2.4.12

Paul Adair is having his show 'Let's See What Happens' up at Ryan Renshaw Gallery from April 4th-28th, with the opening night on Wednesday the 4th of April, 6-8pm. 

28.3.12

My good friend Josephine Skinner is having an exhibition opening at MOP on Thursday the 29th of March (from 6pm-8pm). The work is called Hopelessly Devoted and runs from 29th March - 15th April 2012.

6.2.12

I'm now back in Australia after an extremely productive artist's residency at Full Tilt (on the west coast of Newfoundland, pictured below). Colette looked after me so well and showed me some pretty amazing places (although no moose - dammit).

While I was in McIvers, I gave an artists talk at the (beautiful campus in Corner Brook) Memorial University, where I met some lovely artists/academics (David, Marlene, Ingrid and Michael) who showed me their work and campus studios. David and Marlene also took the long drive out to McIvers to say goodbye before I left, and tried some of my Pavlova!

I did manage to go and see Gros Morne National Park - where Marika took this photo of me below; trying to take a 5x4 shot with ice rain flying into my face and my fingers frozen - definitely a lesson in patience. But I would go back to Newfoundland in a heartbeat (although probably in summer as my 'winter itch' has now been well and truly scratched...)

24.12.11

I'm a few days away from heading off to an artist's residency in McIvers, Newfoundland. Colette sent me a picture showing the view from the house - so beautiful!

I'm not long back from a week in Kleinmond, South Africa. The coastal landscape there, looked like the moon going into a blue sea - so wonderful. And I was able to see a small part of the Overberg's littoral region in both sunshine and rain. The papers presented at the conference were incredibly diverse and interesting and I hope to meet up with everyone again next year... Thanks Hermann for organising such a successful colloquium.

23.7.11

I'm very excited that my good friend - Peter Milne - is having a launch for his new book: Beautiful Lies: Notes Towards a History of Australia. It will be held on Friday the 5th August, at the University of Queensland Art Museum.

20.7.11

Paul Adair has an upcoming show at Stills Gallery called A.S.S. (Artifical Spacial Systems). The exhibition will run from 3rd August - 3rd September, with the opening on Saturday 6th August, 3-5pm.

15.4.11

Thanks to the COFA Travel Grant, I'm off to Kleinmond, South Africa - to present a paper at the 8th Annual Literature & Ecology Colloquium. This years topic is on Coastlines and Littoral Zones.

20.3.11

I've just been accepted into the Full Tilt Artist Residency Programe in McIvers, Newfoundland. I'll be visiting for the month of January 2012. It's so exciting to be going to such an incredible littoral region.

8.2.11

My Friend Blye is part of an art/ideas swap: A Stock Exchange where people are swapping an odd mixture of things. It's on from 10th - 13th March, Freda's, 109 Regent Street, Chippendale.

28.2.11

The book launch of Look: Contemporary Australian Photography since 1980 by Anne Marsh will be held at Stills Gallery on Thursday 17th March, 6-8pm. My work is featured (p.194) under Experimentation: Light.

25.2.11

This year I will be commencing my Masters of Research at COFA under an APA Research Scholarship.

1.12.10

Thanks Sandra for liking my 'acacia-goats' - and for putting them on your blog; 'Swinkie at Home'!

20.11.10

A nice review of the Canberra show. I was pretty excited to read that they thought my landscapes were claustrophobic - whoohoo! 

17.10.10

I just got back from an excellent week in Canberra for my show at CCAS and being a tourist. I got to see the new James Turrell work at NGA in rain and sunshine - quite amazing. The art community in Canberra is a bit mind-blowing, everyone is incredibly interested and supportive of making art. It was so nice to be part of it!   

17.9.10

Blye who I work with, has put me onto her daughters website: Big In Japan. There are some really great photographers listed and well worth a look. 

4.7.10

Went along to Cockatoo Island (Sydney Biennale) on friday - very, very cold.

I was nicely surprised by the work of Daniel Crooks, the Shouting Men's Choir and Alex Morrison. I thought there were several works which were ruined by poor installation, and of course (like everyone else) several works which I really didn't like. Katarzyna Kozyra's video work was odd and hilarious!

21.6.10

I received a lovely review of my show - made my day!

15.5.10

It is very lucky timing that I get to have my first solo show in Sydney during the Biennale (whoohoo!). It will be at Sheffer Gallery from the 26th May - 5th June, with the opening night Wednesday the 26th May 6-8pm.

I'm exhibiting the Hush Now, Louisiana series, previously shown at the Queensland Centre for Photography and due to be shown at Canberra Contemporary Art Space in October. 

17.3.10

Lovely news... This month, I'm in a group show 'Darkness Creeps' at Hazelhurst Regional Gallery (4 billboards and 4 artists) curated by Mimi Kelly. Well, I just found out that one of the other artists is my long time friend Marian Drew - who just spent a month photographing the jungles of Peru, as you do...  Anyway, I think she's the bee's knees.

Also, I missed catching up with Alex this week - but here is my favourite work of his: Annus Horribilis. 

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... 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