tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55801942154598446092024-03-13T17:00:37.579-05:00Gillian KingArt and Craft by Gillian KingGillian Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02623745869220839812noreply@blogger.comBlogger167125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580194215459844609.post-69624255595557441632012-02-26T11:33:00.000-06:002012-02-26T11:33:02.107-06:00Moved!I have now moved to Montreal and over to <a href="http://www.agilliankingblog.tumblr.com/">www.agilliankingblog.tumblr.com</a> - see you there!Gillian Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02623745869220839812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580194215459844609.post-21962988045748447882011-05-27T15:19:00.001-05:002011-05-27T15:20:48.797-05:00And the Winner is...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Time to announce our <a href="http://gilliangiggs.blogspot.com/2011/05/singing-condition-and-bolo-give-away.html">Bolo Neck Tie Give Away</a> Winner....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Drumroll.....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://thebiggerbangtheory.com/">Tamara</a>!!</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Tamara and I have been following eachother's blogs for a few years now. She is an awesome textile artist from Vancouver with an incredibly quirky and fun blog. I love reading about the processes of the work she does as well as amusing day to day activities.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So congrats Tamara!</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">(Tamara if you're able to email me your address I'll have the bolo sent out to you asap! a.gillian.king@gmail.com)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Tamara, is this what you drink? I know I'm more of a coffee drinker...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It was so great reading all of your responses - thanks friends :) Your comments made my heart warm which helps on cold and rainy days like today. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">If you're still wanting a Bolo Neck Tie they are currently available at <a href="http://www.lunevintage.blogspot.com/">Lune Vintage</a> and as of this week, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000860311852">Urban Waves</a> in Winnipeg! If you're from out of town and want to get your hands on one just shoot me an email!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I dressed this mannequin at Lune Vintage today - featuring a handmade purse by local designer, <a href="http://snootsie.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2010-09-19T09%3A03%3A00-07%3A00&max-results=7">Snootsie</a>, a bolo by myself, and vintage skirt and shirt.<br />
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</tbody></table>Gillian Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02623745869220839812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580194215459844609.post-3522288483066557522011-05-24T23:47:00.001-05:002011-05-24T23:48:03.389-05:00'Everything Good is Bad'<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">There has been a serious influx of amazing new music and art this past week that I feel is necessary to share. As it keeps piling up I'm becoming more concerned that I've had blinders on or have been living under a rock! Anyways, it feels good to now be in the know and have some new favourite artists and musicians :)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">First! Fastwurms! A crazy Canadian art collective who currently have three large mixed media pieces in the Bestial Encounters show at the WAG. I am so attracted to the colours and symbolism in their work - I just find their work so overwhelming and powerful to look at. Even crazier is that they are practicing witches! I would love to see one of their performances as they stock up on dollarstore goods and in one performance gave participants haircuts with these dollarstore wigs to use the hair in spells. These are apparently good spells - not that I know much on the topic but it sounds fascinating!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Then there's Nicola Tyson, a New York based artist whose minimal figuartive abstractions focus on the psyche and physical body. I just can't get enough of them. It makes me want to do minimal abstracts!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And since Kaja has come home she has introduced me to both Sharon Jones and JJ Grey & Mofro.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Hope you all enjoyed those newbies - kind of a mash up!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Also a reminder that the </span><a href="http://gilliangiggs.blogspot.com/2011/05/singing-condition-and-bolo-give-away.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">bolo give away</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> ends this Thursday afternoon so if you haven't entered yet there's still time - hope you guys are having a wonderful week</span></div>Gillian Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02623745869220839812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580194215459844609.post-5865258749644054242011-05-19T14:55:00.000-05:002011-05-19T14:55:23.887-05:00'Singing Condition' and Bolo Give Away<div style="text-align: center;">Currently sitting on Darrin's porch drinking coffee and guarding the basket on my bike. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">It's been so great to finally have nice weather in the peg and be able to bike around, catch some sun and watch the tulips open.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"> It's also been an interesting shift from an intensive studio thesis year to being in writing courses for first time again in over a year. I enjoy studio courses the most so I have left all the writing to the end of my degree. My first assignment for my 'Writing About Art' course involved us doing an object/subject analysis of a piece currently in the Winnipeg Art Gallery and we were told to 'put ourselves in it'. I got quite excited about this as the most writing I have tackled in the past year has been artist statements and blog posts. Being an avid blogger on an art/personal blog I have gotten used to relating my own personal experiences to what I see so I was quite excited to have written a more 'formal' piece on contemporary art with a personal spin on it. I was a bit disenchanted upon getting my paper back and was told I may have gotten a bit too personal. For the next assignment I made sure to take myself out of it but have decided that this would be the perfect venue to share my potentially too personal writing assignment - hooray for blogs! So here is my piece on Erika Lincoln's piece the 'Singing Condition'. The show will be on at the <a href="http://wag.ca/art/current-exhibitions/exhibition/90/erika-lincoln-the-singing-condition#">WAG</a> until June 12 and I highly recommend you go check it out!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">A Look Into Erika Lincoln’s Sound Art Installation in The WAG’s Bestial Encounters Exhibit<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p>All very exciting :) I've never lived in a different city before and with graduation at the end of summer I thought what better time to move to my favourite city? It also helps that the place is busting at the seams with art! Kaja and I are heading out mid summer to look for places and the plan is to move in the fall. I'm really looking forward to all the new experiences and keeping an ongoing log of it here. </o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">1. Where are you from and what makes it special to you?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">2. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would you live and why?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">3. What sort of things do you enjoying seeing/reading about most on 'Gillian Giggs'?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">* Be sure to leave your name and email or blog at the end of the post so I can contact you to let you know if you've won!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The giveaway will end in exactly one week so by 3pm (Winnipeg time) next Thursday May 26th. I will be drawing out of a hat and announcing the winner later that day - I will then contact you for your shipping address :)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">And lastly, Kara and I just finished taking down the GORGE show at the Edge last night so I just wanted to share our interview with Derek Brueckner and Aleem Khan from the radioshow Eat Your Arts and Vegetables last week - to listen click <a href="http://station.ckuw.ca/24/20110512.17.30-18.00.mp3">here</a>. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><br />
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</span></div><!--EndFragment-->Gillian Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02623745869220839812noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580194215459844609.post-73396139496304940922011-05-09T17:13:00.004-05:002011-05-09T17:55:12.559-05:00Full French Presses<div style="text-align: center;">Whew! It's been a while! This has been due to life madness and potentially the busiest week of my life that ended yesterday... It feels so good to finally be able to sleep in, have a full french press of coffee (vs. barely time for one cup), make some tofu bacon, and sit here catching up while listening to Derek Brueckner and Aleem Khan interview Mary Reid (the WAG curator and the instructor to the new art class I'm taking 'Writing About Art') on <a href="http://eatyourartsandvegetables.blogspot.com/">Eat Your Arts and Vegetables</a>.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Speaking of Eat Your Arts and Vegetables, <a href="http://karapassey.tumblr.com/">Kara Passey</a> and I will be on it this Thursday May 12th at 5:30pm on 95.9FM to talk about our current show, <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=124306484314180">GORGE</a>, at the <a href="http://www.edgevillage.com/?q=node/158">Edge Gallery</a>. If you're not able to listen this coming Thursday the interview will be available to download or stream for the next 10 weeks off their site.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">So onto the GORGE show - Kara and I had our opening night this past Friday and it was amazing! We held a vegan potluck - not that there was a lot there - but so many great people came and there were great vibes all night. We both enjoy making crafty things so we even have a craft wall full of Kara's cat pillows, 'pussy pins' (buttons with cats on them), small watercolour studies, and my bolo ties. The show will be on until May 18th Monday through Friday 12-4pm so if you're in the city check it out!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">And the one of a kind bolo neck ties! I've been making them like a crazy person lately and am currently selling them at <a href="http://lunevintage.blogspot.com/">Lune Vintage</a>, the GORGE show, and soon <a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000860311852">Urban Waves</a>. My lovely artist/photographer friend, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/45160162@N02/">Ashley Gillanders</a>, and my old roommate/musician friend Alex Campbell and I got together last week and did a hilarious shoot in the art barn bathroom. The art barn is actually an old dairy cattle barn that was transformed into the University of Manitoba Fine Arts Painting building in the sixties, so due to heavy art use, the building is now quite a dive but is very close to my heart. One of the upstairs bathrooms has an amazing blue wall so we decided to use it as the backdrop for our shoot. I couldn't stop laughing at Campbell because when I picked him up to go to the shoot I asked him what sort of shirts he had and he whipped out A DOZEN western shirts! Talk about a prepared model! Campbell has played in and with a plethora of local bands including <a href="http://www.myspace.com/jicahmusic">Jicah</a>, <a href="http://www.myspace.com/imaginarycitiesmusic">Imaginary Cities</a>, <a href="http://www.myspace.com/badcuntry">Bad Country</a>, <a href="http://www.myspace.com/thejdedwardsband">The JD Edwards Band</a>, <a href="http://www.myspace.com/retrorhythmreview">Retro Rhythm Review</a>, and <a href="http://www.myspace.com/freakycircles">The Freaky Circles</a>, to name a few and has acquired a large collection of these shirts because of it.<br />
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Here's Campbell playing keys with Imaginary Cities on tour last year.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Along with our upcoming interview on Eat Your Arts and Vegetables, Kara and I also sat down for an interview with Taylor Burgess of Stylus to talk about our work. Check out the article <a href="http://stylusmagazine.ca/archives/1737">here</a>!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">And on another fun note I was featured this past Saturday in <a href="http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/life/detour/My-Stuff-Gillian-King.html?device=mobile">Dani Finch's 'My Stuff' column</a> in the Winnipeg Free Press. When getting to the photo part after having given my answers I was a little embarrassed to be holding a stuffed animal... at least I was honest with my selections... </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">To top off the week, it was Lauren McPhaden's wedding social on Saturday night, which was by far the best social I have ever been to and Day of the Dead themed - photos to come!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Off to another crazy week - if you get a chance go check out the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=222175974465985">U of M Photography Thesis show</a> (featuring my brilliant bolo photographer, Ashley Gillanders) at PLATFORM Gallery Friday night!</div>Gillian Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02623745869220839812noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580194215459844609.post-89700227918847894292011-04-19T00:57:00.000-05:002011-04-19T00:57:58.732-05:00Sharing is Caring<div style="text-align: center;">So the FLUX IN FLUX U of M painting, drawing, and sculpture thesis opening on Saturday was a great success! Such a nice way to cap off the thesis year with friends. It was fantastically curated by current Gallery Ingenue artist, Gen Levasseur, so if you didn't get a chance to see it the show will be on until April 30th.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Here are some photos Gen took at the opening...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Next on the show roster is my duo show at the <a href="http://www.edgevillage.com/">Edge Gallery</a> with Kara Passey, GORGE, with the Opening night May 6th. I'm really excited for this show as Kara and I's work have overlapping themes including food, sexuality, fertility, and feminism. And along with our art we will have a craft wall so you can own a piece of our work if you can't afford a large scale oil painting or sculpture.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-m3SK9-6OEy4/Ta0NrWGT8_I/AAAAAAAACes/aC0Ll0UnhTM/s1600/gorge_promo_poster.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-m3SK9-6OEy4/Ta0NrWGT8_I/AAAAAAAACes/aC0Ll0UnhTM/s400/gorge_promo_poster.jpg" width="258" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Kara also has a <a href="http://karapassey.tumblr.com/">new blog</a> you can check out for her latest and greatest! She also reposted a great blog post today by Austin Kleon, which I had to share, called '<a href="http://www.austinkleon.com/2011/03/30/how-to-steal-like-an-artist-and-9-other-things-nobody-told-me/">How to Steal Like an Artist (and 9 Other Things Nobody Told Me)</a>'. I found the post so interesting because I've been telling my painting students to always reference other artists and to borrow ways that they paint because that's how the old masters learnt. I think this post is helpful for any artist. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">With my thesis year being over (this really hasn't sunk in yet) life is still jam packed. This week will be full of making new bolo neck ties (photos to come), experimenting with spray insulator to make sculptures and wearable art, a big painting thesis potluck tomorrow night, a ladies night with Leo (DiCaprio) movies, a bus trip to Brandon with my friend and upcoming May Gallery Ingenue artist, Megan Driedger, <a href="http://dianathorneycroft.com/">Diana Thorneycroft</a> and a busload of other people to see <a href="http://michaelboss.ca/">Michael Boss</a>'s show. Darrin's also heading to New York where I'm hoping he goes to the George Condo show and takes sneaky photos from his iphone for me... I'm so jealous...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">And if you haven't seen, <a href="http://galleryingenue.blogspot.com/">Gallery Ingenue</a> just got a makeover by the talented <a href="http://www.kylaroma.com/">Kyla Roma</a> of <a href="http://frecklednest.typepad.com/">Freckled Nest</a>! With the makeover also came a new widget so you can share the Gallery Ingenue blog and support Winnipeg artists on your blog! Copy and paste the link below to get your hands on the new widget.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Hope everyone has a great week ahead!</div>Gillian Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02623745869220839812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580194215459844609.post-85450520175561597742011-04-12T16:00:00.002-05:002011-04-12T16:04:29.446-05:00FLUX<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">With the past few weeks being a whirlwind of activity prepping for the Annual Fine Arts Open House held last Sunday, I woke up Monday morning not knowing what to do with myself. After making coffee and sitting down at my computer, reality struck, and I realized I in fact still have a lot to do - I still have my final thesis crit this Thursday, I've started teaching another adult's abstract painting class and a children's mixed media class last week, and I've got four more shows in the next two months including the <a href="http://www.aceart.org/flux-in-flux-school-of-art-university-of-manitoba-2011-painting-drawing-and-sculpture-thesis-student-exhibition-april-14th-april-28th/">FLUX IN FLUX show</a> which starts this Saturday... </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">With the amount of things to do it's hard to settle into the fact that I'm two days away from being finished my thesis year and once I'm finished my final art history and studio courses this summer I will be finished my undergrad... But life is great and being busy with things you love to do is the way to go!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So let's recap! Last Friday was the final installment of the TOMS Shoe design contest held by Segue and the Students of Fine Arts Association. We held a Style Your Sole Event in Conjunction with A Day Without Shoes. All the winning artists from the contest were sitting in University Center throughout the day painting shoes. Here's <a href="http://juliecoss.blogspot.com/">Julie Coss</a>, also a current <a href="http://galleryingenue.blogspot.com/">Gallery Ingenue</a> artist, painting our friend Tammy's daughter's shoes. We did a little collaboration of umbrellas and rain :)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">And then The Open House on Sunday! <a href="https://www.facebook.com/students.of.fine.art">SOFA</a> organized a pretty big event this year with five local bands; <a href="http://www.myspace.com/stevestbasham">Girth</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=23453715757">The Upsides</a>, Fists In, <a href="http://radio3.cbc.ca/#/bands/Mise-en-Scene">Mise En Scene</a>, and <a href="http://www.myspace.com/cannonbrosband">Cannon Bros.</a> as well as a beer garden and art auction. Here's Kara Passey and Dany Pickeret's band Fists In...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">and a video of the lovely ladies of Mise En Scene...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Fun fact: Jodi Dunlop, Stefanie Johnson, and Helga Jakobson of Mise en Scene are all Fine Arts students!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">There was also a surprise performance from performance artist, <a href="http://rachelschappert.blogspot.com/2011_03_01_archive.html">Rachel Scahppert's</a>, Anarchist Marching Band! Rachel is the self proclaimed hula-hoop enthusiast in red.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lauren McPhaden - One of my faves - to be shown in the 'Primitive' show this June at Gallery Ingenue!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Paintings by Dee Barsy</td></tr>
</tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;">Sadly the Open House is a one day event but if you'd like to see work by the 2011 Fine Arts thesis students you can visit the FLUX IN FLUX show I have listed above or head down to <a href="http://umanitoba.ca/schools/art/galleryoneoneone/111.html">Gallery 111</a> in the Fitzgerald Building at the University of Manitoba and see selected works until April 20th.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I also had a chance to get together with, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/45160162@N02/">Ashley Gillanders</a>, photographer extraordinaire to take some photos of my new work and here are the results!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">The cooked chicken human aka 'Poultry'</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">My bronze, <i>One of the Same</i>, overseen by Mexican Sculptor, <a href="http://www.octavioarteenbronce.com/english/octavio/index.htm">Octavio Gonzalez</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">In other exciting news, I start my job at <a href="http://www.lunevintage.blogspot.com/">Lune Vintage</a> this week! I can't wait to work in the same room as the ladies creative of Freckled Nest and soak up the loveliness of the shop. If you haven't been there yet you HAVE to go! And if you're from out of town, no need to fret, there is an <a href="http://lune.myshopify.com/">online store</a>!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.kylaroma.com/">Kyla Roma</a> of <a href="http://frecklednest.typepad.com/">Freckled Nest</a> also just finished an amazing new design for the <a href="http://galleryingenue.blogspot.com/">Gallery Ingenue</a> blog! Check it out here and be sure to add the new Gallery Ingenue widget to your blog!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Ok signing off for now - more to come this week!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div>Gillian Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02623745869220839812noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580194215459844609.post-64938247092864149242011-03-25T12:31:00.000-05:002011-03-25T12:31:46.764-05:00Ripe<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Well it's Friday and no I'm not going to play the Rebecca Black song... Instead I'm drinking my coffee, eating avocado on toast </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and listening to Jian Ghomeshi talking Canadian elections and Juno awards. Here is a new video I discovered by Caribou who is nominated for electronic album of the year.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And in painting land - here is the latest on my big girl/diana and the hunting dogs beside kill painting... Lots of editing going on. I'm happy to have so much mapped out because of the time constraint I'm on. It's funny - when the canvas was blank it seemed so huge but now that there's a scene on it it seems a lot smaller. More work to be done today.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">And last night I wasn't able to go to the opening so this weekend I'm going to be sure to go to to <a href="http://maisondesartistes.mb.ca/artistes/membres/melanie-rocan">Melanie Rocan's new show at La Maison Des Artistes</a> and highly recommend you do too! Melanie is a lovely person and current painting instructor at the U of M. She graduated from the U of M with her undergrad in Fine Arts and went on to Concordia to do her MFA. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">For more of Melanie's work you can visit her website <a href="http://www.melanierocan.com/index.html">here</a>.</div>Gillian Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02623745869220839812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580194215459844609.post-49798312302522572822011-03-23T10:35:00.001-05:002011-03-23T10:36:24.925-05:00Bolo Neck Ties<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">During my sick day yesterday I decided to take on an at home project and make my first bolo neck tie! I used some broken ceramics I had left over from <a href="http://gilliangiggs.blogspot.com/2011/01/slowing-down.html">the crash</a> for the inner decoration and hand braided that bad boy! </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-ooYvlVwS5yI/TYoBeuDfpSI/AAAAAAAACbE/pLn1vpPO7Ek/s1600/IMG_0450.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-ooYvlVwS5yI/TYoBeuDfpSI/AAAAAAAACbE/pLn1vpPO7Ek/s400/IMG_0450.JPG" style="cursor: move;" width="347" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I found the most amazing vintage bolo neck tie when I was on my third year Fine Arts field trip to <a href="http://gilliangiggs.blogspot.com/2010/11/chicago-part-i-and-way-too-much-other.html">Chicago</a> in the fall. We had stopped off in Minneapolis for a few days and a friend and I discovered <a href="http://www.blacklistvintage.com/">Black List Vintage</a> where I found an old flight attendant bolo featuring an airplane - I have been in love with them ever since! So this is the first of many bolo neck ties I will be making. I'm going to be making some featuring my paintings soon so stay tuned!</div>Gillian Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02623745869220839812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580194215459844609.post-976275242176090282011-03-22T13:20:00.003-05:002011-03-22T13:24:51.538-05:00Gallery Hopping<div style="text-align: center;">All of a sudden yesterday I started to sneeze.... uncontrollably... Overnight, this sneezing has started to threaten a full on head cold so I'm spending today laying low, getting caught up on emails, re-writing artist statements, and bios, and later, once I'm full of vitamin C and have had my fill of chamomile tea I will venture to the studio to work on <a href="http://gilliangiggs.blogspot.com/2011/03/big-girl.html">'The Big Girl'</a>. Since I am trying to recharge at home I thought it would be a great time to fill you in on the eventful and productive weekend I had gallery hopping with my friend Leslie! </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Around noon on Saturday we started at the <a href="http://plugin.org/">Plug In</a> and checked out the current show Close Encounters: The Next 500 Years which was wonderfully put together and included <a href="http://kentmonkman.com/main.php">Kent Monkman</a> who I always enjoy seeing. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Then after heading to Mondragon (a local vegan restaurant/bookstore) for papusas and caesar salad lunch we hit up several galleries in the Exchange district starting with <a href="http://www.aceart.org/category/current-exhibition/">Ace Art</a>. Ace Art has a great show on right now featuring work by Kristin Nelson called My Life with Pamela Anderson.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Two main themes of Kristin's work include gender identity and urban sprawl. Kristin 's show consisted of incredibly impressive cross stitched portraits of Pamela, herself, and photoshopped images of the two of them hanging out. Here are some photos, the first with Leslie admiring the scale and intricacy of the cross stitching...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">In the smaller section of the gallery Kristin had drawings of Winnipeg's downtown entirely as parking lots. As a Winnipegger this is quite funny/concerning as Winnipeg's downtown is filled with parking lots but people still complain there aren't enough... In the corner of the room was a knitted mock hay bale with a sign out sheet and no one had signed it out yet! So Leslie and I proceeded to sign it out, stuff it through tiny hallways and stairwells and bring it on a photoshoot in Old Market Square in the Exchange district. It was lots of fun and such a great idea - here we are posing and running around like little idiots with the hay bale...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">While we were walking out of Ace Art after dropping off the hay bale we bumped into some friends of mine from school and went into the Outworks gallery to see their third year painting majors show. It was awesome seeing such promising work in the show and I can't wait to see what they do in their thesis years!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Later that night we checked out my old drawing instructor, Derek Brueckner's show at the <a href="http://www.takashiiwasaki.info/semaigallery/">Semai Gallery</a>. Quite a cool space as it is making use of a basement hallway as a gallery and it's always nice to see Derek's work!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">After a big day on Saturday Darrin made breakfast Sunday morning that included tempeh bacon, tofu scramble, and avocado on poppy seed bagels - pretty awesome :)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Signing off with a local band I enjoy - here are <a href="http://www.headinthesand.ca/theliptonians/index.php">The Liptonians</a>...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="224" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/20808713?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0&color=ffffff" width="398"></iframe></div>Gillian Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02623745869220839812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580194215459844609.post-46308075890361401562011-03-18T12:43:00.001-05:002011-03-18T12:46:40.453-05:00Having cake and eating it<div style="text-align: center;">The past week has been jam packed (whats new) and great! Last weekend was my 24th birthday which was so much fun! Saturday night I got together with friends and went to the Lo Pub which is a local hostel/bar/restaurant that serves all vegetarian and vegan food. It was a great night and it gave me a chance to wear my new headpiece I traded local designer, <a href="http://dizzydame.ca/">Melanie Wesley</a>, for.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Then on Sunday I went to my parents house for a family dinner where my mom made tempeh and veggie pot pies from my new cookbook The Vegan Table. Then she veganized her red velvet cake for dessert and even my brother (the epitomy of vegan skeptic) said it was even better than the usual (dairy) red velvet cake. Needless to say I was very happy because if it hadn't gone over it probably would've meant no more red velvet cake for gill...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">They were so good that for the abstract painting class I teach I made them into cupcakes for our last class/potluck this week. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">It was sad to have the class end as it was such a great learning experience for both me and the students but I am excited for the next session starting in a few weeks! I will be teaching the same abstract painting class as well as a children's class this spring. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">And more on red velvet goodies, a local art magazine I contribute to, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001736119632&ref=ts">Chesterfield</a>, had a recent call for submissions so I used photoshop for the first time and combined the image of my bullfight painting with an art based spin on my red velvet cupcake recipe. You'll be able to pick up a copy of the upcoming issue April 4th at the University and scattered around local coffee shops and galleries!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;">In other news, Ben Miller, the arts editor for the University of Manitoba's newspaper, The Manitoban, wrote a nice article about Gallery Ingenue based on an interview I did with him a few weeks back. Check it out <a href="http://www.themanitoban.com/articles/44159">here</a>!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">With one month left before the end of thesis, everything seems to be coming to a head. I've been surprised at the progress I've managed to make on 'the big girl' - here is where I'm at as of today...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">I've also got four big shows coming up in the next few months - here is the info on the first of the four...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Fine Arts Open House - April 10th 1-5pm at the University of Manitoba in the art barn </div><div style="text-align: center;">This the annual show where every student from Fine Arts shows atleast one of their pieces. The show is free and open to the public!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Hope you all have a nice weekend and if you're looking for something awesome and art-related to do check out any of the following shows/openings - I will be!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Today...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/projectedintimacy">Projected Intimacy live streamed performance</a> 1-4pm Gallery 111</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.takashiiwasaki.info/semaigallery/">Every Line Every Other Line Opening at PLATFORM Gallery</a> 7pm</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Tomorrow...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.aceart.org/my-life-with-pamela-anderson-and-other-work-kristin-nelson/">My Life With Pamela Anderson at Ace Art</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.mawa.ca/">MAWA Over the Top annual Fundraiser</a> (there will be cupcakes here too!) 2-5pm</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.takashiiwasaki.info/semaigallery/">Painting of Performance featuring works by Derek Brueckner at Semai Gallery</a> 7pm</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div>Gillian Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02623745869220839812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580194215459844609.post-59040996655839029292011-03-12T12:58:00.003-06:002011-03-12T13:05:23.888-06:00Projected Intimacy<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There's a really cool show starting next week that two friends of mine, Helga Jakobson and Dean Robinson, are curating. I wanted to bring it to everyones attention! Because of its nature we will all be able to tune into the happenings in the gallery via Ustream starting this coming Monday.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Here is a description of the intent of </span></span><a href="http://projectedintimacyex.blogspot.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Projected Intimacy</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> in the words of Helga and Dean as well as a schedule of events for the week!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">Projected Intimacy is an exploration of our intimate existence online through cyberformance. This exhibit, which features work from Winnipeg artists and from a few international artists, has been curated by U of M Fine Arts students Helga Jakobson and Dean Robinson. Works vary from live performance to digital collage.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"> </span></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 15px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><br />
</span></span></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 15px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">Projected Intimacy seeks to see more fully the extent of our online interactions as they have become so perva</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 15px;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">sive in our everyday life. The questions at the core of this is exhibit are: now that we can be instantly connected with anyone, anywhere; how has our intimate experience of another individual been effected? Are we really sure who we are displaying ourselves to and how authentic can we be when we don't know who may be watching? Are these connections real, or in the age of ultimate connectivity is there an inherent disconnect?</span></span></span></span></span></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 15px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><br />
</span></span></div><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">So please feel free to come to the gallery, there will be work in the gallery at all times, and join us in this exploration.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">We will be streaming live from the gallery through uSTREAM here is our channel: </span></span><a href="http://www.ustream.tv/user/PROJECTEDintimacy" rel="nofollow" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394;">http://www.ustream.tv/user</span></span></a></div><span class="word_break" style="display: block; float: left; margin-left: -10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></span><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.ustream.tv/user/PROJECTEDintimacy" rel="nofollow" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394;">/PROJECTEDintimacy</span></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">We will be live feeding online from 3pm-6pm on Monday March 14th, Wednesday March 16th from 7.30pm-8.30pm, and then on Friday March 18th from 1pm-4pm.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">So if you are unable to come into the gallery at those times to watch with us live, you can watch live from your own homes!</span></span></div></span></span><br />
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</span></span> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 15px;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 15px;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As a blogger and avid online social networker and presumably talking to many other people of the same description, I think the questions Helga and Dean wish to confront in Projected Intimacy are so relevant to the side of ourselves we choose to show online. In the area of blogging, we all blog for different reasons. Some bloggers are comfortable divulging a lot of personal information on their blogs and others keep it all business. I think the questions being raised in this show such as "Are we really sure who we are displaying ourselves to and how authentic can we be when we don't know who maybe watching?" is something everyone with an online presence asks themselves. </span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm really looking forward to this week long show and I will be both at the gallery and watching online throughout the week - hope to 'see' you there</span></span>!</div>Gillian Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02623745869220839812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580194215459844609.post-62956047528314056372011-03-11T11:41:00.002-06:002011-03-11T11:50:15.839-06:00The Big Girl<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Fueling up on coffee for another big day at the studio then to the Canadiana Opening at <a href="http://www.galleryingenue.blogspot.com/">Gallery Ingenue</a> tonight! I had quite a productive day in the studio yesterday and was having fun playing with paint rollers and colour. This is a photo I snapped of the big guy - I'm actually going to start calling it the 'big girl' since it is such a feminine painting - at the end of the day yesterday. I'll be sure to take another photo at the end of the day today to track the progress. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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If you're in Winnipeg head down to Gallery Ingenue tonight from 7-10pm for some great food and art!Gillian Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02623745869220839812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580194215459844609.post-19238883499923610472011-03-08T11:46:00.000-06:002011-03-08T11:46:28.867-06:00My Top Five Female Artists for International Women's Day<div style="text-align: center;">So today is International Women's Day and in celebration I thought I'd feature my top five inspirational female artists.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Janine Antoni</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I kept pinching myself while I was working in Octavio's foundry. It was located in a REAL neighbourhood which was so great to see because often on vacations you often get stuck in touristy areas. The foundry was right across the street from a local fajita stand and beside a house with a chicken coup. There was also a circus in town so we'd constantly hear a car driving around shouting in spanish about the circus. I would be sitting working on my sculpture and find a chicken pecking around near my feet and be hearing these spanish circus advertisements. It's such a different experience compared to the indoor studios I'm used to in Winnipeg.</span></td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The kilns - one working, one not - and see if you can find the wandering chicken!</span></td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Continuing with the theme from my thesis - the relationship between animal consumption and how women are viewed I decided to create a woman whose torso was modelled off a hanging cow carcass.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Usually when preparing a sculpture to be cast and then bronzed you would create an armature and use chicken wire/insulation to make the foundation but Octavio has simplified the process by sculpting directly from styrofoam. This was a very interesting process and quite funny because of the language barrier. I took two years of Spanish in high school so I can get by but talking about sculpting in another language is very different than talking about the weather. Octavio was quite busy during the day with delivering sculptures and having meetings around town so I would often be hanging out with his studio assistants who did not speak any english and we would jointly attempt to solve my sculpting dilemmas. For instance, because of the nature of styrofoam, when I was trying to model the arm I kept accidently breaking it off and needing to mix a glue (essentially spray foam insulator without the spray gun), to fix it. It took a lot of pointing and silent demonstrations to communicate what my problem was and find the solution.</span></td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Juanita, one of Octavio's studio assistants and main secretary, modeling for me</span></td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I had to disassemble my woman to sculpt away at the ribs</span></td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Unfortunately my stay in Mexico was so short that I didn't have time to finish the rest of the process. Octavio has offered to finish casting and put the patina on it and send it to me so it should arrive in the next few weeks. I would have loved to be apart of the rest of the bronze pouring process but I guess I'll have to wait for another trip - I'll be sure to post pictures when the piece arrives!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The TOMS shoe display was also going on in the Gallery of Student Art at the University of Manitoba all last week! Here are the shoes I designed for that event...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">And Friday night at <a href="http://galleryingenue.blogspot.com/">Gallery Ingenue</a>, the March artists, <a href="http://juliecoss.blogspot.com/">Julie Coss</a>, <a href="http://www.laurenmcphaden.com/">Lauren McPhaden</a>, Jill Peters, and <a href="http://lanroed.blogspot.com/">Leanne Roed</a> and I were busy setting up for their show Canadiana.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Since getting back form Mexico I've also become heavily engrossed in my 9x12ft painting! My fellow thesis friend,Ryan Trudeau, is the best and helped me stretch it, then I used a house painting roller to gesso it and the past few days painting on it has been bliss. I love a big canvas. </span><br />
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</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Diana is a figure of Roman mythology and was the feminist goddess of the hunt. Originally, I was solely looking at the image but I think it's meaning is becoming more and more apparent. My thesis work this year has evolved into my interest in the idea there are relationships between the inhumane treatment of animals and how women are viewed and treated. I am also interested in how we view animals, such as which ones we have domesticated and deem as our companions and others that we are used to killing or eating. There is no way I would be painting the classical painting in a realistic manner as I am an abstract painter so i began painting the animals in flesh colours to relate them more to humans. I also made the decision today to start painting a stylized/abstracted vagina over Diana as she is such a powerful female goddess. I also wanted her to relate more to the dead and hanging swan she has killed on the left side of the canvas. I'm excited to see what happens in the next few weeks as I love painting intuitively on such a big scale. I will be sure to take photos as I go and I have been setting up a video camera every time I paint so I'm hoping to put the footage together in a video of how the piece was painted afterwards.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">And to add to this all this excitement I got a new job! I don't start until April (thank goodness because thesis is crazy right now) but I will be working at <a href="http://www.lunevintage.blogspot.com/">LUNE Vintage</a>! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I originally met Jill Monroe, the owner, when the shop was located on Rathgar (it is now on Broadway & Balmoral) and I began selling some of my jewelry at the shop. Lune Vintage is actually sharing a space with </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://frecklednest.typepad.com/la/">Freckled Nest designs</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> which should be quite cool as Leigh Ann from Freckled Nest designed my blog and I have also known </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.kylaroma.com/">Kyla Roma</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, now one of their main designers since we were little. It's going to be the best and another great perk is my friend </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://themidkid.blogspot.com/">Cara Mason</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> was hired too! It's going to be a great summer :)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Some things I can't wait to get my grubby little fingers on are one of <a href="http://lunevintage.blogspot.com/p/web-shop.html">Jill's Ojo de Dios necklaces</a> </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Looking for something to do this weekend? Join the March Gallery Ingenue artists Friday night for the Canadiana Opening from 7-10pm at 166 Osborne Street! I'll be there :)</span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">1. I youtube the pottery scene from ghost a little too much.</div><div style="text-align: center;">2. Sometimes I don't shower after hot yoga and just keep going about my day.</div><div style="text-align: center;">3. I have full conversations with my cats a lot and I let them do whatever they want. This includes sharing meals with me (Toulouse likes vegetables?).</div><div style="text-align: center;">4. My dreams are very vivid. When I was little I would have reoccurring lucid dreams. They would often be nightmares and while still dreaming I would be able to recognize I was just dreaming and either start controlling the dream or clap my hands in the dream so I could wake up. Recently I've been having a hard time decifering whether something happened in a dream or real life. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">5. I will set my alarm clock for 2-3 hours before I have to get up in the morning and let the alarm ring every ten minutes for several hours before actually getting up. And sometimes there is more than one alarm set.</div><div style="text-align: center;">6. I have a really bad/selective memory and often forget conversations I've had with people/if I've met someone/if I've leant something to someone. People who know me well know this and thankfully love me anyways.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">And now my own addition to six confessions... Six things I discovered last week. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">1. Sometimes I don't have full control over clay and it starts telling me what to do. (My sculpture tried to collapse but luckily was saved)</div><div style="text-align: center;">2. When agave syrup ferments it turns into tequila</div><div style="text-align: center;">3. This photograph by <a href="http://dianathorneycroft.com/index.php">Diana Thorneycroft</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">4. A new song <a href="http://www.myspace.com/flyingfoxandthehuntergatherers">'Vanity' by Flying Fox and the Hunter Gatherers</a></div><div style="text-align: center;">5. Women who are not pregnant can lactate and in fact induce lactation.</div><div style="text-align: center;">6. This video by local artist, <a href="http://www.mts.net/~mcml/chantel.htm">Chantel Mierau</a>.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Hope you all have a great valentines day! Make your own 'six confessions/six discoveries' post and share it in the comments section!</div>Gillian Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02623745869220839812noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580194215459844609.post-14456625144269386552011-02-09T00:06:00.001-06:002011-02-09T00:07:48.251-06:00Learning new tricksToday was great. As I said earlier I met up with <a href="http://dizzydame.ca/">Melanie Wesley</a> at her studio/home to make the shawl this afternoon. First off, Melanie's place is amazing - filled with colour, art, and the smell of sweetgrass - it was a pleasure to be in her little realm. And talk about a cool studio! My studio is a disaster zone compared to her organized and beautiful space filled with mannequins adorned in her creations. Case in point - here are some of the latest creations from her studio:<br />
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Ok so here's what I'm most excited about. I've never used a sewing machine by myself before and look what Mel helped me create - my shawl!<br />
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I will hopefully be able to recreate more of these bad boys by myself now with fabric I make from the new workshop I signed up for. I'm really excited because I know a fair amount of people in the class already - Mel, my friend <a href="http://www.wandajune.com/index.html">Wanda June</a>, and her husband Jim! It's going to be great.<br />
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I've got to get to bed now though because I've got an impromptu studio visit with Neil Wedman, a visiting artist who teaches at Emily Carr tomorrow.<br />
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Oh and here's my cat Toulouse sitting like a person again...<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">My guest author stint on Arden Hill's blog, Four For the Day, finished on Sunday. Here are some of groupings of four I shared - check out his blog <a href="http://fourfortheday.wordpress.com/2011/02/06/day-73-four-things-that-curve-and-point/">here</a> to see all seven of my additions. Arden is also taking submissions for future blog authors. Follow<a href="http://fourfortheday.wordpress.com/call-for-submissions/"> this link</a> for submission information.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Photos from the FLESH: Featuring works by Megan Driedger, Leslie Roos, and Rachel Schappert at Gallery Ingenue. The opening was this week but if you missed it the work will be up until March 4th!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">There was also an article in today's paper about Dominique Rey's Slowness project that you can check out <a href="http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/life/slow-down-stat-115545269.html">here</a>. I was talking to Dominique about her project when she came to the Gallery Ingenue opening last Friday and we were talking about how hard it is to slow down and the stressful urge to be ahead of the game and productive as possible. I've definitely been feeling this lately but have been finding that going to yoga helps. Which is interesting because in this article, Dominique talks about how she spent years being high strung and stressed and realized that she had to change something so she started to meditate. Meditation and yoga kind of go hand in hand so maybe meditation is something I should try out... I've been vaguely familiar with meditation after my friend Lana's mom (also <a href="http://www.kylaroma.com/">Kyla Roma</a>'s mom) had a meditation room in their house growing up. I remember 'the meditation room', with candles, incense, pillows, and next to no furniture. It was always a very mysterious room and I enjoyed its presence. It looked a little something like this...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">This week I also started the process of restocking my cupboards after the cupboard falling fiasco a few weeks ago. I decided to check out an antique store in my neighbourhood that I had never been into before - Antiques in the Village - and I am in love. The owner is so sweet and sympathized with my loss of vintage dishes and I found an arm full of new treasures. My favourite is my new set of 6 vintage plates...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">And today I am off to the studio of local textile aficionado, <a href="http://dizzydame.ca/">Melanie Wesley</a>, to receive sewing lessons on how to make a shawl like this:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">(green faux fur & wilderness print) to make a template for a series of shawls that commemorate different events where animal rights have been violated. I've signed up for a workshop at Martha Street Studio that teaches you to print your own designs on fabric so I'm hoping to make a series of faux fur shawls lined with fabric I've illustrated to commemorate events such as the <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/sled+dogs+slaughtered+Whistler+when+tourism+slumped/4196889/story.html">slaughter of 100 sled dogs in Canmore</a>. I'm hoping to somehow tie in these pieces with my body of thesis work so we'll see what happens!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">The Tom's show Design contest I'm helping to organize is also coming to a head as our show in GOSA starts February 28th. The artists selected have been given TOMS shoes to design and they will be featured in The Gallery of Student Art from February 28th - March 4th along with other works by the artists. I will be designing my shoes after my big crit this Friday but here's a sneak peek of <a href="http://www.laurenmcphaden.com/">Lauren McPhaden</a>'s design.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">My head is already spinning with trying to list everything on the go right now - I'm going to make more coffee and a tofu scramble, try to think of slowness then just focus on today's activity - shawl making.</div>Gillian Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02623745869220839812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580194215459844609.post-83944299037240384242011-01-31T10:42:00.002-06:002011-01-31T10:42:51.588-06:00Four For the Day Starts Today<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Today is my first day as guest author/curator of artist, <a href="http://colourways.wordpress.com/">Arden Hill</a>'s, blog </span><a href="http://fourfortheday.wordpress.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">Four for the Day</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">. Here's the low down on Four For the Day:</span></div><div><div style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">'four for the day</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><div style="text-align: center;">a daily collection of 4 things</div></span></div><div style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In our lives we have things. Various things. Things we need. Things we don’t. Things we obsess over. Things we collect. Things we use. Things we eat. Things that are us. Things that used to be us. Things we want to be us.</span></div></div><div style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Sometimes we order these things in collections based on colour, material, use, temporal significance, value, importance, and design. Sometimes we order them to be discovered by guests, to be forgotten, to be given away, and sometimes without order.</span></div></div><div style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">four for the day is a thematic daily collection of 4 things. The theme is determined by various possible attributes, i.e, quality of lead (day 1), material (day 8), creator (12)…</span></div></div><div style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">four for the day highlights those unique collections we have that fill our spaces and brings them into the light to be appreciated by others.'</span></div></div><div style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">My first post is an hommage to four of my favourite ceramic dishware lost in <a href="http://gilliangiggs.blogspot.com/2011/01/slowing-down.html">last week's 'crash'</a>. Check it out <a href="http://fourfortheday.wordpress.com/2011/01/31/day-67-four-pieces-of-ceramic-dishware-to-pay-hommage-to/">here</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">After class, I came home to gather my things, feed the cats, and head off to yoga but as I was answering emails I started to hear what sounded like glasses breaking and thought the cats must've knocked something over. But I looked up and the cats were sitting in front of me just as surprised as I was. The crash continued and got louder and louder about probably lasted about ten seconds. I ran to the kitchen to where the noise was coming from and saw that my ENTIRE cupboard unit had come off the wall breaking everything inside.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">My first thought was to get the cats into my room so they wouldn't step on the glass that was scattered everywhere and then I ran and grabbed my landlord. Turns out the old carpenter who put it together did a really shotty job and someone (including my cats) could have been crushed because of it. I'm just so glad my cats weren't in there or I would have flipped out. Anyways, there is now a new trustworthy carpenter working on a new set up cupboards so I'm happy about that!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">On the same day I went to the <a href="http://www.jazzforhumanity.org/ubuntu">Children of the World Art Auction</a> Project launch, which is something I have been involved with for three years now and my friend Megan Driedger was also accepted and will also be a participating artist this year. The art auction is one part of a group of artist events that all happen on one night in June called Jazz for Humanity. The other arts event include culinary arts, dance, and music. The event raises money for Umbuntu which is an organization based out of Edmonton and Kimironko, a small village in Rwanda to help children and women still suffering through the after effects of the Rwandan genoocide in 1994. The night has really grown in the few years it has been happening. Rayannah, one of the main organizers of the project brought a speaker this year, Dan, who is from Sudan and grew up as a child soldier. His story of how he got out of that life and wound up here in Winnipeg studying engineering at the the University of Manitoba was so inspiring and I'm pretty sure almost everyone in the room was on the verge of tears by the end. His story was so inspiring that I think I will try and approach the theme of the auction "the world through a child's eyes" around him. It's hard to put into words how humbling Dan's talk was and it really put the 'crazy' day beforehand into perspective and made me realize how lucky I am.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">So yesterday was spent dealing with kitchen stuff, working in the studio, yoga-ing and witnessing a performance by another thesis student, Jen Orr. I was quite taken by Jen's performance/installation. She had transformed one of the thesis spaces into this tranquil/mesmorizing space. She invited people into the room onto a floor covered in cds which mimicked the circular video projected on the wall. The combination of the music and this vortex video sucking you in made for a very meditative atmosphere so that's what Jen and Rachel (Schappert) began doing. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">I started to loose track of time in the space and must've sat there staring at this thing for almost 45 minutes. I think another reason I was so taken by it is because of all the yoga I've been doing lately. I've come to really appreciate thinking about nothing and being still.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Speaking of being still - have you heard about <a href="http://www.dominiquerey.com/">Dominique Rey</a>'s Slowness project? </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Dominique Rey is a very inspiring Winnipeg performance artist, photographer, painter, and video artist who was just named <a href="http://www.artsforall.ca/index.php/AFA/article/dominique_rey">Winnipeg's Arts Embassador for Visual Arts</a>. To learn more about the slowness project, check out the blog <a href="http://dolessslowly.wordpress.com/">here</a>.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Darrin and I are also going to try the vegan food at the Lo Pub for the first time this weekend! </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;">We've been discovering more and more little places with vegan options in Winnipeg recently which is really exciting because we used to have 'our' restaurants to go to but we're slowly finding new gems that can be 'ours'. I'll be sure to keep you posted on our food reviews!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div>Gillian Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02623745869220839812noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580194215459844609.post-5719853641147853942011-01-25T12:07:00.001-06:002011-01-25T12:08:12.377-06:00Big Stretchers and stuff<div style="text-align: center;">Today is another busy day filled with <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=191333640879705">FLESH</a> posters to print, calls to make, sculptures to build, class prep for the <a href="http://gilliangiggs.blogspot.com/2011/01/having-hard-time-thinking-of-bad-pun.html">class I teach</a> tomorrow, AND one of my thesis advisors, Cliff Eyland, has organized a visit between a few of the painting thesis students and some architecture masters students for today! Apparently the architecture students are interested in seeing our work so I'm hoping the visit turns into a crit of sorts with an architecture perspective. It should be interesting! Of course I'll have to clean my studio first - right now no one but me can find their way through the space past all the 'palettes' (actually just wax paper), brushes,and art books all over the floor... </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Speaking of books! I'm reading the greats book right now - How To Survive and Prosper As an Artist.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">I would recommend it to anyone who plans on making a living or atleast part of a living from creating. It's the first book since Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut I can't seem to put down. Caroll Michels gives great advice on everything ranging from marketing to pricing to how to prepare for a studio visit. I know all parts of this book will apply to me at some point in my life so I'm busying trying to soak it all in. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">And I briefly touched on it yesterday but I found out my submission was accepted for the Gallery of Student Art (GOSA) and I will be having a show there in the spring! The exact date is TBA but I will announce it and it will be posted in the <a href="http://www.gillianking.com/news.html">'news' section of my website</a> shortly. Fun fact about GOSA: the Gallery of Student art receives the most traffic in the entire city! Once you think about it, it becomes less surprising because it is located in the middle of University Center at the U of M - the hub of all activity at the university. The April/May sections in my agenda are filling up scary-fast. I've got three shows to prepare for aswell as my final crit... woah...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Lauren's dad also helped me set up the 9x12ft stretcher in the art barn last night! </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">It is a monster... but luckily it is built so it can be taken apart into four 'smaller' stretchers, 4.5x6ft each. I've told myself I can't start on it until after my next crit mid-february because I have a habit of getting really excited about new ideas and starting new things before fully completing previous projects. So on my list of things to do before starting 'the monster' I will finish all my paintings from the beginning of the year, glaze and fire my remaining ceramic pieces, and figure out a pump system for my new breast milk fountain. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">And here's the latest progress on the breast milk fountain - I've decided to give the women four breasts each to reference cow's teats and I am currently sculpting heads for the figures.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">I also bought a pair of earrings off my friend Cara, aka MidKid, who is a first year school of art student and our newest member of student council. Check em out! She custom made them with maps of Manhattan and Osborne village in Winnipeg - two places very close to my heart :) </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">And check out tales of her adventures with her new hubby and art school on <a href="http://themidkid.blogspot.com/">her blog</a>!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">And song of the day by the band <a href="http://www.myspace.com/abbyband">Abby</a> from Berlin...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="youtube-player" frameborder="0" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/iNsMZU-x8A4" title="YouTube video player" type="text/html" width="640"></iframe></div>Gillian Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02623745869220839812noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580194215459844609.post-70231152624694896982011-01-24T08:22:00.003-06:002011-01-24T08:24:19.717-06:00Oh happy day<div style="text-align: center;">Today's going to be a great day! Here's a list of things that are great about today...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">- I just got an email that my submission was accepted for a show (more details on that later)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">- I'm making kicking horse coffee with chocolate soy milk in my new one cup french press</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">- My bestie Kaja was featured in a the blog <a href="http://fashionrecycled.blogspot.com/2011/01/style-23-january-23-2011.html">'Fashion Recycled'</a> - Kaja is a stylish lady and a dancer in Calgary</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">- My other bestie Leslie and thesis friends Megan and Rachel will be setting up in <a href="http://www.galleryingenue.blogspot.com/">Gallery Ingenue</a> next week for their show <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=191333640879705">FLESH</a> - it's going to be so great! Their work is going to go beautifully together and for those of you who want to beautify your home or need a unique Valentines day gift, their work will be available for sale and work can be taken home the same day it is bought!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">- I'm heading to yoga in a few hours</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">- I'll be working on my breast milk sculpture all day and hopefully starting on the water fountain part of it (photos to be posted later)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">- We have our first student council meeting of the year - yes I'm a nerd and excited for this...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">- Lauren's dad has made a 9x12ft stretcher for me and we're going to be assembling it at the studio today (can't wait - this will be my biggest canvas yet)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">- and my friend Lana is coming to pick up my Sheep in a Street + Worms painting</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"> from my apartment tonight so she can babysit it for me - I'm happy to have it going to a good home because I know Lana appreciates the finer things :) </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">And here's a fun video I found yesterday...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="225" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/9752986" width="400"></iframe></div><a href="http://vimeo.com/9752986">70 Million by Hold Your Horses !</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user2732566">L'Ogre</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.Gillian Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02623745869220839812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580194215459844609.post-29195928111775068502011-01-21T00:37:00.000-06:002011-01-21T00:37:06.126-06:00Having a hard time thinking of a bad pun... 'Udderly unrelated'?<div style="text-align: center;">Today was a better day in the studio. I often use studio time as time to listen to local bands on myspace and today was filled with <a href="http://www.imaginarycities.ca/">Imaginary Cities</a> - a local band filled with fun local people. I've attached this video because my friend and old roommate Alex Campbell (the guy in the plaid shirt walking down the hall in the beginning) plays keys in it. Also while I was checking out their band photos I noticed that they did a photoshoot in front of my old sculpture prof, Gordan Reeve's, Agassiz Ice sculpture at Assinaboine Park! </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Ahh... Winnipeg is small :) Enjoy this little diddy filmed in a bathroom!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">And here are before/after photos I promised of the painting I sabotaged earlier this week. One of my thesis advisors came into my studio today and told me he liked where it was going which was a confidence boost considering the last time I touched it and covered 3/4 of it with cotton candy pink/blue, I had that "What am I doing - is my hand possessed?" feeling. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">I am simultaneously working on a new idea I had yesterday based on the breast milk cheese that has been all over CBC, <a href="http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/01/18/deliciously-creamy-the-world-of-breast-milk-cheese/">The National Post</a>, and the Globe and Mail the past couple of days. <a href="http://www.miriamsimun.com/">Mirium Simun</a> who is a Harvard student in New York has been making <a href="http://www.miriamsimun.com/humancheese">human cheese</a> from a combination of breast milk from consenting women in the New York area and goat's milk. Although using breast milk for consumption is unusual, it is not a new concept. I think most people's initial reactions to the thought of cheese made from breast milk is disgust but I believe this is because society chooses to see breasts as primarily sexual and secondarily functional - and only functional for infants. A mother's milk is full of necessary nutrients for their offspring but is not actually natural for grown animals or humans to consume as adults because we don't need these nutrients anymore. Hence why so many people are lactose intolerant. We've been consuming another specie's milk that was meant for their offspring for so long that we have forced animals such as cows into domestication and often unfavorable living environments, while destroying our environment at the same time. The main reason why I was initially intrigued by these articles was as a vegan, I thought about my reasons for being vegan, and if the human cheese were not mixed with goat's milk, and was completely comprised of human milk, in theory I would be ok eating it. There is consent from the human's providing it and it is a readily available resource. Imagine if we had done this years ago - there would be less of an 'ick' factor when thinking of breasts as functional, maybe breasts would become less sexualized, we wouldn't be in such an environmental predicament, and these animals wouldn't be injected with chemicals and kept in tiny stalls to spend their lives producing milk for us. Imagine that. I realize I went on a bit of a rant there but I feel it's necessary to explain the concept of my new piece. I am making a 'water' fountain that will supply breast milk. I feel that by creating something that connects to the wall like a water fountain will give the idea that this substance is readily available and by sculpting the women as reclining nudes it blurs the line between sexual/functional. Here is the first nude I sculpted out of clay today - the milk will be coming out of her breast and will trickle into the 'trough' (for lack of a better word) between her arm and her torso. This is probably one of the weirdest things I've ever thought of to make but I'm really excited about it!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">And in other completely unrelated news, I took some photos during the painting class I taught yesterday. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">and <a href="http://studio.robertjosiah.net/">Robert Josiah Bingaman</a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">be sure to check out <a href="http://studio.robertjosiah.net/process">this awesome video</a> of Robert painting 'Nevada'.</div></div>Gillian Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02623745869220839812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580194215459844609.post-33651089201635600482011-01-18T13:45:00.001-06:002011-01-18T13:45:34.747-06:00It's SabotageHad a frantic day in the studio yesterday. I spent a fair amount of the day in transition covering 3/4 of the work I did on the Turducken painting last week in a bubblegum pink. I decided I didn't like where the Turducken painting was going and it would be best to cover it in pink (??) and create windows. In one of the windows I will be painting <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/35465040@N07/4127220312/">this new image</a> I found on flickr. I'll be sure to take photos of the transition and post them so this description makes more sense.<br />
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I think it's a good thing to go on instincts and to not be afraid of sabotaging work in order to create something that feels right but it certainly makes for a creative rollercoaster of a day. It was funny because I started off the day with this scene of American Beauty in mind - so determined - not to sell a house but to be productive with the painting...<br />
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But by the end of the day I felt slightly crazy, out of body, confused, and frantic like Gael Garcia Bernal in this scene of The Science of Sleep.<br />
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To get today going I've decided to compile a list of random links that things have been influencing and interesting me lately - in no particular order and with no particular connections.<br />
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<a href="http://sometimessweet.blogspot.com/2011/01/tattoo-tuesday-v53.html">This animal rights tattoo</a> featured on the blog Sometimes Sweet.<br />
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<a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=191333640879705">The FLESH show</a> at Gallery Ingenue.<br />
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<a href="http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1509732233069&comments">This video by Kitty Kittie</a> advertising for the poetry slam Jan. 27 at the King's Head Pub.<br />
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This <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTAhSJt_8x8">Dead Prez</a> video.<br />
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Angie Johnson's <a href="http://iheartnorwegianwood.tumblr.com/">new blog</a>.<br />
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<a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/the-hot-button/human-cheese-sustainable-or-sick/article1874104/">Human Cheese</a>. Possible new art direction.Gillian Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02623745869220839812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580194215459844609.post-32460865588681889292011-01-15T12:44:00.001-06:002011-01-15T12:45:27.488-06:00Dinners...Last night was Darrin's 25th birthday and we went to a new Mexican restaurant called La Bamba to celebrate. The 'guak' and refried beans were amazing but as for vegan meals I would probably go for the nachos over the enchiladas next time. And as expected, the lime margaritas and homemade chocolate vegan ice cream were amazing. I brought some candles and Darrin blew them out a few times over the photoshoot - hopefully that doesn't disqualify his wish!<br />
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In other news, I taught my first 'Abstract Landscapes in Acrylic' class last week! It was a lot of fun and I can't wait for the assignments, crits, visiting artists, and field trips to come. I even have a potluck planned for the last day of class because I think potlucks are great. I've confirmed my friends Lauren McPhaden and Megan Driedger to be visiting artists so the students can get varied opinions and advice on their work.<br />
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Megan Driedger will also be apart of next month's show, FLESH, at Gallery Ingenue. Check out the line up <a href="http://galleryingenue.blogspot.com/2011/01/updates-from-interiorsexteriors-news.html">here</a>.<br />
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And in studio news, this is the Texas Chainsaw Massacre painting I've started. This is just the beginning but I thought I'd post the progress.<br />
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And breaking news: If you have a serious amount of cash (currently $15,100+) and would like to know the identity of Banksy you can apparently purchase this from a person who is either lying, of very low character, or Banksy himself on ebay... Check it out <a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260720844294&ssPageName=STRK%3AMESELX%3AIT#ht_500wt_1156">here</a>...<br />
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Have a great weekend!Gillian Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02623745869220839812noreply@blogger.com0