blog update

I've changed the layout and updated the editor so that I can more easily post images like this...

and this...

and this...

 

and this...

 

 

Just in time for valentine's day!! These are some of the images I took yesterday with my new photo booth. Any advice as to how to get better pictures with this equipment would be much appreciated. 

And this new editing malarky is just as difficult as the last one. I used to use html links to my flickr site to upload photos but it just took too much time (I'm not even a novice when it comes to html, I just used to cut and paste the given link at flickr). I'm thinking that this blogger thing is aimed at windows users and mac users just have to suck it up.

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new equipment

Look what I got today...



Now I just have to work out how to use it properly. I'm not sure if it's my camera settings or just my general technique but all the images are underexposed and kind of green. I have a beautiful Panasonic Lumix which I bought last year but the instruction manual is a TOME! And I'm yet to wade my way through it. I just set it to 'intelligent-auto' and hope for the best.




What a messy studio - none of this gorgeous 'creative space' blogging for me, No! This is the reality blog. Can you see the tiny tripod - so cute! It came with the set up but the one I've had for a while works better.



I have so much on at the moment. This year I've already sent work to Germany and Japan for group shows. I'm working towards a solo show in Japan, I'm sending new work to a new gallery in Adelaide, I've been invited to take part in an exciting regional project, I'm in 2 curated shows in Melbourne, I've been invited to take part in an exciting design project, I'm doing a collaborative range with a fashion designer, I've got (finger's crossed) a new teaching gig, I've re-committed to regularly updating the blog, plus the usual commissions and orders and all of this before the end of March! I'll post about it all soon enough but for now, I'll leave you with this...




life's tough!

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Felicity Peters

Felicity Peters
Kopernik Daisy Neckpieces
Acrylic
image reproduced with permission from Klimt02

Felicity Peters got a creative development grant from the WA Department of Culture and the Arts last year. It was a hefty sum and it enabled her to do an incredible amount of work and travel and study and lecture. As a result she's exhibiting some amazing looking things at Lesley Craze gallery in London (the first solo show at this gallery by an Australian artist, apparently!)



Felicity Peters
Kopernik Daisy Bangles
Acrylic and powdercoated aluminium
image reproduced with permission from Klimt02

The exhibition runs from the 5th to the 27th February at:

Lesley Craze Gallery
33 - 35a Clerkenwell Green
EC1R 0DU - London

I hope that we get to see this work on the east coast of Australia some time soon.

As a part of the grant, the Department of Culture and the Arts set up a blog for Felicity to document her year. It makes for very interesting reading.

This information was garnered from the Klimt02 newsletter

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e.g.etal blog

(nicked from here)

As you may know, I have been represented by e.g.etal in Melbourne since the gallery opened in 1999. For those of you that don't know, e.g.etal is a contemporary jewellery gallery/retail space in Flinders Lane in Melbourne. Over the past 10 years, e.g. (as it's affectionately known amongst the jewellery community - well, at least in my studio) has supported and promoted Australia's contemporary jewellery artists and I would like to credit them with contributing to the wide appreciation of contemporary jewellery that exists in Melbourne.

e.g.etal interior (nicked from here)

E.g.etal has recently set up a new blog. And as a part of their ten year celebrations, Emma Goodsir (owner of e.g.) wanted to acknowledge the artists who had shown with the gallery from the beginning and it turns out that I'm one of them! And I'm in good company with Camilla Gough, Nicky Hepburn and Amy Renshaw. There's a bit on the blog about all four of us here. And they've employed Lucy Feagins from The Design Files to interview and write about each of us individually. The first interview was with Camilla and today, they published the interview with me!



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...Return

Melissa Cameron is curating an exhibition called ...Return to coincide with this years JMGA conference in Perth. The exhibition will feature the work of ex-WA jewellers: Melissa Cameron, Michelle Kelly, Regina Middleton, Belinda Newick and Robin Wells. I found out about it from Melissa's blog and I wanted to share with you some work by Michelle Kelly because I really liked it!

Michelle Kelly, Basidiomycota 2007

Michelle Kelly, Basidiomycota 2007 (detail)

Lovely.

I won't be going to the conference cos I've got something else on. Bummer

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