botanist of the sidewalk
Exploring the city.
More fire plugs
Ladders
Fields of plenty
Hong Kong hydrants
You know you are in Hong Kong because the hydrants look like Telly Tubbies.
More fields
Avoca main street
Avoca – back streets
Dead Servos
Returning from Ararat
Sleeper
‘Sleeping with knives’ series 2009 ink jet on Canson Canvas 60 x 89cm
Julie Shiels: sleeper
Exhibition dates: 1 April – 10 May 2009
Monash Gallery of Art
860 Ferntree Gully Road
Wheelers Hill
Sleeper, Julie Shiels’ new exhibition at Monash Gallery of Art is the culmination of a four-year project in which she has used discarded mattresses found on the streets of Melbourne as source material for her art.
The mattresses are used in a range of ways. Shiels fashions pyjamas from the upholstery, documents the array of weapons found secreted in the stuffing and in the series Bedtime stories binds their ornate fabrics into artist’s books.
In his catalogue essay Jason Smith, Director of Heide Museum of Modern Art states: Sleeper reminds us why artists undertake the mysterious, compulsive acts they do to externalise their visions and contemplations of the world we inhabit: they tell us it is necessary to look again, to not deny some of the terrors of the everyday, and to see strange beauty and seek solace in some simple (and not so simple) things.
Tues to Fri: 10am-5pm, Sat & Sun: 12-5pm
Closed: Mondays and public holidays
The trees of Rome
There was something immediately recognisable in the shape of the trees, they were rangy but with perfect canopies.They had been the backdrop of Rome’s famous sites for centuries, the traveller had seen them before in postcards and paintings. Grand, majestic and emblematic of the city, they were of humble origin – the common pine tree shaped through time by judicious pruning.
Campo de’ Fiori
If I only had one more hour with you.
Shoo fly
Fly curtains in Public Space – Rocca Antica – 45 minutes from Rome
Flock
They flock together in patterns across the wall: a collection of objects cast from the empty spaces left behind in plastic packaging. Sourced from the tool box, the toy box and the domestic environment, the original moulds are the wallpaper of our daily lives – ever present but barely noticed.
Flock is on show at fortyfivedownstairs (45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne) from July 23nd to August 2nd.
From the stencil archive
Laneway smoko #10
