Hello World! or: How I Learned to Stop Listening and Love the Noise by Christopher Baker
An immersive video installation featuring over 5000 video diaries found on the internet.
via: http://christopherbaker.net/projects/helloworld/

Waste Landscape

Something fasinating I stumbled across on the net today... amazing!

elise morin + clémence eliard: wastelandscape
At 'halle d'aubervilliers', Le Centquatre in Paris.
On exhibition until 10 September 2011

In the artist's words:
'made of petroleum, this reflecting slick of CDs forms a still sea of metallic dunes;
the artwork's monumental scale reveals the precious aspect of a small daily object.'

more at Design Boom

City of Melville Art Awards

I have entered one work into the mixed media category of the City of Melville Art Awards.

Apparently there are over 250 artists exhibiting so it should be worth a visit if you like to see a diverse range of artworks from painting to textiles, sculpture to photography.

Exhibition runs from 28 May - 4 June and is open daily from 9:30am - 4:30pm Monday - Friday; 1:00pm - 4:00pm Saturday and Sunday at the City of Melville Civic Centre, 10 Almondbury Road, Booragoon.

Wish me luck!

Open Day at Midland Studios

Creature Comforts on Art

New Paper Chain Collage

Pop over to the Paper Chain blog and see the wonderful new addition by Lorraine Corker.

We've only just begun

Ok, so this is my first blog post. I've been deliberating for quite a while about whether to start a blog or not, worrying that I just don't have enough interesting things to say to justify my own blog, but I'm just going to jump in the deep end and try it out after reading Meet me at Mikes: How to Start a Craft Blog .

I've been a lurker on blogs (mainly art & craft orientated ones) for quite a while now, so perhaps it is time to share some of my thoughts and interests with others. I think it will take me a little while to get the hang of some of the technical parts of blogging! It might look a little plain for a while. Though I was very surprised how easy it was to upload a picture to this post...

I've kept journals since I was about 10 years old, this was started by one of my primary school teachers. Each morning the class had to write a journal entry in an exercise book kept for that purpose. I enjoyed it so much I continued on with this practice up until a couple of years ago, while I was at art school and my grandmother was sick with cancer. It was such an overwhelming time, I couldn't write and could only bring myself to stitch abstract patterns. Maybe during such an emotionally intense experience it is too painful to stand back and look at the situation from the kind of perspective (at least I) needed to write.

Well perhaps this will be a new beginning in my writing...