T-shirt printing

The last few weeks for Pain in the Arts we've been doing t-shirt printing.

The t-shirts are for volunteers to wear at Where the Heart Is Festival, which is being organised by Royal District Nursing Service.

After Lunch

The last few days we had Ray's neice, Emmy, staying with us. Yesterday she came to Pain in the Arts and did this painting, with some corks that Eco Paul gave her, and she said it was for me to put on my fridge.

At Pain in the Arts today, Tomsy made me wear an art smock.

Art (a.k.a. silliness)

On Saturday I rearranged my televisions:

Yesterday I made a special lunch for Uncle Smithamsy again:

Pain in the Arts is back in Credo. We'd been trying to have it on level 3, because we're setting up a studio there so that people can come and do art on their own when Pain in the Arts isn't on. There's not really enough space up there to have Pain in the Arts there though, and it feels too much like an office. Paul modified a library trolley that we got from Green Collect into an art trolley, so that we can bring some of the art materials down to Credo after Wednesday lunches, for Pain in the Arts:

(More modified library trolleys here.)

Arting around

Today I've been working on a drawing that I started on Wednesday at Pain in the Arts.

It's an idea I came up with for an exhibition that one of my friends invited me to contribute to, but it's a fair bit past the deadline now, and I don't know if it still fits within the theme very well. Anyway, I'm enjoying doing it.

Pain in the Arts 2006 Exhibition

Me and Tomsy and Nigel got most of the installation at the City Library Gallery done last Friday. I took this picture of Tomsy when we were taking all the art over there:

I was thinking it looked like he'd just been shopping, and bought a heap of paintings.
Tonight we had the exhibition opening. Nate-Dawg took these:

(I've got some more pictures of artists with their work, but I need to check if it's okay with them before I put them up here.)
After the opening, me and Damo and Nomes went out for coffee. On the way there we ran into someone we know who'd been at the opening, and he asked if he could come with us, and we said that was fine. As soon as he finished his coffee, he got up, said, 'I have to go now,' and rushed off without paying! We didn't really mind paying for him though, because it was pretty funny.
At the moment there's an animation of Damo doing some of his writing, being projected from the Vic Hotel onto the ground in our laneway (Baptist Place, off Little Collins Street). It's going to be running at night during the exhibition.

(The photo's a bit blurry because I had to do a 6-second exposure for it to come out clearly.)
There's info on the exhibition here.

Today at Pain in the Arts, one of the youngest members of our community painted for the first time.

Next Wednesday is the opening of our Pain in the Arts exhibition, at the City Library.

Triptych

Today for Pain in the Arts we were trying to take photos with old pinhole cameras. It was fairly difficult getting decent exposures, because it's been really dark today. These three of mine didn't tunr out great or anything, but I still quite like them. I took the one in the middle on the roof, and the other two are from out the front of this cafe at the corner of Swanston Street and Little Collins Street.

Pain in the Arts

During March we worked did some silk screening onto t-shirts, for Where The Heart Is Community Festival. I can't find the t-shirt I did for myself at the moment, because my room is a mess, so I can't put a photo up. I did one print on paper as well, but the ink bled a bit:

Where The Heart Is will be at the Edinburgh Gardens in Fitzroy North, between 11am and 4pm, on Friday 21st of April. There will be free food (including a barbeque), drinks, live music, haircuts, art workshops, kids activities and sports.

Yesterday I went for a walk during Pain In The Arts, to take some photos of stuff to draw. Found these air conditioners in Masons Lane:

This is what I've ended up with so far:

I think I'll probably end up doing some more with it next week.

art, Melbourne, tshirts, silk screen, air conditioners, drawing

Hosier Lane, featuring the garbage of Hosier Lane

Wednesday afternoon, for Pain in the Arts (the Credo art group), I went for a walk with Andre and Marie around the city, so we could take pictures of what's going on leading up to the Games. They wanted to take some photos of Melbourne's wonderful street art, but most of it's been taken down, so we took a few photos of the bare walls.
Before we went back to Credo we went up Hosier Lane, one of the few places in the CBD that's not being sterilised to impress our visitors.









I love how art can make the ugliest things beautiful. Not just concrete walls, but even garbage:




I drew this when we got back:

Got me thinking again about a conversation we had with Brian McLaren, when he and Grace were visiting a couple of weeks ago. We (mostly Brian and Marcus) were talking about the implications of calling something (or someone) waste. How can a part of God's creation be considered waste?
Been thinking over the last six months or so about what a creation myth would look like if it developed completely in an urban environment. Would the creator spirit of an urban mythology create towers and trains and powerlines? Would it create some really good rubbish for the people to find uses for?

Creating Colour from Darkness

Spent most of yesterday at Urban Seed, framing the pictures for this ^ exhibition, and I'm helping set up today.
Pain in the Arts is Urban Seed's art group, that meets in Credo after lunch on Wednesdays, and at the end of each year they have an exhibition. Apparently DeeDee's dad's opening it this year.