my once upon exhibition pieces

here's the pieces i put in the once upon exhibition. they are based on the story of the ugly duckling, by hans christian anderson. i used embroidery and digital print on fabric. you can click the pictures below to have a closer look
everyone work is now online + for sale here so have a look!

It’s a pity you can’t hatch him again

How could he ever dare dream of wanting their marvelous beauty for himself

The new one is the most handsome of all


I never dreamed there could be so much happiness, when I was the ugly duckling

procrastinating

miami horror single launch

anyone thats anyone will be going to miami horror's show next friday!
if you havent got a ticket yet hurry up and buy one at the corner hotel website!

ceramics class

i finally finished a piece in my ceramics class! after 2 weeks of making crazy wonky bowls on the wheel i am excited that my little pinch pot mountain was fired and finished. im not sure what i can put inside it... maybe my tiny feather collection!

blackbird market

im having a little stall to sell my zine okay at the very first blackbird summer market
i am giving everyone lots of time to put this in your diary so please come and support your local artists, designer and musicians!

click on the picture below to visit the blackbird market website! isnt their logo cute?

cant show you everything but here's a teenytiny preview of what im working on for the Once Upon Exhibition. still got lots of embroidery to do!
you can click the Once Upon picture above for the website.

today i feel like going to disneyland again

procrastinating

just announced: leeloo's 2nd birthday exhibition: Once Upon

im working on my pieces for the Once Upon exhibition in celebration of Leeloo's 2nd birthday.
my pieces are based on the story The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Anderson.

if youre in sydney please come along to the opening night! there are lots of fantastic artists taking part all with a different fairytale to show.

at: ambush gallery 2a james st, waterloo, nsw
opening night: thursday 19 november, 6pm - 9pm
www.once-upon.com.au

baby swans are SO cute!!

kids in masks embroideries

i also never got around to putting these on my blog (like a million other things)
they were for the random collective exhibition

i found the images in some old pattern books. they children look so different back then. i especially like the girl in the rabbit mask she is adorable

embroideries

(click for full size)

ive finally taken photos of the work i had in an exhibition a few months ago.
getting everything documented for my new website
heres the embroideries i did for the essence of pleasure show.
the images themselves measure about 30 cm.

to market

im not sure if anyone knows but i make a little zine called okay. lately lots of people have been buying it and ive even saved enough money to get okay a website! it is at www.iloveokay.com and is completely boring right now but when i make some time it will be beautiful

also, to anyone in melbourne who likes markets i will be having a little stall with my best friend at round she goes market on sunday 4th of october - with lots of vintage clothes + copies of okay.
i am even going to reprint some more of issue one and issue two, so what ever doesnt sell will be on the etsy shop

hope to see you there

ps maddie yours is aside to send soon i promise!!xx

extra cheeese III photographs

i didn't get the chance to go to the extra cheeese exhibition this time but have just found some great photographs taken by julia guo
my extra cheeese partner laura morgan and i made little birds from all of our left over fabrics and fancy crafty things like sequins, beads, wallpaper, book pages, feathers, doilies, and other wonderful things from our little collections of stuff we never get around to using!
check out the rest of the exhibition photographs on julia's extra cheeese photo page here.
thanks to everyone who made it up!

extra cheeese 3

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Hope you guys can make it, im working on something exciting with Lars

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Extra Cheeese: the retired materials

One designer… one artist… and the stuff they throw away

OPENING NIGHT

Thursday 6th August, from 6.30pm

LOCATION

Saatchi & Saatchi Gallery. 70 George St,

The Rocks, Sydney NSW 2000

runs till Thursday 3rd September

opening times 8am-6pm weekdays

http://www.extracheeese.com

essence of pleasure

i made two big embroideries.
got to get some photos on here but for now i found one on Melbourne Fashionista

polaroids japan

japan was an amazing place to hang out
i really really loved it
and have already looked up my favourite shopping centre online!

i took a few polaroids, stupidly dropped my camera halfway through, with lots of film still left to use and couldnt take any photos of the cute harajuku girls! but heres a few anyway. the rest are on my deviantart.

turning japanese

conichiwa! i am in japan! it is amazing

random collective - exhibition this weekend

next week we'll be heading down to leongatha for our group exhibition Random Collective put on by nicole tattersall.

ive been working on some small embroideries for the show aswell as some pretty brooches + trying so hard to finish my zine before saturday so i can put a few down there too.

alice has been printing like crazy aswell as doing some small paintings for the show. combine that with the other artists it will be a nice exhibition for the people so far from the city who probably dont have a lot of time to get into town to see all the amazing exhibitions we take for granted.

on the same day is the triple j one night stand in sale (1hr from leongatha) which my spunki boyfriend is playing at so it will be a good saturday.

hope some of you guys get to see it. will post some photos after the opening anyway for you city slickers.

random collective 2009
taking quality works by up and coming artists to
regional Victoria
at mushroom crafts - leongatha
opening saturday, may 30, 2-4pm
also showing: Alice McKellar, Kate Brownlee, Kate Lightfoot, Leeana Edwards, Megan Dell, Nicole Tattersall, Rhen and
Snookie
more info

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collage on 12" vinyl

vinyl

nearly finished my record for the exhibition

i even learnt how to make bowls out of recycling records - put it in the oven ontop of an ovenproof bowl for 1 minute (or when you see it getting soft) at 200deg. take it out and push down edges with a teatowel around the bowl and there you have your bowl.