blurry thinking

Images from at the Splendid Inn earned me a place amongst the finalists for the Advertiser Contemporary Arts Prize at SALA Festival 2008. The final 20 need to be pruned to 10 who will be hung in the sponsor's SALA exhibition, but it's nice to have got this far, whatever happens.

I was amazed at how much work went in to producing a series of short educational videos for Two Hands Wines this year.

The footage was shot on the run, and we didn't have a script to work to, but thankfully the Two Hands guys knew their stuff, and had lots to talk about. It's not art, but we are pretty pleased with the outcome.

Here's one example...

From the series At the Splendid Inn which will be showing during Adelaide's SALA visual arts festival in August.

The Splendid Inn was indeed a truly splendid place to stay. (unless you happen to like hot water in your bath, in which case you'll have other adjectives coming to mind) It's a ramshackle, eclectic Dutch colonial land-house in the Javanese town of Malang. It's like a time warp to a bygone era. It was saved from ruin and converted to a hotel in the early 1970's. It was decorated in the owner's singularly bizarre personal style and has remained untouched ever since.