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.
I am thrilled to have my maze making accepted by ArTour and to hope I get the opportunity to make more around the country.
This artist inspires me and gives me hope for the future.
© 2014 Aurora Robson All Rights Reserved
Source: Aurora Robson – Home
Sue Ryan – image maker, storyteller and architect of the Ghost Net Art Project.
Sue is an inspiration for us all.
Source: Sue Ryan – GhostNets Australia
This project gives me hope for future similar projects here in Cairns. This Such project aims to change perceptions through eco-conscious public art.
2010 Tomorrow’s Joy – Plastic Bottle Top Mosaic for Arts Alive « Such Initiative
Source: 2010 Tomorrow’s Joy – Plastic Bottle Top Mosaic for Arts Alive « Such Initiative
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
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.
About 20,000 people hit Grafton and Shields Sts to watch the parade and take part in the traditional Chinese celebrations, including the awakening of the dragon ceremony used to ring in the new year.
Text and some photos from Cairns Post.
