With the arrival of summer, breakfast on the balcony is no longer a monochrome affair. Splashes of colour are added with ceramic planters made by Lene Kuhl Jacobsen and hand painted by Madeline Kidd. The art deco trio is by Aynsley; … Read More
You should watch Sunrise.
What?
You should watch Sunrise.
What, the morning show, are you serious?
No, don’t be stupid. It’s a film. I saw it in the video shop a while ago and it said on the jacket that it was widely acclaimed as the best silent film ever made. Anyway, today I noticed that the BFI released an updated list of the top 50 films ever made and its number five.
What’s number one?
Vertigo.
Vertigo, that’s ridiculous.
Yes well it is totally bizarre that Vertigo would be the number one of all time. I don’t see how Mulholland Drive could be the only film from the twenty first century either. Number two, Citizen Kane is certainly not one of my favorite films either; I always thought Casablanca was much better…
What’s so good about this film? Read More
An ‘overlay of artworks’ updates this modernist tree house on a sloping site in Hobart’s Sandy Bay. Artworks are collaged into the space to make the interior resonant with the intimate experience of living with modern art.
Designed … Read More
Most artists I know sleep on art, literally. If you happen to find yourself in the home of an artist try and take a discreet look under their bed. There you will find a collection of drawings, unframed, possibly sandwiched between sheets of foam core… a veritable treasure trove, a who’s who of contemporary art. This pile naturally accumulates after decades or more of swaps, a reminder of the passing of time like the growth rings of a tree. There the drawings stay, gathering dust, until the happy day one can afford to take them to the framers.
I was riffling through one such pile last weekend when I came across one of my own works. A coloured pencil drawing of ballet dancers, each figure overlapped in a slightly different pose: an attempt to make it look like the dancer was moving. I took out my Faber Castells to try and finish it: perhaps, my niece would like it for her room? After all, all nine-year-olds are wild about ballet dancers, aren’t they? Well, I’m sure they were at some point. What about the nine year olds today? What kind of art do they like? How do they think? Time to ask my niece some questions… Read More
‘Look at it young lady! Just look at it. Each one of them has its own individual character. Yet they form a unity…of enormous power. An entire little orchestra of perfect virtuosi! How often do we encounter such perfection, … Read More
The problem with these eye shadow sets is that white and beige are inevitably the first colours to run out. Neutrals have and always will be an essential part of any daytime eye makeup routine.
On Saturday my horoscope informed me ‘if you mess something up this week, don’t give yourself a hard time. As Taurean Brian Eno advises: honor thy error as a hidden intention.’ For someone who walks around town Carel Laemmle style muttering ‘I’ve got to be successful, I must be successful, I will be successful,’ this was a startling notion. I realized that I had been dreading failure on a daily basis, and that it’s actually kind of tiring. Read More
