Lucas Parklands Sculpture exhibition

I don't class myself as a sculptor by any means, but I have joined in with local friends and colleagues who are exhibiting on June 12th and 13th as part of the Arts and Garden Festival in Maleny and Montville. Arts Connect Inc [a Montville based but rapidly expanding arts organisation] is organising the art side of things. I am making some 'ephemeral' and fibre based pieces for the weekend. My fabrics will be a stark contrast to the natural bush surrounding but I hope they will make a statement and get the audience thinking about 'art' and its various contexts. The piece above, 'Sail Away', was a 'trial run' a couple of weeks ago and will be dedicated to Delwyn's dad.

I am about to splash black paint along this length of fabric - about 20+ meters, draped along my deck into my studio. It was originally a lovely heavy linen hospital sheet which I dyed and stained and marked will various 'stuff'. I hope to drape it down a tree, over a rocky outcrop and maybe into a dam at the Lucas parklands. We'll see!!

How inspirational are the folds of this jersy fabric? I am toying with ideas such as "A FUN GUY" [ a fungus] and "RED MOSS" and attaching bunched fabrics to rotting logs.

The "'GUMLAND GARLAND" is coming along well, but I want it to be twice this length - hoping for a windy day to blow the leaves off my tree.

This is how I want my Gumland garland to look in the forest [this is a photoshopped pic].

Our big set up day is Monday 7th, so it will all need to fall into place in less than a week. My friends Fiona Dempster, Barry Smith, and Kim Schoenberger are all involved and have brilliant works. Keep an eye on their blog sites - they are great bloggers.

another Pojagi Scarf

I managed to put together another scarf last week. Creativity has been slow these past couple of weeks - the boring details of life keep getting in the way.

  

 

This one is also for a lovely lady I met in Japan. The original shibori dyed white and turquoise fabric she gave me was apparently VERY old. I wonder what they used to get this strong colour? I have overdyed with a soft light green commercial dye.

 

Of course it's the beautiful hand patching I love so much - I've even starting doing some patching myself - embarrasingly rough compared with the delicate Japanese work which doesn't show through to the front. 

Ron Mueck exhibition

Yesterday, I saw the Ron Mueck exhibition at GOMA, Brisbane. I'm not a fan of super realism in any genre, but nevertheless this was an incredible exhibition.

'Baby'

Apart from the mammoth technical effort of casting these incredible human forms, I was entranced with the body language and facial expressions on his subjects. 

'Wild Man'

I felt compelled to engage with the sculptures, to wonder at the circumstances, the conversations, the reasons for being.

 'Woman with Sticks'

 

It was very interesting that communication was happening between strangers in the gallery - wonder, laughter, revulsion, incredulousness - quite unusual in a gallery like this.

'Woman in Bed'

 [3] 'Old Women Gossiping'

 

'Old Woman Sleeping'

'Man in Boat'

This one conveyed the biggest mystery - why was a vulnerably naked man sitting alone in a boat in the middle of the ocean looking suspiciously at something?

 

 

'Dead Dad'

  

'Mask'

'Dead Chicken'