Sean to be wild

Hi, hope you're going well, here's a new ceramic sculpture of a packet of mints, to help you have a minty fresh start to the year. The piece is called 'All chewed up'.

This weekend is your last chance to see Eat Art, the group exhibition I'm in at Hawkesbury Regional Gallery in NSW. For more info about the exhibition please click here!

This weekend is also the last chance to see the Linden 30th birthday group show I'm in at Linden Gallery in St. Kilda, Victoria. For more info about this exhibition please click here!

And of course my new solo show called Planes, Trains and Bubble'O Bills, is still on now until March 14 at Tweed Regional Gallery in NSW. Huge thank you to Art Almanac for including the show in this weeks trending list!

In other news, here's a new ceramic sculpture I made of a catalogue for an exhibition of the work by a Melbourne based artist whose work I really like Sean Meilak. 
I loved this exhibition and so wanted to pay a little tribute by making this sculpture as part of my ongoing series of ceramic book sculptures.
Sean has a fantastic new solo show called Made for Melodrama, on now at Niagara Galleries until February 6. For more info click here! 

Last week I brought my book sculpture along to the exhibition and Sean was kind enough to autograph it for me. Huge thank you to Sean!

Here we are alongside Sean's new piece, called ‘Send in the Clowns'.(Photo by James Lynch.)

Thanks so much for reading, hope you have a nice rest of the day.

I'd like to acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which I created this sculpture, the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation, and pay my respect to their Elders past, present and emerging, who've been creating art here for thousands of years.

Foot loose!

Hey, in exciting news, my piece "Exciting Things Are A Foot" is currently installed in the city as part the exhibition Uptown.

It's up until February 28th, so keep an eye out if you find yourself stepping out and kicking around the top end of Bourke Street!

(Photo taken by Emmy Clifton)

In other exciting news, my ice-cream truck sculpture that I painted last year for the Royal Children's Hospital Foundation has just been installed at Elwood Beach!

(Photo taken by Emmy Clifton)

You can visit the sculpture anytime from now until March 21st, located just next to Elwood pier. For more info click here! 

And speaking of ice-cream, a huge thanks to the hundreds of amazing families who came and made such creative drawings with me of ice-cream flavours suitable for animals, last week at the National Gallery of Victoria! 

A big thanks as well to Alice Walker from ABC Goulburn for inviting me onto the The Art Show on Radio National last Monday morning to talk about it!

Another big thanks too to everyone who so wonderfully created their own sculpture of a clay crayon, (AKA. "clayon"), in my workshops last week at Tweed Regional Gallery.

One of the highlights from the workshop was a very clever 5 year old who had recently been to see Egyptian mummies, so decided to make a Tutankhamun themed crayon and instead of making a crayon box they wanted it to go in a sarcophagus!

In other news, there's just nine days left to see the Linden Gallery Postcard Show 30th birthday exhibition, so definitely have a look if you happen to be in St. Kilda between now and January 31st. For more info click here!

Here's a photo of my ceramic sculpture in the exhibition, titled The Ticket.

(Photo taken by Theresa Harrison Photography)

And lastly for today, I have a couple more ceramic book sculptures in the window of the fantastic Hill Of Content book store on Bourke Street.

Alongside my sculpture of Blockbuster by Lucy Sussex, my two new ceramic sculptures in the window are based on a couple more brilliant local books; Beatrix Bakes by Natalie Paull and Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe.

These sculptures are on display until February 28th.

Thanks for reading!

The ice-cream of the crop

Hi, hope you're going well and having a nice start to the year. It was 37 degrees today, so it was the perfect day to be sculpting a melted ice-cream!

Photo credits- Emmy Clifton

In other ice-cream related news, this week I'm hosting three kids drawing workshops at the National Gallery of Victoria!

The workshops are all about drawing funny flavoured ice-creams, like pumpkin popsicles or a cabbage flavoured ice-cream for a snail!

Come say hello and make some drawings with me at the NGV anytime from 11am to 2pm this Tuesday January 12th, Wednesday January 13th and Thursday January 14th.

The events are free but booking's required. For more info, and to book in, please click here!

And in other news, here's a new online kids tutorial I made last week with Tweed Regional Gallery, all about how to make a ceramic crayon. The video coincides with my current solo exhibition at Tweed Regional Gallery called Planes, Trains and Bubble'O Bills, which is on now until March 14th.

Thanks so much for reading, hope the rest of your week goes as well as popsicle!