Sometimes

Sometimes the most beautiful thing in the world remains unseen, hidden and unbidden till it flowers, sometimes too late, but when it does it is the warmest, most heartfelt and then never too late.

To my friends, thank you.

Spotlight on Rosa- Du Jour Millinery Photoshoot

I started speaking with a millinery designer- Nikolina of Nikolina Concepts, a beautifully young creative woman who creates some amazingly structural hat designs, so together with Sarah Baxter (makeup and hair artist extraordinaire) and Rosa from Cameron’s Models we pulled together Du Jour.

Rosa has one of the most beautiful skin tones I’ve ever seen and I was quite excited to be working with her. She also had a very cool natural afro but because we were working with hats she had to straighten it out. A very lovely quiet girl with a youthful face, she soon became accustomed to the concept and championed throughout the shoot.

Makeup and Hair by Sarah Baxter

Model Rosa from Camerons

Designers Nikolina from Nikolina Concepts and Airdrie Makim from Joolz

Photography and styling by S de Varax

Assisted by Vlad K

Special thanks to Airdrie and Courtenay B for providing some awesome accessories to complement the story!

End of shoot snap!

Melbourne’s Culture

Early in August my dad popped by for a visit and that gave us a chance to explore Melbourne’s vast cultural pickings. We first went to the Tim Burton’s Exhibition (my insistence) which purports to showcase over 700 of Burton’s personal works including ‘paintings, drawings, puppets, costumes, storyboards and film’. It was a little of a disappointment to be honest considering I love his films and expected to be over-awed, however I did adore the many model figures of his characters right up to little itsy bitty details especially the multiple expression-ful heads of Jack from nightmare before Christmas. It was also interesting to chart the progression of Burton’s inspiration and development of his characters and storylines which can be noted very early on. I was quite surprised too that Burton dappled in photography- a collection of his Polaroids could be found in a small adjunct gallery which we very nearly missed.
The Tim Burton Exhibition is held at the ACMI Building from 24th June to 10th October.

Next we fastidiously found our way to the well hidden Heide Museum in Heidelburg which had on display a wide variety of work from local and international artists including a musical installation, photographic works and modern art. I was impressed by the hauntingly beautiful photographs by Carol Jerrems- warning nudity below:-

Photographer: Carol Jerrems

The Carol Jerrems Up Close exhibit will be on till 31st October so there is still plenty of time to catch it, among the other lovely works on display at Heide. These were just a couple of the things we managed to catch in Melbourne and there’s absolutely plenty more to whet your cultural appetite on.