Creative practices of a textile artist from Queensland, Australia. Now living in Somerset, England.
Category Archives: theGRID
Artist News / October Links Round Up
Artist News / October Links Round Up Personal artist news: Someone snapped a photo of a throw I created, and used it as a title image: http://us4.campaign-archive2.com/?u=b20044531929534bdd108e0a1&id=fda8a0348a&e=%5BUNIQID I found an older write up on Brief Encounters on ActorsGreenRoom: http://actorsgreenroom.net/archives/8525 I … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Inspiration, Queensland, Research, Textiles, theGRID, Toowoomba
Tagged artist perspective, Australia, brief encounters, Empire Theatre, Fair Isle, NAVA, promotional, theGRID hybrid arts collective, Toowoomba
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Snapped: Why I’m Wearing This contribution for ABC Open
Snapped: Why I’m Wearing This Vintage Green Dress ABC Open is asking for contributions for the series Snapped: Why I’m Wearing This. It was so difficult to choose any one particular thing; I went with a dress that is now … Continue reading
Posted in Inspiration, Photography, theGRID, Toowoomba, Workshops
Tagged artist perspective, crafternoons, crochet, photography, professional, promotional, Queensland, theGRID hybrid arts collective, Toowoomba, Vintage, vintage books, wearable arts
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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 … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Collaboration, Exhibitions, Experiments, Inspiration, Queensland, theGRID, Toowoomba, Works in progress
Tagged ABC Open, alterations, Animating Spaces, artist perspective, Artslink Queensland, brief encounters, collaboration, exhibitions, experimentation, handmade, Toowoomba
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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 … Continue reading
Posted in Collaboration, Crochet & Knitting, Exhibitions, Experiments, Film, Photography, Queensland, Textiles, theGRID, Toowoomba, Works in progress
Tagged artist perspective, brief encounters, collaboration, crochet, exhibitions, experimentation, films, professional, Queensland, textile design, Toowoomba, wearable arts
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Zine workshop results
Zine workshop I was supposed to post about the results from this event awhile back. Unfortunately, life gets in the way sometimes and I am certainly behind on writing about some recent artist events. Today I am also celebrating having … Continue reading
Posted in Crafternoons, Experiments, Sewing, theGRID, Toowoomba, Works in progress, Workshops
Tagged A4, choose your own adventure, collaboration, collage, drawing, dubstep, experimentation, handmade, homosexuality, independent press, ink, jesus, Muzy, paper, Queensland, scrolls, scrollwork, Smells Like Zines, social media, theGRID hybrid arts collective, Toowoomba, Toowoomba Regional Council, what is a zine, workshops, YouthConnect TRC, zine, zine workshop
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Artist images – professionally taken artwork photo gallery
Artist images I have had taken. Not many words today. These are beautiful. Thanks to the USQ Photography team for their amazing images over the last few years, as well as Nerida Tupas.
Artist Video – round up of short films about own artist perspective
Artist video round up I need to put some metaphoric eggs into a collective basket. These eggs are in the form of some short artist videos about my artist practice and residency at theGRID hybrid arts collective in 2012. The … Continue reading
Posted in Collaboration, Exhibitions, Film, Inspiration, theGRID, Toowoomba, Works in progress
Tagged artist perspective, collaboration, films, photography, promotional, social media, technology, textile design
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Woollenings about The Town
Preparations in the drawer at theGRID Here’s a brief retrospect on my activities about The Town in the last six months or so. I would have put them out before, and should have, but making works is a lot more … Continue reading
Posted in Crochet & Knitting, Experiments, theGRID
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Events in September-October
Urg…hands hardening up, sore, turning into claws… Events in September-October don’t look to be slowing down. Here’s what we have so far: Time for holidays! What are you up to? The school holiday program that is being run by theGRID … Continue reading
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Arts based workshops, a wrap up.
School holdidays at theGRID Over the last couple of months I have been busy developing and delivering arts based workshops locally. These have been met with mixed success. Overall, I am pretty grateful for the opportunity to practice … Continue reading
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