whistling ninjakitty

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This is a true story. Poor mixed up li’l birdie camped outside our bedroom window for weeks.

It is very cold in this room. Bless these fingerless mittens!
This ‘preparing to have an exhibition’ business is gruesome. Soon it will be past and then I can go back to making art in the shed. *gets out new smilies page* :yar:

Why is it gruesome, ‘relia? Is the question you are probably not asking at this moment, which is really too bad because I’m going to tell you.
Well, there’s such enormous potential to make a complete arse out of yourself, for a start. I already have a considerable issue with the foot-mouth relationship so it’s really just a matter of time before I do/say something to really be remembered by.
Then there’s all the things you forget – like putting the name of the festival you are part of on your invitations. That was a pretty important thing to forget. But! I am listed in the SALA Festival website, I hope that will make amends.
The booze issue continues to baffle me. The lady who organises the exhibitions assures me that I will need more than two cases of wine. 2 cases = 24 bottles = 120 glasses of wine! Who are all these thirsty people?! Anyway, I only have two, presently – so if you’re coming, come on time!
Writing a Press Release turned out to be very easy, as the lovely Lynda Allen from the Helpmann Academy offered to do it for me. She sent them out today, so fingers crossed on that one.
I don’t even want to think about any of the rest of it. Next topic!

I’ll do a little boasting instead – Mark Kimber, the Head of Photography at Uni SA has agreed to open the exhibition for me. I feel special.
Also, I applied to participate in the Helpmann Academy Mentorship scheme a few months ago, and my application was accepted! Yay! Goodness, I can see you going cross-eyed from here. What does that mean? It means that … Well it means that I am special. It also means they have offered to pay an artist of my choice to mentor my art practice, and will be giving me some money to make art. That’s sufficiently vague of me, but there’s a much better description on the Helpmann website (see above). I’m very excited about that as I chose Mark Kimber, who is both extremely personable and makes very intriguing photographs using fancy equipment.

This is the invitation for my next exhibition/opening. Boo helped out a lot! I was a bit stuck there for a while. You see, the show is actually named after a picture I haven’t finished just yet; it’s currently in pieces in ‘my studio’ (note: fancypants reference to the shed). I think what we have come up with is excellent, but I know how the story ends. We will have to wait and see if the invitation interests people enough to find out why the birdie is thinking about a robot alarm clock, and what that has to do with a love story. Or art, for that matter

If you are in Adelaide the show opens at 6:30pm on August 4th @ The Rhino Room (enter through the Urban Cow Studio – 11 Frome Street, Adelaide) We’d love if you wanted to come along to take a peek and help us drink the yummy wines donated by Wirra Wirra and Heartland – two excellent local wineries.

It’s exciting!

Creative constipation! I feel like I should hit reset + see if I can keep multishot past the second grade -_-
*baleeeet*
War! I feel like I owe so many letters to forgotten friends that I should
*baleeeet*
Oh look, a Sooty.
*fuzz therapy*

Jamie has confirmed his Christmas Trip, so everyone wish him a happy sea change etc. as he winds his way over the Pacific to the grand olde Brighton Beachouse. Eh? What. . ? WHAT DO YOU MEAN XMAS IS SIX MONTHS AWAY?!

I just want to add a thanks in here to Wirra Wirra + Heartland for plonk towards ‘relia’s Urban Love Story in August.

Hmph. Sook wants a snack, but he’s gonna get a throw down. Shouts out to JANUARY!