kelly gang

Making the ned kelly/bushranger........flippin sweet,

Beards Down Under

The Map of Tasmania,
Giving a new meaning to stroking ones beard.

Tassie

For Beardo,
Beards Down Under,
Map of Tassie....say no to deforestation

Lady Beards

Working with the fab Ms Katie Jacobs for a project about BEARDS at the Hawthorn townhall.

So we're planning on making bearded ladies or lady beards. A series of 6 famous Australian facial hair --beards and moustaches-- as female pubic hair.

It will be an interactive piece, where the public can choose the lady beard, and attach it onto our lady on the wall.

At the moment, we're thinking the lady will be a re-drawing of Venus de Milo.
the lady beards are going to be
1. Map of Tasmania, 3D mini model with river system.
2. The cricketer, long stitch brown wool a la Boon, Chappell or Merv Hughes.
3. The Nick Cave/The Bad Seed, a Cave moustache woven from cassette tape spool.
4. The Shannon Noll, flannel shirt of the uber gross goatee
5. The Ned Kelly, styled like his famed armour, made from tin with rivets and peephole.

Some photos of mucking around...inspiration picks.
We do try to be witty, non gross, non porn, and not overtly feminist.

Beasts Least Seen, prototypes

Beasts Least Seen, manifesto

Manifesto for Beasterds **draft 2 edit 16/06
Authors: Caroline McCurdy + Brittany Veitch

We make art because we are compelled, it is our vice, a systematic obsession to sew, sketch and distill ideas.

We make art because we drink coffee, because we eat pistachio baklava. We make art because we watch Total Recall, because we read William Gibson and because we listen to David Bowie.

We make art because we work in creatively unsatisfying jobs, because we work too many hours under the creative direction of someone else.

We make are because we are different, because we are similar, because together we have greater significance.

We make art to satisfy our desire for affirmation, to be held in high regard, to be somebody.

We make art because we are practicing Graphic designers, because we are non-practicing Industrial designers.

We make art to validate absences in our lives, to get excited, to be melancholic.

We make art to wake up with a rollicking hangover, to add levity to serious situations. We make art to get second chances, to make new opportunities.

We make art to prompt a flurry of discussion, to make others sit down and shut up, to make a satirical gesture.

We make art not to be self-indulgent but because we need to. We make art to relieve stress, to be consumed and to gain focus.

It is not a question of why, but of when and where and what. We make art because we do, because we are, because we can. 

bonnet

a quick bonnet experiment. I had an idea for a pattern, and wanted to see if it's work.

yeti bib

A quick prototype of one of the BLS sketches.
THe nipples are just sewn fabric, but would be cast latex in the future


It's a play on a tuxedo styled bib.
Materials: white cotton fabric for bib and nipples, black stretch poly for the waist tie, grosgrain ribbon and brown suri fleece (from Grace Jones)

Head dress

Beasts Least Seen: Head dress
Lace, toppers, madonna rounds, beading/pearling, hair, yeti parts, nipples, tongues, feet, claws/nails/talons

Veil

Beasts Least Seen: Veil
Hair, deer feet, binding, embroidery, pompoms, beading

breastplate

Beasts least seen: breastplate
Chain, patent, hair, string, yeti parts.

Collar/neck piece

Beasts least seen: Collar/neck piece
Mixture of yeti hair en masse, thin chain, fabric strips, pompoms, claws

Cape/mantle

Beasts Least Seen: cape/mantle
Eyeball covered capelet. Hand sewn detailing, full coverage of eyeballs (cast resin), interior lined with shiny/lurex/patent fabric. Large bow tie front.

yeti yeti

Initially working towards 10 distinct Yeti creatures....so far have 8. These are the first step up from blue biro on scrap paper. Working on some 3D sewn experimentation with a few, to make some things a bit clearer and see how materials respond/react.
Obsessed with Pom-pom veils!

Yeti play

Yeti hand, 2010, acrylic felt, raw suri fleece, cotton glove, florist wire.
Having a quick play with materials. It's all part of a proposal for an exhibition collaborating with Caroline McCurdy 'Beasts Least Seen'.





Most of my sketches have these creatures with long elongated fingers and limbs, so i had a quick play, modded a glove, sewed on some talons and got to see how suri fleece and the glue gun mix......pretty much as I hoped they would.

moustaches for blackbird

Home, off from work feeling sick....silly cold and swollen glands....but have been making some uber trashy moustache necklaces. Acrylic felt, card, pimp chain. They make me giggle.
Some brooch versions are on their way.


now time for napping!

swan is coming along

Swan is still coming along.....everytime i think i have made enough felt...i need more. I have again run out and need some more to finish off the wing.

swan

mounted head

Boyd's forest dragon.
FInished the sewing component now this little guy needs some bakes femo spines for his face and to be mounted onto a plaque.

boyds forest dragon