Brahm Gallery Exhibition - Minor Repairs

I have at new exhibition opening at Brahm Gallery in Leeds on Wednesday. Here's some new textile work which will be in the show. Will hopefully get some better shots when the work is hung.

Ship of Fools - exhibition

ship of fools
ship of hope
one world

curated by Julie Collins
Trish Semple - Northern Ireland
Roxanne Brousseau-Felio - Canada
Michael Markham - Canada
Marsha Pels, - USA
Yvonne Kendall - Germany (ex Australia)
Cliff Burtt - Washington, USA
(ex Austraila)
John Kelly, Ireland (ex Australia)
Julie Collins - Australia
Derek John - Australia
Lea Tomson - Estonia
Frederic Boulleaux - France
Martine Kaczynski - USA
Jack Fisher - USA
Shana Kohnstamm - USA
Morwenna Catt - England
Kelly Strachura - USA
Ralph Essex - England
Jessica Levy - Ireland
[OD]: Rui Aço, Fernando Vidal,
Freitas Cruz– Portugal
Pennie Steel - Australia
Anette Kristiansen, - Norway
Lucas Richard Stephens - Norway
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Sandra Minchin - Ireland
MonTana - Netherlands
Patricia Sea - Germany
Helen Masacz - England
Srdjan Markovic - Serbia
Takaki Hashimoto - Japan
Louise Gains - Wales
Elizabeth Presa - Australia
Lee Boyd - Ireland
Otto Holler Druckgrafik - Germany

OPENING WEDNESDAY 18 JUNE 2008 6-8PM
EXHIBITION 18 JUNE - 6 JULY 2008
YARRA SCULPTURE GALLERY
117 VERE STREET ABBOTSFORD 3067
MELWAYS REF:10K
OPENING HOURS WED-SUN 12 - 5.30
TELEPHONE 9419 6177

INFO@YARRASCULPTURESPACE.COM.AU
YARRASCULPTURESPACE.COM.AU

YARRA SCULPTURE GALLERY
Presents

SHIP OF FOOLS
SHIP OF HOPE
ONE WORLD
Gallery 1,2 & 3
35 Artists from 13 countries respond
to global warming.
Many international artists are courtesy of spreadart.net
To partake in the interactive forum during opening
email rsvp-virtual-state@8-o-8.org
Curated by Julie Collins

sheep unveiling

The sheep was unveiled today. We had a clown, a band, donkeys and the deputy Mayor came to do the honours in her jewellery, releasing helium balloons to a countdown. Even the sun came out! The council produced some sustainable sheep shopping bags to hand out to the crowd - 'a very ewesful bag'.

public art - installing the sheep

The sheep is being installed in the town centre. Its a tight deadline as the unveiling is this Saturday the 1st of March. So far we've had freezing temperatures, gale force winds, torrential rain and the odd earthquake, along with various cuts, bruises, aches and pains, coffee burns and a cement filled eye. If whoever it is in charge of the weather happens to glance at this tonight can we have a few days of sun please? There's been alot of interest from the public - alot of good comments and a few bad - including concerns that we're planting a devil opposite woolies. Anyway there are a few photos above of the last couple of weeks progress. Some shots of the iron umbrella from its beginnings in the Old Forge Foundry through to its welding into the site. A detail of the mosaic before the mesh was applied to the plinth and fantastic support artist Kath who's been out in all weathers.

Public Art Project in Progress (Sheep)

These images show the development of a current project to create a sculpture for a town centre space. Last year I was commissioned to undertake the consultation with the general public and make sure that local people had a say in the final piece. The local community decided on a sheep sculpture in stone, with a realistic/comic element and the final theme was voted on as - a shopping sheep. Later I was commissioned to design and create the final piece. Anyway the pictures show a few of the stages of the design process - from sketchbook roughs through to my maquette to it's current stage, also pictured is the life size version in clay which will be used to create the mould for the cast stone to be fabricated locally by Martin Bond.