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

Eco Annandale exhibition and book launch

some for you some for me  2011

Ecologically Sustainable Annandale 2011 exhibition 
and book launch of 1890s Annandale: A Short Walk by Marghanita da Cruz

Officially open by Jamie Parker, the Member for Balmain Sat 8th October  1.30 - 3.30pm

Exhibition on 1 - 29 October

Leichhardt Library, Italian Forum, Norton St

Eco  Annandale is an annual exhibition, artists and their works can be seen on the website via here

Not only is my art practice concerned with sustainability, I have a personal connection to Annandale with recently sighting my great grandfather's picture up on the wall of the Annandale Town Hall amongst many other past mayors.

Program Launched

The Festival celebrating the GreenWay features a week-long program of activities ranging from all of the above to lots  lots more ...click here

ditched deodorizer

Palmfinches   etchings on found throw out

Coming soon all the details about a fun DIY art project - the Greenway Playhouse -   made by all to celebrate and explore the life of our GreenWay. The many artworks created will be shown off during the GreenWay Festival so please stay tuned...

Come all and Ride

Led by  ARTcycle and the Friends of The GreenWay in a ride to celebrate the GreenWay no matter who funds it. You can also meet up later at 3:30pm at Gadigal Reserve - between Grosvenor Rd and Parramatta Rd. See Friends for all the details. 

Footprints Eco-Festival

In the backstreets of Annandale you will find the Whites Creek Valley Parklands hosting a community garden, ecological wetlands and sustainable cottage community centre. For all the details on the Footprints Eco-Festival like how to get there please visit Annandale on the Web. ps its only a short ride away from the GreenWay.

opening mosiac wonder

mosiac mural must see

  

In the Lords Road Tunnel (yes down from Art Est) a beautiful community artwork by a long list of community members and students is up for viewing. The original mural design is by April Keogh, the mosaic assemblage direction by Nola Diamantopoulos and the internal story wall by Joel Tarling. Here via U-Tube is a great film about it.

Signage and info installed reads...

It is a beautiful thing seeing men at work and an iron "whipple truss" bridge! Please go and read more at the tunnel.