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Hyper-Realistic Acrylic Body Painting
Alexa Meade thinks completely backwards. Most artists use acrylic paints to create portraits of people on canvas using a Hyper-Realistic Acrylic technique. Meade applies acrylic paints on her subjects and makes them appear to be a part of the painting! This is...
Melbourne Art Foundation 2012 Lecture
Jonathan Watkins, director of Ikon Gallery in Birmingham shares his views on the future of art. He also touches on how the world is free to critical thinking and what that means to art. The lecture takes place on July 30th in Fed Square. Please leave a comment...
Visit to Clayfire Gallery in Daylesford
It was time for another visit to Clayfire Gallery in Daylesford. It's a gallery that regularly stocks my paintings so we loaded up the car with some new ones and headed north. It sanctuary of good food and coffee. Due to the adverse climatic conditions soup was...
Joseph L Griffiths – Artist
I was lucky enough to go to a talk given by the artist Joseph L Griffiths. He was talking to a group of art student and was happy enough to give up an hour and a half of his time just to chat and answer questions. His work is amazing (currently showing at Boom...
Melbourne Art Fair – after the event
A visit to the biennial Melbourne Art Fair last weekend confirmed my thoughts that art fairs are alive and well in these tough times. The event (which was not inexpensive to get into so no riff raff) attracted 27,000 visitors and sales of $8 million (although this...
Melbourne International Film Festival
Some great events coming up in Melbourne including the MIFF. Have a look and let me know what your thoughts are on this years contenders.
Shopping For Art Goes Online
A recent newspaper article, 'Shopping for art goes online', looks at the trend towards purchasing online art. This poses a couple of interesting questions. Firstly, does it mean that the traditional way of looking and buying art through galleries is declining. With...
The future in art fairs?
The Melbourne Age ran a really interesting article titled 'Establishing art bazaars is fair game', looking at the growing array of art fairs around the world, especially in the Asia Pacific Region. It seems to be the future trend for selling art - the recent ART Hong...
19 Karen Art Space
A very interesting art space that I stumbled across on the Gold Coast.
