Post #697169 by swizzle on Wed, Oct 23, 2013 3:23 AM

Thank you Wendy, hang10tiki, MadDogMike, lunavideogames and hiltiki.

So the exhibition went very well. I'm pretty sure it was one of the best opening nights the gallery has had in regards to sales. By the end of the night i'd say that about half the pieces displayed were sold. I was also very happy to have sold several of my pieces which basically paid for the two pieces i bought which you'll see below.

I didn't take many shots myself, i'm usually too busy socialising so i always forget to, but my phone has played up and the few that i did take i can't find at the moment anyway. The following pictures are taken from the gallery's Facebook page.

First are some pics of all my work.

The carvings are by Watango who you can find in Tiki Carving, there's some paintings by Mr.G. and the mugs on the left centre are by another Australian artist you'll see a pic of in a moment.

Some Tom 'Big Toe' Laura on the left and another Watango carving. There's a Little Lost Tiki on the back wall and he had more pieces around the corner of this pic on the left. On the right is a couple of David Lozeau's and one by The Pizz.

The three on the right are Australian artist Transylshania Sutton and the next two along are Paul Hughes, another Aussie. Not sure about the last two.

Not a great pic but the painting on the top left was amazing. I cant remember her name but it was a little out of my price range. The pics below that are another Aussie. I was really interested in one of those but when i finally made my mind up that i wanted it, it had sold. And the steel Tiki heads are another Aussies work, Justin Zahra. He does absolutely incredible steel work like the wood burner pictured. The three heads are lamps.

And here's a pic of Danielle Mann, who's mugs you could see in the earlier photo, myself and Marcus 'Tiki Beat' Thorn and Marcus's incredible carving.

And here are the pieces i bought. The one on the left is by MP and and the one on the right by an artist i can't say i'd ever heard of called Norm Daniels.

That's it for the exhibition. The following pics are more versions of my work seen in the last post.

A few more Colonel Peek-a-boo's.

Another Lance Corporal Stoney.

And another volcano bowl.

This volcano bowl i pulled out of the kiln today. I actually missed a bit when i glazed it so it was touched up and re-fired and when i pulled it out of the kiln today the big chunk you can see in the pic appeared and i have no idea why. The grey is underglaze with clear glaze over it and a brush-on red. It was perfectly fine there after the first firing although i did add a little more red for the second firing as it was a little thin so i'm wondering if that had anything to do with it. I got a tool onto it and scraped/chipped some more off it so i'll reglaze and re-fire it and hopefully it will come good but does anyone have any ideas of how/why it happened?

Next is the final two Bob'O'Nuts to be made from that mold. I was a little reluctant to make these as i wasn't sure how they'd work but i'm very happy with them both. The first fews sketches i did i just wasn't happy with and really didn't think a moko would suit him but after spending a little more time on it i came up with something both i and the customer were happy with. He received a lot of great feedback on Facebook.

Zomb'O'Nut.

Moko Bob'O'Nut.

I've also glazed several more skull and moai pendants but don't have any photos of those. The only new piece i have to show is this tile. They are all glazed with the same brown but the second and third pics have had the glaze scraped off the raised section and then had a lighter brown sprayed over the top. You can see it has darkened up the background compared to the first one.

And that's about it for the moment. Till next time.

Cheers
swizzle