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 [...]
When I was at the Puppetry Summit, Richard Jeziorny was kind enough to show me a video of the puppet-based theatre production of The Red Tree, by Shaun Tan, which was part of the Queensland Performing Arts Centre’s ‘Out of the
Box’ festival for children in June 2004. It was one of the highlights of the [...]
Here are some photos of the mainframe computer suit I made this past week. It was for the theatre group A Bunch of Posers, for a performance at an event that marked the closing down of the Australian Bureau of Statistics mainframe computer. The waistcoat and back are my favourites.
Posted in design, miscellaneous on Jun 30th, 2006
You would think that we cut our finger tips enough for someone to have brought out a bandaid that fits over the top of one’s finger without little raggy ears at the corners, and without having to wrap a second bandaid around the finger to prevent the first one coming off. It’s easy. Here is [...]
Laura Zindel ceramics: “Crazy old Uncle Larry bought that peculiar spider platter, and we just can’t seem to part with it”, I would like to be a part of that.’ Lovely ceramic crockery patterned with snakes, spiders, insects. I love these bottles.
(via whip up)
Posted in books, design, illustration on Feb 13th, 2006
Lucy Tartan’s review of Margaret Atwood’s novel Alias Grace over at Sorrow at Sills Bend this morning prompted me to go hunting for my sketch of all the quilt square patterns that were used as chapter illustrations. I liked how the motif worked in with the story and themes of each chapter much better than [...]
Posted in art, design, illustration, make, street art, visual art on Nov 13th, 2005
At the moment I am painting two traffic control boxes in the Urban Services project ‘Colour-in Canberra’. The first one, The Suburban Duck, is on the corner of Yamba Drive and Kitchener St in Garran, just across the road from the Canberra Hospital. It tells a story from my back garden: about how foxes are [...]
The US Postal Service is commemorating Jim Henson and the Muppets with these cool stamps.
Here’s Kermit and Miss Piggy checking them out. I might have to see if I can get hold of a set somehow. Seems a long time since my brother and I used to race home from uni to be [...]
Posted in art, design, street art, visual art on Sep 18th, 2005
I’m thinking again about the Colour-in Canberra traffic control box designs, as entries are due by the 23rd. The idea is based on a similar project, Artforce, an initiative of Brisbane City Council managed by Queensland Urban Ecology. They have a gallery of their images, and you can see which are regarded as most popular.
Among [...]
Posted in design on Sep 5th, 2005
So much interesting material from library and museum collections is becoming available online. It must be intensive work to get it up there, and it seems now as if the technology has been learned and the labour put in, and now we are getting the results. The latest example that caught my attention was the [...]