Category: Exhibitions

  • Making a bender

    Making a bender

    Using willow poles to build a bender, a traditional tent building technique

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  • An upcoming exhibition, Collaberration with Danish Quapoor

    An upcoming exhibition, Collaberration with Danish Quapoor

    Photos of drawings from Collaberration with Danish Quapoor.

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  • Artist photos, professionally photographed artwork pt. 3 – Fairy-ring 1, 2 & 3

    Artist photos, professionally photographed artwork pt. 3 – Fairy-ring 1, 2 & 3

    Fairy-ring series image compilation I have previously posted other compilations of my professionally photographed works, and this next one is about a series of works I completed over 2010-2012, the Fairy-ring series. If you’re interested in the ‘hows’ behind the process of creating a work like this; I wrote about making Fairy-ring 2 as I was

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  • Kelly-Marie and Matthew Collins performing in Brief Encounters (Toowoomba)

    Kelly-Marie and Matthew Collins performing in Brief Encounters (Toowoomba)

    Our Brief Encounters Toowoomba performance, August 2013 So, it has obviously been awhile since this film was created, but since all of the travelling, I have not been able to post it until now. I have written about this collaboration process, creation and performance quite a bit in the past, and I have linked those

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  • The magic of make up

    The magic of make up during Brief Encounters Toowoomba I forgot to post this from awhile ago. For Brief Encounters, I did some amateur elaborate makeup. Namely, false eyelashes. It was somewhat of a transformation. Here is the before/after photo: Matt Collins and I:

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  • Creative Tanks in 2013, by Kelly-Marie McEwan

    Creative Tanks in 2013, by Kelly-Marie McEwan

    Creative Tanks in 2013 Creative Tanks in 2013 was my last year to be a part of the event. As you may know from following my blog, I am moving away from the town to pursue…something….somewhere. If you didn’t know, I am leaving Australia in less than a month to move overseas. So, here are

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  • Kelly-Marie McEwan and Matt Collins, Brief Encounters Empire Theatre Toowoomba

    Kelly-Marie McEwan and Matt Collins, Brief Encounters Empire Theatre Toowoomba

    Kelly-Marie McEwan and Matt Collins in Brief Encounters This is another in my series about the Brief Encounters performance that was at the Empire Theatre on Saturday, 24th August. Photos by Rory Adams. You can find the rest of the performance’s images here.

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  • Review of Brief Encounters, Empire Theatre, Toowoomba

    Review of Brief Encounters, Empire Theatre, Toowoomba

    Review of Brief Encounters Toowoomba From the Brief Encounters at the Empire Theatre Facebook Page; a great review of the Brief Encounters project that I was a part of, which finished this Saturday weekend. By Amber Gwynne, Arts Writer. Brief Encounters: lasting impressions Once, in an interview, French painter Henri Matisse commented: ‘Creativity takes courage.’

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  • Does art matter? Artists say, yes.

    Does art matter? Artists say, yes.

    Does Art Matter? …Is the question Benjamin Tupas, a producer for ABC Open posited to artists recently about the creation of art in Toowoomba in the article Art Matters. I was one of the artists, and I was quoted! The article was in reference to two events that were happening in Toowoomba over the weekend.

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  • Short film ‘Toy Shelf’ for Brief Encounters Toowoomba

    Short film for Brief Encounters Toowoomba, called ‘Toy Shelf’ This short film is strange without context, so let me set you up a little; it plays at the start of our show, then the stage lights up and it is a life sized version of a work bench. There are novelty oversized erasers, needles, pincushions,

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