Monday, July 30, 2007















artists day at nowa nowa


ok Getzel seems to be suffering from writers block .. or is it exhaustion from concrete pouring? or from artistic direction?
anway.. i do have some pix that I thought I'd share while he recuperates :-) (he's fine really)

Well... I reckon we had a great day on Saturday.. nearly everyone was there.. 'cept Catherine Larkins (on family leave, looking after Bob) and Jenny Toye (on real holidays) and Jade Pegler (http://www.jadepegler.net/) who remains our mystery artist, due to appear in September (dates tbc).
I think we have a pretty good idea of what we're all doing.. $s to be confirmed, and contracts written asap. ( to continue our semblance of good management).

Here are some pix to prove it's all happening. Getzel might add some words if I can prise him off the couch.
[artists conferring: Gwen Poore, Neil Smith, Ruth Fitzclarence, Helen Sheil, Getzel (Yelen).
mmmm. I dont seem to be able to add multiple pix to the single post... will add a couple more separately..
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Wednesday, July 25, 2007

before

It seems like Getzel has been too busy to blog just lately... but am sure he'll be back online soon.
In the meantime (and especially for long distance artists) here are some 'before' pix.
(ie the house as is) http://www.nowanowa.com/o4i/THE%20HOUSE.PPT

At the moment, its a big file - a powerpoint monstrosity.. but if you work in a govt office with broadband.. it wont take too long (it's around half a mb). I'll try reducing the file size tomorrow.

so if you need to get more of a feel for the project.. check out http://www.nowanowa.com/o4i/THE%20HOUSE.PPT and make your plans accordingly!

hope to see everyone at the house on Saturday (28th July) 11am for a chat!

Thursday, July 12, 2007

2 garys in the house

A short update ,there are now two Garys in the house. I will help you to distinguish between the 2 of us, one is creative, humble, generous instinctive, the other is up himself, cheap, smelly has the dress sense of the hulk and lives in Nowa Nowa.

We are happy to have Gary Bjekvxwplkmzxzavdjkfy on board and join in his creative processes, Gary first came to our attention in Bruthen where we viewed his hot rod telescope which was highly unfunctional but sculpturally engaging and wanting to find out how it worked who we could point it at and how quickly it dematerialized them . For the project he hopes to have mastered the re materialized version and we all look forward to finally meeting his wife and two children.

The house itself is moving forward with a front door almost in and a path leading to the door under con struction . So if he would kindly get off it we can put it in place .

twas nice chattering

Getzel

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

This is Getzel In Training on the blog machine, you can call me Git for short. It is my very first blog I am told even though I thought I was the original Blogger back when I was nine years old , turns out I may just have been a flogger and no one wished to advertise on something that may have been on view for less than 10 seconds with barely enough space for the logo.
Anyway enough of an introduction to my shortcomings!! and lets talk arty things .

We in Nowa Nowa have introduced a marvellous concept to the world of art ... we are donating to the cause, a house ( which, on completion of the signing of documents, handing over of the cheque, and upon entering our newly acquired townhouse and discovered ... the front door has loose hinges and falls away on entering , this is unfortunate but easily repaired, just put new longer screws in , also unfortunately we discover the frame of the door is a little eaten away by those eating machines commonly known as termites , we decided we should terminate their longterm relationship with this building and call in the terminator. We did. They died along with the nesting kookaburras , dodo , theylacine and dare I say it but grandma poss aint gonna be performing anymore magic). I hope this aint tooo disturbing to my fellow artist but it does give you all an idea of the tremendous carnage we had to perpetrate in the name of art and finding gullible out-of-work artists to fix it all up again.

Now that I have opened myself up & been straight (even though this is the censored version) , with my mates in the artworld, I will attempt to use this site as an update of people progress and publicity (in short KKK).

My first arteeest to enter the open for inspection house was Marcus Foley . Marcus is an incredible jeweller/silversmith who when he actually puts an effort in and uses the correct amount of rouge, eyeliner and collagen polishes up quite respectably and becomes , if I may say , quite desirable. This in No way is the reason I asked him to join the project and I will slap anyone who questions my motions. Marcus is going to be a tremendous asset for the project , his skills , knowledge , appreciation of design and use of raw materials will enhance any project that he is involved with along with his generosity ... and great dance moves ... we welcome you aboard.

I believe this is enough for my first blog and will keep you all posted on who is next "to enter the house" .