On the Wall!

On the Wall is being staged in conjunction with the Sydney Finders Keepers Market and will see 33 talented artists exhibiting work.

Check out all the artists involved below and if you are in Sydney on the 3rd + 4th of December head along to The Finders Keepers at Carriageworks Everleigh and check it out. 

Abby Seymour :: Alex Louisa  :: amy borrell
Amy Bortolazzo :: Anika Cook :: Bec Winnel
Bessie Nunes :: Brooke Holm :: Danielle Reck
Emma Leonard :: enyaj :: Erin Flannery
Genevieve Ryan :: Grace McKellar :: James Thomson
Jessica Hyde :: Jessica Singh :: Jordan Clarke
Kareem Rizk :: Kate McCarthy :: Kirbee Lawler
Lalita Lu :: Laura Carey :: Lauren Carney
Manuela Strano :: Matthew Roland :: Meeri Anneli
Moofus :: Natalie Perkins:: Nicholas R Eagar
Paula Mills :: Susan Simonini :: Terry Chisholm

And here is my piece Sweetheart which you can buy while you are there! 

On the Wall - WIP

 

So as promised here are a few work in progress shots of my piece for On the Wall. 

It's progressed a little more since the last shot but I'll save the final reveal for later. I haven't thought of the name for it yet but  was thinking she looks like a little bit of a rebel. Oh and I wish my hair was flame orange like this! Hope you like her :)

On the Wall Exhibition presented by Leeloo

So guess what? Following on from the amazing exhibitions Once Upon,  Disband Sydney and Disband Melbourne the lovely ladies from Leeloo have organised another super special exhibition for you - neat hey? 

On the Wall is being staged in conjunction with the Sydney Finders Keepers Market and will see 33 talented artists exhibiting work, funnily enough on the wall (sorry I couldn't resist a mini dad joke) 

Check out all the artists involved below and if you are in Sydney on the 3rd + 4th of December head along to The Finders Keepers at Carriageworks Everleigh and check it out. 

Abby Seymour :: Alex Louisa  :: amy borrell
Amy Bortolazzo :: Anika Cook :: Bec Winnel
Bessie Nunes :: Brooke Holm :: Danielle Reck
Emma Leonard :: enyaj :: Erin Flannery
Genevieve Ryan :: Grace McKellar :: James Thomson
Jessica Hyde :: Jessica Singh :: Jordan Clarke
Kareem Rizk :: Kate McCarthy :: Kirbee Lawler
Lalita Lu :: Laura Carey :: Lauren Carney
Manuela Strano :: Matthew Roland :: Meeri Anneli
Moofus :: Natalie Perkins:: Nicholas R Eagar
Paula Mills :: Susan Simonini :: Terry Chisholm

I am still working on my piece (eek!) but I will share aa few WIP shots over the weekend for you

Oh and PS : Check back on Monday for a little Birthday give-away/sale for you xx

Fully Six exhibition tonight!

Just a wee little reminder that Fully Six kicks off from 6pm tonight at Guildford Lane Gallery (20-24 Guildford Lane, Melbourne)!  Come by and say hi if you are in town, or if not it is on until the 17th.

Oh and the artists in this one will be :

Jake Rolfe

Amelia Lackman and Georgie Seccull

Simon Noynay

Dawn Tan  (of Hand Made Love) 

Jessica Hyde (thats me!)

Tom Blatchford

For more details check out the Facebook event page here. 

And here is a peek at one of my works on display:

Fully SIx Exhibition

So I'm excited to share finally that I will be part of another group exhibition here in Melbourne. Yay!

Put together by Youngbloods Victoria, the exhibition will be part of a series aimed to showcase new artists and give some inspiration with other creatives. Every month for the next six, there’ll be artwork and speakers to inspire young creatives to push the boundaries. 

Fully Six kicks off from 6pm at Guildford Lane Gallery (20-24 Guildford Lane, Melbourne) on October 12th! 

Oh and the artists in this one will be :

Jake Rolfe

Amelia Lackman and Georgie Seccull

Simon Noynay

Dawn Tan  (of Hand Made Love) 

Jessica Hyde (thats me!)

Tom Blatchford

For more details check out the Facebook event page here. 

Tell your peeps and if you are in Melbourne come along!

DISBAND time!

Ok so I know you are probably tired of me telling you about Disband but I am SO EXCITED!!! So if you are in Melbourne come on down (as Larry would say!) and check it out. The exhibition is open daily 11-6 at No Vacancy Gallery 34-40 Jane Bell Lane at QV (enter the Lane off Russell Street). AND come down to Opening night too - thats on Thursday 26th August 6-9pm. It should be fun indeed. 


And below is my last sneaky peek - this piece is called 'i want to hold your hand' and was inspired by the song and the simple (and sometimes painful desire) to just want to hold someone's hand. 

Disband: Sneak Peek 2

Only ONE WEEK to go until Disband opens in Melbourne at No Vacancy. 

Jeepers! I am well and truly excited. I have 3 new artworks for you and I'm kind of pretty stoked with them.

And here is a little sneak peek of one of these newbies as a work in progress. 

I'm also excited because in addition to these new artworks I have been helping out as a kind of woman on the ground helping the fabulous Angela and Renee by finding furniture and other loveliness to use in the installation. And it has been fun, except now I have extreme retro furniture envy. Really. So here are some of the goodies that I picked up but to see what the lovely ladies whip them into you will just have to come by the gallery and see! 

Oh and don't forget to come to opening night my dears!! Thursday 26th August 6-9pm!!! 

disband: an exhibition coming to Melbourne!

well peeps i have some exciting news - remember that rad exhibition DIsband presented by the super talented and lovely due Angela of Leeloo and Renee- Anne that I was part of back in May? Well its coming to Melbourne at the end of August. Exciting right? You bet!

Even more exciting (and scary) is that in addition to 3 brand spanking new artworks, I am also helping to gather all the goodies to go into the installation. Yes, as my family and friends have pointed out I am a crazy woman. 

This is actually my first exhibition ever in Melbourne so it is doubly exciting to be exhibiting in my hometown so my peeps will actually believe that I do this stuff! Obviously it will be super fun so if you are in Melbourne please come along to opening night on the 26th August and tell all your friends to come too, it should be a fun night indeed. For more information about the opening check out the facebook event  

And in the mean time here is a little sneak peek of one of my new artworks - I'm going for a slightly different more collaged style for these pieces so fingers crossed they turn out how I l hoped. I will share some more shots over the next few weeks!

rainy days

sweet ignorance

beneath what you see 

living in melbourne i see my fair share of rainy days, well gloomy finger freezing days anyway. and how does one occupy themselves in this completely lame weather? well, i like to stay inside and drinks cups of tea by the jug full (no jokes - 8 cups today and counting.) oh and sometimes i make pretty things. like the pieces above i just finished for the rainy days exhibition taking place down in Tassie starting July 14 at Cube Art & Design. The are tiny - 10x10cm in fact - and are a little bit of collage, little bit of drawing and a little bit of pastel too. I wish I could go down for opening night but alas I am frozen to my chair. I wish I was kidding

But if you happen to find yourself in fair Tassie, stop by and take a look and even pick up these little gems if you like. 

rainy days exhibition  - cube art + design - Shop 8, Salamanca Arts Centre 77 Salamanca Place Hobart

opening 14 july - 27 july 

rainy days exhibition

So I'm excited to share that I will be apart of a sweet exhibition down in Tassie this July. Rainy Days is running at Cube from 14th July to 27th July. And applications are still open until 30th June so if you would like to get involved you will find all the details here. I'm really looking forward to having some fun with the small wooden format 

disband wrap up

all that is left

pencil + collage 

i close my eyes & see only you, you close your eyes and see her

pencil

the ghost that broke my heart before i met you

pencil & collage

hello dears! well last week while i was still stateside my latest group exhibition disband took place and my all accounts it was a raging success! thanks again to angela, renee and all the lovely artists who made this such a great exhibition.  I can finally post about my 3 pieces for the show - I am really really proud of these and hope you like them too i just found out that my pieces all sold on opening night - wow. For more details about the show, and pics from the night check out the website here

disband - opening tomorrow night!!

Disband is opening tomorrow night in Sydney so stop by and see all the amazing works!! 
i am still overseas, currently enjoying my last day in Chicago before heading to Salt Lake City tomorrow to see Temple Square and Laura Marling, so sadly I won't be there - all the more reason for you dears to go and check it out and report back to me! it should be an amazing night and exhibition - Angela & Renee have done a super super super job - thank you again lovelies!!!!! 

disband sneaky peek

so this is the last sneaky peek of my pieces for disband  because i am about to leave on a jet plane for the states in a little over 48 hours. my little gems are all ready to go and i actually am really happy with the way they have turned out. i kept staring at them in the studio and  being shocked that i actually did them which i know sounds odd. really odd. so anyway, keep an eye out for further updates via these lovely ladies while I am away and if you are in Sydney at the end of the May stop in and see it - it will be unreal :) 

 

disband : sneak peek

So as promised here are a couple of sneaky peeks of my works for Disband, well two of them anyway.  
I'm having a lot of fun with these even although I may have had a mini meltdown last night worrying that they wouldn't be finished before I go and that they wouldn't be good enough to grace the walls with works by artists such as these amazing lovely talented peeps.   But you can't stress about these things I guess or my work will be really well, crap.  


So here they are for you to peek at : 

i think i love the cat more than you  

And this one is a little more finished thus the super close up - it was inspired by something this guy said to me ' you close your eyes and think of me, I close my eyes and think of her'. not sure if that will be the name of the piece

So hopefully they aren't too lame! But I will share some more before I head off to NYC next wednesday 
 

disband

so I am super excited I can finally share this with you. Two of my favourite people are once again putting their creative awesomeness to good use and curating an exhibition which I am super lucky to be apart of. After the success of Once Upon last year, Angela and Renee-Anne  present to you Disband, a group show with 16 super talented artist from around Australia.

seeing the ladies say it much better than I could : 

Inspired by the 40^th anniversary since the break-up of The Beatles, the theme of this carefully curated exhibition, titled Disband, is the end of relationships, be they romantic or otherwise.  With the support of one of Sydney’s favourite indie art venue’s, aMBUSH gallery, Renee and Angela will be creating somewhat of an installation where visitors will tour the apartment of a couple undergoing such a split, and the featured works will be on the wall of their “living space”.

Expect to see original pieces by amazing Australian artists  Kelly Smith, Ben Zen, Laura McKellar and Elisa Mazzone (examples shown in image) as well as talented peeps like Natalie Perkins, Jordan Clarke , Courtney Brims and many more.  On the opening night, you can also expect to see a cute 10-minute play titled “A Toothbrush Tale (We’ll Always Have Peach Tiles)” which was recently a finalist in the international Short & Sweet Festival, by Sydney’s own Anika Herbert.

For more details check out the website + the facebook event page

Opening night  Thursday May 27^th, 2010 6pm to 9pm at
aMBUSH gallery 4A James St, Waterloo, Sydney, NSW.
open daily from 10am to 5pm through to Sunday May 30th.

As I will be away I will be sharing some sneak peeks of my work with you all the way from the US of A so keep your eyes peeled over the next few weeks. Also the exhibition will be coming to Melbourne in August which I am super super super excited about! 

once upon

Well this weekend has been rather full on mainly due to celebrating my birthday a little too well - it became a festival of jess really which was great fun! It all started Thursday really with a whirlwind 24 hour trip up to Sydney for the opening which involved seeing the coolest christmas tree ever, having hulk hogan on my return flight and going to the Once Upon opening. It was super fun getting to see my babies up there with all the amazing work and also getting to meet some of the lovely artists too. The opening for Once Upon at aMBUSH gallery was so great, about 300+ people attended! And i can finally share with you the pieces that I did for the once upon exhibition that has just finished up in Sydney this weekend. My fairytale was The Snow Queen. You can see all of the artwork can be seen on the Once Upon website and you can also purchase any of the artwork that is still for sale. Image sizes are A5 excluding the frame unless specified. If you are interested in making a purchase, please contact renee@leeloo.com.au with your name and mobile number so that we can process the transaction for you.  Thank you to Renee and Angela again because it was so great!!!

sneak peek

so here a super sneak peek of one of my pieces for once upon - i have the snow queen. i'm finally happy with where these are going but still so much to do with lots of collage to come. anyway come to the exhibition and see the final thing! and i'm going up to Sydney for the opening which i am super excited about!

once upon exhibition

Once Upon is an exhibition being put together by the ever talented and super lovely Angela of Leeloo and Renee Anne (you can also check out their gorgeous new shop here). And i am very excited to be a part of this exhibition because it will be my first for real proper exhibition but also because of the AMAZING people that are in it whom I could only wish to be as talented as Catherine Campbell and Kareena Zerefos and so many others. Like I said I am excited. You should be too. And you should go and check it out if you can. Take a look at the poster designed by this super talented lady or the exhibition website here for more details. I promise to give you a sneak peek soon.


Also I am at Rose Street Markets again this Sunday so do come down and say hi. I will also have some of my new Christams range to share with you but mnore on that later.

pretty walls

some pretty things for my walls + pretty things you can go see

1. tomorrow night catherine campbell has an exhibition at kick gallery in melbourne which i am planning on stopping by. i love her work very very much and am always awed by the detail

for details check it out here 

image from here

2. my friend, fellow leeloo lassie and super talented artist renee anne is having an exhibition next week up in sydney at the world bar. if you can you should most definitely stop by and see her work! for details check here or her lovely blog

image from here

and lastly, today i bought two lovely prints from beth-emily's etsy store kittens and crumpets. she is an amazing artist and i can't wait to see her lovely work up on my wall, including this one below. 

check out her store  blog   and  website   for more 

image from here