shadowsartatfallstas: Sculpture Camp and installations at Falls Marion Bay

We have just completed a 5 day Art Camp at the Village, part of Falls Festival, at the magnificent Marion Bay site. This is a new element for the festival - joining the Art Camp which already has painters and artists making floats and features for the parade, and has been going for a number of years.

The idea behind the project was to make sculptural work for the festival site, and to make that happen in the time frame we decided on a two pronged approach - to bring in and install a group of artworks that have been previously shown as part of the Shadow Projects series - and to undertake four new projects in response to the site itself, working with volunteers and other artists over five days. A fairly ambitious target, which will be fully completed on the day before the festival....

Project Crew

Ralf Haertel - project coordinator / sculpture camp artist / art trail artist
Martin Cole - sculpture camp artist / art trail artist
Ceci Edwards - art trail artist / art camp volunteer
Jo Anglesey - art trail artist / on site installation
Vicki West - art trail artist
Chris Legend - art trail artist
Jez Smith - boom lift installations
Eric, Miranda and Dylan - tree climb installations
Matt, Joey, Karen, Robyn, Laxmi, and Ollie - sculpture camp volunteers

plus the rest of the the art camp crew who helped to collect wood, install artworks and generally help out when needed .... thanks!

The Art Camp was held at the Village site at the Falls Festival venue in Marion bay - south east Tasmania (insert link to Falls website here) from 17 to 21 December 2010, and organised by The Village directors Stuart Varkess and Ian Pidd`

Art Trail Installations

Vicki West

What I say

Dodda vine and flax

Vicki West is a Tasmanian Aboriginal artist with a strong national profile. In this work she explores ideas of reclamation of language and culture.

Jo Anglesey

Rainbow Project

Coloured fabric

Sacred is – trees, water, air, the earth

Chris Legend

Alienation – this plastic life

Recycled plastic carbonated drink bottles

Ralf Haertel

Hope Flower Seed

Hemp, silk, natural bush dyes from the Upper Florentine Valley.

From the Florentine to The Falls, hope is the seed of a sustainable future for our planet.

Earth Poles

Wool and natural dyes

The fabric for this work is recycled woollen blankets, dyed using local bush dyes collected on site, and shibori (tie dye) processes to create colour and pattern.

Ceci Edwards

Tree Spirit -

' This tree spirit embodies and emboldens the transformation and
growth that occurs with positive participation in the events we
encounter on our various journeys.'