New Exibition !!

Have just returned from a busy stint in Brisbane and the Gold Coast. The interest in the works has been fantastic.
SatArt works will be on display at Clicknet Internet Cafe, as part of the Regional Art Street Exhibition. Come in and take a look at the latest works.

Side widget problem

By the way, if that irritating little dilogue box comes up stating something about the little gallery not having been uploaded properly, just hit the " dismiss all" button. It is not a virus, I just haven't had the time to fix it. And to the 50 people a week who check this out, please leave a comment? I would love to hear what you think about the art!!

Amazing Fusion of Science and Art

I have been working on a couple of other projects over the last few weeks, 1 week on a photographic exhibition, and this week on 9 pieces of Brut art, which are nearly finished. I did get the chance to do some research on the ol' puter--what else do you do at 2 am?- and have found some amazing "stuff" that other artists are doing. I have totally fallen in love with the concept of "New Media" art.There is so much scope to be creative with reality and science, the patterns of nature, soundwaves, etc. It appears to be a process of "connecting" , a realization that we are viewing the world and ourselves from a totally different perspective.
The enpowerment of technology. It doesn't seem enough to just produce a painting that is just pleasing to the eye, anymore. Not to the New Media artists anyway. Dr Paul Schofield is a doctor who produces art based on medicine and DNA studies. I have fully connected to his expression and I love his work. Patricia Piccinini is an other widely aclaimed new media artist-
check out her work at http://www.patriciapiccinini.net/. The mind boggles.
Pierre Proske makes the most beautiful patterns from sound waves.Inspired by repeating visual units in Japanese textile design Voiceprints, created by Pierre Proske, uses specially-designed software to translate voice patterns into a design. More specifically, Proske loops and analyzes frequencies to create an algorithm that organizes visual elements into a representation of a person's voice.
Like a synaesthetic version of DNA11 prints made using genetic material, each spiraling abstract voiceprint is uniquely characteristic of an individual speaker according to their intonation. Proske aims to bring the project full circle by turning the designs into textiles in the near future.
Proske's art needs some serious thought. There is obviously a hell of a lot more tolistening to Music than we know. There is so much more to art than Cubism and Pointellism and Impressionism, and Jackson Pollock!!

For those interested or just needing some new inspiration:
http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/articles/newmedia/
http://www.anat.org.au/

Satart is on the right track.

The new definition for satellite art

SATART DEFINITION

satart : Satart describes art originally derived from satellite images, and manipulated into artistic expressions by means of computer software, or paint. The word is a literal abbreviation from the word satellite, with the addition of the word art. It also stands for "space and time art" ,or "subjective art & time" Usage: Artists and satart painters from around the globe , who follow certain guidelines,are said to be part of the satart movement

Submitted by: artspvs from Australia on Mar. 07, 2009 23:13

The value in the art will come from it's time and place in history and the formation of a new movement. Please contact Van Sprang to lodge expressions of interest in offically being part of the movement. Plans for a global exhibition are currently being formulated.

A New ART MOVEMEMENT is born

Over the past few days, a lot of research has gone into establishing a paper to discuss and define what Satellite art, or Satart, as I now call it, is. Please read the paper on http://www.satartmovement.blogspot.com/. You can follow the discussion with fellow artist Eef, preceding the paper on http://http//googleearthphilosophy.blogspot.com/,
Any comments can be emailed direct to me or left on either blog. Cheers

I was somewhat bemused to read a small article in the Courier mail- January 24-25, 2009,about a new exhibition by Qld artist Nick Leahy. The arts editor, Suzanna Clarke, asks the question-" why hasn't it been done before?"
It has, Suzanna. We just haven't got around to doing exhibitions yet.It is a little bit difficult if you live miles from nowhere!! Perhaps we should ask her to give us a plug??
Good on you Nick, though. Great to see yet an other interpretation.
http://www.nickleahy.com.au/

Autralian bushfires

Marysville-Victoria. Ravished by the fires of February 2009

Flood zone to the north.-Drenched by Monsoon

Never have the words of Dorothy McKellars poem " a sunburnt country" rung so true, as now.

" I love a sunburnt country

a land of sweeping plains
of rugged mountain ranges

of drought and flooding rains"

Ahh, the true Ozzie plight. One day it is paradise, the next it is hell.

Australia is a tough country. It is difficult to imagine that in the north, half the state is under water, and in the south, the drought and bushfires are crippling it's people. My thoughts go out to those in need, and I hope that all you who read this have donated either time, money or effort

to the victims. It could be our turn next. Who knows.

The art I have created may have already disappeared.

Collection-Beauty on the Coal face/ image title-Longwall

Before we go any further, I guess it is my "obligation" to anyone who stumbles upon this blog,to tell you the reason d'etre. The quest has been to rediscover beauty, real beauty, in any form, size or shape. Unless you have been living under a rock for the past 5 years, you would be aware that Australia is experiencing a 'resource boom". China has been crying our for coal.Progress, the insatiable consumer,has made a country wealthy.

But at what price? Envronments have been ripped apart and spoiled, cities have experienced unfathomable growth spurst at a huge cost to the established social structures, and areas of abundant beauty have become ugly, delapidated antheaps, trying to cope with the influx of working class labour, the extra infrastructures, and all the associated issues a growing population with different values bring. There is always the good and the bad, the positive and the negative, the black and white. The beauty is still there. The locals just need to look for it with a different perspective.

" With the advent of the coalboom, the impetus and social aspect of living in paradise, has become gloomier and gloomier, especially for those who have lived here for decades. Instead of a baby boomer society reaping their just rewards for having stuck it out, having given to the community for years and years, with the firm hope of a positive growth towards something a little more cultural, cosmopolitan, and friendly, the influx of vast amounts of people on the lower end of the socio-economic scale, has halted this dream dead on its tracks. A new generation of " not so cosmopolitans' has taken over the majority, will settle, and the region's future will be with them.Society caters to it's majority.Where does that leave beauty? Where does that leave paradise?'

So here I am , in paradise, trying to find a reason to stay.
Weighing up positives and negatives.Trying to rekindle the inspiration.
Can I find it in Art?

"The mining boom has cushioned Australia from the Big Crash, riding on the back of it's resources. Wages have increased dramaticaly in certain regional areas, adding to increased consumerism and investments. Whether this will be sustained when China pulls in its belt, remains to be seen. The coal regions appear to be the best regions to be in during this time of trouble".

I have prospered from the positive effect, no doubt about that.

It is difficult to see past the sea of tattoos and bald heads, and to find lyrical repose from conversations which deem 'f..k and c..." to be standard inclusions in a one line sentence, but I promise--I WILL try to see the beauty, and not sound biased. You see- I live here, and I AM a local. And it was not my dream to live in Boganville!!

Where the F..... is the beauty?? ( as the new majority would say)

Hopefully in the art which I will share with you today, as a reminder that real beauty cannot disappear. It can alter, and morph, and be altered in effect only. If you have temporarily lost the art of appreciation,check out the Earth's Graffiti for yourself and get inspired again.

Collection-Open your eyes/image title-Paradise under fire

Colour is nature's drug
It can alter your mood.It can alter your mind.
It can alter your perspective.
All the formal arts training in the world can make you a perfectionistin your field, a technician.
But the ability to feel colour has to be within
Raw
A world without colour would be a dismal existence.Created by the greatest abstract artist that ever existed, we can only copy.
We can only emulate and distort that which already exists
If it doesn't already exist, in some form or some shape, it cannot be.
Beauty
You realy don't need drugs to see it.