Mother Peregrine Falcon with Young

Mother Peregrine Falcon with Young, 2019

graphite on paper

42 x 30

Art for a Cause.
Red Bubble shop now open!

You can now buy this artwork in a full range of print formats from framed to postcards, and on most available merchandise at Red Bubble, including apparel and home ware.

The original artwork used is a meticulously hand drawn, graphite illustration based on a screen capture taken before all of the 2019 family had hatched.

Prints:

https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/47400090?asc=u

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Merchandise including homeware:

https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/47402430?asc=u

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50% of profits from the sale of each item

featuring the falcons will be donated to

BirdLife Australia’s Victorian Peregrine Project.

This is an officially approved, ongoing fundraiser.

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!

Binary at Lord Coconut : A Jewellery Exhibition Celebrating the Digital Age

Stitch and Fusion were created for Binary at Lord Coconut, opening next week.

Binary

Exhibition Opening:
5:30pm - 7:30pm 20 May 2014

Exhibition:
21 May 2014 - 7 June 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 

My little robot brooches will also be in the show.

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.

The Dark Knight

 

The Dark Knight

31mm x 48mm  x 4.5mm

ink, wax on beef bone

Inspired by the classic Batman symbol inside an ellipse, and movie title, 

this piece realistically depicts a grey-headed fruit bat. 

To loosely paraphrase a well known quote from the Batman film: 

it's the animal that isn't wanted by some vocal townsfolk and farmers but 

it is the animal needed to pollinate our native flora, regenerating the forest.

Exhibited as part of Enhancement at Lord Coconut

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

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.

Artwork now in stock at Lord Coconut

Delivered today to Lord Coconut!

Clockwise from top left, detail of:

Mr Croak SOLD

Quench,

Feather Longwing, and

Flight of the Crayfish.

Click on titles to see images.

For further information please visit the Lord Coconut online store or the shop itself.

'Flow' in Concept Radical exhibition

I've finally won something for my art as an adult*: third prize in the Concept Radical art competition. In my characteristic and ironically artless way on receiving my prize

"Oh wow, I never win anything!"

Professor Carl Schiesser, Director of ARC while shaking my hand

"Well, you've won something now"

"Thank you! [big grin]"

Flow

digital image

of collected beach flotsam on card

Concept Radical Art Exhibition

Free, and open to the general public

Wednesday 2 November 2011 – Wednesday 9 November 2011.

The gallery is open 11am – 5pm Monday to Friday.

George Paton Gallery, Second Floor, Union Building, University of Melbourne, Victoria.

Official site here.

Summary and details here.

*Have won things as a child. It has been a while...

'Flow' entry in Concept Radical

click image to view

I have an entry in the Concept Radical art competition. Art submitted to Concept Radical explores free radicals and their impact. You can help me win a prize just by viewing my art which if you click on it will take you to a larger than life view of it. If you create a log in identity you can also rate it and comment on it there on the site.

Heliconius vestis rubrica (H. red carpet)

18°, Heliconius vestis rubrica (H. red carpet)
paper, steel pin, cardboard, closed cell polystyrene foam,
enamel paint, acrylic paint, nylon filament, ink,
steel jewellery cord, steel crimping beads,
polystyrene, magnet, found object (Galileo thermometer weight).
12.5cm wingspan

Installed as part of an assemblage titled 2º, exhibited in 2 @ Wunderkammer

Given a more traditional context...  

... and framed sans Galileo thermometer weight.

Paper butterfly: N. sept et triginta, Nymphalidae thirty seven.

N. sept et triginta, Nymphalidae thirty seven.

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

enamel paint, acrylic paint, nylon filament, ink

wingspan 10.5cm

Commissioned for a birthday gift. 

The recipient's favourite number is thirty seven while her favourite colour is purple.

2º: A butterfly installation inspired by Global Warming.

2º

mixed media

variable

This sculpture has been named 2º for two reasons:

• it incorporates the glass bubbles from a broken Gallileo thermometer which go up in two degree increments
• the Copenhagen Accord agreeing to not allow more than two degrees of overall global warming above pre-Industrial levels.

Actual butterfly species are being affected by increasing temperatures with some moving to higher altitudes, or away from the equator towards the poles, in response.

Although such potentially disastrous circumstances inspired the work, the idea is behind it is to uplift the viewer on contemplating it, rather than force feed a message. It is up to the viewer/buyer whether they wish to understand more by visiting this very website. The artist realises that sometimes it is enough to just enjoy art for art's sake. This is is why the 2º group installation is being subsequently divided up for individual sale rather than as one piece.

 26°, Papilio collis viridis (P. green hill)

2º, detail featuring 20°, Nymphalidae violaceum pavae (N. violet peacock)

Exhibited as part of 2 @ Wunderkammer.

Coloured paper butterflies, unmounted

These are the first two butterflies from an eventual group of seven which will form 2º, a butterfly wall installation.

Apollo aka 24º, Nymphalidae junonia nebulae (N. cloud buckeye)

mixed media

12cm wingspan, unmounted

Earth aka 26º, Papilio collis viridis (P. green hill)

mixed media

11.5cm wingspan, unmounted

Exhibited as part of 2 @ Wunderkammer.