Modern Times Pop Up 3

If you're in Melbourne this Friday and like mid century furniture, Modern Times will be opening up for a third time with a pop up shop with beautiful mid century Danish pieces and a selection of work from Australian artists and designers. I'm hugely honoured to be a part of their selection, alongside Maddi and have 4 framed (Thanks Ryan at United Measures!) silkscreen prints available through them. 

Check out the available pieces here... but be quick, it will sell out fast!

Bamarang

I've done a small run of screen prints exclusively for Bamarang.

They're only available for the week via their website.

A3 handprinted edge to edge on Arches 250gsm hot press.

Editions of 20 each.

Dinner

Last week I downed tools for an evening and caught up with Matt, Chris and met Maricor and Maricar and Sam Hoh for the first time.
Food was great and the company was even better.

Between the four of them they've inspired me to start drawing again.

Get old. Get happy.

I have just finished an ad campaign for a rather well known global brand, given in a submission for something and someone that I was gobsmacked to even be asked to submit for and am currently working on the prints for the next collection of one of Australias brightest and best fashion designers (SO SO good, that I'm tempted to gush with superlatives).
I'm also about to pack up and move my studio over to Rosebery to a beautiful new space.
Life is pretty amazing at present.

In anticipation of this, I'll be having a sale exclusively for mailing list subscribers (from next week) so hopefully I'll have a little less to put into the removal van.

In the meantime, a Happy Easter to you all, ours so far has been spent with a well earn rest and feeding Milan copious amounts of Chinese food last night for his 15th Birthday. My baby is now nearly a foot taller than me, but to make up for now being the shortest person at the table, I did get the best fortune cookie EVER.

Thick head

Life's been pretty crazy for the last month or so. I've spent it juggling a slightly chaotic home and work life, Al has been in the USA for the last fortnight and for another week to go,  I'm preparing to move studios across town as well as four deadlines that have made me rather nervous.
All very exciting - hence a weekend spent in bed with the snots.
Of course, this was the first and only weekend that I was planning to have completely clear to spend time with the kid, the dog, friends and lounge at leisure at the local pool.
Instead I spent it watching crap tv on a burning laptop in bed and had to live vicariously through photographs.
Here's to aloe/eucalyptus infused tissues and sudocrem. My snotty nose and sore lip thanks you mightily.

Exhibition

The exhibition is all up on the walls on an amazing, heavily engineered steel hanging system.

We got it up pretty quickly considering, possibly because we were eager to get to the on site cafe - Kitchen by Mike. Marcela and Alistair did all the ladder stuff - thank you!

Go see it! Its up at Koskela, 1/85 Dunning Avenue, Rosebery Sydney.

A selection of the editioned posters and larger prints will be available via my shop from Thursday 23rd. Framed prints and the large format prints are exclusive to Koskela.

Frames are from Ryan Ward at United Measures - beautiful!

Fluro pink, red or yellow splines.

Some prints are available to purchase here.

Exhibition hanging

Thanks to the very lovely Marcela and of course my ever patient better half, Alistair, we got up part of the exhibition today.... I've not seen all the prints together in their entirety seeing as 6 of them were so big they had to go straight to storage because I had no room for them. It's a little bit overwhelming!

On view at Koskela, 1/85 Dunning Avenue, Rosebery, Sydney from Wednesday 22nd February.

Not only is there beautiful furniture and homewares available, but also a fantastic cafe. I salivate just thinking about going in there.

Its always a strange (but good) sensation when something catches my eye in a magazine or a book....... or a billboard and I think "I did that!"
Usually because there's a bit of a wait, it's an odd disconnect - work that was completed months before.
The V sugar free campaign, with Clemenger BBDO, however was only completed last month so it's still fresh to me and it's definitely one I have the warm and fuzzies for.
Yesterday I walked the dog and came across the first outside our local vet, then throughout a day of deliveries, pickups and constant driving I saw them all over Sydney CBD.
There's 8 different versions and the thing I love the most about the post production was that the little imperfections were kept in and not photoshopped out.

It being Valentines Day, Alistair knows that chocolates don't cut it with me....

Months later...

Its been a crazy busy couple of months, what with Christmas, Australia Day, work and school holidays. Add to that, a visit from my Father, over from London, a couple of births and the sudden death of an old friend, it's been a bit of an emotional roller coaster.

I've managed to keep quite quiet for a while, which for those who know me know that keeping my gob shut for more than 10 minutes is a stretch. However, to replace my noise, I'm now completely hooked on instagram. 

Addicted, well and truly. Probably better to replace my noisy noise with visual for a while!

Here's some of the nicer things that have happened over the last fortnight or so.... plus a video for KG of her proxy dog Stan.

Especially for Kate Gibb because apparently, she was sick of looking at the last post.
Busy honey, I've been busy!

A day off to explore...

via 

Koskela

Oh my gosh, look what I found downstairs at Koskelas pop up shop in Potts Point.....

In the New Year, in Koskelas all new and full on AMAZING space, there will be an overload of astronauts, circles, geometrics and 3 metre long screen prints.
All the big prints are being beautifully framed by my local framer, Warren who has hand massaged beeswax into metres of certified Australian wood and also by Ryan at United Measures who is making the Fluro splined frames for the posters.
I am being thoroughly spoilt and having the time of my life.

I love my job.

Those cushions are made by PonyRider, the over sized ones are fantastic.

Still not sick of fluro.....

Disturbing the Universe.

Thanks to Anthony David Adams for sending me this.

I've finally got around to reading it.

So good.

Remember the macbook air for NRMA?

You can win it via Tech Daily where you can also hear a brief interview about the job.