My first ever diorama

Yesterday, I went to the opening night of True North - first Reservoir Arts Festival. 
There, I finally exhibited what I had worked on in the last month: my diorama piece inspired by the song written by Icelandic songwriter Auður. If you want to get an idea of what the project was about, please read my previous post.
Here some photo of the event

As you can see this is something a bit different from what I usually do. 
I was asked to create a 3D installation piece and at first I was a bit scared and puzzled, not really having a clue of what to do.
But with the help of my artist mentor Belinda Suzette, I came up with this diorama. 
I must say I'm pretty satisfy with the finished piece... and surprisingly, it was incredibly fun to make!!

After this great experience, I've decided I will definitely make more dioramas in the future. Actually, I'm already planning to make my second one for my next exhibition in July... stay tuned!!

True North Festival

I'm very excited to announce I'll be one of the artist taking part in the very first edition of True North - Reservoir Arts Festival.
For three days, lots of events and activities will completely flood and transform the streets of Reservoir.

In particular, I'll be one of the artist taking part in the event Lost in Translation, a wonderful project that could be described as "a visual arts version of the ancient game "Chinese Whispers" (cit. Belinda Suzette).

In a project that seeks to understand the language of different art forms, emerging and established artists speak of Reservoir and their ideas about the truth of the North. The short story “In The Rezz” by Stella Glorie kicks us off. This story is then passed on to artist Keith McDougall (mentored by Bernard Caleo) to create a comic. Local songwriter Auður (mentored by Andrea Keller), will then take this cartoon and turn it into a song. Finally, visual artist Laura Wood (mentored by Belinda Suzette) will turn the song into something visually awesome.

If you're interested in find out more, you can download the program of the entire festival on Darebin City Council website.
Don't miss out the Lost in Translation tour led by comedian Kate McLennan!

Hope to see you there!!

COW International Design Festival

A month ago I entered an illustration exhibition called COW International Design Festival.
It's a huge exhibition organised in Ukraine dedicated to illustration and design. To enter is free and this year 96 artists are taking part at the event... I'm the only one representing Australia!:)
It's actually a competition as well so there will be winners and prizes... One of the jury member is the founder of 3x3!!
I saw some of the entry on the facebook page and some of them are just FABULOUS so I seriously doubly I could win something... but, how it's said, you never know!

Here it is a picture from the event... can you spot my illustrations on the wall??:)

If you want to have at more photos of the opening night and the list of the participants (yesss, there's my name in there!!:)) follow this LINK here.