Banksy parachuting rat shot down in Melbourne!

I have been meaning to go down and take a picture of this little guy for ages, just wanted to have a look for myself.  The only Banksy left in melbourne! I only live around the corner and now it is gone  - I can't believe it!  I wonder how the person who drilled the hole is feeling after all the hype?

Past destruction of Bansky art in Melbourne
Details on the latest incident
Video footage

Banksy defaced in Bristol

Banksy destroyed LA  photo via Twitpic

Banksy defaced New Orleans

The list of vandalism to Banksy art is vast and soul destroying so have a look at these to cheer you up

Hiromi Tango

Hiromi Tango, who currently lives in Sydney, is born in Japan and married to the Australian artist Craig Walsh. 


Her amazing work which is usually an interactive multi-layered installation performance is a collection of colorful knitted yarns and found objects, sometimes toys, flowers, donated pieces from the public, you name it. The artwork grows and evolves together with the surrounding world and those in it.

"I am particularly interested in how the intervention of an artist in a particular space can generate unexpected moments of intimacy and evasion, and how fundamental aspects of human relations can contribute to the art-making process".

Insanity Magnet, Dust Storm and Me, Photo: Yuki Nakano

Artwork inspired by the dust storm in Brisbane 23rd September 2009

Pistil production and performance installation, Photo: Yuki Nakano

  

Exhibition

Pistil  2012 , 21st April - 22 July 2012
Contemporary Australia : Women exhibition, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane (GOMA)

interview with Hiromi

Aurora Robson: plastic art out of junk

Canadian artist Aurora Robson's fantastic colourful plastic sculptures made from recycled plastic bottles. Each sculpture uses around 20,000 bottles.

Couldn't help adding the pantone colours (as seen on my mac)!

 Pulp Fiction

(pantone 165 1495 143)

 Kermit

pantone 326 and 325 with a touch of 339?

Oleum   

(pantones 2728  278, 512, 514)

 Kamilo

I love this one as it was Made from 100% plastic marine debris collected by the Hawaii Wildlife Fund and created with students from Parker School in Waimea, Hawaii.

 

it is pure 100% plastic marine debris, no paint used to enhance the colours.

 

What a great way to learn about our environment! 

 

 

The Great Indoors : spectacular room-sized work of art made from 15,000 plastic bottles (Rice University Art Gallery 2008)

 

 

Current exhibition: Under the Sea Mass MoCA, (Oct 1, 2011 - May 28, 2012)

Interview: with Aurora Robson : Format Magazine 

Video: At Rice University Art Gallery, New York

All images from www.aurorarobson.com