Small Works prize 2012

It's that time of year again and we are opening entries for our annual Ballarat Small Works Prize.
We will be accepting all works in any medium at or under 30 x 30 cm in dimension. Last years exhibition saw nearly 100 works and this year is looking to be bigger and better. If you are interested in submitting works,don't be shy and hop over to the downloadable application form on our website. We are encouraging all to exhibit as this is an excellent change to show your work in an affordable way, with many gallery visitors and is an excellent way for artists of all levels of experience to show their works.

I will be working on a new paper cutting for the show (which of course won't be entered for judging) as I often need this kind of prompt to create new works I'm 'deadline orientated' in that way. How about you?

DIY - Instagram Print

I'm so excited about the up-coming 'Click @Red Brick' exhibition, I love group shows for their diversity of work and fun opening celebrations. This show combines another passion of mine and that's photography. I snap away at every opportunity and love sharing my images too. We are still accepting entries for this show so hop onto our website for an application form. 

We are embracing all forms of photography, lomo, polaroid, iphonography, you name it... we want it! Recently we acquired two large light-boxes and I have a vision of a whole grid of small un-framed images would look amazing on them.
This reminded me of a fun project I did to pretty up my hallway recently. I received a few questions about them so here is a little tutorial. It's pretty simple and is a great way to display those cute family pics.

I used my Instagram photos for this project, I love the size and scale of Polaroid prints so decided to print my images to this size. Using Adobe Photoshop I made a new image 10 x 15cm (the size of my photo-paper). I regularly back-up my photos from my iphone onto my laptop so I then opened the image file, dragged it onto the blank canvas. Using 'free transform' I adjusted the image to Polaroid dimensions (7 x 7.9 cm).

 

I then printed the image on my ink-jet printer... it's nothing flash but does a pretty good job if I print at high quality. I could trim the paper at this point but I actually like how the image is framed with space to write a caption underneath!

 I am constantly adding to this little grid in my hallway with images of friends, my lovely Mr and reminders of great adventures. I can't wait until it fills the whole space!

X Steph