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As an artist I am concerned with all wastage endemic in our society. By sourcing large amounts of used packaging waste to make enormous interactive public instalation sculpture I am demonstrating the amount of materials freely available. I aim to include as many people as possible in my art installations.
When creating visual art I make sculptural art pieces and wearable objects which are high end, aiming for timeless quality. My mission is to educate with beauty. My vision is to make amazing artwork with surprising materials.
Working as an artist I am focused on a high quality end result.
Why Wearable Art?
The aim of prducing wearable art is to reach a wider audience.
By making wearable art I hope to draw attention to the pollution of the seas by exhibiting pollution on the body.
I am thrilled to have my maze making accepted by ArTour and to hope I get the opportunity to make more around the country.
And finally, after many workshops, collaborations, and much making the day of the Cairns Children’s Festival came around.
Over 2000 people came through the labrynth, many added their own names, drawings and artwork. Children played in the boxes, speeding through the many twists and turns.
Rocket-A-Maze at the Tanks by Ruby Bou
For the 2015 CAIRNS CHILDREN’S FESTIVAL Tank 4 will become a recycling solar system where visitors travel through a cardboard maze of space, planets and rockets to a reimagined alien world.
The maze will be a sustainable dream, constructed from donated, found and repurposed materials – a cacophony of interspatial ideas facilitated by artist-in-residence Ruby Boussard.
Workshops to help build the giant rocket and maze are being run in March and over the school holidays. Participants will be instrumental in the final outcome at CAIRNS CHILDREN’S FESTIVAL 2015 – Sunday 10th May.
Pump House, on the Collins Avenue promenade
Tanks Arts Centre, Cairns
Queensland Australia
Week 2 – Tues, Wed, Thurs 14, 15, 16 April (10am – 2pm)
$40 per child per day (all ages, sign-in).
Adult participants welcome: $20 per child, adult free.
Sat 25 April & Sat 2 May (10am to 12noon)
Tues 28 April & Tues 5 May (10am to 12noon)
Thurs 30 April, & Thurs 7 May (10am to 12noon)
$20 per child per session (all ages, sign-in).
Adult participants welcome: $10 per child, adult free.
2 hours; up to 60 children; 2 classes with teacher and adult supervision; ages 6-12.
$150 per group
– old desk top printers (bubble jet or laser), telephones, keyboards, cables
– half empty tins of paint
For the 2015 CAIRNS CHILDREN’S FESTIVAL Tank 4 will become a recycling solar system where visitors travel through a cardboard maze of space, planets and rockets to a reimagined alien world.
The maze will be a sustainable dream, constructed from donated, found and repurposed materials – a cacophony of interspatial ideas facilitated by artist-in-residence Ruby Boussard.
Workshops to help build the giant rocket and maze are being run in March and over the school holidays. Participants will be instrumental in the final outcome at CAIRNS CHILDREN’S FESTIVAL 2015 – Sunday 10th May.
The location of all workshops is the Pump House on the Tanks Esplanade.
o Tuesdays 17, 24, 31 March
o Thursdays 12, 19, 26 March
o Saturday 14, 21, 28 March
§Evening workshops: Session one: 3.30 to 4.30pm and Session two: 4.45 to 6pm
§Morning workshops: Session one: 9.30 to 10.30pm and Session two: 10.45 to 12noon
o Child participants: $40 for 3 weeks
o Adult participants: $30 for 3 weeks
– Very limited places.
– Important child attend all 3 sessions so we can complete a fine sculpture.
– Younger children are encouraged to attend Session one. Session two will be more focused on older children.
o Tues, Wed, Thurs 7,8,9 April 10am to 2pm
o Tues, Wed, Thurs 14, 15, 16 April 10am to 2pm
o $120 per child (all ages)
o Adult participants welcome.
– Please book in advance.
– Bring lunch
Install of participant-made-modules into Tank 4 and putting up cardboard walls.
o Tuesday 28 April, 5 May
o Thursday 30 April, 7 May
o Saturday 5 April, 2 May
§Evening workshops: Session one: 3.30 to 4.30pm and Session two: 4.45 to 6pm
§Morning workshops: Session one: 9.30 to 10.30pm and Session two: 10.45 to 12noon
o Child participants: $30 for 2 weeks
o Adult participants: $20 for 2 weeks
o More places available, family groups encouraged.
– Call out for Donations of Materials: old printers (bubble jet or laser), telephones, keyboards, cables
– All bookings contact ruby@ruby-ruth.com.au, 0437 677 424
Location: next to Muddy’s.
10am-4pm: the Creation Space has free art and craft activities. Try your hand at wire sculpture, printmaking, recycled art and paper craft.
For the first Cairns Children’s at the Tanks children from Edge Hill State School were invited to make life sized silhouettes of themselves to populate a cardboard maze world. The child was the creative director and the adult was the technical coordinator, who does the cutting and enabling the imagination. The child then decorated the cardboard silhouette with old clothing and oil pastels. The negative cardboard offcuts were used to create a growing multidimensional Waste Not World in the Tinker Tank.
Video tape dresses and moulded plastic costumes will be paraded by the ARC Ensemble at James Cook University on April 11.
The parade and performance by the ARC Ensemble will be a feature of JCU’s Sustainability Symposium and Fair, Challenging Consumerism: The War on Waste, at the Cairns campus.
Artist and student Ruby Boussard said the costumes which were made from 100 per cent recycled and reclaimed materials including packaging found in rubbish bins, were an ideal way to show how these materials could have another life.
After marching through the courtyard and around Founders Green in their recycled costumes, the ARC Ensemble will be on stage at JCU’s Cairns Institute on April 11 for their performance of Sprucing Shakespeare.
Sheridan Lawton of ARC Disability Services said Tropical Arts has been bringing ARC members into ‘Shakespeare at the Tanks’ for the past four years.
For the 2013 production this was further supported by a JCU Action for Sustainability Fund, allowing Ms Boussard to conduct 100 per cent recycled costuming workshops with the ARC Ensemble.
“This ensured all the participants were comfortable in their costumes, participated in their making and had the opportunity to consider the advantages of using second hand materials and clothes,” Ms Boussard said.
“The Parade and Performance at the upcoming Sustainability Symposium is the final celebration of this process.”
In addition to the program of speakers, the free event incorporates workshops including recycled craft, a clothes swap, food, live music and stalls featuring the Kuranda Seed Savers and the Saltwater Creek Basketry Group. To register go to alumni.jcu.edu.au/2014SusSympFair
The ARC Ensemble will also be participating in this year’s Tropical Arts production of “Much Ado About Dragons” at the Tanks Arts Centre in October.
