hey, youmightlikethis readers! so great to be back, after a brief stint far away from the laptop. summertime’s for lolling about outside, right? well, i’ve done some sunshine-lolling and got bored. and i kinda missed you. so, back to the internets for lady worthington before i start chewing my hand and tying people’s shoe-laces together. [...]
posted: July 24th, 2010 |
by: lady worthington |
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| tags: amera, brick, coca-cola, cola, jay b sauceda, old, painting, signs, texas
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Watercolour painting, in my mind at least, is synonymous with picturesque landscapes, ocean scenes, kindergarten-fridge-adornments and soft-focus portraiture of dull women.
Rebecca Bird disagrees. Her watercolours transform the vulgar and the destructive scenes strewn with garbage and explosions into beautiful splashes of colour and vibrancy.
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posted: March 21st, 2010 |
by: tomagotchi |
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| tags: explosions, garbage, painting, rebecca bird, watercolour
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Sometimes a well written press release sums it up better than i ever could. And sometimes i just get lazy.
Sarah Harvey’s figure portraits are the fruit of an unusual technique. Often seeking out a third person to photograph her bathing in emerald waters, she then pieces together the underwater images to build pictures of herself [...]
posted: February 1st, 2010 |
by: tomagotchi |
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| tags: painting, portraits, sarah harvey, sesame art gallery, swimming, underwater
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I love a bit of bacon in the morning.
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posted: December 29th, 2009 |
by: tomagotchi |
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I know we’ve been though this, but I do really like stuff that looks like one thing but is actually another. I hope it’s not some kinda self-deception fetish that Ive stumbled upon.
Nevertheless, bathe in these wonderous oil paintings by jameschronister. I love the way they feel like ye-olde sepia photographs, plucked from the 1800’s. [...]
posted: December 16th, 2009 |
by: tomagotchi |
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| tags: james chronister, monochrome, oil painting, painting, photography, sepia
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Sophia Hewson is a Melbourne based artist who makes the most incredibly beautiful, unsettling and emotive paintings with a deep theatrical feel. After graduating from The Victorian College of the Arts in 2007 was signed to Lindberg Contemporary Gallery in Melbourne which is where she recently opened her first major solo exhibition entitled ‘Solstice-City of [...]
posted: December 7th, 2009 |
by: tomagotchi |
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| tags: art, lindberg contemporary gallery, melbourne art, painting, solstice city of the godless, sophia hewson, sophie hewson, VCA
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I was lucky enough to be able to play the flaneur yesterday (half day at work) and as such I took myself to the Wallace collection to see No Love Lost, Blue Paintings by Damien Hirst.
For better or worse, I like Damien Hirst. I like the audacity of his business acumen and the way he [...]
posted: November 24th, 2009 |
by: tomagotchi |
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| tags: art, blue paintings, damien hirst, francis bacon, no love lost, painting, wallace collection
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