Yuken Teruya’s beautiful cut toilet paper rolls – who knew that these cardboard things could be so delicate and graceful. [via the rag & bone]
Image caption: Yuken Teruya, Corner Forest (Serendipitous-Tangents shot), 2007, toilet Paper Rolls. Photo by Eun Young Choi
Nicky Hepburn, Cuttlefish, Seed Pods, Galls II, Bark, 2007, cuttlefish, found seed pods, steel, tree bark. From the NETS Victoria touring exhibition, Walk, on show at Burnie Regional Gallery until 14 September. Image courtesy the artist. Photograph by Terence Bogue.
“Walk presents the work of eight Australian artists – Peter Corbett, Vicki Couzens, Nicky Hepburn, Brian Laurence, Jan Learmonth, Carmel Wallace, Ilka White and John Wolseley. At the heart of this exhibition is a 250 kilometre trek along the Great South West Walk, an increasingly endangered natural environment cradled in the far south-west corner of Victoria. For three weeks, this group of artists walked through forest and river, estuary and bay to create work in response to their experience of an ever-shifting environment.”
“Art expressing its relation to land, this exhibition is an invitation to discover what new meanings we are making of this place – to figure our relationship to the land, understand how the connections between inhabitant and eco-system may be meaningfully re-established.”
Walk is a NETS Victoria touring exhibition that features around 40 works of contemporary art, craft, sound and video art. The show tours to Burnie Regional Gallery (TAS) 15 August 2008 – 14 September 2008, Riddoch Art Gallery (SA) 18 October 2008 – 30 November 2008, Flinders University Art Museum (SA) 6 February 2009 – 20 March 2009 and Bunbury Regional Art Galleries (WA) 2 May – 16 June 2009
Leah Gauthier’s Sow-In Project: – ‘grow collectively’ via creative urban agriculture was part eco-performance-art and part gardening-instructional. Together with many helpers she shared hundreds of recycled paper seed pots with community gardeners across the city – her efforts make us think about re-invigorating heirloom seed supplies and demonstrating that delicious, nourishing food can be grown in patches or on windowsills that are currently overlooked or barren. [images, Sow-In Project information, via Inhabitat]
