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Australian houses, from architectural masterpieces to suburban family homes, Victorian terraces, mid-century marvels, coastal shacks, city apartments, and everything in between.
Award-winning Australian architecture, inspiring homes, and interviews with Australia’s top architects.
Award-winning Australian interior design, inspiring homes, and interviews with Australia’s top designers.
In depth features on Australia’s most beautiful gardens and landscape design.
Studio visits with Australia’s most talented creatives, from artists to architects, ceramicists to stylists, furniture makers to lighting designers.
Studio visits with Australia’s top artists, and unmissable art exhibitions in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and beyond.
Weekly recipes and meal ideas from our favourite cooks, authors and foodies.
Unique travel destinations, design-led accomodation and day trip ideas in Australia and New Zealand.
SUPER talented Melbourne painter Kirra Jamison has a small show of works on paper at Sydney's Firstdraft Gallery this month in an exhibition entitled Surrender Star. The show opened last night (sorry bit late!), and runs until September 26th.... OH MY I wish I could go, I LOVE Kirra's work so so much!
The kaleidoscopic Surrender Star paintings are part of Kirra's ongoing series of super-detailed gouache, pen and vinyl paintings on paper. Each work is composed of intricate patterns that are repeated to create these dense graphic images.... apparently, this meditative and time consuming process is a daily ritual, especially in colder months, as Kirra has a compulsion to 'fill space and time with colour as a way of coping with the Melbourne winters'! Don't worry Kirra, Summer is on the way!
Surrender Star - works on paper by Kirra Jamison
Firstdraft Gallery
116-118 Chalmers St.
Surry Hills
NSW
Gallery open Wednesday to Sunday, 12.00pm - 6.00pm.
ps) I interviewed Kirra a while back... pop over here if you missed it :)
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