The Shed

I work in a lovely lovely studio in the grounds of a fantastic building that used to be a museum. I share the space with 2 other ceramic artists (more on them shortly). Apparently the shed we work in used to be a loading dock for goods on the railway line. The trains would stop alongside the shed and offload their freight through these big tall yellow wooden doors.

The museum building itself is pretty amazing. I have vague recollections of going there with my dad when I was a child. The rooms are just cavernous... huge big spaces that always make me feel like ballroom dancing whenever I pass them! The whole building feels like it is full of stories and ghosts and secrets. We're pretty lucky to be able to work here. A quiet, leafy little place right in the middle of the city.

Masami Teraoka

Yesterday I went to a lecture at the QLD Art Gallery by Masami Teraoka. His work is part of the Asia Pacific Triennial. What an entertaining speaker he was! Full of great anecdotes of his life as a young Japanese artist in America in the 1960s. He was trained in traditional techniques of Japanese woodblock printing (ukiyo-e) and draws on that tradition to create paintings and prints that include everything from geisha's and samurai's, to condoms, g-strings, hamburgers and priests! It was nice to be in the gallery on a weekday without the thronging crowds and to just sit back and listen to someone talk about their work and life.

APT 5

Well put your seatbelts on kids cause he we go! Brisvegas is humming at the moment with the opening of the Asia Pacific Triennial and the new Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) over the weekend. And what a shindig it was! Very zshoozy indeed – I even ditched the sneakers and clay-covered overalls for this one! Apart from the fact that in order to attend I had to pretend to be someone else (thanks to all those who assisted by calling me Donna for the evening), it was a fantastic night with lots of great music (Talvin Singh and local greats Neighbourhood Groove Collective) and lots of great art – although a bit tricky to get a good look at it all through the thronging crowd of 4000 people! The new building is rather spiffy and I am a bit beside myself at the prospect of a jam packed few months of artist talks, performances, films and other good stuff! Yippee!!