Hilary Talbot’s passing interests and activities
Posted in canberra, design, portfolio, puppetry, puppets, street theatre on Oct 18th, 2006
Over the last few months most of my time has been taken up with a number of projects to do with Floriade, Canberra’s month-long annual spring flower festival, which finished last weekend. My biggest scale project was taking workshops with a group of kids from the Warehouse Circus, collaboratively designing and helping them to […]
It’s the local Australian Science Festival in Canberra, as well as National Science Week. In today’s Canberra Times there’s a picture of a CSIRO Double Helix Science Club educational demonstration in which a presenter is extracting methane from ‘a life-sized flatulent cow called Belching Buttercup’. I recognize the cow as my dear Daisy. Poor Daisy. […]
Posted in art, canberra, make, street art on Jul 12th, 2006
Today I am continuing making a costume: decorating a suit so that it suggests a mainframe computer. Don’t ask. I’m using some of the stencils that I made for my computer bug traffic control box painting last year. I eventually found out that the reason the painting had disappeared was because a car crashed into […]
Posted in art, canberra, make, street art on Dec 14th, 2005
This is one side of my ‘computer bugs’ traffic control box, done for Colour-in Canberra. It’s on the corner of Corrina and Callum Streets in Woden. If you’d like to see the other sides and top, there are a few more pictures here. I think people are likely to interpret them as gremlins, but to […]
Posted in canberra, photographs, photography on Nov 9th, 2005
A bunch of local tertiary students had an installation of dovecots at Floriade this year. I was really happy with this photo of one of the dovecots.
It reminds me of that lovely William Carlos Williams poem, ‘The Red Wheelbarrow’:
so much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
chickens.
Or even Dylan’s ‘Buckets of Rain’:
Little red wagon
Little red […]
Posted in canberra, make, portfolio, street theatre on Nov 4th, 2005
The Fool Factory’s Rock & Roll Rascals, Big Bad Ted and Long Tall Sally rock it up during this year’s Floriade in Canberra. I made Ted’s winklepickers and Sal’s legs and shoes.
Posted in canberra, design, make, street art, visual art on Aug 19th, 2005
Urban services here in Canberra is running a competition for the opportunity to participate in painting designs on 30 traffic controller boxes around the city. Its a good idea; I hope to put in an entry. The competition was launched a few days ago with the unveiling of this first painted box by Franki Sparke. […]
Posted in canberra, fun, politics, street art, visual art on Apr 16th, 2005
Canberra has been convulsed over the naughtiness of one of the local government’s staffers who was caught doing a spot of anti-Howard stencil graffiti. You have to hand it to local politics for making mountains out of mole hills!
If you are interested in street art, take a look at The Wooster Collective: A Celebration of […]
Posted in books, canberra, sculpture, visual art on Mar 3rd, 2005
This is a dawn picture of one of my favourite sculptures in Canberra, on Ellery Crescent outside the School of Art. Its by a Finnish artist, Olavi Lanu, and was made in 1982.
You can see it enlarged and from a few different angles here.
At first I really did think it was group of real granite […]
Posted in canberra, creatures, puppetry, puppets, sculpture, street theatre, visual art on Oct 17th, 2004
Here are some pictures of a few other things that took my fancy at Floriade - I like the roving entertainment more than the massed European flowers.
There was a rainbow serpent swimming in Nerang Pool, designed and created by Aeon Mortimer. Its a big inflatable, and apparently it can spray a fine mist of water […]