Miss Art of Teaching

My weekend has been quite busy. I've only slowed down today. On Friday night, I went out with some close friends and we celebrated that I am finally permanent after being five years on the contract. We went to a lovely Italian restaurant in the city called 'Fratelli Fresh'. I didn't manage to take any photos as the food was too delicious and I was preoccupied with the experience. Yesterday, I went to the Etsy handmade markets to support local artists and designers. I managed to purchase a number of handmade jewellery along with my high school friends. I have this fascination to expand my art teacher jewellery collection. We stopped for brunch around 12:30pm at the 'Lord Gladstone Hotel'. I was pretty much starving at that point. The food was very satisfying. Afterwards, we headed to the Archibald Prize and the Wynne and Sulman exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Here are some of my favourite artworks: ...

I miss going out to the CBD to look at the different art galleries. Work sometimes take the energy and time out of my life. Actually lets replace 'sometimes' with 'always'. Today, I decided to trek to the city even with a cold (runny nose, weak muscles, tiredness etc). It was a difficult walk as most part of George street is blocked off due to the light rail road work. I have been feeling a bit sad as I missed the exhibition by Tatsuo Miyajima at the Museum (MCA) of Contemporary Art. There are so many great reviews about the exhibition. The new exhibition at MCA didn't interest me so I turned my attention to the White Rabbit Gallery. They focus on contemporary artworks by Chinese artists. It was a fun exhibition and showed a range of art practice with interesting concepts and material choice. Darkness was the theme of all the artworks but each artist had their own approach. Although darkness is important in all the artworks, 'light' was just as important...