trees are terrific said the cat to the dog

many hands, many tags

Claude Jones at work... (her beautiful artwork is also starring in Monkey Business at Artereal only a few doors down..check out her blog)  ....firstly we need to master the ladder.

Back to the opening night to show off some of the yummy food provided and arranged by Nic and Samira. 

Creativity continued all night as people rolled in to discover their favourite pieces and then add their own work. 

In the Greenway Playhouse we now have one by our local MP Jamie Parker who had time to talk and express his ideas via the swingtag.


Several of us stayed late into the evening discussing much about life. Most enjoyable.

Thank you to everyone who helped put the show together so far.... special mention to Nic and her posse, Claude, Gail, Nis, Samira, Brian, Flic, Ali and Kerry 

Thanks also to the suppliers of all the donated paper and card offcuts:  Amazing Papers, Monica of Bibliotheca Librorum apud Artificem (!), Australian natural Timber Framing and Andrew Bassett Fine Framing  (local and generous framers)

take notice

If you would like to join the team of volunteers, you can make contact  at take.action@friendsofthegreenway.org.au.    Read more here

Best to see in the real Cathy Abadie's winning Miniature I at the GreenWay Arts Exhibition,  Art Est Studio and Art School on until the 30th. 

botanical love

A favourite and beautiful work from the opening night (thanks NP).
More pics to come but must now attend to the tidying up!


A big thanks to my friends, old and new, for coming last night and adding your unique touch to the project!

Art Est and Paper Plane

Last night was the opening of the Greenway Arts Exhibition at Art Est Art School in Leichhardt. The detail above is from one of my entered works and the lovely director Jennifer McNamara gave me an area during the night to invite people to draw for Greenway Playhouse... here is a couple of favourites. They are now hanging at Paper Plane Gallery  waiting to be viewed by their creators at the opening tomorrow night.

birdy beauties

Roberto

The Ella Centre, Haberfield

festive plus

What a huge day and a scorcher! First artist of the day is poking through our magnificent display of Kangaroo Paw and Red Bottlebrush from our gardens - they are incredible Aussie plants! 
A great turn out of art makers joining our tables in the GreenWay Eco Village (first day of the GreenWay Festival) at the Summer Hill Grand Food Bazaar. Thanks to my bestie for either being me or my sidekick. Photo 3. (below) I have named Mr & Mrs Recycled who are often seen glamouring up sustainability Fests. 
There were many works and words made expressing feelings about the GreenWay and it would keep me up all night to blog every one here... so posting a small sample off the top of the pile...... and will try to do some more in following posts. Thanks everyone for your beautiful contributions!!! and I look forward to seeing you all at the opening!

meaningful and joyous

trees puddles critters

Lot of fun and a lot of great drawings created today by local artists... Bianca (above also includes her sisters Aoife and Niamh's trees), Cassidy with his sunny and rainy GreenWay days, Elkie's rainbow and Isla's sensitive skink. A popular work with visitors today is this central tree-hybrid inkjet print on acetate by Melbourne artist Aneta Bozic (above).... thanks everyone.

issy iriele designs

These beautiful and sophisticated plant designs are the latest work by Isabel Iriele and presently hang amongst others in window view at the Paper Plane. All of her images here are drawn from living plants that grow along the GreenWay. Hope this inspires you as it does for me!

gallery open

Opening the doors of Paper Plane Gallery today 12-6pm

Lots to do now as I prepare for gallery occupation! 

This project has been in the works for a while and I am looking forward to setting up shop and now making the installation. The idea is to keep the process fairly organic in development as visitors over time interact with the growing installation. While the doors of Paper Plane Gallery are open - Thurs-Sun 12-6pm - I will be available to work in collaboration with anyone visiting. As an artist I am happy to guide anyone making artwork or not - naturally as each person is unique so will the participation be. The work also is not limited to the drawn image as I know one young artist who likes to do wall tags and perhaps a message could be written about our GreenWay.                                

It's time for play!

bookart beauties

This month in the display cabinet of Haberfield library are some bits of book art to promote the 2011 GreenWay Festival and the Greenway Playhouse. And below from the Artbound exhibition is this lovely artist book by Gary Smith - only one week left at Gallery Red,135-145 Glebe Point Rd. The work is titled The Day at Braille Beach and is made from found pine needles, shells, beads, buttons, stamps, plastic bits, bone, mirrors, found text, seeds, thread and mesh! Gary says: "Fantasy, adventure, hope - let's go to the beach!"

A Curating Cities Project

Slow Art Collective

at Object :

Try This At Home

8 OCTOBER 2011 – 8 JANUARY 2012

In October, Object’s Project Space is transformed into a cosy yet unusual lounge room for Try This At Home, which invites us to consider the way in which we are each designing the future by our everyday actions – from the products we use to the resource-use patterns of our daily life, and the truly confronting notion that the key material we are designing with is time itself. Artists, designers and collectives including CO2penhagen (Denmark), Haque: Design + Research (UK), Magnificent Revolution Australia, Makeshift (Australia) and the Slow Art Collective (Australia) present examples of adaptive practice in which existing resource use is re-directed for more sustainable outcomes.

Margaret Farmer from the National Institute for Experimental Arts curates as part of the Curating Cities project.

Utilising abandoned objects left by local residents for council pick-up, the Slow Are Collective (Dylan Martorell, Tony Adams and Chaco Kato) present an installation made from household refuse and document the hidden world of fellow jumble scouts, who collect and repurpose these discarded items. Some of the result shown above...

read more here and please take a look as Makeshift for example have a few other related projects around Sydney that may tickle your fancy.....

and another interesting show that is touring:         click here for link