I'm in a huge transition period and it's quite unsettling. It really doesn't help with one's art practice - there's too much shifting and newness to allow me to document a body of work or even begin to tackle a subject. The only recognisable thing in life at the moment is Theo...(a very good thing!). I'm not complaining. I keep pointing out [...]
Finding themselves at a life crossroad, creative directors Soula and Theo Mantalvanos of ooi - creative communication, decided to grant themselves four months of thinking time on the East Coast of Tasmania. Away from their Collingwood routine, they were able to clarify and plan for the next stage of life, taking into serious consideration Soula's chronic pain issue and related daily limitations. Soula [...]
Hello, welcome back! My art site is back and firstly I must apologise to those of you who have had some strange feeds land in your inbox during testing time. Hopefully this post will make sense of it all. Many of you might already know, but Theo and I made a mammoth transitional move from our beloved Collingwood to Queenscliff. Not an easy [...]
Who would have thought staring at the back of an easel could be so inspiring! Not only inspiring, we were enthralled in this simple form of art on the eve that The Australian's Sharon Verghis was publishing her article that questioned whether drawing was dead. From an artist's perspective, Soula particularly felt her own practise validated witnessing the push, pull and struggle [...]
How do you communicate Art, Design & Chronic Pain. Graphis Advertising competition 2013. Medium: Photographs printed on cotton rag paper, pencil drawn on by Soula and then rephotographed. Photography: Marija Ivkovic Marionette: Colleen Burke Vote for us: www.graphis.com
Sunday Style's My_Space feature. April 28, 2013 It was lovely of Joanne Hawkins to come out and meet with us and have her great words published in yesterday's Sunday Style 'My_space' feature. Clearly Zephyr's portrait, by Marija Ivkovic in his classic yogi pose stole the limelight. For those that saw the article, forgive the brag but we did want to send it out [...]
