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Australian comics

December 6th 2006 10:41
I would never have thought that Skippy could be lascivious or that Killeroo could be an Australian hero, but they were just some of the revelations in Heroes and Villains an exhibition of Australian comics showing at the State Library of Victoria.


Some of the Australian comics in the exhibition are disappointing because they pastiche trends and heroes in the American comic world like, The Panther who looks suspiciously like The Phantom but with little pricked ears…or The Lone Avenger gunfighter of the west…Australia.

The exhibition as a whole is fantastic though I had to put on my nerdy spectacles to read about the heroes and villains because the text is too teensy for people without superpowers. Unfortunately there were no super nerds in the exhibition at the time I was there to invent into heroes in a comic of own, but I learned heaps about the development of the comic book. Some of the most interesting aspects were about horror comics and the 1970s when comixs went underground. Strangely, I think comics flourish most beautifully in an underground environment.
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Ednaville at the Arts Centre

November 22nd 2006 04:54
How I found out about Ednaville was via my train ticket. When you see an event advertised on your metlink card you can’t help but think, well, it must be good!


The new ticketing system that will come in to effect next year which uses just the one card for all trips will be a great disappointment for me. I still have train tickets with images of the yodelling man from the 2004 International Arts Festival and tickets with stuff about the Commonwealth Games. Tickets are not only souvenirs but they are memories of the travels and adventures you experience on your train trip.

When I buy my ticket and head off to the city I often kill time in the Arts Centre. Their exhibitions can be hit and miss, but when I walked passed the half installed Ednaville and saw a pink toilet sitting askew in a recreated 50s bathroom waiting to be put in place, I thought, this has to be a hit!

Now I’m not so sure. There’s something sort of rude about a spoof of a spoof. Dame Edna Everage is a send up of Australian suburban culture. Suburbia is sacred in Australian culture and perhaps that is why we enjoy taking the piss about it so much. Ednaville is a recreation of Dame Edna’s suburban home on 36 Humoresque Street Moonee Ponds. It is a brilliant looking exhibition with a brick veneer entrance complete with crazy paving and lyrebird security door. But it is a stage set like many of the exhibitions at the Arts Centre. In effect it is a façade recreation of something that doesn’t really exist in the first place. It wouldn’t take much for the pink toilet complete with crochet dolly toilet roll cover to fall through the floor and reveal that there is not much substance to the exhibition.

I was very surprised to discover through the traditional display section of the exhibition that there was a time when Dame Edna didn’t shave her legs or even, shock horror, wear a purple wig. There is no doubt that despite insubstantial jokiness of the exhibition, it must have been a blast to create and it certainly is fun to experience.

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Arts Project Australia

November 19th 2006 09:00
On Wednesday I headed out to Northcote to visit Arts Project Australia which is a studio and gallery space dedicated to artists with an intellectual disability. When I arrived at Westgarth station the police had the street cordoned off in a manner which made me think someone was making a movie rather than committing a crime.

Then it started pouring with rain and it was bitterly cold, I actually had to take refuge in a church. Well, it was an Opp shop in the church grounds and I pretended to be utterly fascinated by a Colleen McCullough cook book until the weather cleared.

The space appears to be dedicated to works on paper and I was disappointed that the artists didn’t create their own labels as well as the works of art. There’s nothing worse than some wanker banging on in some convoluted way about a house that is hovering anxiously in the landscape when there’s no chance that’s what the artist would say or even intend. Therein lies the ironic beauty of art; it produces an emotional response which can’t be tamped into a wall label.

Arts Project Australia is on the web at: http://www.artsproject.org.au/
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Before and After shots from the Classical World

November 12th 2006 11:19
Liz and I took on the challenge of rezooshing the plaster cast display in the Old Arts Building at the University of Melbourne. The display had been languishing on the second floor for some time. Notice the use of dead moth features in the ‘before’ shot.


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Chinese Painting Exhibition

November 12th 2006 11:00
Until December 23 Burrinja Gallery Upwey is exhibiting the work of Chinese artist Chen Yongqiang. This flower and bird painter has created a contemporary feel to Buddhist painting, ‘Black & White Cat’ could be from five hundred years ago or it could be a portrait of your local house moggie. I can’t help feeling that ‘Red Gladioli’ could also appeal to the Australian sense of humour through Dame Edna.

The Chinese ink painting alongside some of the Burrinja Collection - Oceanic and Indigenous art and artifacts - creates a harmonious relationship. The former council offices which have been reinvented to a contemporary arts hub cannot help but hum with tradition


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Understanding Kitsch

November 6th 2006 09:15
My intention for this blog was to set the record straight about what objects may be classified as kitsch. The term is often liberally applied to many things including anything ugly, from the seventies and even to people. I frown upon this casual use of the word since the term has a specific meaning in art, which refers to something that is an imitation. What I came to understand by trying to define kitsch, is that I don’t understand it. I think it is something which must be felt.

World of Kitsch which can be found on the internet at http://www.worldofkitsch.com provides a number of definitions including this ripper: ‘objects of bad taste that are so bad they’re good in an ironic way’. With a definition like that what’s not to like about kitsch? Some people use the word like it’s a bad thing


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Manga Mania

November 3rd 2006 09:47
People are asking about manga; is it art? The Japanese movement which incorporates comics and animation probably began with Katsushika Hokusai the renowned woodblock print maker who created images of funky figures in movement. Best known in the West is Osamu Tezuka’s manga such as Astro Boy and Kimba the White Lion. Hmm…innovative interpretive drawings developing out of an artistic tradition, sounds like art to me.


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Remembering the community bus trip to the gallery

October 29th 2006 10:47
Yesterday I went on the community bus to the city. I sat next to Doris who poked me with her knitting needles and asked a lot of penetrating questions about my life, I found it quite aggravating.

Marion told me a story about how her father used to keep deer’s legs in the fridge so that he could stamp their feet in ink and recreate the way they move


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Contemporary art scares me

October 26th 2006 10:37
I hesitate to enter a contemporary art exhibition. You just never know what is going to happen.

When I was studying the conservation component of my course, we were given examples of contemporary art; my group got a work of art made out of diesel fuel. We identified passing out, mass fire and toxic death as some of the “issues” associated with conserving the work. The other group had to study a work made out of raw meat


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arty farty felt

October 22nd 2006 10:50
When I was putting things away today, I came across my Fuzzy-Felt birthday card. On the reverse is a blurb of the history of Fuzzy-Felt and I thought, I think this is worthy of a blog! Apparently Fuzzy-Felt began during World War two by British women who cut felt for tanks and vehicles and used the off-cuts to entertain their children. I too use the felty card to entertain myself.
Fuzzy-Felt birthday cake

Fuzzy-Felt abstraction

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Comment by Kerrianne
on G'day Graffiti

December 6th 2006 10:59
Thanks for reading my post Ag and for the invitation to check out your bolg!


Comment by Kerrianne
on Understanding Kitsch

December 6th 2006 10:53
Well, the definition and potential of understanding kitsch certianly makes my head spin!

Thank you for your knowledge and insite into the world of kitsch, and thank you for reading my blog Ag.

Do you know if you can purchase souvenirs of Jeff Koon's work?

Kerrianne

Comment by Kerrianne
on stand up and say something about birds

October 29th 2006 10:56
Hi Lilla, yes I have been busy!

As far as I can tell, the festival is not going to Queensland, but most states have an International Arts Festival, so perhaps there is something similar.

I saw 'The Idea of the Animal' which is an exhibition as part of the festival and I did enjoy it. If you get a chance, check out David Noonan's work which is about owls. He has some work in the exhibition, a video obervation but he also uses the motif of the owl in a lot of other medias.

Thanks again for dropping by.

Kerrianne

Comment by Kerrianne
on Why You Should Keep a Journal

October 26th 2006 11:01
I too keep a journal and it has become so important to me that my quality of life would not be the same without it!

The question is, would you let someone else read your journal? For the ultimate challenge would you put it on the internet?

Comment by Kerrianne
on stand up and say something about birds

October 23rd 2006 10:23
I'm glad you decided to leave a comment on my blog Lilla.

I did check out your blog, it's full of interesting and intelligent stuff. What an inspiring subject Augury is. There must be a great many spiritual relationships humans share with animals of all kinds.

I'm not sure if the festival comes to Brisbane, I will have to find out.

Good luck with publishing your book!

Kerrianne

Comment by Kerrianne
on say cheese for the postcard

October 22nd 2006 10:48
Thanks for the comment Lily!

You should drop by Melbourne Uni if you get the chance, unfortunately you can't stage a protest in the pond; some person has filled that in, but there is the grand architecture along with the contrast of witty toilet door graffiti.

I hope you keep sending the postcards, they will bring happiness to your friends as well as people like me for decades to come!

Kerrianne

Comment by Kerrianne
on What Color are you?

September 29th 2006 01:02
I'm blue too! What do you think this really means and does it influence what you wear? I find I wear red when I'm happy/confident, blue when I'm happy/indifferent and black when I'm anxious. Is that a blue personality thing?

Comment by Kerrianne
on Mummy the Romance Writer

September 14th 2006 23:22
I feel so privilaged that you answered my question; I'm new too and still feeling shy. I really like the sound of your novel, there's so much attention on 'reality' it's good to know there's still people out there who value imagination. I think 'Mummy the Romance Writer' is a great title, perhaps for your second novel?

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on Mummy the Romance Writer

September 14th 2006 01:56
I'm so intrigued, what is the name of your novel and what happens???