Escape to Melbourne and Invest in Art

While we were staying at the Yarra Valley, I snuck away for a 2 day child free escape to Melbourne. Phew! I needed that.
I stayed with my wonderful girlfriend Jade who I have known for 11 years we used to work together at the Sheraton Hotel in Brisbane. Jade lives in Camberwell. (Don't know why I wrote Cabramatta, I must have sydney on my mind). Jade is currently housing 2 country Italian boys from Sicily who are studying English.What entertainment, wish I was 20 and single. Jade and I caught up on all the goss and had a quick window shopping jaunt. I went to the movies by myself at Chadstone, which was so therapeutic! I went and saw the movie Date Night, it was a weekday and their were 6 people in the cinema. I couldn’t stop laughing, I was crying. I was so loud. I had never been to the movies before by myself. I am looking forward to this again.

While I was in Melbourne my lovely friend Susan Buret was having a solo exhibition at Anita Traverso Gallery. I was very excited to be able to attend her opening, I had not been out in such a long time ohh! And to get dressed up.

Susan and I met at a art workshop in Brisbane around 2004. Since then we have both pursued our art careers and have met again many other times, at art workshops, gallery openings and events, BAD and for the occasional cup of coffee. While we were travelling, I also poped into see her in her new studio up in the southern highlands of New South Wales. I like Susan’s work because I am interested in conceptual work and pattern. What you see is not what you get from Susan’s work. It is thought provoking open to interpretation and intimate. Jades favourite piece in the show is Mist2 she said she found the work erotic and she saw lots of legs.

Mist2 2009 Acrylic Linen 1500mmx1050mm, Susan Buret

My favourite piece in the show is Mist 1. I can see a Bush landscape, with gum tree branches sprawling on a misty morning. Small filled bits of pattern add emphasis to the mystery and journey that invites me in to look closer. I want the patterned screen to drop down, if magically just for second, so I can bathe directly in my mystical misty gum tree. The very act of this unveiling though would diminish my interest and intrigue. Do we really want to know what happens next.Or do we want to create our own destiny and path. I feel a sense of memory with each layer a silhouette of fine transparent silk shadowing the past and gently moving forward.

I am biased so you need to go and have a closer look for yourself to see just how much depth is layered within the work. Susan’s show Stolen Geometry from the Gardens of Love is on till May 29th, Anita Traverso Gallery, 7 Albert Street, Richmond, Melbourne. Vic 3121.
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Mist1 2009 Acrylic Canvas 1500mmx1050mm, Susan Buret

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Australian Centre for the Moving Image

Whilst in Melbourne we visited ACMI Australian Centre for the Moving Image
The last time I was here was 5 years ago when Rhody my son was 6months old. I spent 3 hours watching films while I breastfed and we took fun photo's together in the in-house photo booth. This visit was just as fun as their was a interactive Film, TV and Digital Exhibition 'Screen Worlds', showing every TV console game ever invented. Our first game as a child was the black screen with the white rectangles on each side of the screen and you played tennis. I can still hear the sound ping, ping. The game got faster and faster as you progressed. Oh the memories! I also watched old episodes of Prisoner, watched an amazing still sculpture come to life as it spun on a disk as strobe lights shone onto it. Really brilliant! And played around in the Timeslice and flip book exhibits.

Below are video's from the Timeslice exhibit which was a room with 36 camera that recorded every move you made then you were able to email your moving image to yourself. Below are our images:

Me Suki Rod Rhody

Below is a short moving image I made about making wishes. This is inspired by innocence, childs play, beauty, simplicity, interaction and a general wish for peace - inner peace, neighbourhood peace, community peace, world peace, rest in peace. Made in Australia November 2009, between Tamworth and Nundle on the side of the road in a Dandelion patch.
I hope you enjoy it.
Candyxx

your wish is my command from Candice Herne on Vimeo.

Drawing and painting with a camera in Melbourne

I'm in wonderful Melbourne for a few days staying at my wonderful friends Belinda and John Young's. We are heading off to Tasmania on Monday for a couple of months. I visited Melbourne last year and spent a child free 5 nights at Belinda's place, you can read all about it here. Belinda and I started a photographic project called 'Explore the Line' as we drove to the Dandenongs for the day.

We visited the Dandenongs again today, so I picked up on where I left off. I started taking these blurry shots of the city sky scape's, last year adjusting my shutter speed to a slow 0"4 and using the overcast sky as a backdrop for lines and structures. I am trying to use the camera as a tool pen/paintbrush and create lines, marks, drawings and paintings

Alice in Wonderland

Miss Japan- digital enhanced image from collage self portrait from series 'Sticks and Stones' - by Candice Herne

I have just returned from a mini mummy break in beautiful Melbourne, staying with my dear friends Belinda and John Young. This was the 4th time I had visited Melbourne. Childless and free from pooy nappies and the sounds of 'Mummy I'm hungry'.

I roamed the streets, lost like Alice down the rabbit hole feverish, looking for her way home. Exploring little lines, spaces and marks that had the faintist whift of adventure. Maybe more like a dog on heat.

On the first day I walked around St Kilda and Chapel St from 9am till 5pm, Belinda and I worked out that I had probably walked around 30km as she compared it to her walk across England. Why was my stomach still bulging? It must have been the huge spinich and ricotta pastry, I ate during my travels around St Kilda. OMG like no other pastry, I had ever tasted, from the coffee bar at the entrance of a little plaza on Ackland St, the name eludes me. I also picked up a cute little crotchet and lace scarf, that replaced the tangerine knitted scarf I walked into the store with. All set to continue my travels with cute scarf.

After walking all around St Kilda I headed towards the city and viaed right, towards Chapel St. I knew this was going to be great. After a few wrong turns, my first stops were vintage stores/op shops filled with eclectic goodies perfect for the imagination, what could I do with this or that. I am so glad the Japanese haute couture dress at Euro trash was sold, I have no idea how I would have paid it off. There is no way it would have fit me, however just looking at it, did excitable things to me. Fashion has been on my mind lately, leading me up to the wearable art show at the botanical gardens October 13th. I'll post more about this later. I've been thinking about, the colour yellow, pleating and collars for the last few weeks and the universe delivered once again, offering up some ideas to let me know it is listening. I past up on one perfect yellow pleated dress at Euro trash, however it instantly lead me to another little gem that I just couldn't walk past from Alphaville, a stunning black pleated wrap that could be worn so many different ways, I love the sculpture that it creates when you twist it all around the body, now I just need somewhere to wear it. Also checkout their flash presentaion on their website, theirs alot to be said about intuition and following up leads, I was delighted to find upside down portraits.

Exhausted at 5pm, ready to catch public transport back to Belinda's I phoned in to see how she was going. 'just about to pop into Dan Murphy's on Chapel St for some wine I'll be home soon.' 'where's that?' I said, opposite Coles, Bel replied. I happened to be standing opposite coles, within minutes the little red festiva zoomed around the corner, my feet thank you universe! The rest of night was filled with red wine, gossip, ideas and plans to save the world.

be back soon to continue my trip.....................................................