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Art by Patricia Denis

Pictured above are 16 of the 23 items now available.

Each is a unique, handmade artwork using found, reclaimed and reused materials.

ArtByPatriciaDenis 

Open just in time for Christmas 

AND

right now, 

Monday, November 21 to Friday, December 1, 2017

I am offering 10% off storewide. 

No need for codes or coupons. Easy!

Toy to the World 2017

This year for the biannual Toy to the World Project exhibition, I set myself the challenge of customising two Popobe, vinyl bears, and rendered one almost unrecognisable.

A monochromatic, spray toned Equality bear climbs up towards the hermaphrodite, zebra snails in
Journeys of a Bento Box* REDUX.

 Journeys of a Bento Box* REDUX, detail

For the first time, Terry Pratchett's, Discworld character,
the Grim Squeaker is rendered authentically using carefully articulated, real bones**.
A lovingly, crafted miniature scythe was whittled from
found eucalypt twigs and reclaimed, machined aluminium off cuts.
A reclaimed glass dome is revived with a custom made, reclaimed oak base and handle with leather washer and brass finial.

The Grim Squeaker

Toy to the World

October 11-14, 2017

Opening Night: 11 October at 6:00pm –9:30pm

ArtBoy Gallery

99 Greville St

Prahran, Victoria, Australia 3181

Enquiries:(03) 9939 8993

Open hours: 10:00am - 6:00pm

Online Auction will open on 

11th October at 6pm (AEST / UTC+10) 

and run until 

9:30pm 25 October 2017 (AEST / UTC+10)
Click HERE to bid.

'Over 120 Vinyl Toys have been customised by artists around the country and overseas, they'll all be on display for 4 days only at ArtBoy Gallery in Prahran, starting with the Opening Night event from 6pm on Wednesday 11th October 2017. Including beats from DJ Kitty Kat and a very artist-friendly-priced cash bar stocked with beer from Moon Dog Craft Brewery and wines by Pizzini Wines, so bring your loose change and grab an uber not your car keys for this one.

All the artist's creations will be for sale via an online auction that lasts 14 days from the opening, this Auction will be available directly and exclusivly on the Toy to the World Project Facebook page from 6pm on the 11th.

All net profits from the project are donated to the Victorian AIDS Council for their amazing work designing public health and education campaigns to combat STI and HIV rates, research, and providing support services to people with HIV.'

*Previously exhibited, sans bear as Journeys of a Bento Box as part of Greyscale at Red Gallery.
**Roadkill, partial rabbit skull and cat killed rat.

Crown for Adornment at Lord Coconut.

Crown, detail

11.5 x 16.5 x 4

cat pelvis, vintage book paper collage

Crown (SOLD) was created for 

Adornment now showing at Lord Coconut as part of Melbourne Spring Fashion Week.

'Animal bones have played a special role in adornment from hunter-gatherer times until now. In ancient China they were decorated with inscriptions and put to the flame in a practice of divination; a way of communicating with their Gods. Many cultures believe people embody the traits of different animals.

Jewellers, artisans and designers have been given a found bone and instructed to adorn it in a masculine way, or use the bone when producing a piece of adornment for men, especially jewellery ... 

The exhibition is a comment on the current explosion of body adornment, both permanent and temporary, as seen in fashion today.'

Adornment

29 August 2014 - 14 September 2014

Lord Coconut

Suite 3, Level 4

Carlow House

289 Flinders Lane

Melbourne 3000

Tuesday to Friday – 11am to 6pm

Saturday – 12pm to 4pm

Other times by appointment

Enquiries:

0450 015 263

info[at]lordcoconut.com

Crown: a collage adorned bone

Crown

11.5 x 16.5 x 4 

cat pelvis, vintage book paper collage

Crown, detail

 

Crown was created for Adornment at Lord Coconut as part of Melbourne Spring Fashion Week.

Value Our Ambos, CODE RED brooch

Value Our Ambos, CODE RED

5.5 x 7 x 1

acrylic paint, enamel paint, wood, metal jewellery fixings

Commissioned to be worn to an awards ceremony by an ambulance officer friend. Read about the Code Red campaign here.

Open : customised Popobe bear for Toy to the World 2014

 Open

thermoset polymer clay, tissue paper, acrylic paint, enamel paint

15 x 10 x 5

My second customised Popobe bear for the Toy to the World, fundraiser show. All funds raised went to the Victorian AIDs Council. This exhibition was part of the MidSumma Festival program

Part of the project was to shoot work in progress photographs in order to create an animation.

Open - my bear at Toy to the World 2014

Open

Work in progress animation of customised vinyl Popobe bear figure.

Here are the details for the Toy to the World exhibition and silent auction my little bear 'Open', will be at. Bidding for it was here.

Toy to the World 2014

WHEN: Tuesday 21st January

WHERE: ArtBoy Gallery, 99 Greville St Prahran

ENTRY: Gold coin donation (voluntary - covers cost of venue hire)

From the Facebook event page:

'Since early December over 80 artists from Melbourne and around the world have been busy customizing over 100 blank vinyl toy bears for the Toy to the World Project.

They're now just about ready to exhibit and to auction off to raise funds for HIV research and education.

Part design competition, part charity fundraiser, the opening night of the TTTW Project kicks off the 2 week long online auction.

The bears will all be on display for only 5 (sic actually 4) days after the opening night at ArtBoy atop the locally crafted quality display plinths from kist3, big ups to these guys.

Once the opening night is over you can continue to check on your bids in the auction and place new bids via our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/toy2theworld the auction will close on Tuesday Feb 4th at 7pm sharp.

Bears can be collected at an arranged time from South Yarra after this, or can be sent via post (additional postage & handling costs will apply on top of your winning bid)

All profits raised via the auction go the Victoria AIDS Council.'

Open - a customised vinyl bear.

Open

15 x 9 x 9

vinyl bear figure, glitter embedded polymer clay, plastic half pearls, tissue paper, acrylic paint, shimmer powder, enamel paint

Exhibited as part of Toy to the World 2014.

Until February 4th you can bid for it here. Shipping not included in sale price. See link for details.

Small Worlds Recycled Art Competition and Exhibition

From the City of Maribyrnong website:

'This inaugural recycled art competition celebrates the reuse and recycling of small-scale materials in the City of Maribyrnong. People are invited to submit artworks smaller than 30 x 30 x 30cm that communicate sustainability and ingenuity. The competition ends with an exhibition of the best entries launched by a gala awards night amongst sumptuous food!

Why ‘small worlds’? Too often waste and environmental destruction is seen as something ‘out there’ that we have little control over. By seeking creative responses to waste on a small scale, the competition invites people to consider the environmental impact of the human scale items in their lives.'

A good friend and fellow artist put me onto this. It's right up my alley: recycled/reclaimed materials; small in scale but not necessarily in message. I have two pieces in this show.

Top left and lower right, details of 'Recycle'

Top right and lower left, details of 'Wish'

Small Worlds

Recycled Art Competition and Exhibition

27 November – 19 December

Small Worlds Exhibition, Footscray Library

Mon-Fri: 10am-8pm

Sat: 10am-5pm

Sun: 2pm-5pm

Opening Gala Event

Wednesday 27 November,

6-7.30pm

Footscray Library

56 Paisley St Footscray

RSVP via link if attending opening.

Thursday 19 December, 6-7.30pm

Closing and film screening, Footscray Library. Collection of works from library by artists.

Wish

Wish

15 x 15 x 6

corn starch packing pellets, chicken bone on mount board

Exhibited in Small Worlds, as part of the Big West Festival. Runner up in the Environmental award category.

Paper butterfly bodies - work in progress

Paper butterfly: N. acerbis levis (Nymphalidae dark light)

N. acerbis levis (Nymphalidae dark light)

vintage paper, paper, steel pin, cardboard, closed cell polystyrene foam, 

enamel paint, acrylic paint, nylon filament, ink
approximate wingspan 9.5cm

Exhibited as part of Paper Butterflies.

Bright Eyes & Paper Butterflies

 Bright Eyes, in progress

Bright Eyes

paper, steel pin, cardboard, closed cell polystyrene foam, 

enamel paint, acrylic paint, nylon filament, ink

wingspan 3.5cm

Coming in October,
to Wunderkammer.

Paper Butterflies
A solo exhibition,
exploring the ephemeral
quality of nature.

Nesting Instinct

Nesting instinct

mixed media sculpture incorporating collage

33 x 43 x 15

Back

Detail of water reservoir collage on back.

Back detail showing globe and collage

Detail of Uncorked Room

Detail of Fertility Room

Detail of Thought Room

Detail of Skull Room

Detail of Drink Me, Thought and Contemplation Rooms.

Detail of Sponge Room

Details of Hive Room (above, below)
 

Finalist exhibited in ...home...

Organic Mechanism

Organic Mechanism

19 x 14 x 8 (framed)

corn starch foam, acrylic lacquer, coral, sea urchin tests, enamel paint, found nylon gears, on card

Exhibited as part of Paper Butterflies and Slide Rules Have No Place At My Party.

Big show coming up: Slide Rules Have No Place At My Party.

This is one of my several, new, sculptural works featured in an upcoming show at Brunswick Arts Space.

Lime and Soda, detail showing scrimshaw

Slide Rules Have No Place At My Party.
An exhibition of small scale sculpture and other media.
Curated by Monica Zanchetta.
Opening July 17th, 6-9pm
17 to 30 July 2009
Brunswick Arts Space
2a Little Breese Street
Brunswick, Australia
Gallery Hours: Thu-Fri 3-7, Sat-Sun 12-5

Black + White (Shades of Grey)

I have 3 paper collages in the upcoming Black + White (Shades of Grey) show at 

Pigment Gallery in the CBD. 

None have been exhibited before and one was created especially for this.

Opening night: Thursday 25 June 5.30 – 8pm
25 June to 11 July 2009
Pigment Gallery
Level 2
Nicholas Building
37 Swanston St
Corner of Flinders Lane.
Enter via Cathedral Arcade, stairs or elevator.

Left to right details from;
Hopping Mouse,
Wild World,
Spectacled Bat.

Small Works 09 at BSG

I have 3 pieces in the upcoming Small Works 09 show at the Brunswick Street Gallery a.k.a bsg. This is an open entry show - similar to the annual Linden Gallery Postcard Show - for all media within a 30cm x 30cm x 30cm size.

Left to right, details from:
Roost (mixed media sculpture),
Anatomy of a Loss (mixed media collage), &
All Thing Dark and Beady Eyed (mixed media sculpture).

Small Works 09
19 June to 2 July
Brunswick Street Gallery
Opening Night: 26 June, 6pm onwards
322 Brunswick St, Fitzroy 3065

The OCD Show at Off the Kerb

Off the Kerb , artist run gallery and studios is celebrating its 2nd birthday with a show exploring the theme of obsession.

My submitted sculpture - Switch Off to Switch On - is in this show. My mixed media piece deals with a well known scientific obsession with intelligence, and was also created a little obsessively - so many carefully selected and snipped pieces make up the collaged section.

Switch Off to Switch On, detail
paper collage, plastic mice, acrylic paint, enamel paint, wood, shellac, damar varnish, ink

The OCD Show at Off the Kerb

April 3-24, 2009

Opening hours are Thurs & Fri 12:30pm-6pm, Sat & Sun 12-5pm

Opening night is Friday 3rd April from 6-9pm

66B Johnston St, Collingwood, 3066

9077 0174

info@offthekerb.com.au

[edit 12/05/09]

Here are the pictures taken by the gallery of the show.

Dodo - Anatomy of a Loss (Part 1)

Dodo - Anatomy of a Loss (Part 1)

vintage paper, ink, watsonia bulb husk, acetate, paper

15 x 11

After seeing the exhibition and owning the book 'A Gap in Nature' by Peter Schouten, 

in which the Dodo is prominently featured, I was inspired to create my own dignified dodo artwork. 

Historically the dodo has been depicted as a slightly silly bird. 

Schouten bucked that trend beautifully. 

The original scientific name for the dodo was Didus ineptus reflecting the period lack of respect for the species. It's now known as Raphus cucullatus.

Anatomy of a Loss (Part 1), reverse and front

Anatomy of a Loss (Part 1), detail

Exhibited as part of Small Works 09.