Memories…. what’s your earliest memory of? I’ve been having a few flashbacks over the last few months, some positive some not and quite debilitating, but the one that kept coming back was the one when I was 5yo, was in an Ambulance on a way to hospital. I was then left there without my parents…
✅ All of Us – Street Art in Bairnsdale With Big Thanks to East Gippsland Shire Council Andrea, Mark, our printer Cathleen and ALL LOCAL participants! Enjoy! Hope local schools will pick up this idea – I’m happy to help! Please share and comment on. ARE YOU A CREATIVE BUSINESS? Do you want to work and connect with…
WHERE: Ballarista Cafe, 2a Lydiard St South, Ballarat VIC 3350 WHEN: Monday, 2 July to 2 August 2018 Thursday OPENING HOURS: 8am to 4pm Monday to Friday The Art of Activism is an epic one-day road-trip story to the Far East corner of Victoria to photograph a commissioned editorial for Gippslandia Magazine. Together with journalist Mim Cook, on…
RAT Gallery presents… Mixed Blessings – The Great Art Scare exhibition WHERE: Mercure Hotel & Convention Centre, 613 Main Road, Ballarat WHEN: Thursday, 7 June to Sunday, 8 July 2018 OPENING NIGHT: from 6pm on Thursday, 7 June 2018 The Ballarat Courier: https://www.thecourier.com.au/story/5445804/new-gallery-of-mixed-blessings-for-artists Mixed Blessings is an exciting exhibition of work by 12 artists from Ballarat and district, convened…
Come see my work on exhibition at the Annual Soldiers Hill Artist Collective (SHAC) – Ballarat Art Walk – two weekends of open studios and exhibitions scattered around Soldiers Hill suburb of Ballarat, part of Ballarat Heritage Week and the Australian Heritage Festival. Join us at the Launch of our Art Walk event on Friday…
Always wanted to capture the bats and here they are! East Gippsland Gallery in Bairnsdale. Current exhibition Land Water Sky presented by East Gippsland Art Gallery in partnership with East Gippsland Shire Council, acknowledges the cultural contribution of Aboriginal people in this region. It features work of important indigenous artists like Ray Thomas, Ronald Edwards-Pepper…
Breckin, which means freckled, is the moniker of Melbourne-based visual artist, poet and singer-songwriter, Heather Marsh. Her debut album, Shiner, is both bruised and brilliant. It illuminates and holds an oblique mirror to the perennial subject of love and loss in a series of songs that are equal parts elegy, sympathy card and therapy session.…
Recent epic road trip with a Paynesville-based writer Mim Cook took me to the most isolated north-eastern part of the Victorian rainforest in Errinundra National Park, Lake Tyers General Store where owner and Screaming Jets guitarist Scott Kingman and partner Lyndy lead a tree change life away from the city and the new Port of Sale Gallery…
Miron & Maria Baskakov are the owners of Sweet and Savoury on Sturt and are really supportive on featuring local Ballarat artists. On the walls are my works from “My Australia My Journey’ exhibition featuring local Ballarat personalities. Feel free to share and recommend the works to other venues – I’d love them to be circulating rather than…
All of Us Posters Celebrating Culture Diversity Week in Bairnsdale with a display outside the Library on Service St called All of Us, which aims to feature newly arrived migrants! Are you from a diverse background? Get in touch!
My “Unicorns are real” artwork has been shortlisted to 2018 Art Lovers Prize and exhibition at Left Bank Gallery, Southport, Queensland. It’s a great honour. Please help me win the Main Prize (6k) and win something for yourself too: vote for ‘Unicorns are real’ & Win the Art Lovers Australia – Subscriber Voting Prize- all…
I’m very pleased to announce that my photographic and sculptural work from In the Process of Healing exhibition has been chosen for the final of Contemporary Art Awards in Australia. In the Process of Healing is an immersive installation of photography, sound and space. It tells a story of hope and survival of a local refugee family, exhibited…
Airbnb Based On A True Review For all who love sharing your homes to strangers…Wow, it is worth facing your fears! Few months ago I took part in an international writing contest by an online hospitality service Airbnb and wrote a short story about my first ever hosting experience on Airbnb. My very first guest was…
Ballarat artist Aldona Kmiec’s exhibition reflects on trauma and healing (click to read) Photographer Aldona Kmiec’s exhibition reflects on trauma and healing Michelle Smith 9 Aug 2017, 5:30 p.m. Healing after trauma and distress is a long and often arduous path but life can begin anew and photographer Aldona Kmiec has created a striking exhibition…
Finucane & Smith world premiere of “The exotic lives of Lola Montez” at Her Majesty’s Theatre Ballarat. www.finucaneandsmith.com/the-exotic-lives-of-lola-montez/ Theatre photography: Lola Montez
In The Process of Healing is a site-specific immersive installation of photography, sound and space which attempts to remove the stigma around trauma and normalise conversations that are difficult. ‘In the Process of Healing’ tells a story of hope and survival. Responding to the stories of institutional abuse and high rates of suicide, I have…
Dreamscapes are Aldona Kmiec’s new and ongoing photographic series. Aldona’s use of photography brings the viewer a unique perspective of the Australian landscape and explores her interest in the feminine psyche. Limited edition photographs of staged performances with romantic scenes of local art heroes emerging from an ever-changing landscape are part of the Dreamscapes series. Elusive unicorn in a…
It got to me. I can’t sleep. Big exhibition project in the pipeline and I crumble like no tomorrow. The comforting thing is, I’m not immune to the feeling of inertia, in fact everyone goes through more or less similar experience. But how debilitating is it?!!! Correct. I feel like a heavy bucket of sand…
I love winter and I love collecting photography. I don’t remember where I found this small box of tiny gelatine prints, but they’re stunning! Cigarette Cards: Winter Scenes, Set of 48 gelatine prints from the Senior Service Britain.
Who is Looking at You Portrait Prize In it’s fifth year, the Who is Looking at You? 2018 Portrait Prize offers audiences a broad cross section of portraiture. With the competition open to most mediums, the resulting exhibition offers a unique view at what could be considered a portrait. My portrait of a family titled “Invisible Lives‘…
Raymond Island Photo Walk is a concept photography class run by local artist Aldona Kmiec, showcasing unique Raymond Island habitat and bringing attention to endangered wildlife on the island. Aldona hopes to establish regular art classes in Bairnsdale area, if you’re interested in teaming up, please get in touch. Raymond Island Photo Walk
