We have been working with Silverstone Developments to create a custom feature artwork for the facade of their latest residential developments on Brunswick Street in New Farm. Our large scale commercial art piece draws inspiration from the local environment and features a Queensland Fig by local artist Gert Geyer. The artwork is almost fully up on the wall and we are thrilled to see the finished product. Now the facade will be rendered, lighting added and the piece will light up Brunswick Street. Huge thanks to our artist Gert Geyer for the fantastic concept and piece! [caption id="attachment_14222" align="aligncenter" width="960"] One more panel to go!![/caption]

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We have embarked on a project together with QLD Ballet dancer and choreographer Jack Lister to fuse dance with visual art. Frustrated with the lack of dialogue between different artistic disciplines, we decided to take matters into our own hands and create a work of art that embraces each others processes. Essentially we are creating a work of art with 3 principal layers, dance, film and digital art. Stage 1 involved Jack choreographing a series of movements and performing them with his colleague and friend, QLD Ballet dancer Sarah Thompson. Together they created a truly moving piece that will literally make the hair on the back of your neck stand on end - they are NOT human!! Stage 2 began on Monday night. Cinematographer Greg Henderson joined forces with Jack and I to capture the dance on film. The result left us all speechless and the final footage will serve as the base for Stage 3 where local digital artist Gert Geyer will work back into the frames to create an animated digital artwork. We will debut the work in laser projection at Marie Claire - Up Late on James Street - March 12! In the meantime, here is a behind the scenes look at Stage 1 & Stage 2 in production. Stay tuned!!

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An odd, but nice gentleman walked into the gallery yesterday, had a look around then walked up to me and asked what I think art is. I thought for a second then answered the question, but my response left me feeling dissatisfied and got me thinking - how DO I define art? A word which in many ways is quite indefinable... In the elevator leading to my apartment, one element of what I think art is struck me. Art above all things possess 'soul' and encourages us to imagine, feel and wonder. It's different to science and mathematics although I do feel the 2 disciplines are intimately linked. Where as science and math use invention to create definitive answers, art uses invention to create additional questions. It's a dance between the art object and it's observer. Good art has spirit, it convinces us to pay attention to it and to explore it's identity, almost in the same way that nature does.

Immanuel Kant assumed that the cognition involved in judging fine art is similar to the cognition involved in judging natural beauty... The effect is an associated 'expansion' of the concept beyond its determinate bounds. The art object is not merely an object, but one which will set the imagination and understanding into a harmony, creating a kind of self-sustaining and self-contained feeling of pleasure and wonder.

Art comes in many shapes and disciplines but I think that it is this element of it sets it apart. I just recently saw a piece by George Horner ' Art is a Verb ' and I think it's not only a wonderful piece, but a great definition for art itself. [caption id="attachment_13907" align="aligncenter" width="511"] Art is Verb - George Horner[/caption]

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We were approached by James Street to give our take on why it's important to buy local. Christmas might have passed, but the reasons to buy locally remain the same.

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2015 also means the awaited release of a series of work by Jenny Sharaf in limited edition print. I used to work with the legendary artist Lynda Benglis and was always fascinated by her poured latex rubber paintings. Sharaf uses Lynda as inspiration and utilizes a similar technique to create masterful works of poured paint that are beautiful improvised works of color and form. In true post modern fashion, Sharaf's practice utlizes a variety of mediums to creates wonderful works that embrace not only art history but the sensation of contemporary culture. Sharaf was born and raised in Los Angeles and currently lives in San Francisco, CA. Through painting, video, works on paper, and installation, Sharaf explores the mythology of the California girl, the role of the female artist, and the image of the 21st century woman in order to illuminate the evolving generational shifts of feminism and contemporary notions of the gaze. Working in abstraction, her imagery encompasses trashy reality media, sophisticated starlets, pop culture and psychedelic skin-referencing forms of bright color. While examining the complexity of feminism’s legacy, Sharaf works with images that reflect on this loaded history and explores her niche within a generation of women who appear disconnected from that struggle. As a California blond herself, she maps a history and discourse of blondes in the media and adopts tropes of pop art, abstract expressionist painting and low-brow media. Sharaf has shown in San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York. She also has a strong curatorial practice and is devoted to the Bay Area art scene. Her recent projects have been featured in the Huffington Post, SF Chronicle, The Wall Street Journal and New York Times’ T-Blog. [caption id="attachment_13301" align="aligncenter" width="628"] Flower Face, 2014. Limited Edition Print by Jenny Sharaf[/caption] [caption id="attachment_13300" align="aligncenter" width="640"] Poured Painting II, 2014. Limited Edition Print by Jenny Sharaf[/caption]  

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