It is with great thanks (and much mixed emotion) that we announce our next destination of life - Queenscliff. We are thrilled to reveal that ooi will grow its creative formula into a new public space named, Queenscliff Gallery & Workshop (QG&W) More details to come... We will be keeping our current subscriber list but will soon contact you again to give you the option to specify what news you would like to [...]
IntermissionSelf-portraits by SOULA MANTALVANOSOpening Sat Mar 7, 2015 at 4:30pmby Australian Artist BARBIE KJARExhibition dates: MAR 6 – 25, 2015LOCATION 187 Liverpool Street Hobart TasmaniaEMAIL & PHONE info@pennycontemporary.com.au03 6231 5655pennycontemporary.com.au INTERMISSION
Who would have thought staring at the back of an easel could be so inspiring! Not only inspiring, we were enthralled in this simple form of art on the eve that The Australian's Sharon Verghis was publishing her article that questioned whether drawing was dead. From an artist's perspective, Soula particularly felt her own practise validated witnessing the push, pull and struggle she also experiences when drawing and aiming for likeness. Barbie is [...]
Click on the image above or visit The Hurting Strings on www.reelhouse.org Let's watch The Hurting Strings I'd like to express my biggest thanks firstly to Peter Lamont for taking this project on and for communicating my invisible message with such perfection even after realising what was going to be a four-minute documentary was turning into something much longer. And to all of you who either contributed through crowd funding, or supported me [...]
There's something really great about being an artist and experiencing a time where you can work without influence. I am experiencing that pleasure right now and exploring what it is I would like to focus on to amount a body of work that is unrelated to my last 7.5 years of pained life. My artworks of the last years have been quite erratic subject wise. Certainly nothing like the bodies of work (pre [...]
Working amongst Tassie's vast and beautiful scenery and flexing our hours, even more, is providing the sublime state we were searching for. Even Zephyr has cranked up his Zen!
I'm sure it won't be a surprise to many of you who have travelled beside us on our personal health mission over the past (almost) eight years. It's been a rough ride and although finally on our feet, we've learned from our experience and know that 'full steam ahead' is not the best approach after a chronic pain journey. Instead, we're going to change our location and take the time we need to [...]
Opening night of the Gertrude Street Projection Festival 2014. Ellie Malin and Soula Mantalvanos celebrated their collaboration with Aesop Fitzroy with some mulled wine, candle lights and their friends, family and community. The festival continues for 10 nights. View the gspf website for the full program and please don't forget... vote for Dreamscape, stand 35!
