New blog site

This is the link to my new blog site.
This site will be developed further over the next few weeks.
Folio 2008 will be deleted at the end of June.

Light box drawing in sand

I received this link in an email from Greg Wayn last night.

The video is worth a look.

" quite extraordinary... made by a 24 year old girl taking part in a "You've got talent' show in the Ukraine and describing the trauma of invasion of the country...
all made on a light box and drawn in sand..."

view video

( http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=vOhf3OvRXKg#t=00 ).

Imaging The Apple

Artists included

BILLY APPLE, PETER BURKE, JON CAMPBELL, ROSS COULTER, HOLLY CRAWFORD, PENELOPE DAVIS, KATE DAW, KIM DONALDSON, JANENNE EATON, STEVE ELLIS, ANDREW ERDOS, JUAN FORD, SUE FORD, CLARK V. FOX, TIMOTHY GAEWSKY, MARTIN GANTMAN, MICHAEL GEORGETTI, ELIZABETH GOWER, DENISE GREEN, GUO HAO & THEA RECHNER, JAYNE HOLSINGER, NATASHA JOHNS-MESSENGER, KATE JUST, LARRY KAGAN, BILLY T JAMPIJINPA KENDA, SARDI KLEIN, RICHARD KOSTELANETZ, KEVIN LAVERTY, BEN MATTHEWS, ROB MCKENZIE & KAIN PICKEN, JOHN R. NEESON, YOKO ONO, MARY LOU PAVLOVIC, AMY PIVAK, PAUL ROSS, ANDREAS SÖDERBERG, SPOONBILL, CHARLES TASHIRO, BRIE TRENERRY, NICO VASSILAKIS, DAN WABER, CARA WOOD-GINDER, MAX YAWNEY, ANNE ZAHALKA

Link to the exhibition website

ARTS IN THE OPEN

ARTS IN THE OPEN – Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne

Arts in the Open provides an informal opportunity for all Visual Arts Department staff and students to come together for a day out in the sun to collect visual information. Works will be further developed in consultation with relevant staff once back in the studio. The final works will be shown in an exhibition at the A Space Gallery Preston campus.

Excursion

• Thursday 11^th March 2010 10:00am – 3:00pm.
  

• Please meet at 10:00am outside the Observatory Cafe. Nearest tram stop is opposite the military barracks on St Kilda road. BYO picnic lunch or purchase it from the café on site. Please be advised that if it is raining we will meet inside the Observatory.
  

Things to do on the day…

• Make studies / sketch on location. Collect as much reference material as possible. Use a viewfinder (stiff card with a cut out of the centre) if you like.
  

• You may wish to bring a variety of media to use in your journal including, watercolour, gouache, coloured pencils, pastels, markers, graphite and charcoal, chalk etc.
  
• Take photographs.
  

• Bring collected resources to the following class.
  

Exhibition

• All Visual Arts, Illustration, Cert IV in Design, Photoimaging and Graphic Design students will participate in the show.
  
• Final works are to be submitted for exhibition at A Space Preston no later than Monday 17^th May. It will need to be dry or 'fixed' ready to hang or pin to the wall.
  

• Opening night is Thursday 27^th May at 4pm. The exhibition will run until Friday 16^th July.
  

  Map - Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
  

Apollos View

Policy for Apollos View Accommodation is to collect and exhibit contemporary Australian art.

Currently a small collection of work by contemporary Australian artists is part of the features of the house @ Skenes Creek.
The collection includes artists currently exhibiting in Australia and overseas. This collection will continue to grow over the next few years.

Artist included are:

Terri Brooks Profile (view artist website)
Adriane Strampp Profile (view artist website)
Kari Henriksen Profile (view artist website)
Geoff Tolchard Profile (view artist website)
George Alamidis Profile (view artist website)

I.d cards In Sofia Bulgaria

Four panels and four large prints of the work "I.d" by "George Alamidis" have been included in "WORK IN MOTION" An exhibition Curated by Per Pegelow and Etta Gerdes.

1st -19th of June at:
The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate
15, ljuben karavelov st. Sofia Bulgaria.

The I.d cards and works on paper were delayed by Bulgarian customs, and were not on the gallery walls for the opening of the show.

The work arrived at "The Red House" three days late and is now part of the exhibition.
Work In Motion: on Migration, Mobility and Labour.


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The media art exhibition “WORK IN MOTION - migration, mobility and labour” intends to pool various artistic approaches in a pulsating art show. Click to view more...

Work In Motion: on Migration, Mobility and Labour
"From The Red house program information"
Media art exhibition curated by Per Pegelow, following a concept of Etta Gerdes and Per Pegelow; curator of the commissions to the show - Yovo Panchev

The current change in global living conditions by new ways of communication and transport - often called globalization - is enabled by certain developments within the media. The view of this development with all its social and economic issues is represented by mass media in a way that leads to a phenomenon Jean Baudrillard calls "hyperreality", where the perception of mass media products starts to replace the independent view on the common reality. Baudrillard suggests that the "production of alternative media" is a way back to a clear and more independent perception of reality.
The media works of this exhibition do exactly this - (re-)producing a clear view on social lives within the European and North American nations in times of rapid "globalisation". The media art exhibition pools various artistic approaches in a pulsating art show.

In the programme: WorldWideWalks Sofia (Peter d'Agostino, United States, interactive installation), I.D. (George Alamidis, Greece, installation of 140 ID cards), In - Formation (Aufstellung) (Harun Farocki, Germany, video), Losers and Winners (Ulrike Franke and Michael Loeken, Germany, documentary film about the deconstrucktion of a coal factory), etc. With the special participation of Stanimir Genov and Vikenti Komitski. In partnership with The Red House the Interactive Arts e.V.

New link for books

Great resource for artist/Illustrator Books

A Journey Round My Skull

"Unhealthy book fetishism from a reader, collector, and amateur historian of forgotten literature." Recent obsessions: illustration and graphic design.