These Surveillance Blues

My latest exhibition These Surveillance Blues opened on Sunday, April 27 at the Tin Cat Café and Gallery, Rundle Street, Kent Town.

It wasn’t a very pleasant day – the first real wintry-type day of the year. It was cold and wet and bleak. Despite the weather there was a good turn-out for the opening. Landscape designer David Baptiste gave a speech and opened the exhibition.

The exhibition consists of seven large works (1 metre by 70cm when framed) and four series of four smaller works – 8 in 15x15cm frames and the other 8 in 25x25cm frames. David did all the framing once again. If I had to do it all the pictures would be crooked and ruined.

I sold 10 pictures at the opening including one to David Baptiste, who opened the exhibition – a nice surprise. It would be nice to sell a few more; mounting an exhibition like this is a huge financial drain.

The exhibition is available to view at the cafe/gallery until May 25. The Tin Cat is located at 107 Rundle Street, Kent Town and is open 7 days from 9am and is open in the evenings for dinner from Wednesday to Sunday night. My work will be in the front two rooms. Phone - 8362 4748.

Clicking on the pictures will take you to my Flickr photo sharing page where you can the pictures at a larger size.



David hanging the exhibition.



Pictures all bubble wrapped - ready to hang.



Using the laser level to line everything up.



Pictures David took at the opening.

2008 Tin Cat Exhibition Opens April 27

I will be having another exhibition at the tin Cat Cafe in Kent Town. It opens at 3pm on Sunday, April 27.

It will feature 23 new works including several works in series including a new series of Kate's Window. I hope to see you there.

Here I am resting between creations. It's a timed self portrait. (Clicking on the picture will take you to my Flickr photosharing page where you can see the pictures at a larger size.)

Exhibitionism VII

The exibition has come to a close. I sold 5 out of the 15 pieces I had on display - 6 if you count the one I sold before the exhibition - and 7 if you count the one sold today after it has closed. So, if you're interested, the pieces that are left for sale include the canvases of 'Apocalypse on Rundle',' Pegs' and 'The Red Room'. The watercolour and photos of 'Apocalypse on Rundle' are left but not the entirely photographic one. And the photo 'Chairs' is left, and that's about it. The photos are of the pictures as they appeared in the Tin Cat Cafe. I tried to avoid reflections and lens distortion and lighting problems in depicting the exhibition but that wasn't always successful. Anywho, I hope you like the pictures.

Exhibitionism VI

Six Appeal, the art exhibition I'm participating in, opened last Wednesday - November 8. We each had, more or less, a room for our own work. I had 15 items displayed plus my budget Fridge Art series (see list in previous 'Exhibitionism' post). The opening went well. Lots of people came through and the wine ran out pretty quickly. David and I took some photos during the night.

They are of:
Dining at the Tin Cat Cafe once the exhibition had been opened. From the left and round the table is David, Malcolm, Terry, Francis, Putu, Keith, Gary, Heather, Dani, Bruce and Will.
Fanny Jacobsen opening the exhibition. Fanny is artistic director of the Feast Festival.
Me, Michael, Ann and their son Thomas in front of 'On Reflection . . .'
Kenneth (centre) with Mandi on the right and her Mum on the left.
Francis in conversation upstairs in the formal gallery space.
Out in the courtyard with the dwindling wine supply.

Exhibitionism V

Here are the pictures of the hanging at the Tin Cat. No, not a scaffold, large lynching tree or yardarm in sight. The only thing that was hung was the artwork. They would have been included in the last post but the batteries went flat on my camera and the spares proved to be flat also. Pictures are of David at work on the walls and Alan and John upstairs busily hanging Alan's artwork.

Exhibitionism IV

The picture above is of me with a pile of my pictures ready to be transported to the gallery. Seeing I've called this series of blog posts 'Exhibitionism' I thought I'd add a bit of the real thing into the mix.

I got hung today. My 'artwork' for the exhibition went up on the walls at the Tin Cat Cafe. I've got the back room which has worked out well as that room is quite large and airy, and as my pieces are large and colourful they get a lift from the space and the light. The walls are white in that room too, which helps. David did most of the technical hanging work. We had some wonderful assisstance from Kelly who is an artist. She arrived with Marlene, who was down from Quorn. Kelly really helped us with getting all the pieces sorted and looking good on the walls. It was great too that Marlene could see the work. Some of the stuff features pictures from around Quorn.

I've seen everyone else's work now, and it's all spectacular. It's all just beautiful.

Gary has taken illustrations from old books, like the Readers Digest, and makes them into lovely retro-looking collages that tell a new story. Keith, a photographer, has taken the most beautiful pictures of men and paired them with a texture picture like flowers or a fabric in romantic sepia tones. Mark has taken some photos of Sydney beaches and subjected them to a 3-D technique with gives the most wonderful illusion. Alan is the most traditional of all, he uses oils. His canvases are dark and feature intense reds and yellows - it's all very volcanic and passionate. Heather has taken some intimate photos and they're small so you need to get close and LOOK. Her other series is a number of words embroidered onto photo rag in gold and they look sensational. I'm in remarkable company. I hope they like my stuff! I wouldn't want to be letting the side down.

Below is the list of my alleged 'artworks'. Alleged as it's up to others to credit them with that status not me. I just made some pictures.

Six Appeal Exhibition

Harvey Schiller

Canvases

Limited edition prints on canvas. 10 available of each apart from ‘The Red Room’. All are number one of ten apart from ‘The Red Room’ which is number two of ten.

‘Pegs’, 2005. Digital Image on Canvas.75cm x 100cm. $430.

‘On Reflection . . .’ 2006. Digital Image on Canvas.75cm x 100cm. $430.

‘Apocalyse on Rundle’ 2006. Digital Image on Canvas.75cm x 100cm. $430.

‘The Red Room’ 2006. Digital Image on Canvas.75cm x 100cm. $430.

‘Bundaleer Forest’ 2006. Digital Image on Canvas.84cm x 38cm. $350.

Series

‘Apocalypse on Rundle’ , 2006. Digital Image on Art Paper Using Archival Quality Inks & Watercoulour. Image size -14cm x 19cm. Frame size - 18.5cm x 23.5cm. $55 each.
Individual titles: Photo; Watercolour; Building; Sign; Rhino.

Photographs

‘Lifesaver’s Box’, 2006. Digital Image on Photopaper. Image Size - 23cm x 18cm. Frame - 40cm x 31cm. $85.

‘Air’, 2006. Digital Image on Photopaper. Image Size 23cm x 18cm. Frame Size 40cm x 31cm. $85.

‘Chairs’, 2006. Digital Image on Photopaper. Image Size 23cm x 18cm. Frame Size 40cm x 31cm. $85.

‘At the Sands’, 2006. Digital Image on Photpaper. Image Size 17cm x 13cm. Frame Size 31cm x 22cm. $70.

‘Concrete Thinking’, 2006. Digital Image on Photopaper. Image size 12cm x 17cm. Frame Size 18.5cm x 23.5cm. $60.

Exhibitionism III

Here's the invitation. My picture is the one on the left - 'Pegs'. A digital image on canvas about 1 metre tall by 75cm wide.
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Exhibitionism II

In between the swimming, the running, the cycling, eating David's wonderous meals, sleeping, not watching a second of television and work, I have been making stuff for an exhibition at the Tin Cat Cafe which opens in just a short while - on November 8. I've made all the stuff; nearly. There's just some framing and other bibs and bobs type jobs to do. The photos below show the frames which need to be filled with pictorial material and the canvases which are all ready to go. Also there's a picture of some of the smaller works I'm doing - Original Fridge Art. They're postcard-sized pictures with fridge magnets on the back. The pictures are on art paper and are of archival quality. I hope someone buys them! While I may have a first and a last exhibition, I'd rather them not to be the one and the same.

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Exhibitionism

As some of you may know I will be taking part in a group art exhibition in November as part of Adelaide’s Feast Festival.

I have been working on a range of images for the past six months or so. All of them use my own photography but each image is actually a collage merging several different images, sometimes fairly obviously, sometimes quite subtly (I hope). It has been a love affair between my lovely Fujifilm camera, our iMac and Adobe’s Design collection. We’ve all worked so happily together. Only the occasional fights, freezings and crashes and burns.

Yesterday I picked up three photos that had been printed on canvas from the laboratory. The pictures look great. Unfortunately, there were ripples in the stretching of each one and one was placed on the frame in the wrong position. So they go back tomorrow – hopefully to be stretched properly this time.

The exhibition will be held at the Tin Cat Café and Gallery, 107 Rundle Street, Kent Town. It opens on Wednesday, November 8, 6-8pm. It will be called Six appeal as it involves six artists. Viewing times will be Tuesday – Sunday 10am – 4pm and Wednesday – Saturday 6pm till late.

Below some details from the bigger pictures. You’ll have to come to the exhibition to see the whole images. Click on the images to see them larger in a new window. Press the back button to return to the blog.