Category: The Artful Blog
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Ku-ring-gai Wildflower Garden Sculpture Trail
Three of my waste-to-art Totemic Spirit Figure sculptures – Possum, Kangaroo and Quoll – were selected for inclusion in the Ku-ring-gai Sculpture Trail in the beautiful Ku-ring-gai Wildflower Garden. And I won 2nd prize!
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After the rain
I spent a wonderful 5 days on an artist retreat in April on Dangar Island. It rained the entire time I was there and I really enjoyed exploring using rain as a medium. This is a photo essay I created called ‘After the Rain’.
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The making of Catbus v3: wheeled vehicle
It’s been an exciting journey to take Catbus from v1 (a bamboo constructed, 4-person costume) to v3 – a 4-wheeled vehicle that can take 2-3 passengers. Think Flintstones bus meets shopping trolley!
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YamX art talk: Making love
My second YamX talk was all about creating the Enchanted Forest of Love installation at the Wild Yam festival.
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YamX artist talk
This artist talk was presented at Wild Yam: YamX in Jan 2020. It was the first time I had talked publicly about my art practice and my vision for building a creative community.
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Catbus at Burning Seed 2019: Zoophemism + Sydney Decompression
We got a grant from BOSS to take Catbus to Burning Seed 2019: Zoophemism at Matong State Forest.
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Catbus at Ironfest: Once Upon a Time
Catbus made his inaugural debut at The Kingdom of Ironfest’s ‘Once Upon a Time’ festival, as one of the Ironfest Furries & Characters – Catbus was the biggest fursuit of all!
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The making of the Catbus costume
Inspired by Studio Ghibli’s animation “My Neighbour Totoro” and Adam Savage’s one day Totoro costume build, I created a 4-person Catbus cosplay for our family to take to festivals as a street art piece.
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Steampunk Teapot Racer
Totoro’s Steampunk Teapot Racer, created to participate in the Grand Teapot Race, Goulburn Victoriana Fair
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‘Humans of’ game
The ‘Humans of’ game is a set of 20 hand-painted, upcycled collectors cards with questions on the back for people to respond to, inspired by HONY and the Borrow a Human library concept.
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Wishing Tree
Wishing Tree is a simple participatory project which invited kids and adults to create a wish for peace or a message of goodwill and happiness.
