Happy Chinese New Year!

Happy Chinese New Year to you all! I hope that your new year has been a great start. Mine started with a brilliant month in Malaysia with my family relaxing and refuelling in preparation for another exciting year ahead, before we head off for a year of travel in 2014 (including a month in New York which I am really excited about!!!)

2012 was a great year for This Papercut Life. My little courtyard studio & creative business has grown into a full time pursuit and at the end of last year I had to employ someone to help me as it was so crazy busy. As well as work in several exhibitions, and many, many commissions, I also continued to stock some really wonderful shops and galleries run by some fantastic, determined and  inspired people who have a passion for all things art. I also created some metal cut-out banner designs for the Shire of Gnowangerup which were placed in their main street. See the pics below.

As for 2013- as well as keeping up with orders and commissioned works, designing a new range of jewellery and woodcuts, I am also creating a peice for the Bunbury Bienale, and am a part of an exhibition at the Melody Smith Gallery in Perth called "Unconscious ARTiculation.

For me this is all about lifestyle, doing what I love and am passionate about, meeting and connecting with inspiring people along the way, enjoying the journey, as well as meeting lifes challenges head on- and its this that inspires my papercut designs- family, friends, community, neighbourhood, home....life.  

So I look forward to sharing the journey with you through these images..........

Feature Artist of the month on November at Fusion Fine Arts

This month Fusion Fine Arts in Mandurah is featuring my papercuts, woodcuts, and jewellery throughout the gallery. Fusion is a gorgeous gallery down on the quay in Mandurah:  http://www.fusionfinearts.com.au/
Check it out if you are down that way. Here's a little selection of work......

Family Tree #2

Fortitude

Life in the Clouds

Life is Sweet

Mandurah Foreshore

Shelter Me series

Shelter Me series

Tea for Two

The Bird and the Key

Hullabaloo Festival November 10, 9am- 3pm

Next weekend is the Hullabaloo Festival in Napoleon St in Cottesloe from 9am to 3pm and I will have a stall there- thanks to Upmarket. Check the link below to see who else will be there:  http://www.perthupmarket.com.au/hullabaloo-retailers/?utm_source=2013+Hullabaloo+Market+Day+Info&utm_campaign=2013+hullabaloo+mkt+day&utm_medium=email

These are some of the new pendants I will have at Hullabaloo.

Perth Upmarket this weekend- September 23, 10am- 4pm

New earing designs

 This weekend is the wonderful Perth Upmarket at UWA. I will have a stand upstairs in Winthrop Hall- and will be featuring lots of new designs include these jewellery designs.

"The Sweetness of Being" earings

"Family Tree" pendant with beautiful Japanese Chirimen cord

"Family Tree" with silk cord

'Bird and Cross ' with Japanese chirimen cord

New earing design

Papercutting art retreat in Bali 2013

 Just announcing a papercutting retreat in Bali in 2013:

Give artistic life to your own story nurtured along by Sue Codee  whose 20-year professional career as an artist and teacher found new directions some years ago in reposnse to her need to create ‘slow art’ in order to ‘slow life’. THIS PAPERCUT LIFE is  a wonderful winter retreat for anyone interested in bringing  design into their life with this ancient craft experiencing an international resurgence.

For more information click on this link: 
http://gadflytours.com/720/bali/bali-papercutting-art-retreat-with-sue-codee-with-yoga-and-cooking-16-23rd-august-2013












Plus a new commission "The Family that Surfs Together...", a Fathers Day gift. This time going for a white papercut on black background with black frame giving it more of an edge.

And another "Family Tree" papercut, this time with inkwork in the tree root system. I am loving creating the Family Tree series- they take on aspects of the families that commission them, including pets and animals that are such an important part of families.

Highly Commended Award at 2012 Cossack Art Prize

"Family Tree # 2" , papercut

This peice "Family Tree #2" was just awarded a "Highly Commended" Award at the 2012 Cossack Art Award. The judges Alan Dodge AM and Franchesca Cubillo described it as:
" This is a charming silhouetted work- a whimsical rendering of an eternal theme". 

Featured in 'Scoop' and 'Art Collector'

Some good features of the "Family Tree" papercut in "Art Collector", "Scoop", and "Scoop Traveller". I have just returned from several weeks in Malaysia soaking up some sun and some inspiration- and have also sourced some stunning beads for my new lasercut pendant collection. Now to start work- but gently, gently.  Will have work in 5 exhibitions coming up in September/ October for the Art Trail- which is now a very popular cultural event down here in the Great Southern. One of the exhibitions is "Heavenly Creatures" which will feature the work of myself and fellow resident artist at the Vancouver Cafe, Tracey Margetts.

July Focus Exhibition at Gunyulgup Galleries

   "July Focus" exhibition opens at Gunyulgup Galleries in Yallingup on July 8, and "Family Tree" (below) is one of my artworks in the show, which is also featured in the Winter edition of Scoop magazine. 

 To market, to market......this weekend in Perth to do the Upmarket at Winthrop Hall at the University of WA. Pendants below are a taste of just a few new designs I will have on show.

                                                   

 I have an exhibition opening at Gadfly gallery in Perth on June 8 with papercutting artist Tusif Ahmad from Pakistan and ceramicist Avital Sheffer from Israel. It should be a very beautiful show, come and have a look if you are around.

http://www.gadflygallery.com/artist_view.php?ArtistID=355











"Runaway Boat" 2011

These are the new wine labels I have designed for Towerhill Estate in Mt Barker. They were recently awarded silver medals for their 2009 Riesling and 2010 Cabernet Merlot at the Singapore wine show. Towerhill Estate
Towerhill Estate was established in 1993 in the heart of the Mt Barker region of Western Australia where mild wet winters, well drained soils and warm, dry summers yield outstanding cool climate wines. Towerhill Estate excels in producing medal winning wines from low yielding fruit handpicked from responsibly tended, non-irrigated vines.
The weather is the powerful determinant of the character of the vineyard, the region and the wines created. The hill is to the west of the vineyard so therefore receives morning early light and then is a strong horizon line for evening light.The weather comes from the west and the sense of the presence of the vast ocean although 200km away, is strong and is the reason for the speed with which the weather changes.
 Hence my design for them has a strong element of weather.

Perth Upmarket in June

 I am very excited to have been selected for Perth Upmarket in June at UWA. This is a beautiful designers market and has an amazing reputation. I look forward to seeing my Perth friends, and also seeing the work of other designers- including my friends Shiny Rabbit (www.shinyrabbit.com)

                           

A new version of "Family Tree", white papercut framed on black.

Bliss Bridal Exhibition

Bliss Bridal Exhibition Exhibition- this Saturday at the Albany Entertainment Centre from 10am to 7pm. My "Together" design has been used as the logo for this year and has graced billboards and advertising. Its been great exposure and I thank the Bliss Bridal Team for inviting me to be the first of the artists to do a design as the plan is to each year feature a different artist.

 "Tea for Two", papercut, 2012

And now for some new works!

A couple of new papercut works with a similar theme- the Family Tree, complete with pets.

Art Auction- Perth Zoo- for the Silvery Gibbon Project

Art Auction for the Silvery Gibbon project at the Perth Zoo on Saturday May 19th. Help to keep these cute furry little critters on the planet! I have a couple of works in, and there's a good selection of participating artists.

Check out 'tickle the imagaination' online mag- page 62 & 63 features my work and there's also a sweet giveaway of a couple of of my "Shelter Me" woodcuts.

tickle the imagination | issue05

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