Well it’s been a long while between posts but here are some animations of the Fiddler Crab windmills I have been working on.
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Work is all ready for installation in this year’s TOGART Contemporary Art Award show. For those in Darwin the exhibition is on 6th Sept – 13th Oct at the Chan Contemporary Art Space.
I have improved these movies. Have a look here.
Making a start on works for a new show at Red Gallery in June.
Am looking at wasps and mosquitos, spiders, crocs and trogan cats, plus venus fly traps and pitcher plants. Really a collection of scary flora and fauna that might attack you in your backyard.
I have just completed my kinetic crocodile piece. Five hungry crocs chasing each others tails. The disk is wall mounted and the crocs spin the waterlilies. As they spin they flip back and forth and their jaw snap open and close.
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.
For anyone in Darwin, the Togart 2010 exhbition opened last week.
It is in the newly developed Chan building opposite parliament house. The exhibition includes a diverse selection of indigenous, traditional and contemporary works including my piece ‘For the love of shoes…‘ .
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
From ‘The AGE’ 16 June, 2010
This work has been short-listed in the upcoming Togart 10 Contemporary Art Award.
The exhibition will be held in Darwin for 5 weeks from early September. The venue is about to be announced.
Photos of my dream feet shoes in progress.
The soles pattern is from my birkenstocks which were the only shoes I wore until my family started on their current shoe-shop preoccupation.
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:
This work was short-listed in the Togart 09 Contemporary Art Award.
This small scale cardboard sculpture depicts one of my most treasured experiences.
This memory combines nostalgia, a love of the emptiness of Australia and an easy, sisterly companionship.
It also involves my car.
My car, a 1964 Ford Falcon XM sedan, is a dream of chrome and stream-lining but it is old and it is slow.
In 2000, in an episode of defiance, against good sense, distance and physics, my sister and I drove this car across Australia and back to surprise our mum for her 50th birthday. As kids our family would regularly make the trek up and down the Stuart Highway. These early trips were about speed and getting to our destination. We were car bound for 15 hours a day; meals were prepacked and toilet stops timed to coincide with refuelling. My sister and I were well trained in efficient road travel.
My car was not.
The old engine and small radiator meant we motored at a gentle 50 mile /hr and, every 3 – 4 hours, the car needed to cool down. So, a couple of times a day, with a thermos of coffee and a couple of camping chairs, we waited. In the vast, red, empty space we waited like grand dames of the interior. With the bonnet popped, on the side of the road we were characters in our own Merchant Ivory production.
With a different car, the mood might have been ‘Mad Max’ or ‘Vanishing Point’ or there may have been no need to stop in the middle of nowhere at all.
Some of these photos are by Erica Lauthier.
For Togart 09 catalogues click here
A work in progress photographed at Lee Point Beach, Darwin.
In this small collage the tram trundles from side to side, the hands wave goodbye and the plane zooms into the sky.
My sister left Melbourne and returned home to Darwin to live with her crocodile framing boyfriend and open a show shop. She is enjoying herself, but it is hard being in different cities. Her shop, Me and My Llama, has been open for just over a year.
Exhibited in the Human Rights Art Award, Darwin, 2006.
I have knitted a lot of woolen ‘quadrapods’ for friends’ kids. They started life as a horse type creature but ended up as a uncategorised 4-legged thing. The main criteria was for it to have many limbs to be carried by or to put in one’s mouth.
This piece is knitted from plastic bags and bits of flyscreen. The texture is similar to the effect you find along some fences where plastic shopping bags have accrewed and matted into a thick. lumpy, faded fabric.
Kirsty loves cardboard 