YIRRKALA PROJECT 2012 by Visual Feast Creations

Visual Feast Creations will be heading to Arhnam Land in late July 2012 to run a recycled art project at the Yirrkala School.

Working with students, teachers and the wider community we will be creating 15 murals depicting stories as told through they eyes of the students.  Accompanying each mural will be stories written in english and the native language of the story tellers (were possible).

RECYCLED ART MELBOURNE SPRING & SUMMER FESTIVALS

Recycled Art Melbourne by Visual Feast Creations has started off to a very busy spring.  We have just got back from the annual Chalk Urban Art Festival where with 33 artists around the country we created works using Chalk Pastels over 4 days - this years theme was food.  

The works produced were astounding especially those of this years (and last years winner) Jenny McCracken - probably Australias best pavement artist.  To view her work and those of the other entrants go to

http://www.chalkurbanart.com.au

Leading up to the festival I had the privledge of working alongside Sydney's own Julie Doye for the Wetherille Park Stockland Mall School Holiday Program.  Over 4 days we guided children in chalk art with the theme of once again Food.  

Julie is one of Australia's most prolifice up and coming artists with  a style all of her own a cross between street, pop, surrealism and cartooning.  

This weekend we will be at the Stringybark Sustainability Festival running a Makedo workshop in which children and parents are invited along to help create the Urban Forest Maze.  Being year of the Forests we thought this would be a fitting theme.  

Other upcoming festivals include

Childrens Week Picnic at Werribee

Broadmeadows Fiesta
Carols by the Lake (Moreland City Council)

Warrnambool Sustainability Festival

We have also recently partnered with Ceres Environment Park and are now part of their school incursion program.  Our first booking is for November 14th for a Waste Environment Day Festival.  To find out more about Ceres go to http://www.ceres.org.au/incursions.

We are excited about this partnership as it something we have been aiming for since we first established ourselves in 2007. 

More partnerships are in the pipeline and we are looking forward to a very busy Summer of Festivals and workshops.

For bookings and enquiries call Clare on 04222 02869

RECYCLED ART MELBOURNE by Visual Feast Creations

BOOKINGS AND ENQUIRIES call Clare on 04222 02869

Our recycled art workshops in Melbourne are becoming more and more popular and we are getting bookings coming in daily.  

On Monday we visited St John's Primary School in Heidelburg and worked with the Preps on making props for their school play out of recycled materials.  The kids were fantastic (as were the teachers) and came up with some incrediably creative ideas.

All up 48 children participated and we had everything from angels through to rockets, aliens and even self portraits created from predominately clean industrial waste.

Our next big project is for Banyule Councils annual Winter in Banyule Arts Festival.  Last year we participated by running a 2 day workshop were we created a large collage/mural from fabric offcuts and recycled canvas awnings.  This year I will be creating up to 15 collages using old coffee sacks as the canvas and a collection of recycled and clean industrial waste inspired by Sills Bend and the surrounding area.  "Landscape or Landfill" will be displayed around telegraph poles along Banksia Road and will highlight how we need to take care of the amazing beautiful nature strips, parklands and waterways we have within Melbourne and its surrounding suburbs.

The exhibition will open on the 18th August with the festivals official opening being held at the Banyule Arts Centre.

Along with further festival bookings including the Malayang Festival in November and our regular festival bookings we are also getting ready to launch our Corporate Workshops Program in partnership with The Mind Gallery http://www.mindgallery.com.au.  The Mind Gallery have been running corporate art programs on leadership throughout Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane for quite a number of years and are now ready to add the Green Team Program.  As carbon tax is such a huge issue at the moment this will be a great way to get your staff thinking about creative ways in which to reduce their carbon footprint both in the office and at home.  We are looking forward to these recycled art workshops around Melbourne and further afield.

FOR INFORMATION AND BOOKINGS please call Clare on 04222 02869 

or email:  clare@visualfeastcreations.com.au

Recycled Art Workshops Melbourne by Visual Feast Creations

We have been back in Melbourne now for just over two weeks after our massive 8 day stint at the Warrnambool Fun 4 Kids Festival running their recycled art section.  It was a massive 8 days of fun with kids from all walks of life joining in the fun.

With unlimited supply of amazing recycled and clean industrial waste along with some colourful craft items kids created all sorts.  We had wands, superhero caps, amazing fiesta masks, pirate ships, funky robots the list goes on.  Whilst the programs were themed and basic ideas were supplied the main focus was on kids using their imaginations and just having fun in a safe and positive environment.

Northcote Shopping Plaza was out latest gig, 5 days of 2hour craft workshops were parents and adults together created an array of colourful and crazy masks, dolls and puppets just to name a few and our regular spot at Gasworks Art Park creating stick puppets was a sell out. 

We are already getting ready for the next school holiday program with workshops booked for Gasworks - Superhero Capes and Cloaks for the little ones aged 4-6yrs and Tiaras, Top Hats and Headwear just in time for Melbourne Cup for the 7-12yr olds.  Along with our regular recycled art workshops at Gasworks we will also be holding our own School holiday program at Spring Studios in Clifton Hill, keep checking back for more details.  Along with the kids classes we will also be running an adult program along with a parents and kids program.  The space is amazing and will allow for up to 20 kids per workshop and form term 3 we will be running regular classes there.


This coming Monday we will be visiting St Johns Primary School in Heidelburge where with the Preps we will be creating Musical and Twirling Battons from our collection of recycled art supplies for their upcoming school production all about recycling.  Looking forward to this gig, kids aged 5 get incrediably excited and can come up with some very colourful and amazing ideas.

Our Kids Art Classes Melbourne are also on the move, this term we are going mobile.  Classes can be held at your school, community centre or even corporate business centre.  This term we are running kids classes Clifton Hill Primary School for their students aged 5-12yrs on Tuesday afternoons. 


Keep an eye out also for your one and two day recycled art workshops coming up in the warmer months.  These workshops will be taking place in the Spring Studios in Clifton Hill and will include activities for adults and kids along with parent and child workshops. 

If your interested in us coming along to our school, community centre or even corporate venue and running one of our fantastic recycled art workshops don't hesitate to contact us.

FOR BOOKINGS AND ENQUIRIES call Clare on 04222 02869
or email clare@visualfeastcreations.com.au

Recycled Art Melbourne in Schools

Recycled Art Melbourne by Visual Feast Creations

At the moment there is a whole lot of talk about the environment, carbon tax, alternative energies and re-use, recycling.  You read about in newspapers, see it on TV and they even write in stories about in soap operas.  Its not just adults that are talking about some of these issue though it is now also a subject that is tackled in both Primary and Secondary Schools.

Kids are learning about simple ways in which to help make a difference and one of the simplest is recycling or reusing.  This week we were at Ripponlea Primary School where over the day we created 8 murals "Landscape or Landfill" using old coffee sacks as our canvas and a whole collection of industrial waste along with offcuts of upholstery fabrics.  

All up over 80 children took part in the activity which proved a huge success.  These works are now displayed in their school hall for parents and visitors to view.  

RIPPONLEA PRIMARY SCHOOL 

Next term our first school visit will be to St John's Primary School in Heidelberg where we will be working with the preps to create props for their upcoming school play.  The subject recycling.  52 children will come together over 2 workshops to create musical shakers and dancing wands out of our collection of cardboard offcuts, ribbons and anything else colourful and eyecatching we have managed to collect during our waste rescue missions.

Using art to teach young people about recycling is one of the most affective and simplest tools.  It is non-confrontational, colourful and even the kid who says how much they hate art will usually end up making something incredible and being proud of their achievements.  It is both educational and fun.

Our use of recycled art materials though doesn't just have to be all about teaching kids about the environment.  In our regular kids art classes in we often use recycled materials.  When working with collage, drawing, painting, printmaking etc we don't always need to run out and buy the best quality brand new papers and canvases.  At times using an old canvas, pages of a book or fabric scraps etc make for an interesting and effective texture and make the work even that much more original.

Our kids are run every Tuesday during school term from our new location in Clifton Hill.  The new studio is a large beautiful old refurbished warehouse with amazing light, beautiful high ceilings and its even warm in Winter.  There is even a couple of couches in the corner if parents would like to sit and relax whilst the class is happening.  The studio is used regularly by professional artists, film makers and photographers from around Melbourne. 

3rd term begins Tuesday 22nd July

WHEN:  Tuesdays (during second term)

WHERE:  Clifton Hill 

TIME:  4pm - 5.30pm

COST:  $20 casual (Term 3 if paid in full upfront $162)

BOOKINGS ARE ESSENTIAL please call Clare on 04222 02869 

or email:  clare@visualfeastcreations.com.au

Recycled Art Workshops Melbourne by Visual Feast Creations

Recycled Art Workshops              For Bookings phone Clare 04222 02869

After completing the recycled art project in Sydney for Ikeas Community Fence Art Project I am back in Melbourne preparing for a series of recycled art workshops for kids at festivals and schools across Victoria.

The recycled art project in Sydney was held at Ferncourt Primary School (Marrickville) over 6 days.  Working with kids from years 3 - 6 we created 12 murals on old coffee sacks based on the theme "Our Home".  The coffee sacks (donated by Voodoo Coffee Company, Sydhenam Rd, Marrickville) were used to create canvases in the shapes inspired by Marrickville houses which the kids then painted, collaged and weaved various materials into taking inspiration from their own personal surroundings.  What transpired was 12 colourful and extremely textured works of art.

This workshop was one of twelve, run by 12 different artists including Julie Doye and Jess Cook (Token Imagination) taking place within the Marrickville/Tempe Community in Sydney.  The works will be installed along the fence line form mid October at Ikea's new Tempe store for a period of up to 4 months.

My first project back in Melbourne will be at Ripponlea Primary School (East St Kilda) were we create 8 small murals once again using coffee sacks as our canvas on the theme "Landscape or Landfill".  Students will create a series of landscape inspired collages from materials that would normally end up in Landfill highlighting the devestating impact this is having on our environment. 

These projects are amongst my favourite to run, working on collective art works that both allow children to learn something about our environment and new ways in which to be creative.  Art, education and recycling go hand in hand.

Other projects coming up include 8 days at Australia's largest Childrens Festival - Fun For Kids in Warrnambool running a series of recycled art workshops aimed at kids of all age.  The festival runs from 3rd - 8th June the first week of the Victorian School Holidays.  Over the second week along with my assistants we will be running recycled art workshops at Northcote Shopping Plaza and also our usual holiday program at Gasworks Art Park in South Melbourne. 

So winter is an extremely busy time of the year these days as well as the summer period.  


To make a booking for Recycled and Community Art Workshops please call Clare on 04222 02869


www.visualfeastcreations.com.au

ARTIST RESIDENCY IN SYDNEY

Its off to Sydney next week to work on a community art project for Ikea.

Ikea have invited 12 artists who work in various mediums and matched them up with schools and community groups to create a series of works for Ikeas Fence Line Project. 

Working with Ferncourt Public School in South Marrickville I will be running a series of 12 workshops with years 3 and 4 to create 12 recycled murals with the theme being "Our Home". 

Taking old coffee sacks kindly being donated by Voodoo Coffee (located in South Marrickville) we will create 12 canvases cut into the shapes of houses taking inspiration from the participants own homes.  Using a collection of various recycled materials including dress and upholstery fabrics along with clean industrial waste kids will turn these canvases into representations of what is important in their home. 

Once the works are completed they will be displayed for a period of up to 6 months outdoors for the local community to come and view.  This project is a way for Ikea to engage the local community in a creative and productive way and allows for the students participating to see the various forms public art can take.

We will keep you posted on how this project turns out