‘Wick’d Bins’ are an iteration of the wicking bed designed by Colin Austin. I have reduced the number of components and utilised pallets as a form of recycling. If cost were not a consideration then I would go with longer lasting materials and construction. These adequately serve as a demonstration […]
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After gaining our hearts and our minds Hollywood drained our souls and our wallets. The title is inspired by the essay by Professor Sherry B. Ortner, extolling the virtues of New Hollywood of the 1960s and 70s, and Independent films of the 1980s and 1990s. This body of work critiques […]
I recently attended two conferences back to back on the weekend of 24 – 28 May. The first was the Rethinking Urban Forests Conference held at the Addison Road Centre, Marrickville, NSW. This was the inaugural event at Addison Road and it showed there is a great and growing interest, […]
The install crew of Hazelhurst would be chuffed if you came and said hello Sunday 11 November following the opening of the Weapons for the Soldier exhibition.
The painting and not the painter won the 2018 GreenWay Prize, Open Section. Apparently it caught the three judges ‘eye’ and appealed to either the academic, the material or emotional. And so it goes. The painter will be ensconced in a year long supported studio residency at the White Creek […]
28 September 2018 Good to be entering competitions again. I had been away from the easel for a bit following my MFA, tidying up various projects and without studio space. Feeling the need to mess with paint again I rented a studio in The Nest, which has since moved from […]
13 November 2016 Part of the Kandos School of Cultural Adaptation’s “Hemp Initiative”, a hempcrete wall is built on a property facing Angus Avenue, Kandos. It functions as a symbolic gateway to Kandos and a monument to the role Cementa will play now and in the future.
Gilbert Grace is the artist leading the Hemp Initiative, who first suggested the idea of realising Ian Milliss’ poster artwork “Welcome To Kandos” as a real world enterprise – “making the fantasy a reality”. He recently became acquainted with Singgih Susilo Kartono, an Indonesian Designer who is also using the […]
Room sheet – a list of works – all prices in Au$. Meetup – Deep Green and Bright Blue, Saturday 14 November. Meetup – Inner West Food and Art Trail, Saturday 28 November.
Gilbert Grace ‘Deep Green and Bright Blue’ Big FAG Press Archway 4, Chapman Rd, Glebe. 12 – 26 September 2015. Hours: 10 – 4, Tue – Sat. Closing drinks: 3pm Saturday 26 Sep. The exhibition will evolve with the incorporation of works in progress, please come to the closing drinks […]
“The 2015 Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award attracted over 1500 entries by more than 750 artists.” Submitted three entries for Art on Paper this time around. Have had a very productive few months so had enough work of quality to hopefully get one up. Check the website for details. It’s […]
23 March 2015, a bunch of avid cyclists testing the equipment for the ARTcycle Cinema at Deadspace, SCA.
Culture at Work and Accelerator Gallery present The Common Wheel. Join Gilbert Grace and ARTCycyle Inc in The Common Wheel, a series of rides that include a rolling sketch tour to test and develop artists’ kits for cyclists; A rally cat race (think Ally Cat Race and invert it); […]
Hi All, I got in the Art on Paper show at Hazelhurst with a large drawing of the Mill Stream at Mortlake. Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Gymea, 35 minutes from Sydenham rail station on the Cronulla line, then a short walk to the gallery. Presentation of awards and opening Friday 5th […]
Cementa13, Kandos. “Rocky” is the name given to one of the three, or is it four, iconic, physical landmarks on the Coomber Melon Mountain, high above the town of Kandos. Our guide for the morning was Dave who took us up, via the fire trails, maintenance trails and a scout […]