Gilding a City near you…

by Sayraphim on January 17, 2012

I’m really thrilled about the interest that Gilding the City is getting. To date since it’s launch (on the 2nd of Jan 2012) I’ve sent off around 20 pieces to cities around the world. So far they’ve gone to:   UK: Brighton Birmingham London West Sussex USA: Cohutta, Georgia Portland, Oregon Seattle, Washington EUROPE: Paris, [...]

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Gilding the World

by Sayraphim on January 7, 2012

Gilding the City was launched about a week ago with the first installation around Melbourne. It’s now spreading around the world! I am a member of the playful UK society Agency of Coney and since this is a playful project, I sent a general email out to see if anyone would like to participate and [...]

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Gilding the City origins and influences

by Sayraphim on January 2, 2012

I’ve just embarked upon a new temporary street art project called Gilding the City and I wanted to let you know about it. When I was very young, one of my favourite books was Pippi Longstocking, the strongest girl in the world. One of the many things she did to occupy her time was to [...]

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Midnight in the City

by Sayraphim on November 10, 2011

During the last 6 weeks, I’ve been involved in a residency at the NGV studio called Game/Play, in conjunction with Freeplay and Pop Up Playground. As part of this we ran 2 Playdays for the general public. Loads of games were played and fun was had. On the last of these Playdays, I ran a [...]

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The possibilities expansion

September 15, 2011

This morning, in one of the sheds scattered around my work we found a dried out, desiccated rat body. It’s like rat jerky, it’s quite unpleasant. Discussing it with a workmate, she said “it’s weird that the… (and here she paused while she tried to remember the word)… rat people… you know, didn’t find it [...]

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Junction Festival roundup

September 4, 2011

Last week we headed down to Launceston for the Junction Arts Festival. This was the second year for Junction, which was a smaller festival than the huge inaugural one. Next year will again be a big one, according to the festival director Ian Pidd. I was fascinated to go to an arts festival that had [...]

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Freeplay – game on!

August 29, 2011

I attended Freeplay http://www.freeplay.net.au , the Australian independent games festival, on the weekend. It was great to see so many game developers come together in one place to talk about their industry. Freeplay is fairly focused on computer/ video game design, but there are a number of other types of games covered as well (such [...]

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New commission work

June 27, 2011

I was commissioned a few months ago by Southern Health/ Monash Medical Centre to make a work for their new mental health units. I had just seen an exhibition of Mirka Mora’s work, including her dolls, and I was really inspired by her work. So for the commission, I created this work, Elevenses, which recalls [...]

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