Archives for posts with tag: 2010

Up-coming group shows

November 29, 2010 //

After a brief hiatus I am back in the studio.

Am working towards a new show in early February and will post some images of how that is going soon. In the interum I have pieces from earlier this year in a couple of group shows. My feet shoes (For the love of shoes…) will be exhibited in the Brunswick Street Gallery’s Small Works Prize 2010. The show opens Friday 10th December, 6pm. The gallery is located upstairs at 322 Brunswick St, Fitzroy. See http://bsgart.com.au/ for more information.

Also the ‘itty bitty kitty machine’ and one of the ‘lucky cat’ statuettes are included in the Linden Gallery’s post card show early next year. This show opens 1pm-5pm Saturday 5 February 2011. The Linden gallery is situated at 26 Acland Street, St Kilda. See http://www.lindenarts.org/ for more information.

Tags 2010, art, beer box, cardboard, cat, coopers beer, feet, kinetic, Kirsty Fletcher, metcard, recycling, salvaged tickets, tram ticket

Categories Animals, cats, Exhibited works, Finished works, Metcard works, Short-listed works, Upcoming exhibitions

Cat and Mouse exhibition

October 4, 2010 //

Last week of the exhibition. Closes around 4pm on Saturday 9th October. Thought I’d try and get a few more images on-line. Most of these are happy snaps I have taken but a few of the better ones (like the lucky cats and the itty bitty kitty machine) are by my excellent photographer friend Erica Lauthier. I have taken a few movies of the pieces in motion but need to change format etc before I can post them up. Will try and do this early next week.

Tags 2009, 2010, art, cardboard, cat, feathers, flying, flying mice, gold wire, kinetic, knitting, metcard, mouse, packaging, rats, recycling, red gallery, spinning, wheels

Categories Animals, cats, Exhibited works, Finished works, Metcard works, rats and mice

Cat and Mouse exhibition

September 21, 2010 //

Installed show at Red Gallery yesterday.

Opening is tomorrow (Wednesday 22nd Sept) at 6pm.

Tags 2010, art, art exhibition, cardboard, cat, flying mouse, kinetic, Kirsty Fletcher, metcard, mouse, packaging, rats, recycling, red gallery

Categories Animals, cats, Exhibited works, Finished works, Metcard works, rats and mice, Upcoming exhibitions

cats eyes continuing

September 14, 2010 //

Tags 2010, art, cardboard, cat, eyes, kinetic, onion domes, packaging, recycling, red gallery

Categories Animals, cats, Upcoming exhibitions, Work in progress

cats eyes

September 14, 2010 //

Have started making cats eyes..

and boxes for them to peek out of.

Tags 2010, art, cardboard, cat, eyes, kinetic, onion domes, packaging, recycling, red gallery

Categories Animals, cats, kent st menagerie, Upcoming exhibitions, Work in progress

Cat and Mouse exhibition

September 8, 2010 //

My first solo shows opens in 2 weeks at Red gallery, Fitzroy North.

Subtitled ‘mice running wild in the hall of the cats‘ the show includes the felines and rodents I have been making. Most of the pieces are kinetic is some way or other (mice that fly and run in wheels, rats with wobble guts and cats with waving fists).

There are also 2 other shows opening on the same night (Phil Roubin and Judith Cobb ). More information on these exhibitions can be seen on the Red Gallery website.

Tags 2010, art, beer box, cardboard, cat, kinetic art, Kirsty Fletcher, mouse, recycling, red gallery

Categories Animals, cats, Exhibited works, Finished works, rats and mice, Upcoming exhibitions

Rats with wobbly guts

September 8, 2010 //

I made these rats because I loved the look of the winged mice lying on their backs with their innards on display.

These guys are best when they are also on their backs with their tails hanging over the edge. They have wavy, mulit-coloured gizzards (hanging below their bellies in these photos) which wriggle when you turn the key.

Tags 2010, art, beer box, cardboard, guts, key, kinetic art, packaging, rats, recycling, red gallery

Categories Animals, rats and mice, Upcoming exhibitions, Work in progress

BSG 2010 General Art Prize

September 7, 2010 //

My work ‘Heading home (for Mum’s birthday)‘ has been selected for this year’s BSG General Art Prize. The piece was exhbitied as a part of last year’s Togart awards however this is the first time it will be exhibited in Melbourne.

The winners are announced at the opening this Friday (10th Sept) and all are welcome.

For more information see the Brunswick Street Gallery website.

Tags 2010, art, Brunswick Street Gallery, cardboard, Darwin, exhibition, Ford Falcon XM, Kirsty Fletcher, melbourne, opening night, packaging, recycling, Togart

Categories Exhibited works, Finished works, Short-listed works, Upcoming exhibitions

dissection of a winged mouse

August 13, 2010 //

A bit more detail…

Tags 2010, art, beer box, cardboard, dissection, feathers, flying, kinetic, mouse, mouse squadron, recycling, taxidermy

Categories Animals, rats and mice, Upcoming exhibitions, Work in progress

dissection of the winged mice

August 13, 2010 //

I like these winged mice sprawled on their backs. I would leave them like this but it seems a bit wrong given that you can’t see the tops of the wings or make them fly in this position. Think I will make some clock-work rats based on these guys. Bigger, though, and all filled cogs and wheels and stringy bits of guts that work and squirm when you turn a key.

Tags 2010, art, cardboard, dissection, feathers, flying, kinetic, mouse, mouse squadron, packaging, recycling, salvaged tickets, taxidermy, tram ticket

Categories Animals, rats and mice, Upcoming exhibitions, Work in progress

mouse squadron – bodies in progress

August 12, 2010 //

Bodies of the winged mice assembled with tails and front paws. Next things to be added will be the heads and the all important wings.

Tags 2010, art, bodies, cardboard, flying, kinetic, metcard, mouse, packaging, recycling, red gallery, salvaged tickets, tram ticket

Categories Animals, rats and mice, Upcoming exhibitions, Work in progress

mouse squadron

August 12, 2010 //

Little piles of parts of the flying mice ready for assembly.

Tags 2010, art, beer box, cardboard, flying, flying mice, kinetic, mouse, packaging, recycling, red gallery, wings

Categories Animals, rats and mice, Upcoming exhibitions, Work in progress

mouse squadron

August 11, 2010 //

Heads for the flying mice squadron.

Tags 2010, art, beer box, cardboard, coopers beer, heads, mouse, packaging, recycling

Categories Animals, rats and mice, Upcoming exhibitions, Work in progress

See how they run…

August 2, 2010 //

Took the mice for a test spin on the weekend.

Tags 2010, art, cardboard, kinetic, mouse, mouse wheel, packaging, recycling, red gallery

Categories Animals, rats and mice, Upcoming exhibitions, Work in progress

mouse squadron

July 27, 2010 //

Assembling wings and amassing a mouse squadron for flight.

Tags 2010, art, cardboard, feathers, flying, metcard, mouse, packaging, rats and mice, recycling, squadron, tram ticket, wings

Categories Animals, rats and mice, Upcoming exhibitions, Work in progress

See how they run…

July 26, 2010 //

A few mice for my upcoming show at Red Gallery.

And a couple of wheels for running in…

Tags 2008, 2010, cardboard, kinetic, mouse, rats and mice, recycling, red gallery, wheels

Categories Animals, rats and mice, Upcoming exhibitions, Work in progress

Lucky cats

July 26, 2010 //

I am working towards my first solo show in September at Red Gallery, North Fitzroy.

It is looking like the works will focus on my cats and some imaginary mice who torment them. I’ve started with small lucky Maneki Neko:

(This is a flickr photo – I have managed to turn my flickr page into Korean text. When I get it back to english I’ll post the reference.)

Okay – back into english.

See Paul McAleer’s flickr page for the original image.

These cats are a little less lucky as their paws have to be moved manually. I have not fit them with a battery pack and a perpetual motion machine.

Tags 2010, art, cardboard, cat, kinetic, Kirsty Fletcher, Lucky Maneki Neko, packaging, recycling, red gallery

Categories Animals, cats, kent st menagerie, Upcoming exhibitions, Work in progress

For the love of shoes…

July 26, 2010 //

What happened while I wasn’t looking?

Suddenly my whole family are selling shoes.

I don’t much like shoes.

I don’t mind my feet.

They are flat and fat and hairy and strange. They keep me from falling over (most of the time) and they are a good endpoint for my legs. Unfortunately most shoes make them hurt or blister or smell.

Mine are feet for wiggling in the sand not mincing 6 inches from the ground.

My feet make it hard to understand the vocational choices around me.

But, ugly and proud up on their podium, these odd feet-shoes celebrate the gumption and nerve needed to pursue something new.

This work has been short-listed in the upcoming Togart 10 Contemporary Art Award.

Photos by Erica Lauthier