That’s it - we’re done.
“Done in” too - but that’s another story.
Here are a bunch of pics of the finished scene. It will stay up for viewing until the 5th of October as part of Artopia 2007. Worth a drive if you’re nearby.
The Kurb Gallery is located at 310 Williams Street, Perth.
Amanda
Here are a few pics of the scene so far. Looking good and with just two days to go likely to finish on time too. Thank goodness.
The walls we’re covering here are over 3m (9ft) high…
The toughest part of a collaborative project is keeping one’s temper amongst a large group of tired and cranky artists crammed into a small space - day after day after day… That is what one really learns in a project like this - how to choose partners for future shows!!!
Tomorrow…
Amanda
I’ll be busy this week…
A fellow artist needed an extra brush or two this week - when her commission to paint a mural on a water tank coincided with recovering from foot surgery.
Never one to miss a bit of fun, I volunteered with no idea that the project was going to take the best part of a week or that the acrylic paints would come in litre tins rather than my customary tubes or pots.
I needed a long soak for the aching muscles each night and plenty of band aides for the brush holding blisters - goodness knows how she kept it up! My previous mural painting exploits were years ago and indoor, nothing like this.
We ended up with a picture in the local newspaper and an article in the local arts centre magazine. Which is about where the whole thing became unstuck.
Unstuck? Publicity is good? Yes? Well sometimes. Most of the article focussed on the fellow artist, which is as it should be. After all, it was her project. Then somewhere in the middle of it there’s this “The project provided an opportunity for the fellow artist to mentor Amanda in the process of creating a public art… bla bla.” Now I don’t know where that came from, or why. What I do know is that I didn’t sign up for mentoring. Grrr…
At least the painting part was fun. What did I learn? Never trust what gets said to reporters out of ear shot.
