kellymariemcewan
Textile artist / Permaculture Food Forester / Bespoke crochet / Repurposed materials / Wearable Art
Tag: artist perspective
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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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Teasing the Domestic, travelling art exhibitions in 2013
Teasing the Domestic all over Queensland Getting together various CVs for The Big Trip, which has caused me to pause and note some of the news articles and galleries my works have been mentioned in, that I may have missed over the last twelve months. Two in particular caught my eye; a May announcement of
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Brief Encounters Australia – Creative Arts fusion in Toowoomba, Queensland
The Brief Encounters project – in Australia! Very pleased to announce I’ve been invited to participate in the Brief Encounters project. It has been running in Vancover since 2005, started up by some interesting folks called the Tomorrow Collective. I’ll be working on this project with Matt Collins, co-creator of other projects such as The
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Amigurumi and Fair Isle crochet – the latest ideas
Amigurumi and Fair Isle crocheting have been two crochet techniques I have enjoyed working on for about the last month. I made a 3-dimensional squid in a hat (with a moustache); It reminds me of Thomson and Thompson. Except there’s only one squid, so…..just Thomson then. Then I properly learned the technique for Fair Isle
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Some news
Posting has been sporadic of late, and that’s because I’m planning on doing a lot of travelling in future. Instead of art-based forms to fill out my life has filled up with visa and other travel based forms, and I have to admit, I am swamped. I am really going to miss this place, it
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Pinterest tutorial results, How To Cover Shoes
I tackled a shoe tutorial found on Pinterest a few weeks ago now. It was a tutorial on covering secondhand shoes with a new fabric to give them a new life. It is from the lovemaegan blog, direct link available here. She used a beautiful houndstooth fabric; …which I sadly did not have, but I
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Drawing; new ideas, works in progress.
Drawing, new ideas and works in progress. Drawing of late. It’s an absorbing process to participate in, and I can feel a mental “dusting off” of skills that were in long-term storage in my brain. I have also been posting a lot of little sketches and thumb nail ideas into my Instagram account, as well
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Works in progress, new ideas
Works in progress I have been drawing a little bit of late, and wanted to share the skritchy-scratch biro ones. They are small-scale and I am so rusty with bone structure, so they look awkward in places too. But, it’s an encouraging start, as I haven’t created any 2D works for years. The ink layers glide
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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 trailer – Gridlines EO1 teaser The full film – Gridlines Episode 1 – Kelly-Marie McEwan
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