Collage at Incub8r Gallery

Coat of Many Arms

reclaimed paper collage

10 x 10

The above is one of eight collages in an exhibition, Collage at Incub8r Gallery.

in.cube8r gallery presents: COLLAGE

'In a world that increasingly feels like it is being stuck together with paste,

we need some sweet relief! For this show, we’ve sourced artists who work in the medium of collage, and asked them to create works in whatever theme they desire.'

Collage

29 November to 12 December 2018.
In.Cube8r Gallery
321 Smith Street
Fitzroy
ph: 0414 736 659
hello@incube8r.com.au

11-5 Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday
11-6 Thursday* / Friday / Saturday
12-4 Sunday **

** On Sundays we often run workshops in our exhibition space so customers wishing to view current exhibitions should contact us to ensure the space will be accessible.
Online catalogue here.

Etsy Store Now Open for Business!

Big announcement: You can now buy my art online through my newly opened Etsy store,

ArtByPatriciaDenis
aka

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.

Grevy's Zebras: snail sculptures on display

Grevy's Zebras

work in progress

Now showing at Red Gallery, in Greyscale.

Tulle Panda, a snail sculpture

 Tulle Panda

acrylic on found garden snail shell and reclaimed corn starch packing pellets, reclaimed plastic dome, hand coloured sphagnum moss, polystyrene foam, glass, enamel on timber 

12 x 10 x 10

Made for and exhibited as part of Greyscale at Red Gallery.

Granite, a snail sculpture

Granite

acrylic on found garden snail shell and reclaimed corn starch packing pellets, reclaimed plastic dome, hand coloured sphagnum moss, polystyrene foam, glass, enamel on timber 

12 x 10 x 10

Made for and exhibited as part of Greyscale at Red Gallery.

Grevy's Zebras, a mating snails sculpture

Grevy's Zebras

acrylic on found garden snail shell and reclaimed corn starch packing pellets, reclaimed plastic dome, hand coloured sphagnum moss, polystyrene foam, glass, enamel on timber 

12 x 12.5 x 12.5

Made for and exhibited as part of Greyscale at Red Gallery.
Sold privately.

Paper Butterflies in The Wild

These three paper butterflies will be in The Wild at Off the Kerb gallery.

'Off the Kerb is pleased to celebrate its 9th Birthday Show by inviting you into The Wild, where your imagination can run wild. We invite you into a utopian wilderness where there are 

no boundaries, freedom and beauty is bountiful, a place where love runs wild, wilder beasts and divine creatures roam free - you are fearless.....untamed....... 

Enter The Wild...

OTK celebrates its 9th Birthday with this group exhibition in support of Edgar’s Mission. 

Edgar’s Mission is a not for profit Farm Sanctuary that seeks to create 

a humane and just world for homeless, abused, injured or abandoned animals.

OTK will be donating the gallery commission to Edgar’s Mission www.edgarsmission.org.au'

The Wild

at  
Off the Kerb gallery.

Opening: Fri 8 April 6-9pm |

7 April - 21 April 2016

66B Johnston St, Collingwood, 3066

9077 0174 | 0400 530 464

info@offthekerb.com.au

Thurs & Fri 12:30- 6 | Sat & Sun 12 - 5

Free Entry

Souvenir: A coconut shell, faux taxidermy, monkey face

Introduction
When I was a child my father made garden ornaments out of coconut shells. They were inspired by Oceanic art. They usually had holes for eyes and mouths. Dad painted them with enamel paints or left over household acrylics - whatever was handy! After refurbishing some of Dad's weatherworn shells I made a few myself: a beagle, Ludo from Labyrinth, The Crow, and Astro Boy, plus a bright ginger cat in collaboration with my brother. They are all are still hanging at my parents' place.

As adults my brother and I collaborated on a cat face inspired by our father's coconut shell art. It was a realistic depiction with the raw fluffly coconut fibres left on to create fur, a carved and painted nose, and  plastic eyes fitted into its eye sockets. That one stays inside the house and was not intended to be weatherproof. It was a faux taxidermy head.


The Dear Father Brief
'Lord Coconut travelled the world circa 1900 and sent back a postcard and small gift to his father back in Australia from each country he visited. The exhibition consists of the postcards and gifts interpreted by 15 plus jewellers and artisans involved in the exhibition.'

I was supplied with a vintage postcard from the Rock of Gilbralta. On this outcrop there is a famous - or infamous - colony of Barbary Macaques (also known as Barbary Apes although they are not true apes).

This provided an ideal opportunity to make another realistic, stylised animal, coconut shell face for the most oppropriately named venue.

Prepatory Studies

When dealing with an unfamiliar animal subject I like to draw a number of studies to get a feel for the form, distinctive features and character of a species.

I started with some black lead studies to get a feel for the expression and profile...

... and finished with a colour study of what I regard as the Clint Eastwood of Barbary macaques.

The Finished Product

Souvenir, detail of nose

The nose is made from the end of another coconut shell in order to create more depth as well accuracy of nasal form and profile. One end of a coconut has 'eyes', the other usually has something that can be formed into a common mammalian nose.

Souvenir, detail of eyes

The glass eyes were painted from the front and back of plain glass droplets. Inspired by techniques used in stopmotion animation, a small turn table was involved ... and a great deal of trial and error!

 Souvenir

12 x 11.5 x 9

coconut shell, glass, acrylic paint, enamel paint, PVA glue

Souvenir was exhibited as part of Dear Father at Lord Coconut.

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.

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.

Gerni: the robot brooch

Gerni

4 x 4 x 1

ink, paper collage on plywood, acrylic lacquer, metal brooch fitting

Exhibited as part of The Brooch Show

Weld Corp: the robot brooch

Weld Corp

4 x 4 x 1

ink, paper collage on plywood, acrylic lacquer, metal brooch fitting

Exhibited as part of The Brooch Show

Sid Chrome: the robot brooch

Sid Chrome

4 x 4 x 1

ink, paper collage on plywood, acrylic lacquer, metal brooch fitting

Exhibited as part of The Brooch Show

Garth: the robot brooch

Garth

4 x 4 x 1

ink, paper collage on plywood, acrylic lacquer, metal brooch fitting

Exhibited as part of The Brooch Show

Le Fils de l'ours : The Son of Bears, after Magritte.

Le Fils de l'ours : The Son of Bears, after Magritte.

15 x 11 x 5
11 cm wingspan

vinyl bear, graphite, apricot twig, fabric, paper, cardboard, acrylic paint, acrylic lacquer

Created for the Toy to the World project. Text from their website:

'Toy to the World is currently a biennial charity art event involving a custom vinyl toy

design competition that provides both the opportunity for public to witness art creation happening live and the chance for artists to exhibit works while contributing their creations to help raising funds to go toward HIV research in the hopes of improving the lives of those affected by it. The event is split into two distinct parts, the Design Day launch event where artists can collect a plain white vinyl toy and begin work live with provided paints and markers; and the Exhibition & Auction where all the complete works are judged by respected industry judges and displayed while a 2 week silent auction runs. Artists may pre-register their interest for a time slot on the Design Day, or may register to receive a vinyl toy to complete before the Exhibition'

Back view

Painted hand script is an homage to Magritte's The Treachery of Images (La trahison des images).

Detail of tie, collar and coat. 

Note the undone third button as in the original Magritte painting.

Detail of head

Painted, cut, fabric apple leaves on a twig.

Artwork in situ upon completion.

Cole's Funny Picture Book Paper Butterflies

I have two framed paper butterflies in a book art show at Hand Held Gallery.
They are made using paper from a Cole's Funny Picture Book.

Summer BAZE

Book Arts and Zine Exhibition

From December 20-24
&
January 16-19

@

Hand Held Gallery

Suite 18, upstairs

Paramount Arcade

108 Bourke Street

Melbourne, 3000

Entry via Bourke or little Bourke street. Go straight up escalator to top level.

Contact:

(03)9654 4006

Megan at:

littleredfishy@yahoo.com.au

Gallery opening hours:

Tue-Sat 12-5pm

Recycle

Recycle

25 x 25 x 8

reclaimed synthetic material plush toy heads, wooden plate, shellac, polyester thread, paper

detail of label on reverse

 

Exhibited in Small Worlds, as part of the Big West Festival.