Little Shoulders in Art of the Cuff, at Lord Coconut

Little Shoulders

deconstructed French cuff, tea, fabric trim, cotton, synthetic sponge, cardboard, metal fittings

Art of the Cuff
A Fringe Festival Exhibition

16th September - 4th October 2013

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
 

Little Shoulders: Epaulettes made from a deconstructed French Cuff

Little Shoulders

15 x 8 x 2 each

tea stain on deconstructed French cuff, fabric trim, cotton, synthetic sponge, cardboard, metal fittings

Little Shoulders

Little Shoulders was exhibited as part of Art of the Cuff 2014, A Fringe Festival Exhibition

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.

Fusion - men's pin

Fusion

3.2 x 3.5 x 1.3

swarovski crystal, vintage book paper, epoxy resin, reclaimed; fuses, watch case, pin

Fusion was exhibited as part of Binary at Lord Coconut : A Jewellery Exhibition Celebrating the Digital Age

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

The Brooch Show

My first foray into art jewellery for sale is at The Brooch Show, run by the Contemporary Art Society of Victoria. I have four brooches in the show. Here is a sneak preview of one of them.

Garth

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

The Brooch Show

Fitzroy Library (wall display cases)

128 Moor St, Fitzroy

2 May - 29 June 2013
OPENING: Sunday 5 May 2013 at 2pm 
   

The library Hours are:
Monday: 10am - 6pm
Tue & Wednesday: 1pm – 8pm
Thursday: 10am – 6pm
Friday: 1pm – 6pm
Saturday: 10am – 4pm
Sunday: 2pm – 5pm.

Then the exhibition will go 'on tour' to

Toorak/South Yarra Library

340 Toorak Rd, South Yarra

2 July - 30 August 2013

Library hours are:

Monday to Thursday: 10am – 8pm

Friday: 10am – 6pm

Saturday: 10am – 5pm

Sunday: 2pm - 5pm

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.

What is a Spam Tale?

Spam Tales is a series of collages. The wording for each collage is composed of spam email subjects and senders, collected over a period of months. They are written out on paper, and re-written or cut out and shuffled about until there something resembling cohesiveness, and an engaging mini story/spiel. Some collages incorporate the word recognition anti-spam mechanism for posting on Facebook. Spam and anti-spam word combinations have been chosen for their random, nonsense quality.

Spam Tales:'Craftsmanship Ox', detail
paper
in progress image, final work here
The juxtaposition of modern technology and turn of the century or Victorian imagery, paired with some very weird wording leads to pleasingly Surreal results. Most of the Spam Tales read like advertising spiels and the artist does not shy away from that fact. She enjoys perusing Victorian advertising and feels that some of the extravagant claims made back then are not so different to those made now in Spam.

Virtual Postcard

Craftsmanship Ox
is part of the archive of
Avant Cards
you can send virtually.
Link here.

Craftsmanship Ox: Out soon on an Avant Card

Avant Card postcards with my artwork getting printed this weekend!

Stand by to see them soon at Avant Card (free postcard) stands Australiawide! :D

Craftsmanship Ox, 2009

paper, ink, digital print out, on paper

30 x 42

Craftsmanship Ox, detail

Craftsmanship Ox, detail

Craftsmanship Ox was created while Spam Tales: Craftsmanship Ox, Erasmus Howard was a work in progress.  liked this collage so much I felt it was worthy of, and effective in, another composition

 and well suited to Avant Card's post card format. It's the most complicated, non-texture* collage I have done to date in terms of the number of actual pieces that are assembled and layered (twenty two parts), 

as well as the number of original image sources used (five different books).

Exhibited as part of Paper Butterflies.
* Examples here and here.

My Little Steampunk

My Little Steampunk, sketches and work in progress

My Little Steampunk, detail, head and tail in progressA My Little Pony customisation has been an intended art project of mine for 2 years, with a custom bait purchased in late 2006. Finally in late 20o8 after seeing some amazing MLP customisations online, I was inspired. I researched to see what has been done by other MLP customisers and basic MLP customisation tips and materials. After going back to the drawing board and really putting some thought into it, this is the result.

My Little Steampunk

G3 MLP figure*, copper sheet, thermoset polymer clay, plastic tubing, polypropylene, plastic covered copper wire, acrylic paint, enamel paint, acrylic pearlescent medium, gilding powder, glitter, brass screws

My Little Steampunk, detail

My Little Steampunk, flying gear detail

*2006, My Little Pony© 'Fairy Dust'.

Disclaimer:
My Little Pony© is a copyright of Hasbro, Inc.
This customisation is NOT affiliated with, nor authorized, endorsed or licensed in any way
by Hasbro, its affiliates or subsidiaries.

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.

Slide Rules Have No Place in My Party

Here's my section from the group show last month, Slide Rules Have No Place in My Party. The most popular/talked about pieces in it were the steam punk chess set Growth versus Progress (under acrylic box) and the soya sauce fish styled whales from A Quick Snack* (in black frame).

*Yes, I will eventually put images of this up!

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...

Twist Tweaks

Twist Tweaks

ink, paper on paper

21 x 30

Inspired by this genetically engineered salmon/product,
currently subject to approval by the US FDA for human consumption.

Twist Tweaks, detail
Exhibited as part of Paper Butterflies.

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.