind like a bit of a gloomy cloud*. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">XNarelle</span></div>Narellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18116933845079758002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4044251854147138426.post-76508546973273233762011-11-03T00:59:00.000-07:002011-11-03T00:59:02.170-07:00busy, busy...<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">It's been busy, busy here at <i>brave botanics</i>. How about you?This feels like the first clear 5 minutes for a while now, so a chance to add some more photos.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">The Wedding Fair at The Brassey Hotel came and went, and I finished off the day with a drink in the gorgeous, green courtyard area listening to some live jazz, which they host every Sunday arvo there from about 4pm onwards. So nice to sit and soak up the atmosphere of the old place and reflect on the day ...</div><br />
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<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">It is a funny old hotel, formal but also quite homely...that does sound like a contradiction, but maybe I just got comfortable really quickly! I'm thinking G&T in the plush tub chairs, overlooking the manicured gardens and edges...</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">So, the Wedding Fair. Lots of lovely brides, and plenty of grooms, bridesmaids, sisters, mothers and various other types of hangers on - which we love! Everyone has an opinion, but happily no bridezillas on the day! This is how I set up my little stand - I wanted it to look like a bit of a spring fair - plenty of pink and fragrance.I had David Austin roses, Flannel Flowers, Orchids, Lilies, Peonies, Freesias etc.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A funny thing happened though. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The hotel provides table flower arrangements as part of their packages for wedding receptions and they use a local purveyor of fine flowers, no names. So he is all booked in and confirmed to deliver - this is the bi-annual showcase for the hotel of what they provide and their chance to show off - all polished, i's dotted and t's crossed...and he doesn't turn up. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">15 minutes til opening. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">They call him - he forgot. They ask if he can whip something up - he says no, sorry.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(*$@###!!!!%$**</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So I got the gig of rushing out into the old fashioned gardens, clippers waving madly and having pick of the plants. The selection of vases </span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(I use the term loosely!!!)</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> scavenged from all corners of the hotel was quite funny, but I was very happy to be snipping massive open rose blooms, and lavender, rosemary and leaves and especially happy to be helping out the Brassey team, one of whom I know reasonably well from my other job at the gallery. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">But really, I cant believe that a supplier who already had a commitment in the form of a guaranteed, standing order would be so unreliable and blase. It sounds like blowing my own trumpet, but I can tell you I would <i>never</i> say that to a client, and if I had forgotten or run out or whatever, I would be hot-footing it into the closest farmer's market, or woolies or wherever...in order to deliver on the promise. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Anyways, I have posted this all topsy-turvey, with the ending at the beginning and visa-versa, but you get the idea. Great venue, great brides, great day.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">XNarelle</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div>Narellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18116933845079758002noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4044251854147138426.post-69334867292053213462011-10-22T23:19:00.000-07:002011-10-22T23:19:55.403-07:00proper pics from a recent wedding<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Hey, remember that lovely country wedding I did a few weeks ago, with the poppies?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Here are some proper, professional images taken by one of the most inspired wedding photographers I've come across - Amanda Brierley. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">You can hop on and check out them all, if you feel like a nice injection of warmth, whimsy and that golden, hazy nostalgic feeling of a late afternoon ramble in the last rays of sunlight. So pretty!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Amanda-Brierley-Photography/145177768830290"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">http://www.facebook.com/pages/Amanda-Brierley-Photography/145177768830290 </span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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