It's "Me on a Plate"!

Today I feel like I’m a contestant on MasterChef, ingredients are spewed around me, and I only have one minute left to "Plate up".
I don’t know what it is about the process of creating, but however organised I think I am, guaranteed I'll be always working right up to the wire.
The courier is due at my studio in about an hour to deliver all my work to the Gold Coast for my solo show at 19 Karen and I have only just finished my sculptures. Phew.

Stuff the fancy food, I need a drink.

"Beatrice" clutching her proteas, Front

"Beatrice", back.

"Clara", side.

"Clara", front

Debutante

It’s an exciting thing to be offered a solo show by a gallery. Last  year I joined the stable of artists at 19 Karen Contemporary Artspace, under the direction of Terri Lew. Terri is very special—she has a great eye, a super cool gallery space, an independent spirit, plus she’s loyal and trustworthy. So I was thrilled when she offered me a solo show in her gallery for September 2015. 
Yes, at the end of this month!

19 Karen Contemporary Artspace, Mermaid Beach, QLD

I have been working my fingers to the bone this year in an effort to get a little World of Watts together to exhibit. Get a bland man in a suit to cut the ribbon: I am officially a one-woman manufacturing plant. But it’s so worth it.

This is the first official solo show or “Coming Out” for my Wallflower paintings, so I have called the show Debutante. 

For those of you who are new to my Wallflower series, it started with a question: is a Wallflower the one who shrinks into the background and becomes invisible? Or is it something that emerges from the wall, opening, blossoming, divulging its secrets? Perhaps beauty is more about the observer than the observed: if there is someone looking, then what is hidden may be revealed.

Breathing Dreams Like Air, 90cm x90cm

Holding the Rainbow, 80cm x80cm

Flower Girl

Debutantes, wallflowers, clinging vines, china dolls. These are all completely outmoded ideas of women. But if you revisit a place with new ideas, in fact when you look closely at anything that is familiar, it transforms into something unfamiliar, something new.

For a cheeky sneak peek at the work, lob over here to my website.

DEBUTANTE
September 26 - November 14, 2015
19 Karen Contemporary Artspace
19 Karen Avenue, Mermaid Beach, Gold Coast
www.19karen.com.au


If you’re in the hood, come along to 
The Opening Night!
6pm - 8pm
Saturday 26th September