There’s still time to see Jonathan’s Tru$t Fun! show at Monster Children gallery.  It’s on til the 9th of May.  It’s called Glory Holes and I would write more but I can’t access the spiel on the Monster Children site as it seems the Monster Children site has been censored!!!  Welcome to China.  Take my word for it and just go and see it.

The Fashion Loves Art auction on eBay has begun.  Click here to score an amazing piece by Tru$t Fun!, Beci, Greedy Hen, Yasmin Sewell, Mugen, David Band, Anne Zahalka, the list goes on! The bidding on some of them is starting at 99c.  Someone ban me from Paypal please!

Above are Beci and Jonathan’s and Shane’s (Tru$t Fun!) works.

Have a good weekend everyone!

Westfield has invited 15 artists to interpret 15 brands at Westfield Doncaster.  Elvis Di Fazio and Ms Fitz were invited to interpret the Sportsgirl brand, Max Doyle interpreted Bally, Anne Zahalka interpreted Max Mara, Deborah Paauwe made a piece inspired by Hugo Boss, Painter Robert Doble’s interpreted AG, Beci Orpin worked with Lisa Gorman, Tru$tfun (Jonathan and Annie Zawada, and Shane Sakkeus) did a photographic piece with Ben Sullivan for Mecca, Greedy Hen worked with Zimmerman, and David Band made a piece for Country Road.

All works will be hanging in the woolshed (Docklands) all week during LMFF. They will then take up residency at Westfield Doncaster for two weeks. All works are for auction and proceeds go to charity Beyond Blue.  I’ll post the eBay auction links when they go live.  You may grab a bargain if you’re a known sniper like me.  Then again, even if you don’t you’ll be giving to an important charity.

Here are JZ’s and Beci’s pieces.  Beci’s were taken with a point and shoot.  The real thing is much more amazing. This just shows the detail in all its hand made beauty.

I don’t know whether it’s patriotism or ego but there’s not a photographer in this country who doesn’t want to shoot for QANTAS.  For a photographer it’s akin to Nicole Kidman being put on a postage stamp.   This was one of those great simple ideas with really nice and simple art direction.  No butchering of the image or scary “look at moi” artwork.  Big thanks and well done to Kathy McKinnon.  It would be giving away trade secrets if I told you that she pulled this look off for under $500 in props, but hey, what the hell, we’ve all had to do it and we’re going to have to do it a lot more often in future.  It looks super classy so who cares!

Click to read article about Murray\’s Film at the Adelaide Film Festival

Running out of battery! Please read if you’re interested!

Well, it’s a very exciting day for me.  Murray’s SALT site is up.  I’ve just been in Melbourne to see his exhibition at Arc One and the works were even more incredible in real life than on the screen.  Murray sold really well by the way.  The world premiere of SALT is on the 20th of this month at the Adelaide Film Festival.  Until then we can’t show the full film, but after that we are having some intimate screenings and Murray is going to speak about the film over a couple of beers.  So it should be fun and interesting.  I love hearing about the work – so few people have the guts to explore their work in such a Zen retreat kind of way.

Here is some of the work and the link to the trailer site is below.

Enjoy!

Click here to see the trailer for Murray’s SALT documentary

When I took on Murray, I wasn’t really looking for another photographer.  But those of you who already know Murray will know what a persuasive and charismatic bugger he is, so after chatting to him for half an hour or so, I agreed to meet him and have a look at his work.  His architectural work was subtle yet impactful, and when he introduced people into his scenes, they weren’t just blurred graphic devices but rather added playfulness, or dare I say ‘Life’ into the scene.

But it wasn’t until I viewed his film SALT, that I decided my roster couldn’t live without him.  The film and the work had a spiritual element I had never really understood before then.  It sounds rather dramatic to be speaking this way, doesn’t it?  When the film comes out (very soon at the Adelaide Film Festival – and we will be running exclusive, really intimate screenings), I highly recommend that you immerse yourself in the landscape.  It’s full of surprises.

To all my Melbourne friends, I hope to see you all at Arc One next Tuesday.  Murray will be there too.

Jonathan is in a group show next Thursday at 6pm at ACP.  I hope we see some friendly faces there.  Should be a good show.