After a week at home with both the girls sick, I had begun to feel a little stir crazy. Not enough fresh air and definitely not enough sleep will do that to a girl!
So when my one -of-a-kind-mother-in-law-Maggie mentioned that there was an exhibition on that Stephanie  and I just had to see, we decided to run away fro a few hours today and breathe  in a bit of art gallery air ( Steph"s been at home all week with three sick children so really I have nothing to complain about!).
We took ourselves off to the roslyn oxley9 gallery   to see the amazing and sadly last works of Bronwyn Oliver. click on the gallery link to see her amazing works or better still if you are in Sydney go and see them ( until 2 Sept). They are beautiful, complicated yet simple sculptures ...welded metal that has this fragility and delicacy about them. Breathtaking.

After this we wandered along the backstreets of Paddington and stopped for a coffee at at little hole in the wall cafe at Five Ways. It had a small kind of window ledge outside with cushions where the beautiful people can sit and be looked at. So of course we sat there. And felt like beautiful people.
The next gallery we stopped at was the Australian Galleries Sydney Works on Paper to see the Tatuar exhibition of  Barbie Kjar . The owls were big works but had this delicacy about them and many hidden layers to discover when you looked closely.

We both fell in love with this drypoint (Anima)Cabellera


and how wonderful is this girls face....Tattoo

A short browse through the used books at Berkelouw Books turned up a wonderful 1891 edition of a Textbook of Botany full of old illustrations .
I sat down for a blissful solitary cup of tea in their cafe( Steph had to leave after the galleries) and I  made it home just in time for baths and bed with the girls.
Just what I needed. Now I feel a little more inspired to make a start on my "scene in a matchbox" swap.

Although what I really want to do is get hold of some wire and learn how to weld......

Comments

[julie]

I think i would join you in wanting to know how to weld after seeing that beautiful work!!!! Love the flowers she created.
And i LOVE that owl! Thank you for showing us!!
Looking forward to seeing what you create in that little box :)

[Melanie]

Wow. That metalwork is unnbelievable! I always add so many new booksmarks while reading your blog! Thank you.

[Tiel]

I discovered Barbie Kjar when I was majoring in printmaking at uni. Love her work and haven't thought about her for a very long time. Thanks for jogging some memories. Glad you had a good mummy free day.

[Miss Dot]

oh, I wish I could have seen that exhibition. I saw the thing on the sunday programme on channel 9 last week, so tragic that such a talent has ended so young. Lucky you for getting to see it.

[tash]

i dont know why i love your blogs 'right right right up to the top of the sky' is it your inventiveness, is it strolling around with you and seeing the things you see, is it your willingness to share, thanks for the kickstart on returning to my creativity - yay! ..... , tash