Artist Materials - market update

Due to the fall in the Australian Dollar, we are seeing pricerises flowing through the Australian Artist Materials market. How long this will take to reach individual outlets will depend on stock holdings. Most products being imported from Asia have already begun to rise, Due to the massive fall of the Australian Dollar against the Yen Japanese products have been particularly effected with one importer commenting "it may not be viable to carry products from Japan". Most Australian manufacted products have escaped so far, but I have now been advised by a major paint manufacturer that they will need to increase prices early in the new year. A prudent artist or school buyer would be well advised to order early to obtain the best prices and avoid shortages.

Sydney
this weeks openings....

tuesday

Gig Gallery
70a Glebe Point Road, Glebe
Phone: 02 9660 2785
Exhibition: Estelle Amodelle - Hypnagogia
(Journey through Abstraction).
Opening 6-8pm
until Sun, 14th December)

Kudos Gallery
6 Napier St Paddington NSW 2021
Exhibition: Dirty Hands Collective
- Itchy Feet.
Opening 5-7.30pm  (until Sat. 20th December)

wednesday

Ethel Street Gallery
50 Ethel Street, Seaforth NSW 2092
Phone: 9949 7477
Exhibition: Mia Oatley & Stephen Oatley
- I Love Paris in the Springtime
(Drawings of Paris and the French countryside).
Opening 6-8 pm (until Wed, 24th December)

thursday

Art Moment Gallery
Shop 1, 99 Curlewis Street, Bondi Beach 2026 Phone: 02 9365 4999
Exhibition: Group Mixed Media Exhibition.  Opening 6-9 pm (until Wed, 24th December)

Chalk Horse
56 Cooper Street Surry Hills 2010 Phone: 02 9699 8999
Group Exhibition: Chalk Reindeer 2008. works from artists incl. Elle Dixon & Tim Gregory, Karolina Novak, Paul Mumme, Leah Fraser, Tim Moore, Tara Marynowsky, Anna Pogossova, Oliver Watts, Ruark Lewis, Jasper Knight, Jedda Culley, Danny Morse, Stuart Fleming, John A Douglas and others... last show at 56 Cooper St before the move to 94 Cooper St in 2009. See you there for a drink from 5pm onward!
Opening 5pm   (until Sat. 20th December)

Depot II Gallery
2 Danks Street, Waterloo 2017
Group Exhibition, Change of Tone.  Opening 6-8 pm (until Sat, 20th December)

Frances Keevil Gallery
Shops 5 and 6, The Bay Village 28-34 Cross Street, Double Bay Phone: 02 9327 2475 or 0411821550
End of Year Exhibition - live music by Squeezebox Boogaloo.   Opening 6-8pm   (until Wed, 24th December)

Gaffa
1/7 Randle Street, Surry Hills 2010 Phone: 02 9281 1103
Group Exhibition: The Promised Land.   Opening 6-8pm  (until Tues. 16th December)

Gallery41
41 Riley Street, Woolloomooloo 2011 Phone: 0408 226 827
Group Exhibition.  Opening 5-7pm  (until Wed. 24th December)

Global Gallery
5 Comber Street, Paddington 2021 Phone: 02 9360 5728
Exhibition: Storm Thorgerson - Taken by Storm.   Opening 5-9pm (until Sun, 11th January 2009)

Rex-Livingston Art Dealer
59 Flinders Street Surry Hills 2010 Phone: 02 9357 5988
Exhibition: Mimi Jaksic-Berger - Solo 33.
& Jocelyn Gregson - Flower studies.
Opening 6-8pm  (until Sun, 21st December)

Stills Gallery
36 Gosbell Street, Paddington 2021 Phone: 02 93317775
Group Exhibition: Season08.
Opening 6-8pm  (until Sat, 20th December)

friday