October Electronic Drawing Jam

October saw many of the Drawing Jam crew dispersed: Nic had just got back that day from the Northern Territory, I was on King Island, Jared was in Africa. So we cancelled the meet up and I proposed a digital drawing correspondence, and set the task of drawing something related to evening meal for the night of October 15th. Below are the results from Chay-Ya Clancy (in Berlin), her friend Adelaide Rief (Melbourne), and myself.

Adelaide Rief - It is not you that bends

Chay-Ya Clancy - Beetroots from the market near the Canal.

Sarah Howell - Sunset on the West Coast of King Island accompanied by trombone.

Back at the house Emma and Gavin cook chicken noodle soup.

Drawing Jam @ The Perpetual Party Collective

September's Drawing Jam took place amongst the growing cardboard walls of the Perpetual Party Collective's bump-in at Arts Alive. Matt and Themis very kindly let us use one of the cardboard rooms in the labyrinth; it glowed with the light of the data projector.

Casting coloured shadows and insulated from the world we had our best night yet.

Eat the Wall

An interesting report on two "eat art" exhibitions in Berlin, which explore the use of food as an art language. If you click here the video will open in full screen.

in issuu

"Signal Periodical: Volume Two"

This is a project which i produce in Melbourne at ArtPlay with awesome young people

the periodical blog

"A perfect stillness where everything moves," by Chay-Ya

this is a sampler of one a 36 page exhib catalogue

the stillness in flight blog

Issuu is a pretty wonderful and easy to use website that allows you to create your own online publications. and the neat thing is once you can made them you can embed them in other sites, and experiment with electrical world wide distribution. (For a bigger view click on the small ones above!)

Photos from the July Drawing Jam

The first drawing jam was full of wonderfulness, oranges, subtle confusion and excitement.
The sense of adventure was running rife in the air and it was intriguing to be apart of something that moved and changed. It is so fun to draw with other people in the room!
This jam will be a regular event at Arts Alive in Launceston. In fact the second has already happened and the third will be soon.

These photos are only a subjective view of what happened through the lens of my particular camera. To see the rest of the photos I took, please click on this album:

Drawing night July

Zine from the first drawing night is coming soon. Edited by guest editor Chay-Ya Clancy (me).
The zine from the second drawing night is also in progress, edited by guest editor Jared Irwin. If you would like to sign up to the mailing list to receive zines and information on the gravity project, please contact Sarah Howell

The Notebook Project

The Colors Notebook Project is something you would have surely heard about by now.
Here is some photos from the construction of my entry, its almost finished, and almost ready to post off. How is yours going? Have you started? Have you nearly finished? Send in any photos you have and we will post them up on this blog.

Black Box

The Black Box event presented by the Manic Productions Crew was over a month ago now. Here are some of the photos that I took whilst they were setting up the Installation and Performance event at Arts Alive, and whilst it was happening.
Being a drawer the definite highlights were "buying squares on the blank canvas to create in" and Nic drawing and writing over almost the entire venue with white chalk.

For the full collection click on the album below:

Black Box

August Drawing Jam

Activities undertaken:

* Exquisite Corspe game

* 1 x 3 m collaborative drawing

* Observational drawings of pears, mandarins, and each other

* Sharing and discussion of artbooks and strange seventies illustrations

This month's guest zine editor is Jared Irwin who gathered up our drawings at the end of the night to create the next zine to share with us in September.

Take my Word for it...

Opening: Thursday 14th August at 5:30pm
11 August – 16 August Tue to Fri 10am to 4pm, Sat 10am to 2pm , Arts Alive, 178a Charles St, Launceston.

Artsts: Sonja Brough,Tim Chatwin, Samuel Eddy, Vika Fiffta, Mairi Ward, Rowena Watson, Themis Wood, Janine Wright, Steven Wright

For this show, nine contemporary artists have been asked to provide works with no title or statement that would reflect the intention of their work, with writers then being invited to view one of the works each and to give a description or possible ‘meaning’ of the artwork.

Part of Tasmanian Living Writers' Week

Arts Alive contact: Damien Quilliam 6331 2777 or 0447 874 117

CALL FOR LAUNCESTON COLLOBARATORS!

From early September Wide Angle Tasmania will be trialing having regular monthly screenings of films and we are going to develop a mini-movie-makers weekend!

If you are based up north, and would like to be involved or contribute your skills, please contact Bev directly on bev@wideangle.org.au or by phone on 6223 8344.

We would like to have a northern based email contact list, so just send Bev an email with “Count Me In” and she will update you directly.

Showreel for Launceston's Diemen Media

http://www.diemenmedia.com/

Gee Whiz

Works by the Access Arts Link artists from Launceston, Tasmania

21^st – 8^th August @ Smithton Library

18^th – 12^th September @ Deloraine Hospital

Photo by Sarah Howell of a sidewalk chalk drawing by Arts Access Link artist Matthew Viney.

Chay-Ya's Travel Blog

http://stillnessinflight.blogspot.com/

6-9pm Wed 20th August

Ater the success of the last Drawing Jam we bring you the next Monthly Drawing Jam Night!

Arts Alive, 178A Charles St, Launceston.

6 - 9pm Wed 20th August.

Stack of paper supplied, bring own drawing implements.

First Drawing Jam

The first Drawing Jam at Arts Alive took place last night in the surrounds of the NAIDOC week Tasmanian Aboriginal Artists Project exhibition(on until today, the 18th).

Many of us struggled with drawing again and discussed this strange process of coordinating our eyes and hands.

There was a very orange theme to the night as you can tell from the photographs.

Next Drawing Jam: 6-9pm, Wed 20th August.

I keep Thinking of Your Beautifully Ugly

"Positive things often overlay negative things"

Artist: Jamilene Tan
www.jamilene.blogspot.com

Opening: 6pm Thursday 24th July
Arts Alive, 178a Charles Street
10am-4pm Mon-Fri, 10am-2pm Sat
until 31st July.

Opening Speaker: Penny Mason

Preview(different works): 23rd June - 19th July, K&H Cafe Restaurant, 106 George St. 7.30am-6pm Mon-Thu, 7.30am-late Fri-Sat

bridge art

I noticed these pieces pop up in the last few days under the overpass near Penny Royal in Launie. Obviously the themes reocurring, and done by the same artist. It was a lovely surprise to come across this strong work. I was also attracted to the curves in the metal barrier alongside the brige.

A invitation to draw walking

the gravity project invites you to join melbourne based artist Chay-Ya Clancy in a workshop of walking and drawing. we will be exploring physical movement and creative expression with a focus on sense of place. meet at the kings cottage for a cup of tea and warm up before we set off on the walk. bring lunch, warm things to wear and drawing implements (also if you want to bring a journal that would be good, else there will be some loose paper provided). all those with an interest in drawing, writing or movement are warmly welcomed.
where: kings cottage, at the beginning of the walk to the cataract gorge
when: Saturday 19th July
time: 10-2pm
cost: free
more info: please call Chay-Ya on 0432 672 899

parking: tram line carpark at Penny Royal then walk across the bridge to the cottage.
Supported by Tasmanian Regional Arts and Launceston City Council.

Sarsparilla Art Show

12 July - 10 August, The Hub, 1 Tamar St.

The Sarsaparilla Art Show is a monthly commission free art exhibition featuring Launceston’s top emerging artists. The exhibition's role is to give local artists from all walks of life an opportunity to showcase and sell their work, and share ideas.
The energy behind this exhibition is Justin Chapman,
contact on: 0447 400 230 or justinchappy@hotmail.com
The inaugural Sarsaparilla Art Show was supported by The Hub owners and staff, Interweave Arts Association, Tasmanian Regional Arts, and opening speaker Karen Revie, who said some very sweet and beautiful words.

Manic Productions present The Black Box

The Black Box
Full moon party and art installation
A sensory overload featuring a variety of visual and performance art
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Friday 18 July 8 - 12pm
@ Arts Alive
178a Charles Street
$5 entry - tix @ the door
---Cheap Bar---- 18+ event

Presented by Manic Productions

Drawing jam night this wednesday

This Wednesday night, the 16th of July, Gravity is hosting a monthly night of drawing, simply because drawing is awesome and it is really nice to be in the same room as other people who are drawing too. We will hopefully make a little zine out of what happens on the night. Really hope you can come, paper supplied, bring your own drawing implements.
Arts Alive, 178a Charles Street Launceston, 6-9pm.

Weather exchange

As part of her residency Chay-Ya is participating in an international exchange of weather photos with artist Marcel de Buck from the Netherlands.
For more on the project and to see the photos posted have a look at the Weather blog
For participation in the project contact weatherphotos@spamex.com

Kings Cottage residency

As part of Gravity Project Melbourne artist Chay-Ya Clancy is artist in residence at the Kings Cottage at Cataract Gorge in Launceston, from the 8th until the 19th of July. Email chayya.clancy@gmail.com or sarahhowellprojects@gmail.com for updates or watch this space for special events.

Chronox

Over the weekend I went to an exhibition at Forepaw by Melbourne based artists Michael Prior & Lachlan Conn, it was really good, like the best show I have been to in a long time. I pretty much hung out in there all day, til the outside lights got dark and the rainbow animations glowed on the cardboard surfaces of the geodesic domes.
This exhibition was wonderful for many reasons
1. for creating something you could hang out in (unlike a lot of gallery shows that you shuffle around in and then leave because its made not too hold you for too long) and wanted to hang out in
2. for its beautiful design and construction
3. for the complex rythmns of sound, animation and sculpture coming together seamlessly
4. for the cubby house utopian dream
5. there were three specially made " 7" dub-plate records that contained 20 locked grooves". what this means is that instead of being cut into spirals the grooves were circles, so wherever you put the needle on the record it would loop infinately on that one sound until you changed it. And because there were 3 records (each with 10 different loops) the possibilities of sound were large and enthralling .
6. the element of chance, of parts lining up, of combinations of loops and lights and of people and animals (quite a number of dogs visited the exhibition and they definitely added another level to the proceedings.
7. the animations (moving lines and shapes) were drawn directly onto the sculptures while projector and computer were hooked up together, meaning that the animations fell only onto specific shapes on the domes and was completely site specific. this blew me away, though i guess is quite a simple idea, to draw digitally in a three dimensional space.
For more about Forepaw