I'm officially out of love with Loy Yang - the quilt.  I taped up the big template this morning and I just don't want to make it. So I'm rolling it up and putting it aside for the time being.

I'll make the triptych instead... should be fun :-)

So, my gig as a university lecturer is over.  The preparation was HELL.  But the actual lecturing was good, I especially enjoyed the tutorial on Wednesday.  I still have to set the assignment and write the exam question, but they will follow a similar format to the tutorial work, so I'm hoping it will be relatively easy.

Last weekend,  I attended the Melbourne Art Fair and enjoyed it very much.  I noted the following artists whos work appealed to me for one reason or another... I suppose I tended to ignore the really pricey stuff and now I wish I hadn't, because there was some fabo work which I wish I'd noted, oh well.

Lionel Bawden: scuptures made from pencils, represented by GrantPirrie a gallery in Redfern, Sydney. 

Holly Grace: blown glass vessels and sculpures, represented by Perth Galleries

Milan Milojevec: Printmaker.  I was so excited to find out later that this guy is from Tasmania :-) He is represented by Port Jackson Press 

Geofrey Riccardo: also a printmaker represented by Australian Galleries

And another printmaker I REALLY loved was Rew Hanks, he was represented by Legge Galley at the art fair, but I note that he is also represented by  Port Jackson Press. Rew Hanks' linocuts do not seem to reproduce well on the internet, but I can tell you that it was a gut reaction when I saw his Tasmanian Tiger works, probably because I immediately recognised Hobart in the first work I looked at and also because he has given the Tasmanian Tiger (extinct) an epic treatment. 

The Tasmanian Tiger is still mourned by Tasmanians, many hope it has somehow survived and sightings are reported from time to time.  I feel it is wishful thinking though.

OK this blog entry is long enough.

Manipulated image of a cow's forehead