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Saturday, February 27, 2010

julie moon










Julie Moon!!! Hilarious and beautiful, powerful and decorative all at the same time. phwor!

Thursday, February 25, 2010

new zealand book council - Going West by Maurice Gee

elsa mora














Elsa Mora is a wonderful artist... her philosophies are beautiful and it shows though her work. I thoroughly recommend browsing her website + blogs... these pictures are a taster! I particularly adore her paper-cuts: The red + white palette plus the pure detail + floral shapes, coupled with the feminine themes..... so touching and honest. She has re-awakened my passion for the possibilities of paper!

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

large knitting


thought I'd put this up as I am up late and patching knitted pieces together.. a bit like this though maybe not so neatly...... Unfortunately I can't remember where I found this image.... but I do remember they had a special system set up so that pieces were knitted everyday based on information received.. like they were making a kind of map. I shall try and be a bit more specific once my brain comes back.

Monday, February 22, 2010

nina levy



fantastic sculptural installation, Toss, by Nina Levy from Brooklyn USA... the figurative forms are modeled from clay and then cast in polyester resin treated with oil paint. I love the sense of animation and surreal.

Saturday, February 20, 2010

peter callesen



pushing the boundaries of 2D + 3D: paper-cut sculptures by Danish artist Peter Callesen..... bloody awesome.

Thursday, February 18, 2010

rosemarie fiore



I know I've already featured her Pyrotechnic paintings.. but I've been revisiting her website and found her 'Scrambler' paintings... farout! so amazing! what a lady!!

Here's what she has to say about her process:

"Good-Time Mix Machine: Scrambler Drawings" I connected a gas generator and air compressor to buckets of paint and secured them into the seats of a Scrambler amusement park ride. Once the ride was in motion, paint sprayed out of the benches onto vinyl tarps placed underneath. The result is a series of enormous hypocycloid designs which recorded the hidden patterns created by the ride as it turned.
Two videos were created in conjuction with the drawings.

(you'll have to find em on her website.. well worth a look)

reef knot

Test Pattern #1
This was a installation of found objects done by Reef Knot in the window-box of Redfern based gallery Medium Rare last August.
http://www.mediumrare.net.au/
photograph courtesy of Matthew Venables

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

stolen




I saw this as I was going past the Keeping Place in Redfern the other day... Its amazing! The word 'stolen' spelt out with milk crates. The reference to milk or nuturing is so powerful as well as it being a wonderful urban installation.

The Keeping Place is managed by Gordon and Elaine Syrons and is a stronghold of Aboriginal art being kept out of the clutches of bureaucracy and greedy poo-faces.

Thursday, February 11, 2010