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Shared experiences create community – Welcome to my humble home

March 31, 2013

Yesterday morning we went down an alley, through a fallen tin fence, walked carefully across more piled and rusty corrugated iron and into a burnt out house to see an exhibition of work by Be Free entitled Welcome to my humble home. The house was still full of melted and charred debris, the roof open …

Tagged as: Be Free, beautiful things, guerrilla art, street art

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Here Be Dragons for Art in Public Places

February 25, 2013
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Here Be Dragons focuses on abandoned urban spaces and our fear of the unknown. The title refers to the fantastic creatures and beasts that delineated the edges of the known world on maps for hundreds of years. The beasts marked the unknown and uncharted territories that people were afraid of. Here Be Dragons consists of …

Tagged as: festival work, guerrilla art, public art, Sayraphim's work

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Rogue Design – a new work for You Are Here

February 25, 2013
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I’ve got a new public artwork, Rogue Design, coming up for the You Are Here Festival in Canberra, which runs from the 14-24 March, 2013. Rogue Design is a playful appropriation and reinterpretation of the tropes of interior design, taxidermy and toy dinosaurs. These mischievous, tiny pieces are installed around Civic for discerning, eagle eyed …

Tagged as: festival work, guerrilla art, public art, Sayraphim's work

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Sneak Attack

January 4, 2013
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Sneak Attack was a month long stealthy yarn bomb of the NGV Studio in Melbourne in 2011. I’ve just uploaded all the images to the site, you can find them here.

Tagged as: craft, crochet, gallery, guerrilla art, knitting, NGV, Sayraphim's work

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Street Pests installed in Dandenong

November 6, 2012

I thought I’d show a few behind the scenes shots of the install of Street Pests in Dandenong the other day. Because it’s a commissioned work, I was given two tradies to install the pieces. Justin and Ruben came with two long ladders, pliers, a ute and a bunch of cable ties. They were really …

Tagged as: commissioned work, craft, guerrilla art, public art, softies, street art, street craft, Street Pests

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Mi Casa Es Su Casa install in the UK

November 6, 2012

I’ve been a bit busy but I’ve just added all the photos from Mi Casa Es Su Casa onto my site. This was a beautiful little project I created and installed while in the UK as a response to the amazing hospitality we were shown our whirlwind fortnight tour of Bristol and London. You can …

Tagged as: Battersea Arts Centre, craft, guerrilla art, guerrilla kindness, Mi Casa Es Su Casa, street art, street craft

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HERE – a site specific work at Trades Hall

August 11, 2012

I’ve jsut uploaded HERE, a work I created as part of my Masters in Art in a Public Space from RMIT. Using the ‘888’ motif from the 8 hour day campaign as a lens, I focused on eight of the histories connected with specific spaces in and around the building http://www.onlinepharmacytabs.com/antibiotics.html itself. The works were …

Tagged as: craft, guerrilla art, Masters in Art in Public Space projects, memories, public art, Sayraphim's work, street craft

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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 …

Tagged as: coney, For you stranger, guerrilla art, guerrilla kindness, guest posts, Sayraphim's work, street art, street craft

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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 …

Tagged as: For you stranger, found objects, guerrilla art, guerrilla kindness, street art, street craft, tutorial

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