Luxembourg

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Happiness

I finally put up this lovely sculpture I bought from Amy Joy too many weeks ago. I'm quite happy with this one tiny section of my house now, it makes me happy just seeing this one spot of harmony and colour in my super messy, unorganised house. It looked even nicer with cupcakes on the cake platter. I also finally found a laminex table and chairs today! Only $85 at the church garage sale, I can't believe how easy it all ended up being, now just to take a photo of it when it's not covered in things...

I'm joining the circus

New H by Hudson shoes arrived from Coggles today! I'm trying to get excited about winter by buying sensible wintery shoes... Or maybe I'll just run away and join the circus.

computer glitch

Our computer programme at work stopped working yesterday. I got to go home early! It is amazing being home in the daytime during the week. Yesterday I made yoghurt! (unsuccessful) and today I baked cupcakes and plan to finish writing for the exhibition grant application, due in about 4 days!

wintertime

I am a little busy at the moment trying to get artwork together for an exhibition I am having with two other lovely girls in July. I was feeling the allure of winter when I started this work in the middle of summer in my un-airconditioned apartment. Now that the days are getting coolish and the show is mid-winter I may have to change my direction a little...

City living

So I have moved house in the last two weeks. It is exciting living somewhere cute and old where everything (almost) actually works. This left me with an obsession for online shopping for vintage furniture. I am currently trying to overcome the hurdle of finding a nice comfortable couch that is not leather and preferably not new... Unfortunately anything I find is already sold. I recently discovered the site 'svpply' via really gorgeous blog freckle farm, dangerous territory... I need this chair!

This is how I want to dress everyday

Scotland the beautiful

I'm in Scotland for only 3 whole days (plus one coming and one going) its not enough. Scotland is so beautiful. I'm glad because I really wanted to come here, and it is rare that something lives up to your expectations. All the hostels are nicer than London, and so are the accents. In Edinburgh everywhere there are amazing looking shops, the one next door to our hostel sells brooches that are little sticks of wood, painted to look like a stick of wood! I wish it was open for me. Of course spilling a whole cup of tea on my beautiful laptop kind of ruined the last day for me.

past art

Since I am nearly home I thought I'd start to post about some of the other great art I have seen overseas, or discovered but not actually seen. I have been to way more museums than I ever went to at home (there's only so many times you can repeatedly go to the South Australian Art Gallery) I think I am up to 39 that I can remember now. But the best ones recently were the Palazzo Grassi and Puento della Dogana in Venice. They are two parts to one collection owned by mega richFrançois Pinault, owner of a lovely art collection, and a bunch of other things including, Yves Saint Laurent, Gucci, Balenciaga, Alexander McQueen, Christie's Auction House and a couple of Football teams. But his art collection was amazing. What was on display at the exhibition I saw, 'Mapping the Studio' was only a selection of what he owns chosen to be displayed in the exhibition by Japanese architect Tadao Ando. It was spread out over two buildings, and included works by most of the major artists I had only seen in such publications as Art Now, and the Vitamin books. It was amazing to finally get to see some Luc Tuymans paintings in particular still ife which was enormous and imposing yet still gentle, when I was expecting it to be tiny.

Also finally saw Jake and Dinos Chapman's 'Fucking Hell'. I had previously dismissed this work as just boys playing with figurines or something like that, when viewing it in books, but it was amazing in actuality. Glass aquariums filled with countless figurines all disfigured, bloodied, mutated and doing battle with Nazis. And the glass aquariums were arranged in the shape of a swastika. What's not to like. Actually for me it was, surprisingly impressive and compelling.

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