I've been given a great opportunity to install at Upper West Side, a retail space in the heart of Spencer and Bourke Sts Melbourne. The shops are part of 4 residential towers going up over next few years. Two towers up and 3000 people living there... who knew!

A great space 90% complete, provided a chance to see how Project Reclaim pieces translate into a more commercial popup store setting.

There are 8 artists in total, each with our own space and they will all be working out of Upper West Side and Water Tank Way - creating new work, experimenting with new media, and engaging passers-by in fun and creative ways.

Love this learning exploring experience!

Come and have a look at 220 Spencer st - on until early August

Exhibition captured in this 2 min video
https://vimeo.com/102782534

Revelations features Australian and international artists including Ah Xian, Lisa Roet, Sam Jinks, Clement Meadmore, Inge King and Bill Fontana, and will unveil new acquisitions and highlight major works from the long standing collection.

The RMIT Art Collection provides a considerable overview of Australian art history and includes some of the most highly regarded and successful artists that both the country and the University have produced. Its purpose is to tell the history of the University through the creative output of its staff and alumni, and to reflect RMIT’s core values of innovation, creativity, sustainability and social engagement.

An exhibition by the Planetary Healing Artists Association of Australia inc. that aims to create a forum for artists including visual artists, performers, writers, healers, and other creatives in the community to share ideas for a sustainable future in a creative way.

The exhibition at the West Beach Bathers Pavillion is part of the St Kilda Festival and aims to raise awareness and educate the community about the environment through engaging people’s minds and hearts with the transformative power of art.

On until early March 2014.

The brief to participating artists for this Christmas exhibition, Bah Humbug, was 'brief'. Curators asked us to make a piece that responds (positively, neutrally, negatively or even ambivalently) to issues surrounding the occasion of ‘Christmas’.

In the middle of gift buying, I’m struck by how much the children across my family, but more so across the privileged 'west', receive.  It’s hard not to buy into the Christmas cheer and at the same time be fully aware that many children will not have anything near the ideal that we have come to expect each year.

So the untitled piece starts to make itself… a lit tree (from the Project Reclaim series) that I have been told is very ‘dark’, boxes wrapped with Oxfam and World Vision catalogues asking for necessities to assist communities to become self sufficient… and the request for viewers to open a boxed gift and discover what 1 billion children worldwide will receive this Christmas.

Engaging...yes – I see boxes are opened and viewers disappointed, Informative…maybe, even if the message was somewhat labored…Depressing …oh yes!

A great afternoon setting up a window display from Project Reclaim pieces.... Im exhausted!

Mixture of white lace remnant curtain materials hanging from ceiling, glass vases and fabric doves... very Christmassy.

Very fun night at Toyota Community Spirit Galley opening. White Lace on exhibit.

What an amazing idea- a gallery that supports artists over a decade of their career, buy their art and help them succeed!

Tim Silver's work currently on exhibit and explores notions of change and decay, and he has a particular fascination with the relationship between an object and its image. The photographs document the decay over time.

More on Ten Cubed at: http://www.tencubed.com.au/

http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/collection-captures-the-power-of-10-20130815-2ryy7.html

Starting to experiment for Lorne Sculpturscape outdoor exhibition next March.  Playing with fabrics and wax to create tree creatures for this knarly dark teatree covered site.

Creating scary stuff........ are you scared?

Art is replacing billboard ads.... 22,000 of them in the Art Everywhere project in the UK.

What an amazing idea coming out of England to replace ads on billboards, bus sheleters, tube station walls and shopping malls with reproductions of 57 popular works of art. 

It's described by the founder as "a joyful project with no agenda other than to flood our streets with art and celebrate the creative talents and legacy of the U.K."

http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/art-replaces-ads-22000-billboards-and-other-out-home-sites-uk-152014

Nice photo and short article  from the 25 Artists@WTC launch. "The Secret" features here, but was called "Strangers"??..nevermind, they did spell my name right. 

http://www.southbanklocalnews.com.au/editions/article/sculptures-at-home-in-wtc-wharf_2207/