I'm really excited to be a part of this year's Figureworks juried award show in Ottawa!  Figureworks is a non-profit organization promoting art of the human form and I've been selected to be a jury member for this year's event.  I'm usually sending in work to get juried or reviewed so it'll be nice to be on the other side and help choose the artworks.  Of course I'm not the only one making the decisions.  Two fantastic artists, Kristy Gordon and Adrew Morrow will be part of the jury with me.  

The fifth annual award show will be on display from November 18th to November 30th, 2014 at Saint Brigid's Centre for the Arts at 310 St. Patrick Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.  

If you want to participate, just follow this link for submission instructions.  Good luck with your application!    

Unfortunately I don't have any good photos of my projection at the Nuit Blanche Ottawa Gatineau show last night because it was raining, but I've posted the video I was projecting here so you can check it out! 

I was projecting at Adorit Boutique on the corner of York and Cumberland.  Adorit owner Emma and her partner let me hang out in the store during the worst of the downpours which gave us a chance to chat about traveling and their business (fair trade + Canadian designed clothes - check it out!).

For those of you who don't know what Nuit Blanche is:

"Nuit Blanche Ottawa+Gatineau is a 1 night per year, dusk-until-dawn celebration of Contemporary Art and local culture that takes place across multiple venues and within the cityscape of Ottawa and Gatineau. Nuit Blanche showcases the creativity and cohesion of the local community and the success of its industries. "  nbog.ca

Thanks to all the hardcore art fans that made it out!

I was in Wollongong the other day (an industrial city near the house I'm taking care of) to pick up some art supplies and decided to walk in to the City Gallery to see if there was anything interesting on the walls.  I definitely wasn't expecting to see an amazing screen print/stencil show like Poncho Army's Fight or Flight.

Trina Collins (Poncho Army is her pseudonym) had put together a series of colourful and beautifully detailed pieces during a 12 month artist in residence program at the gallery.  I spent over an hour looking at the show and the only way I could have been more impressed on site is if I had known that she managed to combine water-based ink over solvent based aerosol to make each piece.  A nearly impossible challenge I can relate to as an artist working to merge three-dimensional sculptures into two-dimensional spaces.

"The works center on themes such as feelings of claustrophobia in an increasingly controlled society, the nightmare of being forgotten and abandoned, and the relief of finding community and of being found." -Poncho Army

I highly recommend a visit to her website to see the rest of the Fight or Flight show here:
http://www.ponchoarmy.com/art/