Artist, Organiser, Performer
I’m currently on tour with Polyglot Theatre
Building cardboard city’s in
Scottsdale, Arizona
Fayetteville, Arkansas
and next stop
Huston, Texas
The show is We Built This C
ity
an interact work that invites children and adults to build out of cardboard box’s
It’s a delightful work that encourages play
I love it
it’s fun
and
Its simple
In January,
when i was looking at my year ahead,
i made a commitment to show some work in May.
Life, and work
as it tends to do
took me in a slightly different direction,
On the day i booked a gallery, i was also offered a tour to the USA with Polyglot Theatre,
needless to say
i took the job
and i leave on Wednesday.
I did install the work into the studio one friday night and had a play with a couple of friends and…..
and made a short video
and here it is
my May showing…….
yesterday was open studio at River studios,
while not overly successful in terms of people coming through
It was a great excuse for me to get back into the studio (its been a while)
sweep away the dust 
and
rearrange a few things
in preparation for the next wave of creative urge.
was Williamstown Festival,
i coordinated a lantern parade and created a choreography with 18 seagull puppet lanterns (and ran a few schools workshops to make some of the 500 pyramid lanterns that were created for the event)
Due to events beyond my control (insurance and ignorance mostly) the candles were replaced with torches.
My favourite response to this when i was explaining to a school group was ” but isn’t it tradition to light the candle”
yes,
yes indeed it is tradition,
and may it stay that way in times to come.
Lead by a pipe band, it was an event very much enjoyed by parents and community members. yay!
The photos below were taken by one of the parents.
Finally these 4 pieces are finished and delivered to Salvage and Selvage (Johnston St Fitzroy) where they now adorn the walls , waiting for someone to fall in love with them and take them home.
I was determined to finish them, but maybe didn’t really allow them to evolve to their full potential….. an impatience to complete something in this time when work keeps me away from the studio.
But
well
hmmm
we’ll see what the world thinks!
was the Whittlesea community festival…..
we made bunting out of children’s drawings…..
and a few signs to show the way
and i have to show you the work of Paul Blackman whose magic touch always adds to a festival or event……
Art days are on hold,
a community festival has my attention.
I spent the day scanning and laminating art drawn by primary school children to the provocation of “your favourite place”
many beautiful drawings.
4 schools, 4 completely different responses and mediums
Its been great to see how the different teachers have responded to the themes and inspired their classes.
yay to art
No Pictures………sorry!
I hung the paper drops i have been working in the dance studio.
I invited 2 friends, we turned on the theater lights (basic and limited)
put on some music
danced and played.
I’m very excited about this work, i think it has much potential.
it was lovely to stand and play amongst the paper.
Later when the lights were off it was incredibly peaceful, and a little airy to be in it,
like standing in a forest.
So there is a new working tittle… In the forest
Its a place for the creatures ,that emerge in my impro, to play
theres a place for shadow and mystery
theres defintely a place for beauty, and moving beautifully.
Theres a world waiting to emerge……
One of my new years resolutions had been to make and present a work for May 2012.
While my concept had simplified
I still intended to present something.
So i booked a small community gallery.
Dates set, i went home to check emails etc
And sitting there was an invitation to join a tour with an interactive children’s show
to the US.
A moment’s hesitation
is this a test about my commitment to my own art making process ?
or just another wonderful opportunity in the journey of life.
I have said yes
It’s hard to turn down an adventure, esp a paid adventure
The gallery is postponed
indefinitely as I’m not sure were it fits in the rest of my year …..
As a friend pointed out,
I’ll still be doing my art
just not that particular piece of art ……
I’m thankful for the choices i have to make
but curious about their timing!
What you can’t see here is the shear pleasure and relief it was to get to my studio.
I have found my routine….
i drink coffee
then eat
then put on Adelita loudly in my earphones and
then
work comes and plays and takes me on journeys
Somehow it reminds me of a wedding,
maybe its the white
and the rose
another thing you can’t see is that i surrender to the fine Japanese paper with the gold
and silver fleck, and that it sits ever so just beneath a layer.
It so beautiful and fragile and yet i can tear at it and scrunch it and it doesn’t mind.
It’s almost cliché in its presence
so that  until to-day i have avoided it,
but i think it’s here to stay and more will sneak its way into these collages….
Are these collages….?
Stefanie Robinson 