All Photo’s by Charles Farrugia
Here are some pictures of the opening and links
Links for artists
Charles Farrugia
John Martin
Mark Story
Jenny Davis
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Our Show “LAND TO LIGHT – Photo Diaries” opened last Tuesday 17th April 2012
Monday, April 23rd, 2012Land to Light – 4 Victorian Artists – Switchback Gallery
Monday, March 26th, 2012
Your invited to the opening of “LAND TO LIGHT” exhibition at 5pm on Tuesday 17th April at Switchback Gallery - Curated by Charles Farrugia and Rodney Forbes
Artists
Jenny Davis
Charles Farrugia
John Martin
Mark Story
Exhibition dates: 17th April to 24th May, 2012 – Mon-Fri 9.00 to 5.00 or by appt.
Address: Gippsland Centre for Art and Design
Building 6S Monash University Gippsland Campus
Churchill 3842
Contact: gippsland@artdes.monash.edu.au
Website: http://www.artdes.monash.edu.au/gippsland/switchback/
Phone (03) 9902 6261
How to get there: http://www.gippsland.monash.edu.au/campus/getthereandpark.html
How to Make a Large Studio Easel in 6 Easy- Peasy Steps
Saturday, February 4th, 2012How to Make – Large Studio Easel in 6 Easy- Peasy Steps
When I built my studio years ago, I needed to have a versatile easel. I couldnt find anything suitable in the shops and my budget wouldnt allow for much. So, I went about creating one from my left over pieces of timber. I needed one that would take small to very large canvas’s at once. I needed lots of space too, as being an abstract painter, I slosh paint and work very quickly, sometimes on many canvas’s at once. I wanted a permanent space where I could work on small canvas’s 30x30cm up to very large ones 4 x2 Meters . My easel ended up being 9 meters long x 4 meters high and after 12 years of daily use my rough and ready easel is still going strong.
My simple plan…
Materials & Equipment
Cut yourself or buy 2 equal lengths of hardwood or pine however long you want the easel to be. This is for the floor and wall runner that will hold all the upright struts.
Cut yourself or buy equal lengths of hardwood or pine for the uprights. Decide how many uprights you want to hold your canvas .To get the length of each piece , measure from floor to top wall at the angle you want the easel to be.
Bolts nails or screws
Wooden dowel lengths of wood for pegs
Drill with a “spade” drill bit the with the same circumference as the dowel pieces you have
(Spade bits are used for rough boring holes in wood.)
Tape measure
Hammer
Drill
Method
1.Everything will need to be measured and cut for the area your are working on.
2.Grab the floor runner piece,lay it perpendicular to the wall on the floor, judging the best space between the floor runner and the wall . Screw, bolt or nail to the floor at intervals to secure. (Note) Remember to allow enough space from floor runner to wall for a slight angle for the upright pieces of wood so your painting canvas can to sit without falling
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3.Grab the wall runner piece and screw, bolt or nail to the upper wall at intervals and make secure.
4. Lay all your upright pieces of wood together on a flat surface together (floor )and take your drill with the spade bit and make holes from bottom to the top on all the lengths of wood. The spacing has to be equal across the whole lot.
5.Take your pre cut lengths of wood with the holes and sit each one so the bottom is sitting in front of the attached floor runner and at the top against the wall runner with the holes facing you. Screw bolt or nail the upright struts to floor runner and to the wall runner at top. (Note)Go along the floor runner at whatever spacing you want with the upright struts to be.
Almost done. Cut lengths ( 6inches) of dowel for the pegs that will hold all your canavas’s
Note: If the pegs dont fit in holes… Round off one end with sandpaper by hand or with an electric sander.
All done!!! Now grab your canvas and paint to your hearts content
Art Squats- Hybrid Arts & “Studioinabox” Paris
Sunday, October 2nd, 2011I believe Art can no longer be only confined within the walls of established art institutions and be thought as only painting or sculpture. At a time when we are at the peak of global creativity I see artists refusing to be labelled and contained. Art venues and spaces are struggling to keep up and are experimenting with new ways to present this explosion of creative output artists for multi-disciplinary and multi-dimensional.
When I was in Paris last time I saw evidence of this. In a city of almost 300,000 living artists Paris seems to find creative outlets for multi-disciplinary and multi-dimensional. Little “Hybrid art” spaces are popping up everywhere in the streets. Artists themselves have had to think of innovative ways to get their art seen.Many making their home an art space open to the public.
Art squats, sandwiched between homes in residential areas, art has taken over abandoned buildings where a rich cultural life of concerts, debates, exhibitions, lectures and workshops unravels in clandestine venues.
When I’m in Paris I have a couple of creative spaces I made out of necessity. “Studioinabox” and “The Dungeon”
“Studioinabox” is a wooden trunk in the apartment living room where all my creative materials are stored. I create the work on top of the box or the floor space. As I move from country to country my “nomad art’ has to be small and transportable. I enjoy the challenge creating in the immediate space and using only items I collect from the streets,used packaging and a few other bought art supplies that I can fit into my “Studioinabox’
‘The Dungeon” is a space underneath an apartment block in Paris. It’s damp, smelly and creepy with dark corridors, full of earth walls with red wooden doors. The lights are on a timer and go out every minute, so you can be stuck in a very unearthly dark abyss, if you don’t press one of the buttons on the wall quick enough. I have now devised a way to stop them turning off and over the years I have became more brave and allowed myself to connect to the dark hole for longer periods. Eventually I want to open the space and show my video and photography down there. I also have ideas of a performance in the space.
In Australia I find there are too many artists and not enough art spaces as well. So I’m playing around with a few ideas using my home and my website as my art space for all sorts of creative experiments. Nothing is fully formulated or resolved yet but I will keep you all informed of my progress from this blog.
Do you have a special space where you create and show your work?
2nd Place Winner – Jenny Davis – “VM6 IMP. Berlin”
Friday, July 1st, 2011Thank you very much to John R. Math at Light Space & Time Gallery for choosing my painting, VM IMP. Berlin as 2nd. prize in the Abstracts Art Exhibition .My work was chosen from from 550 other artists from all over the world.
All winners will now be featured on the Light Space & Time website for the month of July 2011. Thereafter, the artworks and links to the artist’s websites will remain online in the Light Space & Time Archives. Congratulations to our artists who made our Abstracts Art Exhibition so successful this month. At any time, we invite our winners and other interested visitors to link their websites to the Gallery’s archive page for further ongoing promotion.
2nd Place Winner – Jenny Davis – “VM6 IMP. Berlin”
Jenny Davis is an Australian artist, working from studio’s in Victoria Australia and Paris France, where she sometimes lives. As an artist, she enjoys working in many disciplines including: painting, sculpture, photography, installation, video, collage, recycled design, sound and virtual worlds. Jenny has shown her work in many countries, including Australia, Germany, Spain, France and USA. Her work is in private and public collections across Australia, UK, Europe and the U.S.A. Outlook8studio
Featured Artist at “Artsy Shark”
Tuesday, June 14th, 2011Latest news!
I’ve just been featured at Artsy Shark. Thank you! Carolyn Edlund for all your hard work and for doing such a great job promoting artists and getting their work seen.
Featured Artist Jenny Davis
Artsy Shark presents Australian artist Jenny Davis. Her mixed media work uses recycled and reclaimed materials. Enjoy her portfolio and see more about Jenny here.
Jenny Davis is an Australian artist, working from studios in Victoria, Australia and Paris, France, where she sometimes lives. As an artist, she enjoys working in many disciplines including: painting, sculpture, photography, installation, video, collage, recycled design, sound and virtual worlds. Jenny has shown her work in many countries, including Australia, Germany, Spain, France and USA. Her work is in private and public collections across Australia, UK, Europe and the U.S.A.
Starting out primarily as an abstract painter and sculptor, Jenny’s arts practice has evolved and crosses over into many areas and disciplines. Recycling and reusing items in her work is very important. Stuff that usually goes into landfills and gleaned from the streets of Melbourne and Paris, or wherever she travels. Street litter, food packaging, advertising materials, advertising materials and all kind of paper ephemera are collected and saved for this purpose.
“All this wonderful stuff I reclaim and use in my collage and sculpture.”
“My source of creativity is spontaneous. It can mean spending days even weeks in the studio and strange places contemplating and “collecting energy”. Once I focus and sit with that energy it can take off in all areas. I then definitely need to put down a feeling or emotion, with colour, marks, words, assembled objects, or digital images still and moving. Whatever it takes to get it out! I use various techniques, materials and tools to realize my ideas.
The same goes with my photography. It’s spontaneous and unrehearsed. I like to tell strange stories with my photography and will put myself in uncomfortable spaces to achieve this. I have a wonderful space I found in Paris, I call the dungeon. I can spend hours down there waiting for something to take off. “
At the moment, I am fascinated by the narrative we tell ourselves, when placed in unfamiliar situations. Our mind seems to fly into “spontaneous imagination” and not focus in the moment. I want to seize those imaginary stories and create something with it.
I love spaces underground. There’s a life underneath the earth, and people don’t know about it, but it’s very busy and living, I have taken photos of the Eiffel Tower but I go under it, and look at closer fragments. I’m inspired by many things: Creative minds, Science as art, varies art movements and artists, Ernst, Miro, Tapies, Surrealism, Dada, Abstract Expressionists’, Natural history, Psychology, de-construction , Chaos theory, collecting found- objects and street litter, graffiti, street art, books, vintage and antique, travel and more.
ArtTakesLondon
Friday, May 20th, 2011ArtTakesLondon – YOU can help me launch my art career just by clicking a few stars.
If you would like to help me win exposure, cash and exhibition opportunity in London, please click the image below to be taken to my portfolio of photography, paintings, drawing and collage, and then click the stars on the top right (5th one along preferably).
Rider across the light
The award is organized by “Artist Wanted”, “3rd Ward” and “SCOPE”, ‘ArtTakes London’ is a competition offering the winning artist $10,000 plus a feature exhibition in London. There is also a People’s Choice award so YOUR VOTE can make a difference.
Thank you for supporting my art!
News Flash- Upstairs at Duroc – Paris
Tuesday, May 17th, 2011Upstairs at Duroc is an English language literary and art journal based in Paris.
The next issue no. 13 of Upstairs at Duroc will be out late 2011
Why am I pleased ? because 2 of my art pieces “Parisgrit” and “250 Degrees” have been selected to be published alongside notable writers.
I will let you know more about this exciting news when Upstairs at Duroc No. 13 magazine is out and ready to read.
Underground Urban Spaces & Art
Saturday, April 9th, 2011My art is inspired by underground spaces and the debris left behind in the streets.
Graffiti, graphics and consumer packaging I collect from cities worldwide.
Have your speakers on and please enjoy my video! “Urban Strazz”
Meet the Tenant Book-Underground Photographic Survey of Paris (20% off )
Tuesday, March 29th, 2011
MEET THE TENANT BOOK (20% discount)
During the week I was cleaning out my book shelves and came across my book, “Meet the Tenant”. It’s an unusual photographic survey of Paris. My photographs in this book are a “non-clichéd” look at Paris. Instead of focusing on the famous monuments, I zoom in on what is beneath the surface, photographing hidden places, including a storage area under an apartment.
I know I’m crazy but, I love spaces underground.
“There’s a life underneath the earth, and people don’t know about it, but it’s very busy and living,” she said.“I have taken photos of the Eiffel Tower but I go under it, and look at closer fragments.”
If you would like to buy a copy of my book…
Arts & Photography
DESCRIPTION: ” Meet the Tenant” Photography in Paris Australian Artist Jenny Davis. After a venture into the dungeon area under a Paris apartment. I could feel past lives lurking within its damp walls and eerie narrow chambers of numbered red doors. I spent many days down there alone soaking in the atmosphere of the space in order to connect to some sort of creative energy which eventually took off in all directions. I am fascinated by the beauty in the unseen the contained and murky, sometimes thought of as dirty and ugly.