Now on YouTube : Thriving Outside Of Your Comfort Zone With Rachael Jayne Groover

I had the pleasure of chatting with my sister Rachael Jayne Groover creator of the Awakened School, about her most recent book, Unshakeable Inner Peace - Get off the Mental and Emotional Rollercoaster for Good.

I think that one of the major things that separates the thriving artist living their best creative life, and the artist that is stressed and stuck in a rut, is the ability to be stable and steady outside of their comfort zone.

If you think about it, being an artist is probably existing 99.9% of the time outside of our comfort zone. We have to be ok with being bad before we can be good, we have to be ok with failure and rejection, we have to be ok with maintaining our vision through hurdles and setbacks, we have to be ok with writing and talking about our work, and on it goes. This can play havoc with our thoughts, emotions and energy levels, and navigating this day to day can be plain exhausting and painful.

Rach’s book is about how we can train ourselves to not just be ok outside of our comfort zone, but to find genuine stability there, always, and thrive. If you are an artist that knows there has to be inner change to become who you want to be, and to make the work you want to make, take some time to watch our conversation and get a copy of RJ’s free e-book, Unshakeable Inner Peace.

Listen to our conversation here.

GIPPSLAND ART GALLERY COLLECTION

I am pleased and honoured to have 4 new works acquired by The Gippsland Art Gallery in Victoria. These works were part of The Relinquishing Control exhibition held in April with Skepsi Gallery.

A sincere thank you to the generous philanthropist who supported this acquisition and to Anna Maas of Skepsi Gallery for her ongoing support.

RELINQUISHING CONTROL

KEVIN BOYD

JOHN DALy

COLIN HOPKINS

AMY KENNEDY

KIM MARTIN

Skepsi @ Malvern

April 22 to 29 (view exhibition in person)

Official Opening: 2pm-4pm Saturday April 22

Guest Speaker: Greg Daly

RSVP: Friday April 21, email: skepsi@skepsi.com.au

Exhibition Preview: 12pm-4pm Friday April 21 (by appointment) email: skepsi@skepsi.com.au

Location: Malvern Artists’ Society Gallery, 1297 High Street Malvern, Victoria

Gallery Hours: 11.00am - 5.30pm

Open every day of the Exhibition, including ANZAC Day, Tuesday April 25

Online Exhibition catalogue available April 20 to May 20

www.skepsigallery.com.au

Wandering within an accumulation of short lines

Amy Kennedy and Ariel Gout

Wandering within an accumulation of short lines

14 December 2021 - 22 January 2022

MEMBERS VITRINE GALLERY, CRAFT VICTORIA, MELBOURNE

In wandering within an accumulation of short lines Ariel Gout and Amy Kennedy will create a dialogue between their respective works - ink on paper and ceramic sculpture - illustrating connections between drawing and sculpture. Their focus will be the line: line as mark making, movement through space, mass, and source of energetic expression. Both artists are inspired by natural phenomena, be it biological or terrestrial; they share a quasi-meditative process, and have developed their work over long periods of time, with deep knowledge of the materials they use.

Ariel and Amy befriended each other during an artist residency at the Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Japan in 2019. At the beginning of the Pandemic, they initiated a remote online artist residency ‘The Wagashi AIR’, a first for both. Connecting at least weekly, across time difference and distance, between Melbourne and Berlin, occasionally France; they shared the progression of their artworks and ongoing projects, inspired by each other. This remote residency continues to this day. ‘Wandering within an accumulation of short lines’ offers an opportunity for the artists to collaborate once again and bring their connection into the physical realm.

CRAFT, Watson Place, Naarm / Melbourne, VIC 3000

Closed 25th December – 10th January

Tuesday to Friday – 11:00AM – 5:00PM, Saturday – 11:00AM – 4:00PM (excluding public holidays)

For an illustrated catalogue visit >>Craft<<

Photo Henry Trumble

FRESH EYES, 1 MONTH ONLINE WRITING PROGRAM FOR ARTISTS

Last month I was honoured to run a 1-month online writing program for Visual Artists. 44 committed artists joined the group with nearly all able to attend live. From Australia, to New Zealand, India and Ireland, we wrote together each morning. Each week we focused on a specific topic - observation and awareness, understanding habits and working with opposites, workshopping and the response of others, solutions and potentials. This was the ‘second coming’ of this program, which was started in 2020, a response to restricted living for many of us. I will certainly be offering this in 2022. To be notified of dates, please get in touch. A BIG BIG thank you to all the artists who participated. A highlight of my year!

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On Closer Inspection, Skepsi Gallery

AMY KENNEDY : ON CLOSER INSPECTION

TANIA ROLLOND : IN PLACE

10-24 APRIL 2021

SKEPSI @ MALVERN ARTISTS’ SOCIETY GALLERY

1297 HIGH STREET, MALVERN, VICTORIA

GALLERY HOURS: WED - SUN 11AM-5PM

Amy Kennedy : This new work pulls on the thread of an idea I have had for a few years. My intention, to set up specific windows of potential for material and form to linger in unexpected ways. It’s a play between lightness and mass, delicacy and intensity.

Tania Rollond : Every morning I walk through the bush as the day begins - it is quiet, fresh and full of potential, a network of tiny details in constant motion. This is the feeling I hope to embed in the work I make.

FOR DETAILS VISIT WWW.SKEPSIGALLERY.COM.AU