{"id":26610,"date":"2016-09-02T21:19:36","date_gmt":"2016-09-03T04:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=26610"},"modified":"2016-09-03T07:53:15","modified_gmt":"2016-09-03T14:53:15","slug":"i-guess-i-better-be-an-artist-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/02\/i-guess-i-better-be-an-artist-now\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;i guess i better be an artist now&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.awin1.com\/cread.php?awinmid=6939&amp;awinaffid=284833&amp;clickref=&amp;p=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.etsy.com%2Fca%2Fshop%2FSandraEterovic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26622\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26622\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/sandra_eterovic1.png\" alt=\"sandra_eterovic1\" width=\"584\" height=\"794\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/sandra_eterovic1.png 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/sandra_eterovic1-221x300.png 221w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/4639731\/height\/26\/width\/584\/theme\/standard-mini\/autonext\/no\/thumbnail\/no\/autoplay\/no\/preload\/no\/no_addthis\/no\/direction\/backward\/no-cache\/true\/\" width=\"584\" height=\"26\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Oh, this was so much fun&#8230; but painful from a technology perspective! Don&#8217;t worry, we stitched it all together so hopefully you won&#8217;t even notice <em>{thanks Greg!}<\/em>. Today I&#8217;m talking to Melbourne based artist <a href=\"http:\/\/sandraeterovic.blogspot.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sandra Eterovic<\/a>. She paints weird and hilarious things on wood in a folk-artish\u00a0yet modern way. Sandra\u00a0went from studying Art History, to designing rude underpants, to making\u00a0the scary jump to\u00a0full-time artist&#8230; let&#8217;s just say her inner critic had an opinion about that. Anyway, you can listen right up there under that amazing pizza t-shirt, or you can\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/podcast\/jealous-curator-art-for-your\/id996338562\" target=\"_blank\">subscribe on iTunes<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>So, let&#8217;s start with a few of my painted cut-wood favorites:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.awin1.com\/cread.php?awinmid=6939&amp;awinaffid=284833&amp;clickref=&amp;p=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.etsy.com%2Fca%2Fshop%2FSandraEterovic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26623\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26623\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/sandra_eterovic2.jpg\" alt=\"sandra_eterovic2\" width=\"584\" height=\"2648\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/sandra_eterovic2.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/sandra_eterovic2-66x300.jpg 66w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/sandra_eterovic2-226x1024.jpg 226w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Marlboro. So awesome. Speaking of awesome&#8230; paintings on vintage ping pong paddles? YES!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.awin1.com\/cread.php?awinmid=6939&amp;awinaffid=284833&amp;clickref=&amp;p=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.etsy.com%2Fca%2Fshop%2FSandraEterovic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26624\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26624\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/sandra_eterovic3.png\" alt=\"sandra_eterovic3\" width=\"584\" height=\"2891\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/sandra_eterovic3.png 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/sandra_eterovic3-207x1024.png 207w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh I love them so much&#8230; not to mention the\u00a0salami and lemon growing off that vine!\u00a0\u2665<\/p>\n<p>Up next, the gorgeous cover that Sandra did for Australia&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frankie.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">Frankie Magazine<\/a>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0and a shot of her page in their 2015 calendar:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.frankie.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26625\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/sandra_eterovic4.png\" alt=\"sandra_eterovic4\" width=\"584\" height=\"1387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/sandra_eterovic4.png 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/sandra_eterovic4-126x300.png 126w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/sandra_eterovic4-431x1024.png 431w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So cool!<\/p>\n<p>Now, let&#8217;s talk art prizes. The piece below, with all of the crazy t-shirts, titled <em>&#8220;Read My Mind&#8221;<\/em>, is the piece that Sandra has in the run for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maroondah.vic.gov.au\/471.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">R&amp;M McGivern Prize<\/a>. $25,000. Yeah.\u00a0Just think of all of the wooden t-shirts she could make with that! If you&#8217;re in Melbourne on <strong>September 16th<\/strong>, go and vote for her! It&#8217;s a people&#8217;s choice award, so let&#8217;s get this done <em>people!<\/em> Here&#8217;s her painting, followed by a few of her other &#8216;funny things on shirts&#8217; paintings that I love:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.awin1.com\/cread.php?awinmid=6939&amp;awinaffid=284833&amp;clickref=&amp;p=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.etsy.com%2Fca%2Fshop%2FSandraEterovic\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26626\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/sandra_eterovic5.png\" alt=\"sandra_eterovic5\" width=\"584\" height=\"2448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/sandra_eterovic5.png 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/sandra_eterovic5-244x1024.png 244w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Come at me bro! HAHAHA! I love that one.<\/p>\n<p>Ok, so in the not so speedy speed round, Sandra said she&#8217;d rather be a mermaid than a unicorn. This painting instantly popped into my head&#8230; I knew Sandra had\u00a0painted a mermaid before. Here she is\u00a0in the form of a sassy tattoo\/scarf:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.awin1.com\/cread.php?awinmid=6939&amp;awinaffid=284833&amp;clickref=&amp;p=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.etsy.com%2Fca%2Fshop%2FSandraEterovic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26627\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26627\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/sandra_eterovic6.png\" alt=\"sandra_eterovic6\" width=\"584\" height=\"1605\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/sandra_eterovic6.png 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/sandra_eterovic6-109x300.png 109w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/sandra_eterovic6-373x1024.png 373w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ok, I&#8217;d want to be a mermaid too. And finally, I really wanted to include a photo of Sandra herself so you could see who you were listening to! Here she is in her lovely\u00a0home <em>{<a href=\"http:\/\/thedesignfiles.net\/2015\/06\/sandra-eterovic-3\/\" target=\"_blank\">photo via The Design Files<\/a>}:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.awin1.com\/cread.php?awinmid=6939&amp;awinaffid=284833&amp;clickref=&amp;p=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.etsy.com%2Fca%2Fshop%2FSandraEterovic\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26628\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/sandra_eterovic7.png\" alt=\"sandra_eterovic7\" width=\"584\" height=\"740\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/sandra_eterovic7.png 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/sandra_eterovic7-237x300.png 237w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Beautiful&#8230; Sandra, her work, this conversation, all of it! A lot of her work can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.awin1.com\/cread.php?awinmid=6939&amp;awinaffid=284833&amp;clickref=&amp;p=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.etsy.com%2Fca%2Fshop%2FSandraEterovic\" target=\"_blank\">in\u00a0her shop,\u00a0so pop over and pick something up<\/a> &#8230; a flower-covered ping pong paddle perhaps! Thanks so much to Sandra for bearing with me through our technical difficulties, and for being so open and honest. Thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.saatchiart.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Saatchi Art <\/a>for supporting the <em>66th episode<\/em>, and\u00a0thanks\u00a0to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.audible.com\/t1\/30trial_at?source_code=PDTGBPD060314004R\" target=\"_blank\">audible.com<\/a> for making my new book into an audio book! To preorder a copy for\u00a0<strong>FREE<\/strong> just\u00a0use my fancy link:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.audible.com\/t1\/30trial_at?source_code=PDTGBPD060314004R\" target=\"_blank\">audibletrial.com\/JealousCurator<\/a>. And finally, THANK YOU\u00a0for listening. There will be more art for your ear next weekend.<\/p>\n<p><em>Other links:<\/em><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/thedesignfiles.net\/2014\/10\/sandra-eterovic-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Design Files<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.frankie.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Frankie Magazine<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.craft.org.au\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Craft Victoria<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsinmaroondah.com.au\/ArtPrize.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">R&amp;M McGivern Prize, Melbourne<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/elizabeth_gilbert_on_genius?language=en\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Elizabeth Gilbert&#8217;s TEDTalk<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cargocollective.com\/martharich\" target=\"_blank\">Martha Rich<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/lisacongdon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Lisa Congdon<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, this was so much fun&#8230; but painful from a technology perspective! Don&#8217;t worry, we stitched it all together so hopefully you won&#8217;t even notice {thanks Greg!}. Today I&#8217;m talking to Melbourne based artist Sandra Eterovic. She paints weird and hilarious things on wood in a folk-artish\u00a0yet modern way. 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