nice day! now showing at Logan Art Gallery

Left: Works on Paper by Jen Conde

Left to right: 3 works by Uta Heidelauf, 2 works by Susan Buret, 1 work by Uta Heidelauf.

Left to Right: 3 works by Candice Herne, 2 works by Nicola Moss, 1 work by Uta Heidelauf

Installation by Sandra Landolt.

Left to Right: 3 works by Susan Buret, 1 work by Candice Herne

nice day! an exhibition of work by artists Susan Buret, Jen Conde, Uta Heidelauf, Candice Herne, Sandra Landolt & Nicola Moss about Queenslands hottest topic is now showing atLogan Art Gallery just south of Brisbane.

The exhibition comes at a time when many Queenslanders have lost family friends and possessions in the worst floods in decades. I intend give all proceeds of sales of my work from the exhibition after gallery commission to the flood relief fund.

Dream Cabinets and life after the Sydney exhibition.

Top : Anita Traverso at Depot 11 Gallery.

Middle : Dream Cabinet #1. Interior. © Susan Buret

Bottom: Dream Cabinet #1. Exterior. © Susan Buret

A lot of artists agree that the time just after an exhibition is often a period of angst and instability but when my last exhibition closed in Sydney I really didn't have the luxury of thinking time.It was one week until Christmas and no matter how I try to avoid it I always end up being swept up in the last minute rush of cooking and shopping. Since then we have celebrated New Year and spent a few days at the beach.

And, there's still not much time to think as I am part of a group show , nice day!, which opens at Logan Gallery in two weeks and I am working on some new pieces for my exhibition at Loft Gallery, Bowral, in late March this year.

For the first week of the Sydney exhibition Anita Traverso (see top image) was at the gallery and I had the opportunity to watch her talk about my work to gallery visitors and in the second week I was alone in the gallery and was able to watch the reactions to my work at close quarters. I have to admit that I found it quite difficult but, it was during this time I came up with the idea for the dream cabinets. I am still not entirely sure what they are. (Maybe I should not be admitting this in print!) but I think they somehow portray a mix of my childhood dreams and what I imagine might be the less idyllic dreams of others. Ideas of exhilaration, liberation and escape .... all sorts of flight dreams.

nice day!

Nice day a group exhibition resulting from a collaborative weather projects with 5 other artists is on at Logan Art Gallery in South East Queensland from 12 January to 19 February 2011. The exhibition opening is on Wednesday 19 January at 6pm at Logan Art Gallery Corner Jacaranda Avenue and Wembley Road Logan Central Qld 4114 Ph. 07 3412 5519.

Gallery Sitting

Installation view more stolen geometry from the gardens of love, Depot 11 Gallery, Sydney.

It's the second week of my exhibition in Sydney and I am sitting the Gallery alone after Anita Traverso returned to Melbourne.

It's not the easiest task for an artist but the reaction to my work has been favourable and I am using the time to make cut outs for my next exhibition in Bowral.

The exhibition closes on Saturday 18 December so, if you are in Sydney, please come and say hello.

Sydney Exhibition

If you are in Sydney I will be at Depot 11 with Anita and would love to see you and show you my new work

Small Delights

The Australian bush could never be described as pretty but if you walk slowly and look down there are some beautiful flowers.

I am posting this to show that even though I have reptile phobia on a grand scale I did go for a walk in the wilds of the Shoalhaven.

This evening I saw these beautiful small flowers. The blue flower I think is a bush orchid and I hope the yellow one isn't a weed. Denis Wilson, if you are out there in the blogosphere maybe you can name them.

Bundanon Week 2

Susan Buret, Grey Sky with Choppers, © 2010, paper & acrylic on gessobord, 62 cm x 31 cm.

The top image, is the walk from the Bundanon homestead to Arthur Boyd's studio. The soft garden with it's herbaceous borders is in stark contrast to the majestic bush and the open grazing lands of the rest of the property at Bundanon.

The small timber hut is also very different from the new studios built for residents (middle image). These beautiful light open buildings have been built on the footprints of earlier farm buildings to impact minimally on the land.

The walk to the studio each day is a walk to another world where time constraints become immaterial and one has the luxury of total freedom to create and make work (or not) or just to daydream. Bundanon generously provides this opportunity.

Bundanon is not far from the Jervis Bay Military Base which is home to the Fleet Air Arm. Helicopters practice manoeuvres (spell check doesn't like that but I don't like its American alternative so I hope you know what I mean) over pulpit rock which was a favourite subject for Arthur Boyd. The silence usually only punctuated by birdsong is shattered by thump of the whirring rotor blades. I love watching helicopters, or almost anything that flies and I made Grey Sky with Choppers using patterns from Moorish tiles and Amish quilts to suggest the rotating blades.