DRAWinternational

Space 2010

I have an artist in residence at DRAWinternational in Caylus, France

http://www.draw-international.com/about-us.php I will be exploring ways for moving from my installation and constructed work into drawing and back again. I will also be working with Margaret Brooks, developing ways of collaborating.

Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery

Seeds and Blocks

Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery
Seeds and Blocks: 2 December, 2009 to 17 January, 2010

Imagine my delight when I arrived in Bundaberg and found a town where breeze blocks have been used with gay abandon. Yes, breeze blocks lovingly laid in patterns to delight the eye. Some painted, some ceramic, to let the breeze and light through. I wasn't able to find any stipa seeds (grass seeds) to create blocks. Lots of widmill grass and sand flies. The animated grass seed work is projected in the dark Vault Space at the Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery. The seeds are projected onto layers of gauze and create a block of moving seeds in the space. The Xanthorrhoea seed breeze blocks works 'Ordered' and 'Random' flank the viewing area in the vault. They are seen in the dim light from the projection or in the light which come into the space as the curtain on the door is moved. The contrast of the black and white remains in my sight repeating the pattern of the block.

South coast

Falling apart, building again

South coast: a new design

Newcastle wall

Just another bessa block from Karen

Salt made blocks

This is part of a long wall on the north coast of Bali. The wall contains a salt works.

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Working with patterns of breeze blocks walls

Xanthorrhoea Seeds

Stipa Seed works

Artist at Work

How many different breeze block designs can you find in Dubbo? You can add to this blog and document the breeze block walls in Dubbo. If you have a story about a wall add it, in the text of the email. Your email will go the blog administrator then be uploaded to the blog as soon as possible.

Or bring you photos along to Western Plains Cultural Centre, Dubbo to be added to the exhibition: Christine McMillan 'Artist at Work'. 14 February to 22 March, 2009.

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Designs in Dubbo

Just a few fences from Dubbo NSW Australia

How are they are put together

How are the patterns repeated? Symmetrical or Assymetrical. Do you reflect an assymetrical pattern to make it symmetrical? Do you combine two symmetrical patterns to create an assymmetrical one? Did you have enough of the one pattern to finish the job? Do they put in one that didn't match? Did you put in one that didn't match?

On the way to Newcastle

Large walls made of individual blocks make the pattern begin to operate in a different way. How the pattern operates is dependant on many things: on your distance from the wall. The angle it is viewed from, the angle of sunlight, the shadow cast or a reflection.