Melbourne Art 2009

This painting sold at the Art Show. It was an exciting event for Dawn.

We did not stay overnight in Melbourne, but drove home every night. It was very tiring. 

Melbourne Art Fair 2009

Art Fair Melbourne 2009

This weekend, Dawn exhibited at the Exhibition Building on the Carlton Park.

Heaps of people came through, sometimes it was even difficult to walk against the traffic coming in. It was so crowded.

This was the first year they let artists' run their own mini-gallery.

Dawn sold one painting today. Tomorrow is the last day.

Exhibition at Arthur Gallery, Ballarat

We made a few bookmarks, for this exhibition. The show was good, but no sales.

There wasn't much walkin traffic and the gallery wasn't in a good position. The gallery will be moving to a better spot up the street.

Dawn's art at www.exexart.com

We met a couple who were doing up a gallery in Geelong and things lead to things, and we ended up with Dawn putting her paintings on their online gallery. We were thrilled to see that they have chosen one of Dawn's paintings to put on their homepage as seen here. www.exexart.com

2009 Exhibitions

This month, Dawn has put on an exhibition at Arthur Gallery. All the paintings are oil on canvas with sizes 1.5 m x 1.0 m or the reverse. These paintings were done last year as shown on older posts on this blog. 

Dawn's painting 2008

Dawn has started to sell her 2008 paintings.

This one has been sold to a doctor for his clinic. The doctor's wife bought it and was very lucky to get this piece. Some one had already wanted it and her husband did not like it. Another collector wanted it but thought it was sold.

Dawn is having all her 2008 paintings at Arthur Gallery in Ballarat. Then she is having another show with the Melbourne Art Show 2009. Hopefully, she might not have soldout, and leaving no paintings for the Melbourne Show. 

This lot of paintings was shown at her Honours year at University of Ballarat last year. She had received rave reviews of her paintings and awarded a High Distinction for her paintings. This sold piece was shown at the Uni's Post Office Gallery with another one, the Blue coloured paintings and was the first one to sell.

Dawn's 2008 Honours degree art

Dawn has completed her honours year and these are a sample of her work.

Her results:
painting High Distinction
seminar High Distinction
and 2 other Distinctions
and a credit for her exegesis.

Arts Academy exhibition

Today, we drove back from Kyneton where we have had a holiday. We dropped into the Post Office gallery to look at the art of some of the students from the visual art department at the University of Ballarat's Art Academy.
Dawn couldn't find her piece of art there and worried that the frames of that painting had buckled, or the canvas was damaged.
Then when we went back to the opening tonight, she found her painting was in the only window of the gallery, and passers-by could see her painting. It was in the most prominent display of all the gallery and an honour.

Luddite turns

Dawn was given a computer in addition to her scholarship. She has never own a computer. And besides, she was not very technical minded, I used to call her a Luddite, people who dislikes technology. Now she is having a lot of joy on her own computer.
Dawn has nearly completed her exegesis, nearly finished Chapter One. She also has to talk about her art in three weeks time. She has done well, and worked consistently whenever she has a chance and goes to her studio at uni.
Everything looks good for her Honours year in Painting.

uni scholarship

Exciting day for Dawn, she has been awarded with a scholarship to pay for educational costs for her year in the Honours degree in Bachelor of Visual Arts - painting.
Now she can buy all the canvas and paints she wants. After not hearing anything about her application, she was pleasantly surprised to receive the news.
At uni, Dawn has been working hard, painting and researching her proposal. Her mentor, Lois Button has been very helpful to her, she is a very nice person and teacher. I think Dawn will progress in leaps and bounds now. Some of her new works are already suitable for the end of year assessments.

Easter already over

Easter is over already and the uni is closed for holidays. Dawn has finished exhibition at Radmac and now she is preparing to exhibit at Mad Gallery. 'Fresh Abstraction' is the exhibition and will feature a lot of 2008 artworks. Carolyn will also be exhibiting at the same time.

A preview of the exhibits is at www.dawnlim.com
3 of the paintings is already approved for her Honours degree end of the year. Dawn is very thrilled.

Dawn at Uni

Dawn is busy, painting at her studio as an honours student. She has now enrolled in the Bachelor degree in Visual Arts - Painting with honours. This course will be for this year only.
Dawn has been enjoying painting this series. She has been experimenting with colour and line in a painterly manner ever since she graduated.

Uni

Dawn was accepted to do an Honours year next year at the University of Ballarat in Fine Arts. She is very excited to get in. She will have to juggle hairdressing and art class teaching, with painting and writing a thesis

"Chair" @ Mad Gallery

Today we went to the opening of the "Chair" exhibition at Mad Gallery. A group of artists were aksed to put on an exhibition with theme of "chair". Dawn put up a painting that was placed at the entrance of Mad Gallery. Dawn painted a "dimension travelling seat". It reminded me of Salvador Dali's pink lips settee because of the bright red upholstery. I tried to upload my video of the exhibition, but I had an error with this. Just trying to see if videos are any good for a blog.

Mental Health Week

Tonight we went to the opening of the Mental Health Week art and craft exhibition at the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, one of the best regional galleries in Victoria, Australia. The paintngs were hung very well, the venue was splendid, very popular and was in the hub of the art world in Ballarat, next to the University of Ballarat's art school.
Dawn put in 4 paintings at the exhibition.

Art Classes at Radmac

Dawn has started to give art classes at Radmac, in Ballarat.

She absolutely loves it. It gives her an opportunity to share what she has learnt in painting, both representational and contemporary abstract art. Dawn started giving lessons to the ladies at church and now she is renting an art room at Radmac.

Holidays at Mildura

During June of this year, we went for a week's holidays at Mildura to recharge and be inspired by the various different sceneries there, from vineyards, orange fields to the native forests and the Murray river.

We took some photos for Dawn to paint from and she was very much inspired by the native scrubland. She painted a couple of these sceneries in the vein of "managerie" and "puppy love".

The gnarled and twisted treeforms were quite intriguing. The depth and shade of the forests were quite interesting too, which gave her a platform to start.

Encore?

Dawn had a sellout exhibition at Mad Gallery, and she has been invited to put on another exhibition there at the end of this month, June 2007. With the money she earned there, Dawn has bought some new canvases and she is busy painting.

Dawn's friend, Carolyn is also exhibiting there at the same time, she is the main attraction, and is a very good wildlife and animal painter. The eyes of the animals are so alive!

Carolyn's art can be seen on http://carolynart.spaces.live.com/

Blue Ribbon

Dawn has just finished a commissioned painting for blue ribbon real estate. They are selling our home for us.

They wanted a painting for their office that represents their business.