Carolyn Cardinet: Visual Art Blog

During my residency this year, I gave a talk with the other artists in residence Britt Salt & Anne Graham at the Australian Tapestry Workshop during my residency Here are some excerpt of the talk delivered 6 March 2018 at ATW: '... At 7 people started to notice my drawings, which led me to think I could become an artist. In primary and secondary school I took art lessons at and out of school, during my youth I was always making things while watching TV religiously on Saturday afternoon with my dad. So at 16 exited I expressed to my father that I wanted to become an artist after all I had been working at it for nearly 10 years, this grand phrase didn’t have the grand positive response I expected. His answer was ‘don’t be ridiculous get a job that will pay you a good wage’ … nowadays I finally do understand what he meant and repeat the same sentence albeit not quite formulated the same way to my children!  I starting with painting, when I was young and brought up with ...

Portraits de Melbourne by the author Valentine Sabouraud Hiraki-Editions How honoured I am to be part of this wonderful group of people living and breathing Melbourne in my studio (photo by Emma Bartlett) For my part, it has been more than 26 years and I have not regretted one-minute landing here in the first place Finding a job, meeting a group of friends thanks to my Australian encounter in Venice (Louise Owen)  getting married and giving birth to 2 beautiful girls and for the last 15 years being and living as an artist doing the job of my dreams, as you can see Melbourne has not dispointed me the slightest Valentine the author has faithfully told my Australian story and it is amazing to read oneself like listening to someone's life story For French speaking people coming to Melbourne and Francophiles alike, it is a book not to miss as the richness of its inhabitants spreads far and wide by their inspirational life written by the talented Valentine Sabouraud and m...

And happily I must say as to experience ones studio without the close pressure of an upcoming exhibition. This time allows one to experiment and test what your imagination has given you that you translated in drawing format for the past few months... So I decided and probably due to a lack of space in my studio to render & make small the many sketches i n my artist diary.  Here comes a world of maquettes... However am already finding that I itch to see my new creations in a large or extra large format... Patience is a virtue they say and art has certainly put me through that test along the way.                      The artist studio

Playtime to Showtime And this is only the beginning... Lots of fun working out as you go from fish making to pineapple (??) making