Archives for category: fish

Anita Traverso Gallery

February 18, 2011 //
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Carta Mista

Paper: various works, varied uses…

A group show on at Anita Traverso Gallery untill the end of Feb 2011.

Included with works by Susan Buret, Nicola Moss, Onerva Utriainen, Stefan Gevers, Kim Barter, Michael Coyne, Pamela Rataj, Jenny Bolis, Jessica Wong and John Bodin are  my 3D works ‘For the Love of Shoes… ‘ and ‘Spencer and the Fish‘.

It is an eclectic, calm and crafted exhibition. My favourite works are the large, organic, geometric, mixed media pieces by Susan Buret, Michael Coyne’s photo of Brett Whiteley, Stefan Gevers’ watercolour caravans and the large paper cut of birds and plants,  ‘Searching for Sanctuary‘ by Nicola Moss.

Categories Animals, Exhibited works, Finished works, fish, turtles

fish mobile in Monument

July 26, 2010 //
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An early fish mobile I made was recently included in ‘Inside the mind of…’ segment of Monument magazine.

Refer pages 15-16.

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Categories Animals, Finished works, fish, kent st menagerie, Metcard works, Published works

Spencer and the fish

July 21, 2010 //
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This piece was short-listed for the BSG Prize 09 and was also exhibited at the Sydney Opera House as a part of the Avant Card ‘We love 3D‘ program.

Blanketed in their endorsed skins this odd couple are united as members of one tribe; an odd-ball gang; a strange aquatic squad. Instead of individual details of claws, fins, lips, wheels and heads one sees amorphous colour and pattern.

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Categories Animals, Exhibited works, Finished works, fish, kent st menagerie, Short-listed works, turtles

Spencer in progress

July 21, 2010 //
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I share a house with a lot of fish and a turtle called Spencer.

A while ago Spencer was run over after she’d escaped from the pond. It was summer, it was hot and our turtle was looking for love. Luckily she was found and taken to the vet who wired togther her shell. Spencer then had to spend 8 months recovering in a hospital tank in our lounge room. This gave me plenty of time to model her.

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Categories Animals, Exhibited works, fish, kent st menagerie, Short-listed works, turtles, Work in progress

postcard for 24hr art

July 21, 2010 //
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The end of year show for 24hr art 2009 was a celebration of 20 years of exhibitions (175,200 hrs).  They asked for postcards from members and I sent them this:

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Categories Animals, Exhibited works, fish

more fish mobiles

July 21, 2010 //
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These fish are a little larger than the metcard ones. Not so constrained by the size of the cardboard. Am still working on how to exhibit the mobiles.

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Categories Animals, fish, kent st menagerie, Work in progress

Fish stencil

July 21, 2010 //
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Thought I might have a go at a couple of stencils for the Melbourne stencil festival.

So I started with an old piece:

And cut some layers. (I used my current favourite beer packaging for each of the stencils – maybe not the best idea I have ever had.)

And because really the part I like most is cutting out, I decided to try 2 stencils:

And decided I needed a mega-sized met card top layer:

And, well the results are mixed. Decided not to enter them in the festival. Will have another go when I get some spare time. Did quite a bit of air-brushing at school and so feel determined to master this… later.

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Categories Animals, fish, Work in progress

Tag tree fish

July 21, 2010 //
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Metcard reliefs.

Exhibited in the Tag Tree Exhibition Group show, Hampshire, UK, 2009.

This exhibition aimed to amass 1000 tags from across the world and  the call for entries was posted through flickr.  The works were to be exhibited in two shows: an indoor, gallery show Hampshire, UK, and an outdoor exhibition to be held in a tree.

Had to have a few tree hanging prectices before sending them off.

For images of the indoor exhibiton see the photos in flickr. I do not think they have been stuck in a tree yet.

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Categories Animals, Exhibited works, Finished works, fish, Metcard works

Metcard relief works

July 21, 2010 //
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These are part of a series of cartoonish relief works.

They follow on from the flying pig and the cranky deer.

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Categories Animals, cats, Finished works, fish, Metcard works

Fish mobile

July 21, 2010 //
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Exhibited at in a group show at Artholes, Melbourne, 2007.

Another similar mobile was included in the CERES charity art auction, 2007: http://www.ceres.org.au/

I have made a number of these fish mobiles. The first ones (including this one) are made out of tram tickets / metcards. The fish are suspended on salvaged street-sweeper blades found on the side of the street.

If you look along the edge of most major city streets you will find these long thin snapped of steel blades. Took us a long while to work out that they are from street-sweepers. Once you notice them it is hard to stop seeing them.

I have also made some elephant mobiles but I do not have any photos of these.

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Categories Animals, Exhibited works, Finished works, fish, kent st menagerie, Metcard works