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I got tagged

by Disneyrollergirl

Five Random/Quirky things about me:

1. I'm kind of ambidextrous. With my left hand I write, eat with a spoon, sew with a needle and thread. With my right hand I throw, play the guitar and knit.

2. I stalk French Bulldogs. This is the inevitable behaviour of someone who really needs a puppy but can't have one cos her apartment is too small and she isn't home enough. So this is a shout out to Lucie who used to live across the road from me, and Pierre the puppy I saw three times (three!) in 45 minutes on Chapel St in Melbourne this weekend.

3. My great grandmother's sister Rose was married to the famous Australian artist, Norman Lindsay. She was apparently a very gusty, saucy lady who did nude modelling for a few other artists before falling in love with Norman. She was also a driving force behind his artistic and financial success.

4. I regularly get upstaged by my vintage suit-wearing boyfriend. I have discovered the best way to steal his thunder is by wearing my 80s "big" red spectacles.

5. I've developed an interest in animal husbandry-related descriptions of cows/dogs/alpacas/cats etc. Ever read the classifieds in Dog Fancy magazine? All about semen courier services for approved bitches. And what about cattle judging at the Royal Easter Show? Where else does someone point out the beast with the most superior mammary capacity ?

Will have to tag other bloggers, like really soon.

Back in the day

I suspect Kimberley Brooks is around my age because I get transported to my childhood by her oil paintings.

The Second Polaroid Ever Taken

Carole and Suzie Emerge From The Ladies Room

Canon Drive

Yosemite Walk I

Yosemite Walk II

Leaf littering with Fiona Hall

I'm a little bit in love with Fiona Hall's beuatiful 2002 Leaf Litter exhibition, and I'm fabulously excited b ecause there's an exhibition of her work on now at the MCA.

“Money doesn’t grow on trees–or does it? Plants have played a crucial role in the history of colonisation and the development of world economies. Many species have been responsible for the rapid growth of European power and wealth over the past five hundred years. Plants, and along with them people, have been shifted across oceans, battles have been waged over them, forests razed. But everything comes at a price, and now we are paying heavily for over-taxing the environment and for cultivating an ever-widening gap between rich and poor nations. Many of the once most plant resource-rich countries are now amongst the poorest on earth. Leaf Litter aligns the distribution of plant species with the distribution of monetary wealth.”

Slave to the Embroidery Hoop

The clever lady behind these magnificent mergers of yee olde worlde embroidery and tragic celebritydom has many strings to her bow other than needlecraft.

raquel welch (different raquel to the 1,000,000 BC/exercise video lady) she's one half of the talented duo behind duke magazine (new issue due out in july i think), and she and her partner in publishing, emily have put together the most amazing tchotchke collection i ever did see. puts my depression-era-hording grandmother to shame: souvenir dolls, squeaky toys in the shape of food, framed pictures of Jordan, china figurines in assorted shapes plus a fine [insert appropriate collective noun] of embroidery hoops.

these beauties are works from an exhibition at chalkhorse gallery from a few months ago. i missed it so i was mighty pleased to get a gander here.

Like these? You might also like Orly Cogan's work.

Stay tuned for the latest addition to the ebays gems category.