Said the Actress to the Bishop

"Said the Actress to the Bishop" by The Refashionista Sistas
(with interchangeable speech bubbles)

Said the Actress to the Bishop (reverse)

Last chance to view Opendrawer's Hottie Exhibition is tomorrow! Hundreds of beautiful hottie cover artworks in a variety of different styles and media are on display. You can view them, vote for your favourite and many are still available to purchase. All proceeds go to the Margaret Pratt Foundation http://www.mprattfoundation.com.au/ 

Opendrawer Gallery http://opendrawer.com.au/

1158 Toorak Road,
Camberwell (Hartwell Village) 3124
(Mel. Ref 60 C6)
Tram No 75 - Stop No. 52
Train - Burwood Station - Alamein Line

 

 

New Work at opendrawer: A Body of Work

New Work finished today

 

After the Dip, Thread & fabric on linen, 76 x 61cm

Just completed this one today.

She will be exhibited along with two other new pieces at Opendrawer Gallery in May. http://opendrawer.com.au/

What I am working on....

AS I AM

Authentic women. As they are.

What makes you, you?

 

Identity, individuality, the importance of being true to ourselves and understood for who we are.

To date most of my thread and fabric textile work have been a direct expression of me: my feelings, my passions, my delights, my sadness, my dislikes. Who I am, who I would like to be...

I have chosen to use life drawings created during life drawing sessions with professional artist's life models to portray aspects of myself or themes, subjects, emotions and activities that interest or relate to me.


Mistress of the Garden, thread & fabric

Many of these pieces have touched others, particularly other women and I have felt so privileged to feel the sense of connection that this brings.






 

A totally different process for me has been creating works specifically of and for others. Finding ways to explore and portray the character of other women through textile thread and fabric works has been challenging, exciting and rewarding and it is this that I would like to explore in the coming months.

As I Am, thread and fabric, 2012

My aim is to portray, through life drawing, threads and fabric, authentic women as they are, depicted in environments, with objects or in moments of time that have meaning for them.




Drawing starts next week!

It's never too late to learn to draw!

And it's not too late to book in to my new drawing classes starting next Wednesday 6th February

Juliet D Collins, study for Cabaret, 2011

This term we will be exploring a variety of fun drawing exercises designed to limber up your drawing fingers, enhance your observation skills, and unleash your inner creativity!
Plenty of opportunities to try out different media.

Complete Beginners welcome.

Casual Places available

julietdcollins@gmail.com

0403 774783

As I Am




As I Am, thread, fabric, jute on linen, 120 x 90cm

Belligerent Commitment

"With whom is the artist belligerent? With herself. She knows all about her own disinclination to work, all about the possibilities of failure that confront her, all about the doubts that could assail her. She is belligerent in her refusal to allow these real obstacles to prevent her from working"

Eric Maisel, Fearless Creating

I have found this concept of belligerent commitment to be absolutely essential to me in my creative endeavours.
Without belligerent commitment the busyness of life would regularly encroach on precious creating time and it would be whittled away to nothing. Dishes would be washed, laundry would be done, the garden would be weeded and productive, repairs around the house would be mended and friends birthdays would be remembered on time. But there would be no art.
Without belligerent commitment the doubts that invariably creep in would became paralysing fears and there would be no art.
Without belligerent commitment a lack of sufficient income for a great deal of hard work in this materialistic society would be a signal to do something else instead and there would be no art.
Without belligerent commitment every single day there would be no art.

As Eric Maisel says:

"The belligerent commitment the artist wants is at once a commitment to start, a commitment to start with energy, and a commitment to continue with energy...If you want to work without such commitment, do less important work than creative work"