takin' the bull by the horns (so to speak)

wednesday night at downtown art space we had a corker of an opening for meet&greet - an open exhibition for adelaide artists - including no less than 64 works. was a feat in itself to hang such a show i can assure you (well done peter, mark and tamzin).



note the sold sticker - the building sold at auction this week for a cool $3.6 million. we popped into arts sa that afternoon just to let them know we'd bought it and to check that the increase in downtown's funding would be ok - funny, none of them would see us (haha). i guess its a matter of time before townhouse disease takes hold.



lots of cool kids came out for the opening... here's the lovely anne, lovely louise and half of lovely shaw



akira!! don't look so worried! its all not that bad!



this girl made a very good impression of a drunkard at one point by holding a full box of empty bottles with one arm, whilst standing in a bucket. i'm not sure why. not surprisingly, one of the bottles fell out and smashed on the ground. next time maybe lay off the vino lady! still, no great harm done.



after the marathon opening a bunch of us ended up at the falafel house to fill empty bellies.
it was chips with garlic sauce all round (tasty, thanks for the tip peter)



peter with hat hair



mark with hat head and chip lip



tamzin showing her true bogan colours



i'm not sure whose idea it was (i suspect sofia) but suddenly it was decided that we were going to the very classy Woolshed on Hindley Street to ride the mechanical bull. funny how these things seem like a good idea at the time.

james and sofia - looking all innocent-like



but actually it was quite a good idea, most entertaining! sofia was the first cowgirl off to the rodeo...



then mark put his chaps on. not too bad an effort...



and he here is making a hasty retreat. nice dacks mark, purple's definitely your colour



then it was james, hanging on for dear life. he leaped off after about 10 seconds! disappointing!! i'd picked him for more of a daredevil...



then romi, after a leg-up, not too bad!



but then there was peter "the cowboy" mckay. complete with cowboy-esque hat, he held on...



and on...



and eventually fell off in grand fashion. very impressive! the only disappointment was that he didn't hold his hat in the air and yell yee-haw



the ladies checking out the action...



then one of the woolshed regulars had a go and managed to break the bull until it was crying in the corner. no more bullriding for anyone. here's tamzin looking really disappointed that she missed out on her turn



and if you're wondering, no i didn't ride the bull. unfortunately i was next after tamzin on the bull's dance-card. shame...

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