{"id":26676,"date":"2016-09-09T21:45:50","date_gmt":"2016-09-10T04:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=26676"},"modified":"2016-09-12T07:45:54","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T14:45:54","slug":"dont-discount-small-opportunities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/09\/dont-discount-small-opportunities\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;don&#8217;t discount small opportunities&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.katerohde.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26694\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/kate_rohde1.jpg\" alt=\"kate_rohde1\" width=\"584\" height=\"1026\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/kate_rohde1.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/kate_rohde1-171x300.jpg 171w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/kate_rohde1-583x1024.jpg 583w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/4657012\/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>So, my plan had been to title this episode, <em>&#8220;Reimagining Natural History&#8221;<\/em>, which is the way Melbourne based artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.katerohde.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kate Rohde<\/a> describes her work <em>{as you can see from that fantastical blue display case up there}<\/em> &#8230; but we just had so many great bits of conversation around the idea of just &#8216;saying yes and figuring it out later&#8217; that I just had to kick things off with that thought! I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/23\/kate-rohde\/\" target=\"_blank\">wrote about Kate<\/a> a few weeks ago, but last week&#8217;s guest,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/02\/i-guess-i-better-be-an-artist-now\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sandra Eterovic<\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/02\/i-guess-i-better-be-an-artist-now\/\" target=\"_blank\">,<\/a><\/em>\u00a0told me I <em>had<\/em> to reach out to Kate. So I did. And she said YES. Now, she&#8217;s not alone on this call. Her four\u00a0month old baby boy was along for the ride! So sweet. You can listen right up there,\u00a0or 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>Let&#8217;s start off with a few of my candy-colored favorites from my recent post about Kate:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/23\/kate-rohde\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26695\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/kate_rohde2.jpg\" alt=\"kate_rohde2\" width=\"584\" height=\"2170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/kate_rohde2.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/kate_rohde2-81x300.jpg 81w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yes! Remember those? So good.<\/p>\n<p>Next, here&#8217;s an installation, titled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.saatchiart.com\/account\/artworks\/6709\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Chateau Fatale&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0from 2005\u00a0that truly does &#8220;reimagine natural history&#8221;<em>.<\/em>\u00a0I would happily spend the day in this super weird museum:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saatchiart.com\/account\/artworks\/6709\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26696\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/kate_rohde3.jpg\" alt=\"kate_rohde3\" width=\"584\" height=\"1765\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/kate_rohde3.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/kate_rohde3-99x300.jpg 99w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/kate_rohde3-339x1024.jpg 339w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fantastic!<em> {<a href=\"http:\/\/uhfcom.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Photos by Harry Fatouros<\/a><\/em><span class=\"s1\"><em>}<\/em>. Now, speaking of fantastic<\/span>, I quickly mentioned Kate&#8217;s\u00a0pieces under glass &#8230; mainly so that I had an excuse to put these images in the post:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kwgallery.com\/artists\/kate-rohde\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26697\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/kate_rohde4.jpg\" alt=\"kate_rohde4\" width=\"584\" height=\"4131\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That is a whole lot of colorful craziness&#8230; very different than the &#8220;brown and green&#8221; Australian landscape that Kate grew up in.<\/p>\n<p>Up next, an insane collaboration with Australian fashion label <a href=\"http:\/\/www.romancewasborn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Romance Was Born<\/a>. They created custom textiles using\u00a0collaged images of Kate&#8217;s work, and she made bizarrely beautiful resin accessories <em>{yes, including horns}<\/em>. This collection is called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.romancewasborn.com\/collections\/renaissance-dinosaur\" target=\"_blank\"><em>&#8220;Renaissance Dinosaur&#8221;<\/em><\/a>, which might be the best name I&#8217;ve ever heard in my entire life:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.romancewasborn.com\/collections\/renaissance-dinosaur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26698\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26698\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/kate_rohde5.jpg\" alt=\"kate_rohde5\" width=\"584\" height=\"2597\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/kate_rohde5.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/kate_rohde5-230x1024.jpg 230w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh. My word. It&#8217;s like a crazy dream that I wish I could have every night. This project led Kate to making more jewelry&#8230; candy-hued, translucent, chunky jewelry that I would have a really hard time not licking:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.piecesofeight.com.au\/collections\/kate-rohde\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26699\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/kate_rohde6.jpg\" alt=\"kate_rohde6\" width=\"584\" height=\"2337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/kate_rohde6.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/kate_rohde6-75x300.jpg 75w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/kate_rohde6-256x1024.jpg 256w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Sigh.<\/em> Stunning. ps. You can find Kate&#8217;s jewelry at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.piecesofeight.com.au\/collections\/kate-rohde\" target=\"_blank\">Pieces of Eight,<\/a>\u00a0which also happens to be where I found these images.<\/p>\n<p>One of my favorite bits of this episode was when we talked about\u00a0lulls. Oh, lulls. You&#8217;d think they&#8217;d be a nice time to rest and recharge, but because we can&#8217;t predict the future lulls can feel more like <strong>THE END<\/strong>. Good news&#8230; they&#8217;re not. Not as long as you keep making stuff. During Kate&#8217;s lull she made vases. They don&#8217;t look like a lull to me! Now, we didn&#8217;t actually talk about this collaboration, but it&#8217;s just so beautiful I had to include it:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/piecesofeightgallery.blogspot.ca\/2013\/04\/studio-shoot-kate-rohde-x-cecilia-fox.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26700\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26700\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/kate_rohde7.jpg\" alt=\"kate_rohde7\" width=\"584\" height=\"2606\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/kate_rohde7.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/kate_rohde7-67x300.jpg 67w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now THAT is how you show off vases! Kate collaborated on this shoot with Melanie Stapleton from a floral studio\u00a0in Melbourne called\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceciliafox.com.au\/\">Cecilia Fox<\/a>\u00a0<em>{that&#8217;s Melanie on the left, and Kate getting things just so on the right}. <\/em>GORGEOUS!<em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And finally, Kate in her home studio. She lives upstairs and works downstairs:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.katerohde.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26701\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/kate_rohde8.jpg\" alt=\"kate_rohde8\" width=\"584\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/kate_rohde8.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/kate_rohde8-300x239.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Love it&#8230; and of course, I love that chunky bracelet! Thank you to Kate for taking time to do this with us, and HUGE thanks to Tristan for letting me distract his mama for almost an hour. He did so well\u00a0\u00a0\u2665 Thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.saatchiart.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Saatchi Art <\/a>for supporting this episode, 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 {or to pick up any other book you might want}<\/strong> just\u00a0use my link:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.audible.com\/t1\/30trial_at?source_code=PDTGBPD060314004R\" target=\"_blank\">audibletrial.com\/JealousCurator<\/a>. Finally, and as always, 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:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/02\/i-guess-i-better-be-an-artist-now\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sandra Eterovic episode<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saatchiart.com\/krohde\" target=\"_blank\">Kate&#8217;s work on SaatchiArt<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ngv.vic.gov.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">National Gallery of Victoria<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.romancewasborn.com\/collections\/renaissance-dinosaur\" target=\"_blank\">Romance Was Born Collab.<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Kate&#8217;s upcoming show, &#8220;Luminous Realms&#8221; at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.craft.org.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">Craft Gallery<\/a>, Dec 9 &#8211; Feb 2017<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Kate in her studio: <a href=\"http:\/\/tobiastitz.de\/\" target=\"_blank\">Photo by Tobias Titz<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, my plan had been to title this episode, &#8220;Reimagining Natural History&#8221;, which is the way Melbourne based artist Kate Rohde describes her work {as you can see from that fantastical blue display case up there} &#8230; but we just had so many great bits of conversation around the idea of just &#8216;saying yes and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[766,3,285,12,405],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26676"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26676"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26714,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26676\/revisions\/26714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}