5.2.10
So after nearly two years, this is my last day working at Stills, which is sad because the girls there are a bit like family... but I am looking forward to working just the one job at Ariel (although I'm aiming to gate crash Friday afternoon drinks at the gallery).
12.12.09
I am back home in the midst of pre-christmas hell. A harsh contrast to the three week residency I just had at Launceston's Cataract Gorge. It was such a great time - I fell in love with the West Tamar Trail, which was my kind of wetlands. Gina, who runs the residency for Parks and Recreation, was so lovely and made my time there fantastic. I hope to go back there next year and exhibit some new work at a cottage in the middle of the Gorge. I managed to shoot a lot of film and also (for the first time) went over to the dark side and took some digital pics too. Yikes.
5.9.09
I am back in Sydney after a whirlwind couple of weeks with having my exhibition opening in Brisbane and then down to Melbourne to do a weekend course at the Centre for Contemporary Photography with Les Walking - who was great!. I was really happy with how my Louisiana work was exhibited and I received good feedback. Now I just have to go and catch up with my marking... 35 folios!
8.8.09
I am starting to get organised for my upcoming exhibition at the QCP. I've got my prints in the works and I'm getting a plinth made (thank you Paul and Graeme..) for my photographic tapestry-rug.
I fly up to Brisbane a week before to install and catch up with family and friends - which will be so wonderful, as I've not seen most of them for almost a year!
The work I'm exhibiting is from my scholarship to the Mississippi (as part of the Artworkers Alliance Siganto Scholarship) and comprises of photographic prints, tapestries and rugs. The opening is on Saturday the 22nd from 5-8pm at the QCP.
25.7.09
My younger sibling, Paul Adair, comes home to Australia today after galavanting around the world on an AUSCO residency in LA and visiting the Venice Biennale. Lucky son of a gun...
13.7.09
I just got an e-mail from my friend Shaun O'Connor, who is going to be represented by Dianne Tanzer in Melbourne. It's hard work to get represented, so I think this news is pretty great and exciting! Another friend of mine, Marian Drew, is also represented by Dianne.
10.7.09
Whoohoo! I just found out that I'm a finalist in the 2009 Fremantle Print Award.
I submitted my Louisiana Palladium 'The Jumbled House'. It's a bit of a quiet work, so I'm glad the judges liked it. I took it in the Lower 9th Ward (the worst hit suburb in New Orleans) a few years after Hurricane Katrina. The whole area still looked like it had happened yesterday.
4.7.09.
This weekend Camilla Birkeland came to visit me and I gave her a book on Tara Donovan's work - which is quite amazing. A lot of simple objects and textures sculptured in such a way to make organic-looking forms.
Camilla also came into the gallery to look at William Lamson's videos. They're pretty hilarious works - a single man and his obscure constructions battling it out with balloons. Great to sit and and watch while you eat your lunch. My favourite is the one where he swings into shot upside down, bursting the balloon with pins attached to his cap/head.
15.6.09
My friend and director and photographer, Alex Chomicz, has been dropping in and out of Sydney all this year, working on a feature film. He's also been working on a short documentary about artist Michael Zavros. I had a quick peek and it looks oh-so good! There is a short snippet of it on: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hwq_QInjZEo