Also later this year I’ll have the second of two solo art shows. This second show will run for 4 weeks and is to be held at Artemis of Aberdeen, which is situated at 93 MacQueen Street (New England Highway) Aberdeen, NSW, in the Upper Hunter Valley region of NSW.

Later this year I will have the first of two solo art shows. This first show will run for 2 weeks and is to be held at GIG Gallery, which is situated at 70A Glebe Point Road, Glebe, next to the Glass Artists’ Gallery.

It will be the first ever solo art exhibition by Estelle Asmodelle - and very exciting. Opening night will Tuesday the 7th October - at 6:00pm and everyone is welcome.

Over 500 invites will go out, although it is a medium sized gallery, there should be a reasonable amount of people. If you miss the opening night you can visit the gallery most days, see Gig Gallery for details about opening hours.

Additionally if you miss the opening night and would like to come in and say hello; please do as Belinda Kuzyk will be there each day to give you the tour of my art work. It will be an eclectic show with abstract and figurative pieces. Most of the works will be for sale and range in price.

I’ve submitted four pieces as a sample of work for Melbourne Art 08, Off the Wall, competition and exhibtion. See the link:

http://www.artoffthewall.com.au/
http://www.artmelbourne08.com.au/am07/

The pieces I’ve entered are these:

Although the auto-biography of my life, the life of Estelle Asmodelle, is now complete and comprises some 580, there is still the issue of photos.

I’ve decided to have three sections within the book with photos.

• Early photos: comprises 8 pages of photos, and starts from childhood up until the SRS.
• After SRS photos: comprises 10 pages of photos, and starts from after surgery, includes the transsexual centerfold photos, and the issue of the first birth certificate for a transsexual within Australia.  Also has many photos of my TV appearances with celerities, etc.
• Recent photo review: comprises 12 pages of photos, and is a pictorial from 1995 to 2005, of photos in centerfold poses, and also fashion and glamor poses.

The photos are about 80% done and then it’s simply a matter of preparing the material for the publishers. Although a couple of other items has to be completed:

• A full chapter breakdown
• A synopsis
• A page about the author
• Back page blurb

This should be about it, and with the contents, 580 pages of the book, the 30 pages of photos, the book will total over 610 pages. Not a small book by any standard.

Read more about it here: http:www.anaestheticdream.com

Just like to say to everyone who reads my blog, and from my stats there seems to be quite a few who stop by each day and look tirelessly through my websites, I’d like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy and Safe New Year.

love
Estelle

The novel: Anaesthetic Dream has now been completed. In all, there are 576 pages of text, in the form of 22 chapters.

The chapters are complete and a final read through is in progess to ensure that there are no typos or gramatical errors. Additionally, I am preparing the photograph pages to go with the 22 chapters.

All in all, with the table of contents, photo pages, and forward the book will be approximately 600 pages. Quite a large book on anyone’s standard.

Hopefully it will go to the publishers quite soon.

To read more about the book visit the website: Anaesthetic Dream

Two new paintings we done in the past two weeks for the Stanthorpe Art Prize 2008.

 

The first is entitled: ‘An idea becomes and angel’ - It is a comment about global warming, while the solution to the problem is clearly a technological idea: a revolutionary idea that rescues the planet, and in a metaphoric sense defines a new paradigm of an ancient form, namely, an Angel.

The second piece is entitled: ‘Eden lost’ - In contract, this piece is also a comment on the planet, as a runaway green house, which has lost the purity of a once and distance paradise.

To see more of my Art, use this link: Asmodelle’s Art

A quote that I removed from the book, is as follows, but it seems a shame not to publish it somewhere, for there is something reassuring about it:

Medical science is a progressive thing; it’s the sum total of our knowledge applied to our human existence. In the back of an old diary I’d written an anonymous quote that seemed appropriate: “When science finally reaches the summit of human experience it will only verify that religion had been there all the time.”

Chapter 20 of Anaesthetic Dream deals with definitions, among other things, and one definition I have issue with is the word Transgender. Please read this segment from Chapter 20:

” Many people incorrectly refer to pre-operative and post-operative transsexuals as transgender. The word was becoming more popular but I never liked it for several reasons. Mainly because it is non-specific as many people who simply feel they have both male and female psychological components often identify as transgender. Also gender is often seen as a psychological aspect, while sex is the physical manifestation. Perhaps before a person becomes transsexual they are transgender, but certainly not afterwards.”

See more about the novel here: www.anaestheticdream.com

This morning an offer came to exhibit my paintings, of which there are many, at a reputable Gallery in Canada, Gallery Gora, here is a part of the email offer:

“ATT: Estelle,

We have viewed your work and would like to offer you an opportunity for an exhibition of your work in Montreal, for the year 2008/2009.  Please find below the “Terms and conditions”.
You will receive a confirmation, an exhibition date and other related information (by fax or e-mail) within a week of the gallery’s receipt of the “application form” (see page 4)
Visit the gallery website for additional information: www.gallerygora.com “

I have never been to the gallery but it looks good, however the submission fee and shipment fee to Canada is far to expensive for me at this time. Perhaps later.

Please review my art at this link: art.asmodelle.com