Digitally Manipulated Photographs

The Images below are of digitally manipulated photographs.

These can be printed on a variety of media from paper to canvas to metal.

The maximum size will be dependent on the size of the initial photograph

Unusual Projects

As an artist I am sometimes asked to do some unusual projects.
Over recent weeks two such unusual and interesting commitments have come my way.

The first was to honour the life of a fellow artist John Garozza who sadly died at the early age of 55. John was a wonderful generous spirit who devoted a great deal of time, energy and money to the Victoria park Centre for the Arts.  One of John's wishes was that his coffin be decorated with gargoyles  a subject which featured significantly in John's sculpture works.

Myself and SonjaVujic undertook to carry out this task for John. It was a privilege to be able to honour John's life in this small way.

The second was to design table decorations for a Pop Up Restaurant which was run by

 'At the Table' 

https://www.facebook.com/AtTheTableWA  

The theme: 'A Beastly Winter Lunch' was held at Mondo De Carne, Inglewood.

The table decorations reflected the menu:

What next I wonder!!??

Banner for City of Gosnells 2012

 I was asked to design a banner for the Western Australian Local Government Association (WALGA) Banners in the Terrace for City of Gosnells with members of ‘The Castle’ Youth Centre Thornlie.  

  This project involved the running of a series of workshops with a group aged 11 to 17 years. The participants made individual pieces of collage artwork from ‘Post it’ notes glitter and pens. 

 They also took photographs of each other. The resulting artworks and photography were montaged digitally and the result was printed for display on St Georges Terrace during the WALGA annual Conference (August 2012).

New Banner Series for Bentley 2012

The theme for this series ‘We Love Bentley’ is intended to project a positive image of the community around Brownlie Towers Bentley as the State Government continues to redevelop and regenerate the area. The banners portray community members and community supports in portrait form. A broad range of community members were canvassed for participation in this project.            

Bentley Harmony Day 2012

17th March 2012 our third Harmony Day Celebration at Hedley Park Bentley.

This years school art projects was again a great success. Bentley Primary School, Al Hidayah Islamic School and Santa Clara Primary School again took part. I thank all school principals and their teachers for their commitment to this annual celebration and for the brilliant, colourful and imaginative work of the students.

This year the students made masks, which were displayed in the park on the day of our celebration.

This year we also had an ephemeral art project on the day of our celebration. For this over 100 plastic drinks bottles were collected and primed for painting and decorating on the day. We were able to obtain an old Hill's Hoist from he department of Housing when we had erected n the park for the celebrations. The bottles were painted and decorated with glitter and sequins and hung from the Hill's Hoist. 

This proved to be a popular activity, with most of the bottles being painted and suspended from the Hill's Hoist. The resulting collaborative work was beautiful, bright colourful and sparkled in the sun.

There were those who invented a new game! these kids were running under the Hill's hoist and jumping up to hit the bottles! Good to see a bit of spontaneity!

Using Art as an Engagement Tool at the Australasian Facilitation Conference

In November 2011 I was asked to provide an art project for the Australasian Facilitation Conference in Fremantle, and to run a collaborative arts workshop.

The art project: all delegates were given a mask to decorate. The masks were made from recycled newspaper.
decorative materials: sequins, feathers, glitter and art pens.

participants decorating their masks

 masked!!

radically masked!!

I constructed the large masks from recycled cardboard

these were used throughout the conference        

The art workshop was run to demonstrate the value of art as a collaborative tool. There were approx 18 participants in this project.

The project: the participants were asked to produce a work of art which would represent 'Harmony' a celebration of cultural diversity in Australia.

The materials: Base for work, foam core board. Decorative materials, coloured post-it notes, art pens and glue sticks.

The participants divided into four groups. They were advised that they should collaborate to come up with their ideas within their group and negotiate with the other groups with regard to use of space on the board.

No further instruction was offered. 

The four groups quickly came up with their ideas and move onto the board to develop the collaborative work.  Following brief discussions it was decided that one of the groups would tie the work together by using a trail of arts across and around the various elements in the final works. The result was a colourful and attractive collaborative piece.

Observations: 

• Within groups: collaboration, co-operation, listening, respect
• Across groups; collaboration, co-operation, negotiation, respect
• During the creative process, initial discussion, period of silence during creation, followed by discussion on how to bring it all together.