From Junky to Funky Arts Trail
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Streets Alive turns Junky into Funky this year for the Junction Arts Festival from August 24 to 28th.
Follow the Streets Alive from Junky to Funky Arts Trail as it transforms unexpected spaces across Launceston’s CBD with sculptural installations created out of recycled and upcycled materials. So get out those tin cans, computer parts, paste pots, buttons and whatever else you can think of and get junking Launceston.
We have culture jamming, paste-ups, dragonflies and numerous other modes of street art sculpture and urban intervention aimed at reminding passers-by that the waste we create might just come back to haunt us. Be aware that like everything else on the street, some works may appear and disappear without warning!
Mr Happy Happy : Paste-ups marking the Arts Trail by Gerard Smith
"I like drawing Mr Happy Happy because he likes doing funny things. He never seems to stay still. Mr Happy Happy gets on well with other people and has lots of friends". Images of Mr Happy Happy will link the Arts Trail so keep your eyes open to see where he is and you will be on the trail.
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The Button Trail focuses on the value of the small things, each button has its own story, a previous life connecting a diverse world; keep an eye
Trail Highlights
1) It's about Love and Loss
Artist: Linda Barker
Venue: Civic Square Fountain near Charles Street
These Dragonflies are made from local natural fibres and are designed to dissolve back into the environment when the string finally breaks. They reflect on high tide, and cast shadows on the low, just like the cycle of life with flight, living, loss and renewal. And just like the things we love the most, we can't control them, they are out of reach.
2) Spring Cheer
Artists: Steve Colwell & Access Arts Link Artists
Venue: Civic Square - Garden beds near Police Station Library & Front of Pilgrim Hall
Spring is on the way – a garden created from recycled 'tip finds' planted in our CBD.
3) New Vinyl
Artists: Kim Schneiders, AAL, Polytechnic Creative Arts students, Sacred Heart Primary School & community
Venue: Telstra Building, St John Street
Humble vinyl records recycled by our Access Arts studio, Polytechnic artists and students at Sacred Heart as part of the Re-Record into works of art, transformed by projection into revolving mandalas on the Telstra Building.
Venue partners: Launceston City Council, Telstra
4) Sandbags Alive
Artists: AAL studio Project
Venue: Garden beds, corner of St. John and Cameron Streets (outside Women Tasmania)
These sandbags were set up to protect the Studio from a flood threat earlier this year and have now been recreated and brought to life by the Access Arts Link artists for this installation.
Venue partner: Launceston City Council
5) Straight Messages
Artists: Minna & Ro Blaney
Venue: Windows facing Genders Lane (Artas Building)
Daughter and Mother team, Minna & Ro Blaney, have developed a series of paper and collage works based on advertising text and recycled/ redirected messages, as part of the Access Arts Link Studio program at Inveresk.
Venue partner: Artas Architects
6) Home and Away
Artists: Access Arts Link project
Venue: Paterson Street Shopfront (old Rik Sloane Cycles shop)
These panels were originally part of the Stompin Home set which were then revamped for International Disability Day 2010 by Access Arts Link & community artists.
Venue partner: Artas Architects, Harrison Humpries Real Estate
7) Tent Dreams
Artists: Martin Cole & Karen Austin
Venue: Street Light poles in Paterson, St John & Brisbane Streets
Lingering in the seams, seeping into the colours; Retrieved, cut, sewn, unfurled into flags
Discarded tents from backpackers, rockers & nerds at Falls Art & Music Festival, sewn together at the Falls Art Village, Marion Bay, 2010. Revamped, reconstructed and new flags made from tents left behind at the end of the Falls Festival 2010 for Launceston's Junction Arts Festival, 2011.
Venue partner: Launceston City Council
8) What I Say
Artist: Vicki West
Venue: Front of portico, Office of Premier, Paterson Street
Vicki West is a Tasmanian Aboriginal artist who explores her relationship to place through the materials she uses. Dodda vine, although an indigenous plant is often seen as a pest in its own environment. Here it is woven together with NZ flax, an introduced species.
Venue partners: Department of Treasury, Heritage Tasmania and Office of Premier
9) Water Lilies on a Starry Night
Artist: Andy Vagg
Venue: MyState Financial window, St John Street
Used water cooler dispenser cups, used aluminium drink cans. Worldwide we consume nearly 600 billion litres of packaged drinks per year. Just over a 1/3rd of this is bottled water – 5,000 bottles of water per second, at a cost of over $100 billion per year. Staggering! And many of the single used bottles and cups end up in landfill or polluting the environment. But the most dreadful fact of all is that over 1 billion people worldwide still don't have access to affordable, accessible, potable water.
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Venue partner: MyState Financial
10) Home & Away 2
Artists: AAL Project
Venue: Centreway Lane (off St. John Street), Cotton On window spaces
These panels were originally part of the Stompin Home set which were then revamped for International Disability Day 2010 by Access Arts Link & community artists.
Venue partner: Cotton Onout for buttons popping up around our trail
11) Flight of the prehistoric
Artists: Sam Beckman & Maya MacDonell
Venue: Centre way Atrium
Following their prehistoric leader, a flock of encyclopaedias soar into the past.
Venue partner: Commercial Equity Group
12) Re-Record Recycled LPs
Artists: AAL, Polytechnic Creative Arts and Sacred Heart Primary School students
Records saved from becoming landfill, and transformed from one art form to another. These reminders of past audio technology now create an exciting visual feast!
Venue partner: Launceston City Council
13) Toxic Beauty 2
Artist: Liz Russell-Arnot
Venue: Brisbane Arcade Atrium
This work evolved from Liz's concerns around waste and environmental degradation. Plastics are filling our land, oceans, and rivers. They are filling our bodies with toxins, and according to recent research changing our genetics and that of other living creatures.
Venue partner: Neil Pitt's
14) Waist Knot, Want Not
Artist: Jo Anglesey
Venue: Birchalls shopfront window, The Mall, Brisbane Street
This work makes reference to a time when we were more careful with our resources, before we became a consumer driven throw away society. It is time to rediscover those values.
Venue partner: Birchalls
15a) The Wall
Artist: Josh Gardener
Venue: Sodium Laneway (off Charles Street across from Target)
Street Art by JG Styles representing the connection between today's youth with images inspired by hip hop music...
Venue partner: Brian Green
15b) Li'l Treasures
Artists: Steve Colwell & community
Venue: Sodium Laneway (off Charles St across from Target)
This mosaic celebrates the lost and discarded buttons of the world, and invites school children and community members to contribute part of their own wardrobe to this piece of public art!
Venue partner: Brian Green
16) Reclaim 'rag tag fence'
Artist: Steve Colwell & Ro Blaney
Venue: Sodium Laneway fence (next to Birchalls Carpark)
Complementing JG Styles theme of music, this woven 'rag tag' fence aims to reclaim this public space through inviting school students and community members to participate in "ragtagging" to create their own mark.
Venue partner: Brian Green
17) Butterflies in flight
Artist: Louisa Jones
Venue: Birchalls Carpark entrance brick wall (behind Bendigo Bank)
Its not just about butterflies - It's about life making us Who We Are.
Venue partner Peter Patmore?
18) The Butterfly Effect
Artist: Jude Walsh
Venue: Foot & Playstead door, Paterson St
A kaleidoscope of colour and wings created by turning recycled magazines into lovely butterflies, reflecting on the interrelationship of all things to each other and the importance of biodiversity for our future survival.
Venue partner: Foot & Playstead
19) Grasp
Artist: Ritchie Ares Dona
Venue: Pilgrim Centre walkway
"One of the most wonderful things about using rubbish as a material is that it is free and there is plenty of it. - so there is no fear in experimenting and making mistakes. Using rubbish means that one is not bound by the limitation of resources."
Ritchie creates immersive sculptures through a process of mass repetition to recontextualise the form and function of the materials.
Venue partner: Pilgrim Uniting Church
20) Renew – The Art of Recycling
Artists: Various
Venue: Pilgrim Hall
An exhibition of artworks with a focus on recycling and upcycling, created by a broad range of artists from all ages aiming to inspire the viewer to be creative with our excessive waste.
Venue partner: Pilgrim Uniting Church
21) Remade – Art Fashion for the 21st Century
Junc Room, Civic Square Sunday, 28th of August from 12-1pm
A playful fashion show of eccentric garments incorporating some elements of recycling, and creative reinterpretation.
Venue partner: Junction Arts Festival, Launceston City Council
There is a lot more funk in the Arts Trail so download our map and set onto our trail!
Last Updated (Thursday, 29 September 2011 01:51)
