Emergence

Kate Stewart Moore's exhibition, Emergence, opened on September 11 at 3pm at the Rising Sun at Kensington. I helped Kate to organise it. Kate's daughter, Justine Wahlin, started off the festivities with a number of songs - she's a guitartist and singer and songwriter who has featured on Triple J's Unearthed project.

Justine sang for half an hour and then I rudely butted in and said a few words and introduced ABC radio journalist Annette Marner who opened the exhibition. With the exhibition officially open, it was back to more music from Justine, mingling and of course looking at Kate's fine work.

After the exhibition we invited Kate, Justine, Mark and Lyn back to our place for an impromptu repast. It being Chateau Glenunga and David doing the cheffing duties, we had quail among other fine food.

Photos below are all out of order from the day . . .


The Alternative Four Musketeers - David, Harvey, Lyn, Mark


Justine with Mum, Kate. I claim no responsibility for this photo especially seeing that there's a finger partially covering the lens. David took this photo. And he did. I didn't touch the camera all day.


Do you remember Charlie Brown's school teacher . . . unintelligible droning - that's me there droning . . . on . . . and . . . on . . . and . . . zzzzzzzzzzzzz


Justine playing after the dinner-after-party . . .


Justine playing before the speeches at the opening.


ABC political radio journalist broadcaster Annette Marner opening the exhibition.



Kate's sister Anne with her husband Norbert and Kate artiste extraordinaire.

Beau

We've taken the plunge. Yes, we've adopted.

We got a puppy. He's a big puppy. Four and a half moths old. He's a Westie. That's a West Highland Terrier. Scottish ancestry but thoroughly Australian.

He's cute and he's quiet so far. Most noise he's made is when he saw a reflection of himself in a door. But he's come from a very quiet environment so traffic is new to him and also things like music and doors that close with a thud and washing machine noises and a whole heap of things make him alert. He likes people a lot, which is nice.

Real sweetie.

You'll get to meet him, no doubt.

Port but not Starboard

Light and Tower, originally uploaded by Harvey Schiller - chateauglenunga.

In a previous post I said that I was exhibiting a couple of pictures at the New Land Gallery at Port Adelaide in the Converse(ly) exhibition. I sold one! Amazing.
After the opening I took my camera and tripod our for a quick excursion. Here's one of the 15 second exposures I took. It's the lighthouse that's part of the Maritime Museum at Port Adelaide.

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Jaggad, originally uploaded by Harvey Schiller - chateauglenunga.

Here's a picture of . . . Me! As some of you may know I'm not averse to putting myself in front of the camera. This winter I've managed to, guess what, lose weight! That's usually a summer time activity. Here I am in glorious black and white reflected in the bathroom mirror.

SALA Pot Luck Exhibition

I'm also in the Artist's Voice own exhibition at our home base of the Hahndorf Academy in Hahndorf. It's upstairs.

Here's the invitation.

Click on the picture for the full size:

converse(ly) Exhibition

I'm taking part in an exhibition at the Country Arts SA headquarters, the New Land Gallery, Port Adelaide as part of the SALA festival. It's a curated exhibition that has been organised by the Artist's Voice of which I am a member.

The curatorial process was really interesting. The curator, Fluvia, met with us all at our studios (home office for me), looked at all our work and selected work for the exhibition. She used photos of everyone's works that she was interested in to mix and match works and make the final selection.

I have two pieces in the exhibition. They are from the chess pieces series from a couple of years ago. They have been enlarged to 35cm x 35xm and framed professionally.

It's sure to be a really interesting and diverse exhibition.

It opens on Friday, August 6 and it runs until October 15.

Click on the picture below to see it at full size:

Harvey's SALA Exhibition

Saturday, July 24 will go down in history as the day yours truly opened his mouth, started to speak and then continued on and on and on for a full 25 minutes. And to a crowd of people too.

Strangely enough, they all listened to me for that whole time, no slow hand clapping to be heard, and I even received a standing ovation as Malcolm said afterward - I replied, true but they were already on their feet - no chairs.

The speech was for the opening of 'Harvey Schiller and Friends at The Rising Sun SALA Exhibition'. SALA stands for South Australian Living Artists. It's a festival held in the middle of winter to entice people out of their homes and into art galleries and other arty venues to look at artwork. It has its own catalogue and everything!

The exhibition I organised features eight artists plus me and will be up until September. I also organised a classical guitarist to play at the opening which added a bit of atmosphere. I have five pieces in it - there's a total of 30 pieces up on the wall, two painters, one mixed media, six photographers including me.

Earlier in the day when I wrote the notes for the speech I decided to say a bit about each artist, what I knew of their previous work, the work they had in the current exhibition, how I react to their work and then some information on
other places they have exhibitions or work on display. As you can see, if you do that eight times it could rack up the minutes. Still no slow hand clapping, or fainting so I suppose it was a success.

Two pieces were sold a the exhibition, one by Janine Matheson and one by Gary Campbell. It looks like I might have a sale too, but they don't want the one on the wall in the exhibition - it's too small! They want a big one!

After the exhibition we all trotted off to the Robin Hood for dinner. I had failed to book enough seats and a few people embarrassingly went their own way. Woops. Next time proper record keeping will be needed.

SALA exhibition at Rising Sun Hotel

Here's the poster for the exhibition to be held at the Rising Sun Hotel towards the end of July. It's part of the South Australian Living Artist's Festival (SALA) and we're in the program and everything. We'll be having live entertainment at the opening in the form of a classical guitarist - that alone will be worth the price of entry - it's free of course. Come listen, come have a drink and enjoy.