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A proper update, minus the zombies.

We are off to an appointment at the hospital today.I doubt that I will be able to get any photographs of lurking zombies though. Our appointment is in the newer, pastel coloured part of the hospital and everyone knows that zombies can’t stand pastels.

Updated: The appointment was yesterday and I actually managed to get photographic evidence that there are zombies in the hospital. The signs were everywhere if you knew what you were looking for. I will post them later on…

Right now back to the original post. Focus.Focus.Focus!

I am really quite excited about this year in Ceramics. I am doing an advanced diploma and that basically means that I get to choose what work I want to do, without being restricted by all the extra course requirements that were superfluous to my needs as a ceramic artist, like Occupational Health and Safety and that sort of crap…

I had to write a proposal outlining what I wanted to achieve this year and this next bit is a paragraph from that proposal..

I intend to develop a wholistic approach to my ceramic work, fully embracing both thrown and slipcast forms as integral to my artistic practice. At the moment I see my thrown work and my slipcast work as two very separate bodies of work. I am interested to see whether or not this changes during the course of the year. If it does change it will be interesting to see, how and when the lines begin to blur and my work develops into a distinct and recognizable style of its own..

My keywords for this year are, FOCUS AND RESOLUTION.

I sometimes think that I have undiagnosed Attention Deficit Disorder because, by jingies it is incredibly hard for me to stay focused on one thing at a time. For example I will see something that inspires me  and my brain whizzes off on a zillion tangents, all filled with unlimited possibilities for future work.  I will have spent half an hour or so thinking about all the lovely things that could be made and not actually doing any real work.  One consolation is that my ‘ideas book’  is filled with enough ideas to keep me going for the next ten years.

I will be having a mini exhibition in a small space at Tafe in July for a week. I am going to exhibit thrown plates and slipcast porcelain tumblers with some of my photos that were the inspitration for the decoration of the work. I am going to include Jientje’s tumblers that she won in my “cheering myself up” contest.

This mini exhibition is a very good way for me to focus on a body of work and prepare myself for a small no pressure exhibition, that should have a lot of positive outcomes for me personally as an artist.

It will be the first time I have shown my photos, (apart from here on the internets) and I am shit scared of very keen to get feedback from the photographic students and teachers on the quality of my photos.

I am also interested to see how the images and ceramic forms work together and I hope the whole thing isn’t a total disaster because My friend Sue and I are planning on having a joint exhibition together in September or October. I have based my half of the application for exhibition space on the idea of needing wall space as well as floor space and I just hope my photos look good enough to show, eeeek..

Cheers Kim..


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  • Tracey April 4, 2009, 10:08 am

    Great news! And of course your photos will be good enough. My guess is that the photography students will be lining up to seek advice from you. Your work is brilliant, you are a very talented artist. Have confidence, woman!

  • Hyphen Mama April 4, 2009, 1:10 pm

    What an amazing artist you are, that you articulate such intentions with your different styles.

    Can I ask… is the ultimate goal to sell your pieces, or just to create for your “self” and exhibit and let the chips fall where they may? My brother is a painter and after more than 20 years, he’s in a gallery here in The Big City. He has sold nothing, but the amazing people he connects with daily while he’s at the gallery have changed his life. His soul is fed by sharing similarities with like-minded individuals… even if his wallet isn’t fed.

    How very exciting for you. I cannot wait to see pictures of the pieces.

    Hyphen Mamas last blog post..Lemons…..Lemonade….Hopeful Yet Pessimistic

  • river April 4, 2009, 1:35 pm

    I have complete faith in your ability to impress. Your photos are amazing and your ceramic work just blows the mind.

  • Jientje April 4, 2009, 4:01 pm

    I wanted to comment that you probably suffer some some kind of creative ADAD, but I see that you already said so yourself! Where are MY brains eh?
    And that’s AFTER coffee, can you imagine?
    What I wanted to say is that I seem to have the same symptoms. Creative minds think alike?
    Anyhow, I can’t wait to see the pictures!

    PS your pictures usually are great, so why would they be any different now? It’s always interesting to see what has inspired a creative mind, and I’m dying to see what inspired you to make the tumblers!!

    Jientjes last blog post..Friday’s Fave Five

  • Mistress B April 4, 2009, 5:50 pm

    That is so cool that you are expanding as an artist into new frontiers!

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  • Bendy Girl April 4, 2009, 9:02 pm

    Ooh, how exciting. I love your photos, can’t wait to see the photos of your exhibition. Lots love to you all, BG x

  • Ree April 5, 2009, 12:09 am

    Oooooooh, I want to be there. If I could only find some way to get to Tasmania!

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  • Taz April 5, 2009, 1:30 am

    good luck hun..

    you will do splendid..

  • Casdok April 6, 2009, 4:53 am

    An exhibition! How wonderful! Hope you manage to stay focused and resolute!

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  • Barbara April 6, 2009, 11:00 pm

    What poppycock. Everyone knows that pink is most zombies favourite colour!

    Good luck with your exhibition. I’m not qualified or anything but I think your photo’s are amazing so the wall space should be grateful to have them.

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