All in the Grain

Hong Kong - Reflected building on Electric Road © 2004 Anne Bentley

There's still something about the grain in black & white negative film.

for a little more grain check out Anne Lynam

From the Vault #3

November storm coming 2012

© 2012 Anne Bentley

But is it Art - A Non-Project

One afternoon at "beer-o'clock" time last September in Berlin*, AH and I we chatting and came up with:

(using any inflection on any words you like)

Are you mad?
Are you dead?
Is this art?

Consider these three questions for 48 days and 48 nights.
You will get different answers each time.

Then, ask someone else.


- I wrote it on a paper bag and am now sending the babble into cyberspace and the paper bag into the recycle bin.

(*Berlin - oh aren't we the groovy world travellers... possibly pretentious too.
we travelled and now we're broke! Oh, and fat from so much Berlin beer)

The Stray Who Came To Stay

Boyfriend was a stray tom who fell in love with our now deceased elderly cat and decided he would like to live with us about 6-8 years ago.  We had him trapped and de-sexed so he took off for six weeks but came back.  He was a pleasant animal to have around and eventually I could brush him and he loved a pat and back scratch.
He had to be put down toward the end of July - the lovely vet who helped out figured he was somewhere between 16-18 years old.
Now, despite being able to grow flowers without the garden being dug up, not being bother by fleas and being about to go away for more than a night without organising a person to feed the cat, I miss the big old ginger.
Boyfriend 199-?--2012

FAITHLESS - A New Group Show 10-20 April 12

Above - first communion - Anne Bentley (working image in progress - or digress) 

FAITHLESS

(on the Llam)

The Heretic

The Pious

The Blasphemer

The Sinner

Four artists finding common ground crossing themes of religion, Catholicism, female artists, madness, faith and acquiescence

Lucinda Clutterbuck, Megan Yeo, Linda Brescia & Anne Bentley

10-20 April 2013 (launch Sat 13 April)
Sheffer Gallery 38 Lander St Darlington NSW 2008 Australia

From the Vault #2

Scanned in 2009 from a negative taken in the late 90s, looking over the back fence where we lived in Abercrombie Street, Sydney.  The cactus flowered once for one night not long before we moved house.

©  Anne Bentley

From The Vault

July 2008 - portaloos for the world youth pope visit - these god botherers are sure full of s....

Ceramic Ammunition - Michael Williamson Showing Now

Michael Williamson - ceramic artist
22 October - 10 November
Thursday & Fridays 10AM-4PM or by appointment
Callan Park Gallery (just to the right of the administration entrance to the Sydney College of the Arts)

This exhibition delights & surprises (some are not for the overly sensitive or conservative-minded) and two thirds were already sold when I dropped by on Saturday.  Congratulations Michael on a successful show.

from my desktop

My desktop was so full, I couldn't see the wallpaper so I decided to do some drag & drop filing.  I've cleared up 1/2 of it and left some others like: A sleepy skeleton that I photographed in Macau in 2004.

and then there was Frida Kahlo & Emmy Packard from 1941, which I did not take! (it was up for auction recently so I made a note of it but as it was taken by Diego Rivera, I wasn't going near the bidding)

Finally, one of my favourites from the NGA, by Ken Botto (previously from the collection of Peter Fay):

 some days I look at a slideshow of things I've quickly chucked on my desktop, just for the pleasure and surprise.