Dear Flos The exhibition looks really slick and visit-worthy … congrats! A few positive comments always helps – some people find this kind of conceptual installation kind of art very difficult because it requires levels of thought – it’s always much easier to view a series of chocolate box type pictures than a display that [...]
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Bree Fuller wrote: Hi Flossie, Sorry, we haven’t forgot about you! I should have been in contact earlier to tell you that the story was held over (it’s actually planned to go in this Saturday’s newspaper). My apologies for not letting you know sooner. All the best (I [...]
Jane Meegen of Adelaide wrote in the Maryborough guest book: ‘It made me think about our houses and what makes them a home’ Flossie replied…That is a super comment! Indeed, houses are different from homes. We can not control where we live sometimes but we can always impact how we live. Just what I was [...]
On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Central Goldfields Art Gallery wrote: Flossie, please explain the concepts behind the work Holy Safety Net as then I can explain to any visitors that peer through the net and may be wondering also. Is there perhaps a direct reference to lost sheep within your own community, [...]
Images of the Opening…
I finished my latest art installation. I partially recycled my ‘used installation’ ALL FIRED UP’ as the base and worked a new level of interest and meaning. This piece prompting many levels of interpretation, was mostly inspired by the story told by one of my friends about how her father miraculously survived last year’s Victorian [...]
Today I went a talk at the Wollongong City Gallery by Dr Dougal Philips representing the 17th Biennale of Sydney. I am here for this year’s plethora of international and Australian art at 12 locations in the Sydney CBD. Amazing! It will be like Germany’s ‘Documenta 12’ which I attended. Perhaps I will do performance [...]
I visited an exhibition called Women’s Work at Project: Wollongong’s Contemporary Artspace. It represented the work of numerous local women artists publicized by Sue Bessell. I liked the double meaning suggested by the title. Interestingly, the ‘domestic domain’ was omitted almost entirely. I would be the last person to expect women have the corner on [...]
I have the idea to write a few sentences on each of the 14 handcrafted aprons in HANDMADE. They were crafted by keen and skilled friends who have skills which I lack. The Aprons highlight the importance of often traditionally ‘women’s work’. These skills often are downplayed as time-fillers or home craft and not valued [...]
Hello Flossie, Anon ‘ Clever, but not my style of art. Lovely visually.’ 26/2 Cheers Jill Hi Jill, Though there is good with bad in many of these comments, it is already getting rather depressing for me, as you can imagine. It is possible for you to also think of and [...]
Someone told me they were asked point blank, ‘What do you want to happen after you die?’ It was not their minister, or a friend who inquired so personally, but their Financial Advisor! Makes sense, of course, but why do the rest of us shy away from discussing questions like these – even with our [...]
Hello Flossie, We have one comment for you from one of our volunteers who made the comment that the exhibitor was ‘…..quite good as it relates to family & life, the ordinary living people.’ Kay noted that one person spent at least a half an hour looking at the exhibition while another [...]