street art

Guest post on Whip Up

May 17, 2012

Super quick post just to let you know that I was asked to write another guest post on the awesome crafting website Whip Up, about creativity and health. I’ve focused on my current body of work and what I’m trying to bring about in the viewer – happiness. I also looked a little at two [...]

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How to make fake cupcakes – tutorial

April 25, 2012

I’ve been working on a new project investigating guerrilla kindness, called For you, stranger. You can see the project itself here  and you can read a blog post about the first drop here. It was such a simple project to do I thought I’d share how to do it today. Feel free to make your own [...]

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Gilding a City near you…

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 City origins and influences

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

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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some cool street art I’ve seen over the week

March 21, 2010

Firstly, one from my Uni And lo, I did feel pride. Next came from down Sydney Road the other day. they were awesome little tiger heads attached to the pole. They didn’t have any kind of tag or anything, but I think they might be Mal function‘s guys. Oh, yeah, I’ve jsut been checking Mal’s [...]

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Here, here are the Wild Things

December 3, 2009

I found this down an alley the other day, how could I go past it without photographing it?. I’m so excited to get the book! I’ve ordered it tonight. The experience of helping make this film, of being on set and being behind the scenes, was truly one of the highlights of my career and [...]

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some beautiful things

December 28, 2008

firstly, merry christmas! I hope you had a lovely one filled with everything you like As part of my Christmas, I participated in The Toy Society’s Christmas Drop (What a lot of capitals) The idea, for those of you who haven’t seen it yet, is to make a doll and then leave it somewhere for [...]

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much craft community

December 16, 2008

Last night I went to the Craft Cartel‘s inaugural Flock and Flog Market, which was a sort of semi-spontaneous flash mob market. Turn up, hock your wares and vanish back into the night. You can read more about the mentality behind it on their website, but it was a sort of squatters market, instead of [...]

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