Month: April 2014

Good things really do come in small packages…

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Especially when you yearn for a piece from your fave artists but just can’t quite stretch your budget to full-on exhibition work.

Enter the miniature – domestically trained and eminently affordable.

Bilk’s miniature show opened last night and if you’ve been lusting after a Tevita Havea piece, then here’s your big chance…

 

Tevita Havea, glass, wood, hair, twine. 7x26x6cm

Tevita Havea, glass, wood, hair, twine. 7x26x6cm

 

Tevita Havea, glass, wood, twine, hair. 6.5x27x6.5cm

Tevita Havea, glass, wood, twine, hair. 6.5x27x6.5cm

 

Tevita Havea, glass, wood, twine. 8x23x9cm

Tevita Havea, glass, wood, twine. 8x23x9cm

 

Tevita Havea, glass, wood, twine. 9.5x9x9cm

Tevita Havea, glass, wood, twine. 9.5x9x9cm

 

The only difficulty now is choice – you’re spoiled for it!

[Get in quick, that’s our advice. n(Ed)]

Au revoir…

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The Gang’s bidding a happy/sad farewell to those wonderful shields of Michael Brogan’s which have graced the exercise yard for the past three and a half years (boy, does time fly.) They’re off to Versailles for an exhibition later in the year – how exciting is that!!

Don’t have all the details, except that he’s showing with Bibi Barba (we’ll plaster all the gaps with visuals as soon as they come to hand.)

Anyhoo, we started packing them up today – Michael’s coming through to pick them up next week, which makes for double regret because we’ll miss him as well (Megsie’s off to Bangkok on Saturday.) Bummer.

 

sheild 1

sheilds 3

 

How privileged we’ve been to have enjoyed custodianship, however temporary. And what a buzz to wave them off to France.

Time to eat cake!

Music to our ears…

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The Gang was bailed up last week (poor Megsie’s in a moonboot now) and couldn’t get across to Wagga Wagga for the opening of the National Student Art Glass Prize 2014. Luckily Michael Scarrone is a seriously good bloke – and he’s sent across all the eye candy so we’ve not missed out entirely. (We’ve bunged in the media releases FY general I – though obviously you’ve missed the celebratory events.)

Winner this year was University of Sydney student Sarah Michelle Humphrey with her ensemble piece A Giocherellare…

 

S Humphrey violin Winner

S Humphrey cello Winner

 

…featuring a violin and cello, which morphed into a recital on Sunday for those lucky enough to attend…

 

concert blurb

 

We’ve been reliably informed that it was fabulous. What a great note for the associated launch events to end on.

Out of a finalist field of 23 there were two honourable mentions…

 

Veronica Andrus-Blanskievics, Maereor, blown glass

Veronica Andrus-Blanskievics, Maereor, blown glass. University of Sydney.

 

Hannah Gason, Ground Plan, glass, pins. Australian National University.

Hannah Gason, Ground Plan, glass, pins. Australian National University.

 

Media Release - National Student Art Glass Prize 2014 - final

 

For the rest of the field, go here.

Thanks Michael. Hope the concert tours…