Creative Tanks

In last week's post I briefly mentioned the Creative Tanks event that was occurring for the Carnival of Flowers this month. I was also involved in the Creative Tanks event last year. It's strangely nostaglic to be completing the same event, thinking about where I was twelve months ago. For 2011, I certainly wasn't in a place to post about the event as it was happening.

Didn't get around to it until January, tsk.

I certainly know a bit more about links now, too. Here is one that will take you to my artist page on the made. creative space website.

The event;

 



Setting up in the morning, inside the store

 

From the outside

Some of the supplies

Set up

 

Forest friends frolicking...it's all little too twee.

Dressed up for the Carnival. Flowers in spring, let it be said I was a paradigm shifter.



Peering into the murky depths of a wool basket

Playing in the DANGERZONE with a cappucino

Thanks are also in order for Leanne of Mary Ryan's Books, Music and Coffee. She's allowing me to commandeer a chair, table and a sandwich board, as well as space in her store over the next week. Artists don't get to do what they do without the support of people like her, who have the space to display them and the urge to share it. Thank you!

 

Lastly:

 

This is not in relation to Creative Tanks, and probably doesn't warrant spamming up your feeds with another blog post. The Artwork Exchange exhibition, in conjunction with MARS (fingers crossed I've got the connections right) kicked off this Friday in their gallery at theGRID hybrid arts collective.

Follow this link to be taken to a short video of the opening, which has a lot more about the work of the other artists.

 

Because I couldn't see my contribution in it, here is a still;



 

Local!

A little top hat bowler fellow. If you go in and visit, he has a superfluous third something located somewhere on his armless torso. Paying attention to ridiculous little details is what keeps me interested.

I have also heard an excellent argument for why his first and second ones are superfluous also, but you can make your own mind up about that.

 

UPDATE: The work is in the video. I just needed to have a little faith and watch a little harder.

 

Now, eagle-eyed readers might be wondering about the artwork that can only be glimpsed in the above image. Here it is, in marvellous fuzzy colour.

 

by HosHiko Street Art

Follow a link to their tumblr here. This picture really doesn't do them justice. If you like robots, candy and cute things, that's the place you should go.

 

The manager, the artist, the all of it

The last few weeks have been busy. So busy, in fact, that I've really got to keep on making works. This will hopefully be a quick post, where I will recap on some recent interesting events and discuss what's on the horizon.

Past:
So, I was fortunate enough to be invited to participate in not one, but two documentary series that came to fruitition in August - early September in 2012.
Firstly, Ali Lawson and Ashleigh Bunter, in conjunction with ABC Open created an episod for the A day in the life series, featuring me in my "dual roles" as manager and artist. There's probably more roles I would play in life, like responsible pet owner, daughter, sister, niece, student, confidant, nemesis, common-law wife...but we just covered those first two on this day. Follow this link to fritter away 4:07 minutes of your [work]life and gain a little insight into mine.

As part of my residency at theGRID, Ben Tupas of Oh Darling Downs followed me around intermittantly, interviewed me and then put together this gleaming gem of a short film:

WARNING: This is a dual documentary, as Ben was also keeping an eye on Danish Quapoor's progress throughout our residency. So, 50% of this is about him.

Recently, the number of pop-up workshops I've been holding has increased. The last one was yesterday, at theGRID space in the MARS gallery (it's just so flexible). Here's an insight into the general student process;

WTF crochet?

Last month, I was also invited by the Home Festival crew to take my show on the road- down the hill to Brisbane. I put on a mending workshop, and as a bonus, it was such a beautiful day. I sat in the sun, drank a bunch of chai teas and became the St Johns tent for clothing.

Broken shoe emergency repair.

Present:
Inside Outside is still open until Tuesday the 18th September. In case you weren't aware, it is displayed in the MARS gallery at theGRID hybrid arts collective. humananimal is also open until Tuesday until Quapoor tears it down...

Today was also the official opening of the Imagine you know exhibition at the Toowoomba Regional Arts Gallery. Here is a little bit of press surrounding the opening, which will fill you in on the background. What it won't fill you in on, though, is this piece of amazement;

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I've cut out bits and pieces, but I think you get the gist.

I'll also be travelling up to Highfields this week to host a workshop for the Wirraglen Support Group. This group is active at the scout hall in Highfields, and the brains behind the organisation are doing some amazing things for kids (and for free). Please follow this link for a PDF on what they're about, and what they do if you live locally.

Future:
Currently, I'm getting together some works for the upcoming Creative Tanks exhibition. Last year was the inaugural event, and it was a really interesting experience. Put on by made. creative space in conjunction with the Carnival of Flowers celebrations, I'll be on show at a local business over the next weekend.

And that brings us to what I really need to be working on. Right now.

Adventures in Papergirl, now complete.

P-p-papergirl! A due date that had seemed quite far away at the start of the year got very close very quickly (and was also pushed fowards a month...or am I losing my mind?) but I got what I wanted to get into the exhibition and that was held on Friday, 1st June 2012.

It was a lot of fun! Off into the world, my works go.