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I just picked up three of my beautifully framed pieces from Bizarre Framing and dropped them into KILN Gallery for The Illustrators show, a group exhibition I’m so chuffed to be part of. I saw Nigel Buchanan’s gorgeous giclee prints lined up against the wall, and said hello to Shaun Campbell and his fancy car as he was bumping in an installation. The show also includes Jim Tsinganos, Brett Lethbridge, Ron Monnier, Courtney Brims and Lucia Masciullo – some incredible names in Australian illustration that I’m rather honoured to be included with!

Now I shall present to you a taste of The Illustrators!

Nigel Buchanan

Jim Tsinganos

Shaun Campbell

Brett Lethbridge

Ron Monnier

Courtney Brims

Lucia Masciullo

And little old me!

Come and take a look this Friday night if you’re local. Tomorrow the KILN site should show all the pieces in the Illustrators show in the online gallery, so if you’re in an art buying mood you can get a heads up! The show runs from Friday 31 July for three weeks.

The Works on Paper and Drawing show at KILN Gallery has been extended by a week due to popular demand, so if you’ve been flat out this month (like me!) you’ve got an extra week to toddle in to have a look! If the trip to Paddington is a bit beyond a leisurely toddle, the KILN blog posted some photos of the works in situ and some shots from the opening night.

See my Nana sitting there? She’s so cute!

My work is on the right side of the white wall on the mezzanine level.

Lucia Masciullo’s illustrations keep my drawings company!

I have been doing a lot of commissioned drawings lately, which is awesome! This one is for the lovely Omega and the one below is for Ms Katy.

The exhibition opening at KILN was on Friday night, and I still feel terrible about not taking any photos! I was sort of flustered because it was a little muggy and then a little stormy, and I was running in and out of the gallery saying hi to friends who were kind enough to come by and check out my debut in a gallery! Brisbane demonstrated her seductive two degrees of separation once again: I discovered that Cate at KILN actually went to school with my sister!

Afterwards, we dashed across town to the BTUB “tweetup” (I hate using “twords” as a rule but there’s no other way to succinctly explain it!) and had awesome times with awesome peoples. It was moustache-flavoured night, thanks to my entirely rad Poirot moustache necklace that I made earlier in the day!

Messieurs Spencer, Nicole and Tash.

C’est moi!

People were asking if they could buy the necklace, so I’ve made up five to sell (maybe on etsy or something?) One has already been reserved for Spencer though, because we almost came to fisty-cuffs over the ownership of the moustache

So, I am “debuting” at the Works on Paper exhibition at KILN on April 3. I am very excited, almost embarrassingly excited, but at least my enthusiasm falls short of pants-peeingly-excited. I wish I could get the hang of that cool nonchalance that artists are supposed to exhibit!

I am showing alongside some wonderful artists. Allow me to demonstrate:

Danielle O’Brien – Untitled 3, 2008

Nic Plowman – And there she was, 2008

Laura Skerlj

Yuki Nakano – Geisha, 2009

Also Shaun Campbell, Lucia Trove and Jordan Hart – who I can’t find any sites for! If you’re in Brisbane during April, I do suggest you check it out!