Another one ticks over

The last few hours of 2011 meet the first few hours of 2012

Shop Visit - Mr Kitly for Yen

The latest edition of Yen Magazine was released today, and my photography accompanies two great articles. These are some extra images from my visit to the most excellent Mr Kitly shop and gallery, which features in 'Mode' this issue. It's a wonderful space, tucked away upstairs on Sydney Road, Brunswick - coincidentally the gallery is playing host to my upcoming exhibition 'Neither Excluded Nor Included', which opens next Friday 9th September (more to come on that later).

Be sure to pick up the new mag! Features 2 new and delicious Trotski & Ash recipes to boot!

This Saturday night

 

Excellent line up, for an excellent bands excellent album launch! (nb. my photography will be gracing the cover of this fine debut, along with those colourful splashes on the poster).

MR KITLY

 I'm very excited right now. I just found out that two friends of mine, Julian and Bree, are opening a shop and gallery!

'MR KITLY is a shop and gallery in Brunswick, Melbourne.

Opening night December 2 from 6pm, 

Upstairs 381 Sydney road, Brunswick.

It would be so great to see you there.

(If you would like to come, and you like to schedule things in facebook,

here is the facebook invitation)

MR KITLY shop will also open from the 2 Dec opening night. 

Pottery, printed matter, textiles and indoor plants. 

A collection of goods for life made by artists and artisans

in Australia, Japan, Korea, USA and Europe.

MR KITLY is a skylight and sun-lit space on the second floor

of a Victorian-era shop building.

We love our Brunswick neighbourhood,

and I love spending time pottering about, 

watering plants in our new space.

MR KITLY is a welcoming place that celebrates 

the hand-crafted, the unusual, the illuminating,

the imperfectly perfect, 

and the sunlit, small and beautiful things in life.'

Just look at the caliber of the artists involved in the opening exhibition. So Exciting! 

 

 Paul Williams

Mark Rodda

Georgina Ward

 Antonia Sellbach

Cover

Amaya Laucirica has a new album coming out, 'Early Summer' (oh please! give us one of those!). She has just released a single, pictured above. One of my photographs features on the cover.

Sunday Afternoon

Parading

Keeping Up

I have been shooting a lot lately, a variety of things - more press photos, album artwork, fashion, food, interiors, portraits, orchestra's...I would love to share many of these images with you all, but they must remain underwraps until they are unveiled by others in their various forms.

Karl Edwin Scullin

I'm on a roll here with this theme..

Karl Edwin Scullin, yet another Melbourne talent and great friend. Not only is he a brilliant photographer, he is also a generously talented musician, performing under the name Kes.

Karl and I are holding an exhibition together, opening in June this year at C3 gallery, Abbotsford. Stay tuned for details...

Warwick Baker

Another amazing Melbourne talent. Warwick Baker is another photographer/friend whose work gives me inspiration...

Jacinta Moore

Jacinta Moore is a friend of mine from Melbourne, but she always seems to be travelling here there and everywhere! I have admired her photography for years, here are a few of my favourites...

BEACHES - the band

 My friends Ali, Antonia, Gill, Alison and Karla make up the Melbourne band BEACHES. Should I waffle on about how great their band is, but also how bloody talented each lady is in their own right - outside of the music realm? I would, but I'm going to the pool instead! They are leaving for America in a week or so, and they will blow the socks off those seppos.

 I have seen Beaches play many times, but by FAR my favourite Beaches experience was their first show. It was a birthday party, they played in a (packed) loungeroom, and everyone was very curious and eager to hear if they would be good! Obviously when you have certain ingredients involved there is no doubt it will work, but still, I can guarantee that the majority of the room that night was blown away within the first 30 seconds. If I remember correctly they opened with 'The Rip', and by the time that riff kicked in the room was 'WOOO!'-ing. My friend Andrew Harper was dancing next to me, with his arms out, eyes closed, big grin on his face, and that basically sums up how the music these gals were playing made us all feel. Good luck abroad broads