stitched up...quickly

My garish knitted length for the Stitching up the NGA installation.
As I only found out about it 2 days before the contributions were due, I pulled out my fattest needles, some awful yarn and knit 1.4 metres with haste.

soft sculpture

The soft sculpture exhibition at the NGA was pretty tantalising.
Some of the stand out artists/pieces:

• Ernesto Neto, more incredible works here
• Hans Bellmer
• Claes Oldenburg
• Eva Hesse
• Hilary Archer
• Colin Lanceley
• Annette Messager
• Peter Vandermark
• Angela de la Cruz
• Nell
  

yarn-bombing

In a case of good-timing I happened to be hanging around the National Gallery whilst Magda of Knitta Please is visiting the gallery, sharing some of her "guerrilla" knitting.
She gave an intriguing artist talk about the convergence of her knitting with street art and the impact she wants it to have in urban environments. Today she was completing her knit-tagging installation.

In haste, I have contributed a knitted piece for Magda, Denise Litchfield and Indigenous artists to use during this week as part of a community project to transform the entrance with knitting.

closing of boxes

The last of the moving has been completed, thankfully.
The blog shall now be tended to.

at least some of the boxes are colourful

yep, still packing.

leaving town

After successive lovely days of going away with friends, or friends visiting us, reality has set in and finds me alone attempting to pack up the house and move on.

Packing is not my strong point.

shift

The champagne label isn't coming along as I had hoped. Time to rethink.

Happy weekend.