Art News-A major Aquisition

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News from Flinders Lane Gallery   Flinders Lane Gallery represented artist Josh Robbins has recently completed his most ambitious painting to date. Measuring 200 x 800cm and comprised of eight panels, Roost invites the viewer to enter into a surreal and fantastical world where time stops, birds flock, tree branches meander and respite is offered from the busy world that …

Kids day out at the NGV…

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  By Celeste Hawkins Yesterday I took my son and his friend along to the NGV International which has kind of transformed into a Children’s Wonderland with interactive art abound.  Climbing, pasting, drawing, crawling and swinging were just a few of the ‘ing’ related verbs occurring in this giant hive of activity. The activities also stretched outside and there were still …

Play-Pose-Post…The art of Sarah Louise Ricketts

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By Celeste Hawkins At the rear of a majestic inner city terrace is the highly organized working studio of mixed media and fibre artist Sarah Louise Ricketts. A table displays the varied sculptural works created from felt, silicone and Monster clay, (as I am soon to discover). With many years in computing prior to launching herself solely as a practicing …

Melbourne Artists and their spaces

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By Celeste Hawkins  Unwinding (or at least trying to) for the Christmas season is here! Below are glimpses in time captured in just a few of the spaces I have visited over the last few years. Enjoy 🙂 I’ll be back in a couple of weeks. I am endeavouring to update my pinterest page too! Pinning slowly but progressively!  

Installation artist -Georgie Seccull

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 By Celeste Hawkins Melbourne based installation artist Georgie Seccull inhabits a lovely little creative space in the leafy suburb of Canterbury, Melbourne. Other sharing artists include recent Archibald finalist Eliza Cameron, Tarek Barrage aka ‘Dem 189’ and her partner Artist Andrew Bourke aka ‘Sirum 1’. Recently Georgie and her partner have returned from the far outpost of the Gove Peninsula, …