CrumpArt

As much as I’d like to curl up in a corner at home right now and not move for a good long time, it’s not an option this week. I felt so awful at work today that I came home two hours early, but I’ll be back there for five hours tomorrow before heading out to Mr Crumpet’s mum’s birthday dinner.

I do have Monday off, thank goodness, but Tuesday brings classes and an appointment with my accountant. Here’s hoping I get a big tax refund this year! That would make me feel somewhat better.

Wednesday I’m at uni all day, and from 6pm I’ll be at the opening of Richard Harding’s show Scope³ at Red gallery on St Georges Road in Fitzroy, next door to Manny’s and just down the road from Tofutti Cutie heaven, Piedemonte’s supermarket. Richard is the course head for printmaking at RMIT, and also one of my lecturers.

Thursday night there’s another exhibition opening, this time at Jenny Port Gallery on Albert St in Richmond. It’s a group show of printmakers, including Peter Lancaster (my lithography lecturer last semester and last year), Julia Silvester (my Artist Books lecturer last year), Ruth Johnstone (another lecturer for part of last year), Jazmina Cininas (not one of my lecturers yet, but she does teach some classes at RMIT) and Clare Humphries (who graduated last year) amongst others.

And Friday night? What a surprise! Another exhibition opening! This one features my friend Andy Tetzlaff, who graduated from RMIT last year with his Masters. He’s showing with another MFA graduate, Kerry Buckland-Lewis, at the Area Contemporary Art Space on Brunswick St in Fitzroy.

And as shit as I feel right now, I’m really looking forward to seeing all of these shows. Any Melbournians, I’d love it if you joined me. I’ll try not to sneeze on you.