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I have been a busy lady lately! busy making lots of lovely new clothes for the shop.There is 3 more blue dresses (this is the last of the fabric so get in quick) And lots of cute shorty shorts, in different colours too :)I redrafted my shorts pattern to have nice deep front pockets....yay for pockets.This vintage floral fabric looks adorable :)And last but not least....yellow shorts with button detail!I have been also busy toiling on other projects....but that is a secret for another time :)
Simon TaylorStick AroundSaturday 13th of Februaryrunning till March 6thY3K205 Young streetFitzroy 3056y3kgallery.blogspot.comOPEN THURS-SAT 12-6PM
Dylan StathamDie GesundenSaturday 13th of Februaryrunning till March 6thY3K205 Young streetFitzroy 3056y3kgallery.blogspot.comOPEN THURS-SAT 12-6PM
Main Gallery:'Drift' Landscape Works on Paper by Artist Ellen Jaye BensonDriving movement or force; impulse; impetus; pressureDrift is a mixed-media phantasmic wonderment often using man-made engineering structures such as lighthouses, roads and powerlines set in immense landscapes as a metaphor for humankinds romantic and precarious desire to understand, harness, shape & control nature.Projector Gallery: 'Drowning Boy' an Animation by Artist Paul ComptonDrawn and Animated by Paul ComptonMusic by Stephen ParkerA vignette in which a boy drowns inside an antique picture frame.Come have a wine with us to celebrate the opening of 'Drift' in the Main Gallery and 'Drowning Boy' in the ...
Oh Boy! Last Saturday was Pancake Day in the shop.....and what fun we had!My lovely sisters Tori and Lorna, and friend Amy came over to help out and there were pancakes galore!We wore aprons! Yay......this photo is very posed, because I did not do any of the cooking of the pancakes....I whipped up the batter, but left the fine art of making them to my lil' sis.She is a whiz on the crepe machine! (and she also has a fantastic food blog...go have a read!)We had the classic lemon & sugar and maple syrup toppings, but we also got ...
Well Pancake Day was technically on Tuesday....but here at Poppet, it's better late then never when it comes to pancakes! So this Saturday, we'll be flipping some pancakes (with many a delicious topping) to raise money for Uniting Care.Not only will your donations give you a full belly and satisfied taste buds.....but it will also entitle you to 20% off all vintage in the shop on the day!!! Could this get any better? I think not!So come to Poppet this Saturday and eat, shop and do good!123 Scotchmer Street, Fitzroy Northopen at 11 and pancakes will happen ...
I made this dress a while ago, because I was completely lacking a basic black dress....crazy I know.I was happy with this new wardrobe addition, but I couldn't help but think "gee whiz....maybe it's too basic" and that's where the giant white bow brooch comes to the rescue....because everyone likes large bows pinned to their front...don't they?I got these sheer white spotty tights from target....and I love them lots!I also got a pair in light grey...but I worry that they make me look like I have old lady corpse legs, and I don't think that's the effect I'm ...
Here's a little review of Ross' work, on the interesting blog, Artpals.http://artpals.wordpress.com/2010/02/11/prelude/
Hey kids!If you are anywhere near a radio* this Thursday, the 11th of Feb, check out an interview with Ross Coulter on Smart Arts, hosted by Richard Watts at around about 10am. Ross will be discussing his current exhibition at Seventh Gallery, titled Prelude.Go Ross!*If not, get near one.
This is our first Calendar show for 2010, and what a great start. In Gallery One, for his installation titled Prelude, Ross Coulter has created an airy installation using paper planes - the room at first appears to be filled with IKEA pendant lamps, but upon closer inspection, these clusters of angular paper reveal themselves to be dozens of paper planes all taking siultaneous nose-dives.The centrepiece of this work is a large concrete plinth, reminiscent of Rachel Whiteread or Bruce Nauman's 'A Cast of the Space Under My Chair', but here the conflict of flight and heaviness is literally compounded, ...
For the apptly titled group show, We Don't Need Another Hero, curator by Amy-Jo Jory invited artists, writers and friends to create an artwork in response - negative, positive or indifferent - to their hero. The list of accompanying idols was impressive, and hilarious, ranging from Steven Hawking and 'Bruce' [Willis...I think?] to Anais Nin and Helen Clark. There were even some artists referred to!Those involved chose to express their love, hatred and/or mistrust of famous folks in all manner of ways, making for a thoroughly entertaining and often hilarious exhibition. There were, for the more serious amongst us, plenty ...
Over the December break, we decided it would be a shame to let Seventh wallow in the heat and overbearing absence of art that an empty gallery so easily suffers from...So we invited an artist from Philadelphia, Chris Lawrence - a soon to be MFA Graduate from the University of Pennsylvania - to come and have a month or so long resdiency in the space, in which he could construct an installation throughout the entire gallery.Chris rose eagerly to the challenge, and created an immersive and engaging installation, utilising a combination of found objects and sleek materials. Channeling Jessica Stockholder ...
Whew.Thank God [He/She's partly to blame] that the festive season is drawing to a close. A lot has been happening here at Seventh: December saw our annual fundraiser, the Super $ell-Out Sale bring in flocks of art-lovers, collectors and general philanthropic beer-swillers to peruse the goods - and for some - make a lifetime investment in a work of art. The event was a great success, with a 'significant sum' raised for our 2010 program. Thanks again to all who came and supported us and our artists! The community spirit was flowing freely. And an even bigger, special thanks ...
Last thursday night HYPEMUCH attended the opening of Michael Steele’s solo show “Accumulating”, which is being held at the always awesome exhibition space, Gorker Gallery. - Michael Steele’s latest “cluster” series is like an acid-induced-brain-explosion, where all your child hood memories flood back to your frontal lobe in an instant. Using iconic characters/stuff from video games, movies, commercials and everything in between, while all being executed using a huge variety of mediums… there’s definitely a little bit of everything in this series. The Exhibition runs until Sunday 21 February… Gorker Gallery Opening Hours: 3PM – 7PM Wednesay – Friday 11AM – 7PM Saturday & Sunday http://www.gorkergallery.com - Taken from ...
Imagine that the city you live in actually intersects with another city… Every street, every building exists in your city, but also in another city, which occupies the same space as your own… This is the premise of the wonderful novel by China Miéville, The City and the City, which I read during the summer vacation. It tells of a fictional city, Beszel, somewhere on the far edges of Eastern Europe, which intersects with another city, Ul Qoma, in the way I’ve described. People live in the same space, but they are citizens of one city and not the other. The ...
I love beads! they are bright and fun and pretty...There are heaps in the shop right now so come in and have a look :)
Hand illustrated bowling pins from Nate Trapnell’s show The King Pin at Gorker Gallery. Check out more of Nate’s work here & select pieces available for purchase here. via
JAMES DEUTSHER We Are Building A Civilized Space HereY3K http://y3kgallery.blogspot.com 205 Young St. Fitzroy Melbourne Australia 3065Opening Saturday 16 January 2010 Open until Saturday 6 February 2010ARTPALS REVIEW BY FAYEN D'EVIEWellness ArchitectureWellness Architecture - despite being the name of a naturopathy clinic in Meleno Park California - is as ambiguous as any other attempt at labeling a style. Arguably the flagship examples of Wellness Architecture are Mario Botta’s Tschuggen Bergoase Wellness Centre at Arosa and Matteo Thun’s Vigilius Mountain Resort in Italy’s Alto Adige region. Botta’s - with its leaf-life skylights protruding from the mountainside under which the cool calm ...
Hard rubbish hunting is a Melbourne institution, and one of my favourite past-times!Basically people put their unwanted household things out on the side of the street (in most suburbs this happens on a few dates during the year) and then the surrounding folks descend and the foraging for treasure begins.The other day I picked up this charming croquet set! what fun this will be! it's missing 3 balls so if anyone knows where to buy replacements let me know.I also got this busted up chair, and even though it's in a poorly state I think it's got a lot ...
In Gallery one was Wanda Gillespie's Swi Gunting, a menagerie of beautifully hand-crafted trolley-like machines commissioned by Wanda from a group of Indonesian craftsmen. Gallery Two and the Project Space contained :), a collection of digital works by Antuong Nguyen, photographic and video-based, respectively. Images and footage sourced from the web provide the base material for Nguyen's works; his video mash-up of extreme sportspeople has a measured, almost choreoghraphic quality to it, as long distance runners morph into sky-divers and then into synchronized ...
