Tag: Toowoomba

  • Crochet chickens coming home to roost

    Crochet chickens coming home to roost Awhile ago, I wrote this post about a competition I entered, and won. Someone was watching, and approached me to create a pair of crocheted Converse Chuck Taylor style booties for her child. Of course I made them way too big because he was a baby, and babies love

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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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  • 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: Brief Encounters – Homegrown at Empire Theatre Studio I went wool storming with Elanor Ida Shewring and

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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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  • Snapped: Why I’m Wearing This contribution for ABC Open

    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 no longer with me. My most memorable experience wearing it was when this picture was

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  • Some crocheted October yarn storms

    Some crocheted October yarn storms

    Some crocheted October yarn storms I put these ones up over the weekend. I had some friends come into town and we went for a walk to get ice-cream. I took some terrible photos for posterity. You may recognise some of the crochets wool pieces from this and this previous post. That is all.

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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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