Festive Season

A short update and a quick one to say all the best for the season in 2009

• From now until mid Feb my work will be exhibited at Gold Coast City Arts Centre in the Stan + Maureen Duke Gold Coast Art Prize 2009. Looks like a great show if you're in the zone, I will be in Feb and look forward to seeing it. Nice to be in such great company, and somehow considered photogenic enough to be the invite image!

2009 Judge Andrew Frost, has selected the following artists for this years prize.

Giles ALEXANDER Nick ASHBY Monika BEHRENS Chris BENNIE, Christian FLYNN and Brent WILSON Frederic BERJOT Louise BLYTON Mostyn BRAMLEY-MOORE Kate BRISCOE Vicky BROWNE Lilly CHORNY Simon COLLINS Gabrielle COURTENAY Marcel COUSINS David CREED Joanne CURRIE NALINGU Tony DOWERS Rocco FAZZARI Paul FERMAN Jason FITZGERALD Prudence FLINT Greg FULLERTON Phillip GEORGE Anne Marie GRAHAM Paul GUNDRY Neil HADDON Lachlan HANSEN Lyndal HARGRAVE Robert HOLLINGWORTH Brian IRVING Gabrielle JONES Christopher JONES Col JORDAN Gladdy KEMARRE Sherrie KNIPE Josie KUNOTH Dinni KUNOTH KEMARRE Chris LANGLOIS LOONGKOONAN Marco LUCCIO Simon MARK Mani MATONG Jill MCFARLANE Noel McKENNA Hiromi OZAKI Aris PRABAWA Silke RAETZE Eric ROSSI Brenda RUNNEGAR Giles RYDER Sylvia SCHWENK Emily VALENTINE Emma van LEEST Bibi VIRO Lucy WARD Peggy WASSI John WEERONGA BARTO Fiona WHITE Anna WHITE Margaret WILSON Jane WOODRUFF Michael ZAVROS

• Also in Qld, December-January I also have work at Anthea Polson Art's first Special Xmas Show of all gallery artists 40x40 work.

• And in Sydney there's Iain Dawson's SUMMER show, now through to the end of January.

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And further ahead....

• My split solo show Going Places with good friend Amanda van Gils opens Feb 13 next year. The gallery already holds a large chunk of the works to be shown. Have a look.

And some stuff in mags, Home Beautiful Jan 2010 issue is out... here's a page from it featuring a collectors home and some paintin's.

And the Duke ad in Almanac

Have a great 2010!

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Simon Collins / www.simoncollins.com.au

Life Drawing - Olivia

Work from last night's Life Drawing session, and Olivia's last night with our group :(

Life Drawing

Life Drawing

Merger

In an attempt to streamline I have merged my small paintings blog, my lifedrawing/blab blog, and the NEWS page of my website to this blog, so if you'd like to update subscriptions, it all happens here. I anticipate occasional newsletters still to those on email list, and lots to follow here. Thanks for subscribing!

PS, you can also do the facebook fan thing here.

Mental Health Week

Muscle Car Sunset - 25x25cm Oil/Board

Be sure to check out TOWARDS THE LIGHT at Frances Keevil Gallery Double Bay, a fundraising event for WAYS and UAS. There'll be plenty of great art for sale and auction.

Artists involved also include Jane Bennett, Elisabeth Cummings, Ann Gordon, Georgina Hart, Marcella Kaspar, Adrian Lockhart, Joanna Logue, Sue Meyer, Amanda Penrose–Hart, Melissa Selby-Brown, Peter Simpson, Pablo Tapia, Stephen Trebilcock, Wendy Sharpe and Judith White.

The main event is Saturday 3rd October 3 – 5pm and exhibition continues.

Full details here

I eat eggs but...

Simon Collins - Roo - 2009 - Oil/Board 91.5 x 91.5 cm

Humane Society International do some wonderful stuff, from campaigns for correct food labelling (how free range are your eggs really?) to the housing impoverished Orangutans and international level legal battles against unlawful whaling. And the Extinction Denied Art Exhibition held at the Arthouse Hotel, Sydney from next Monday 14th September. Many of the usual starters have donated work this year, amongst them Adam Cullen, Cash Brown, Abbey McCulloch, Lucy Culliton, and it's my second go, plus a few new faces too and I'm really Looking forward to getting up close to the work of Euan Macleod and Darian Zam. Click here to preview the work

Bright and Spooky Road Objects

interview published on thevine.com.au

Thanks Gemma Jones! (paintergirl)

sixtoeight.net: Iain Dawson Gallery - Simon Collins

sixtoeight.net: Iain Dawson Gallery - Simon Collins

Thanks for the Blogging MoCo!

Show Opens

My show opens this Saturday, work was hung today.

Looking forward to it, would love to see you there if you can make it.

http://www.iaindawson.com/pages/exhibition_details.php?exhibitionID=21

1-3pm, Iain Dawson Gallery, Paddington. www.iaindawson.com.au

#12 Untitled Study (Bright Road Object Series)

Untitled Study (Bright Road Object Series) 2009
12x15cm - Oil on Mounted Board
AUD$190(+AUD$10 shipping worldwide)

Another study for a larger painting planned for forthcoming show.

Anthea Polson Art

Many would be aware of the recent news that Art Galleries Schubert have closed their doors. To have your representing gallery close is never good news, but being asked to join the stable of the new Anthea Polson run gallery, Anthea Polson Art was very welcome. While wishing Win Schubert the best in her semi retirement, I'm very much looking forward to a future with many of the strong ex Schubert artists, friends and team who no doubt will be running a very exciting new gallery right next to Marina Mirage. Visit the website and sign up for newsletters here to keep up with all the news.

HAVE A LOOK....

Music to paint to #2

I thought I'd be doing more of these, but here's album #2, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads.

Many a painting to date has been done to this fine album. Guests include Kylie, PJ Harvey, Shane McGowan and the Moron Tabernacle Choir. Check out this great Doco, many chatting heads including Dave Graney, Rowland S Howard + many more.

I was lucky enough to recently see them do All Tomorrows Parties on Sydney Harbour's Cockatoo Island, along with Ed Kuepper's Laughing Clowns, only to find out days later that Mick Harvey was leaving the band to be replaced (in some sense) by Ed. Will be interesting to see how that pans out...

In the real art world....

Another great one to follow

"What's going on in the real art world? Welcome to "In The Real Art World" and please excuse the pun. "In The Real Art World" alerts you to the best exhibitions of representational "realism" which are on at the moment anywhere in the world. Whether it be in a Museum or a commercial gallery, the main focus will be on contemporary art without ignoring the great art of the past. Although I appreciate good art in any form it takes, I noticed that there are a multitude of sites dedicated to what's happening now in contemporary art. But there is no site that specialises in letting you know where to see the best of representational "realism" that is either contemporary, or of the past."

have a look

Art Re-source

A blog well worth subscribing to by Steve Gray.

Last year I did an interview with Steve. As did friends Amanda van Gils, Erika Gofton and Debbie Hill.

Have a look....

BOOK - Amanda van Gils: Views from a Speeding Train

This is a plug for a good friend, but I am proud to share that I am just loving my recent copy of Amanda van Gils book, Views from a Speeding Train. It covers the series of paintings to date which so well puts the viewer in her landscapes by rail, a place very personal to Amanda. What I also like is that she also successfully puts the viewer in the studio with her with through her direct and deliberate treatment of materials used, that of oil and linen.

Available for preview and direct online ordering here.

#11 Untitled Study (Bright Road Object Series)

Untitled Study (Bright Road Object Series) 2009
12x12cm - Oil on Mounted Board

SOLD

Study for a planned larger painting.

#10 Bright Road Object #5 (cropped)

Bright Road Object #5 (cropped) 2009
12x15cm - Oil on Mounted Board
AUD$190(+AUD$10 shipping worldwide)

Long time no see. Here is a Ristretto of a larger current painting.

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