Another year ends…

A regular end of year ritual of mine is to flick through my diary and remind myself what it is I did for the year, before writing the new dates and appointments into the next diary. Yes am still using a physical paper diary. I see the benefit of the digital diary but I am attached to the physical page turning, the hand scrolled entries and maybe even the regular panic about having lost it for a few days! This is what the list looked like… (The entry with the circle was a long weekend we took to NZ to…

Please Touch

December 12, 2016 Categories: art, theatre · installation · stefanie robinsonTags: art · exhibition · nest · reflections · RubiconLeave a comment

During the installation of this work I had been determined to place the clay nests on the wall, as I had originally imagined them. But it just didn’t work.(I really did keep trying to make it work!!) I finally allowed myself to listen to both the work, and my friends, whose advice I had asked for and placed all of the nests on the floor. In the action of doing this, Paul Blackman and I discussed how lovely it was to hold them. The clay nests have a warmth about them. From this we decided to invite the audience…

Nest

September 20, 2016 Categories: art, theatre · installationTags: art · ceramic · clay · creative process · exhibition · installation · nest · nests · weavingLeave a comment

A review and images from my installation at Rubicon ARI, Queensbury St, Melbourne August 2016 “Very cool to drop in on Stefanie Robinsons installation at Rubicon ARI today……we walk into a white space, walls , floor and ceiling . Hanging from the roof detritus ropes, sun worn ,ocean swept , sometimes unravelled and frayed . At intermittent points the ropes flair out into beautifully woven nests before being drawn back to follow gravity and continue to the floor where some coil , frayed ends tickle the floor, a minute nest, the essence of intimacy and well being , nestles…

nest… upcoming installation

August 1, 2016August 1, 2016 Categories: art · installationTags: art · clay · exhibition · installation · nests · rope · RubiconLeave a comment

Today is the 1st of August… I have 17 days until … Nest Stories in rope and clay “Today I bring inside the heavy brown rope and start to pull it apart It is thick with dirt, dust and oil. It holds a story of work. It is rugged and strong, like an old farmer who has spent his life in the fields…” These nests have been woven from rope and formed in clay. Fragile containers for hope: an invocation for shelter, security and safety for all. This work is my response to her experiences as a…

A sketch

April 11, 2016 Categories: art, theatre · creative developmentTags: art · creative process · exhibition · installation · nests · reflections · studio · work in progressLeave a comment

I am currently working towards an installation in August at Rubicon Gallery. I have a vision for a wall of clay nests I hung up the few that I had in my Studio last week I think its going to work! Now to make the next 50 – 70 …

The Dirty Dozen Christmas Window

January 19, 2016 Categories: art, theatre · exhibition · installationTags: exhibition · installation · nestsLeave a comment

There are better photos coming…and more words but for now a quick glimpse of my finale piece for 2015….installed in Campbell Arcade (or the Degraves underpass as I call it) I was one of 12 selected by the City of Melbourne to create this installation for “Urban Forest” showing until the end of January

The Village….. part 2

September 27, 2015September 27, 2015 Categories: art · exhibition · installationTags: art · exhibition · installation · nests · rope · the villageLeave a comment

So quickly it happens…. The Village has gone up, and been taken done and now rests in a box in the studio. Except the shipping rope which is still sitting in the back of the car waiting for that extra person to be available to help us lift it out! Thanks to all of those who made it to have a look. I received a lot of positive feedback and have the vision for the next one…. Here are some photos from the opening….

The Village is up and open…..

September 2, 2015September 2, 2015 Categories: artTags: art · exhibition · Footscray · installation · nests · the village · TrocaderoLeave a comment

On Monday I installed The Village at Trocadero Gallery In Footscray. Paul Blackman, an old friend and fabulous artist with a great eye for installation helped. getting the shipping rope up the stairs was a challenge but totally worth it. This exhibition will be open from September 2nd – 19th Wednesday – Saturday 12 – 5pm The opening is on Saturday 5th 4 – 6 pm These are just a few of the photos I snapped after the installation…. there will be more!

Contained

March 25, 2015March 25, 2015 Categories: art · theatreTags: art · creative process · dance · exhibition · improvisation · installation · nestsLeave a comment

In January I took up a fellow artists offer to make an installation in a shipping container. WildWildGoose Contained was a 3 month residency by Dagmara in 2 shipping containers next to the Maribrynong Rver in Footscray (Melbourne) Check put the other work that was created in this space on the Facebook page Wildwildgoosecontained On the overpass bridge next to the container are two enormous pasted up photos of Uncle Larry, gently watching over us, and those who pass by. Across the river a depot of shipping containers a 24 hour flow of trucks and cranes Next to us a…

Forest……..

June 7, 2013June 7, 2013 Categories: art, theatreTags: art · CERES · creative process · exhibition · installation · nest · reflections · weaving3 Comments

Its been a month (or so) since Forest was installed iIn the Little Red Train at Ceres Environment Park….. All in all it was a success. A friend suggested that the measure of success was… did you like it in the space? Yes and Would you do it again… Yes below are a few of my favourite images For more images and comments go to….. FOREST Standing in the space and just… listening beautiful Stef! (Mischa) A wonderful travelling journey woven and dense with memory…