Art for Saturday & Bjork for Sunday

Yesterday was spent making ridiculous/fantastic art at the Artstation Youth Art Committee's All of a Heap show. A bunch of art lovers got involved and helped the YAC crew celebrate the opening of their new exhibition space Side Way which faces Ponsonby Road. Each of us were given restrictions (i.e. two of us tied together, making art behind our backs or making art blindfolded) and encouraged to let go of our inner critic and embrace an experimental art making approach. The art was installed in the Side Way space later in the evening whilst we ate chocolate and rocky road cake and listened to some crazily talented young musicians. I'm hoping to get some pictures soon :)

Today I'm feeling bjork and sunshine in the process of beginning a couple of new projects.

Willowships - Under debut video

If you, like me, haven't had enough of Chelsea Jade & Watercolours here are some stills from the Under music video. Seriously recommend checking it out here. It's directed by Reuben Stephens & Chelsea Jade and features clothing from Madame Hawke, Ruby, Sherie Muijus, and Juliette Hogan. Can't really get much better in my opinion x Live version two posts down...or here :)

Art & Music @ The Basement

 TO MAX

I have searched for a phrase to put beside your name

but I have not found it

maybe there is not that phrase

so let us leave it at - 

TO MAX

-Young Men in Love by Michael Arlen

BMD Photo Credit Cleo Barnett

Tanya Jayde Photo Credit Cleo Barnett

Photo credit Cleo Barnett

Spent Wednesday night at The Dirty 13 opening in the Basement Theatre. It was curated by the lovely Cleo Barnett and featured NZ street artists as a collaborative show which brings the outside in and celebrates an art form which rarely gets the praise it deserves. The art was so inspiring I think I'll have to go back and see it again...a few times!

The show was accompanied by spoken word poet Tourettes who blew my mind a wee bit with humour, intensity, thought provoking messages, and an impressive knack for stringing words together. Matthew Crawley opened for Tourettes with a freakishly nice voice and mellowing love songs with a pinch of politics. So good.

And to top things off we got to take hand selected books from the BMD piece (in the first pic). And that's where 'TO MAX' has come from. I urge you to check out some more pictures and a much more informed account of the event here. 

Music for the Mood #2

Just a little post to sum up the mood of the moment. I stayed at Uni far too late last night to hand in an assignment at 10pm and take the hour long trip home. Today I'm recovering with my favourite blanket and some slow cute tunes...
p.s. I featured the photography of Chelsea Jade from Watercolours earlier on the blog click here to see the post.
p.p.s Watercolours played live at the Ruby boutique NZFW11 show to set the mood there as well. So talented.