Last week I went to the Biennale with a couple friends. We visited two out of the five venues, the MCA and Cockatoo Island.
 my camera died half way through Cockatoo Island- lucky I'll be going again! so this is just a few of the ones I liked or found interesting... I may post some more at a later date.

 Pinaree Sanpitak, Anything Can Break, 2011

 Alwar Balasubramaniam, Nothing From My Hands, 2011-2012

 Lee Mingwei, The Mending Project, 2009

Mit Jai Inn, No 112, 2002-12

 

Kamin Lertchaiprasert, Sitting, 2004-2006

This one was incredible. There were literally hundreds of these sculptures all lined up in a glass box at eye level. The are made of shredded Thai bank notes.

 Zoe Keramea, White Striped Black Moth, 2011

Liu Zhuoquan, Where are you?, 2012

These bottles are have snake imprints painted on the inside with oil pain. What a technique!

 

Maria Laet, Untitled (Dialogue Series, Balloon and Body), 2007

 Judith Wright, A Journey, 2011
 I found this one incredibly moving and interesting. It explores the loss of the dual entity that birth brings with it, from the perspective of the mother rather than the child.
Wright herself lost her baby only a few days after birth, which fuels this intensly powerful piece.
Assemblage art is one I really identify with, and this work is very inspiring.

Ria Verhaeghe, Living with Cuddles, 2012
Fabric willed with newspapers, cotton, cloths and other similar things.










Stay posted for more from the 2012 Sydney Biennale.

Sculpture Majors: Sem1 2012

Sorry for the poor quality of the photos, i just took them on my nokia with a 3.2 MP range.

This first sculpture is my wood carving exploring the physicality of the human condition, which consists of 2 wooden doors that I sourced from an old cupboard at Trawalla st, cut in half and hinged together again consatina style, after having a set of lungs carved into them. The images projected on top are a series I took that reflect bodily organs and the inside of a human body.
The slatted doors enabled the cupboard to breath when it was functional and the wooden medium closely ties to the idea of breath as trees give us oxygen to breath, God gives us every breath.

This second sculpture explores the psychological space of the human condition. The broken glass contained within the intact jars and bottles speaks of a past funtionality as an object itself now reduced to shards and dust. This new representation of the form leads to ideas of brokenness inside as humans, carrying burdens exposed by the clear glass, yet light is still able to penetrate through the shattered contents.

As with all art, read into it what you will.

Teacosy success

After attempting to construct a tea cosy from scratch a couple of months ago, I found it was a bit more complex than tracing a shape- Circles are hard to work with!
So my inspiration dawned upon me when i was admiring a friend's beanie in church the other night which was gathered, as most i think are. I decided to give this method a go and here is my success!

It's easy to get on and off with a thick piece of elastic stiched to the bottom which sits nicely around the base of the teapot.

Now i must admit, Emma did laugh when she saw the puffy thing, but I can guarantee that it will keep my tea very warn and cosy!