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Thursday, July 23, 2015

The Peace in the Trees Sculptural Walk journey

The Peace in the Trees Sculptural Walk on the the Riverside Centre (town centre) end of the Maleny Trail (officially opened on 22 July) started its journey in 2012 as part of Art4place's Creative Spaces 2012. Craig Medson began the journey by securing and breaking Helidon sandstone (see above) in the shed at Maleny Retreat (thanks Maria and Wendy); and gently and expertly guiding 12 local artists in the creating of peace and environmental stone sculptures (check out the link and see photos below).

Earlier this year (2015) Art4place were granted funds by the Sunshine Coast Council to hire Wayne Markwort to again work with the local artists to fines the works so that the could become part of the SCC's public art collection; and be installed on the Maleny Trail on the Maleny Precinct. The artists were pleased that another experienced local stone sculptor was able to assist them to add to their works two years on.

Over a 12 month period Art4place has worked with Cllr Jenny McKay and Council art staff Ant McKenna and Julie Hauritz to transfer ownership of the sculptures to the SCC; and install them on the Maleny Trail walk.

There have been many many steps in the installation process. A big thank you to the installation team - mainly Rhyce Skodnik and Edith-Ann doing 'the heavy lifting' etc.

Selecting the location for each piece.

Soil testing and drawing engineered footings.

Transporting the works from Maleny Retreat to the precinct.

Digging footing holes and surrounding them with security barriers.

Pouring the punch pads - foundations with reinforced steel.

Drilling the pieces and inserting reinforcing steel; craning the pieces into place; levelling them; and securing them.

Pouring the concrete footings and trowelling it smooth.

Covering the concrete footings with crushed sandstone.

And adding the signs to the individual pieces and the main story boards

The installation is complete. The next blog will feature all the pieces in place. And the journey will be complete when the Peace in the Trees Sculptural Walk is officially opened on 2 September 2015.

Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Creating placemaking art for Maleny IGA

As can be seen from the periodic postings on this blog, over the last 5-6 years Art4place has been involved in a number of community and placemaking art projects. However, the IGA Project (including Flow - Obi Obi Creek over the fresh produce area; the industrial framework over the bakery; the layered Mountains over the checkout area; and the story boards near Flow and under the covered Waterfall Walkway) was one of our biggest projects and took up quite a bit of time in 2014-15.

Art4place was approached by Michael Lake of the F3 Design and Architecture to put forward a proposal for art features in the Maleny IGA as part of the redevelopment of the store. Over several months four Art4place artists (Fiona Dempster, Edith-Ann Murray, Noela Mills and Barry Smith) workshopped ideas, designs, colours, sizes, drawings and materials for the works with Michael and Sam and Rob Outridge (store owners). The four elements that made up the IGA Project came from this artistic, architecture and engineering process.

The artworks needed to be light so the frames were aluminium box and the surface panels were composite aluminium sheeting. Colours in the main were to be shades of silver and grey to tone with the store paint and tile palet.

Four huge 5mX3m panels for the Flow installation were fabricated by Freeform Sheet Metal to Michael Edith-Ann and Barry's drawings; and delivered to a farm shed outside Maleny for Noela and Edith-Ann to add some finer design elements to the panels.

The panels were transported to the IGA on a boat trailer for installation once the detailed Lomandra Longafolia seed images were completed.

Installing the 4 huge Flow panels were done at night after the store closed - often working around other workers and stacks of foodstuff. It was a challenge to get the panels through the front door (with only 100mm to spare); but an even greater challenge to lever the pieces into place; to have them evenly spaced; and ensure they were all on the same plane. We were lucky to have a team of young installers who were committed to accuracy; and for the work to be coordinated by Edith-Ann.

©2014 Art4place - Panels - going up - important to get the anchor points right. Panels suspended on 10mm threaded rod - all double and triple bolted and through trusses and bridging boards in the ceiling.

The layered Mountains were cut to shape by Miles Plastics according to Noela's scale drawings; and installed by the same dedicated team.

In consultation with Rob and Sam, Fiona developed the story for Flow and for the Waterfall Walkway. Her original calligraphic work was vectorised and handed over to Miles Plastics to be etched into exterior engraving laminate.

The artworks have been in place since before Christmas 2014. They are still creating much interest and much feedback to Rob and Sam.

Art4place would like to thank Rob and Sam Outridge for trusting Art4place with this project (and the earlier Waterfall Walkway project); and congratulate them for having the vision to include placemaking artworks into their business setting.

We also thank architect Michael Lake for seeing artworks as both an aesthetic and functional.

Saturday, May 23, 2015

Maleny Rotary Club Shopping Bag design competition

The Rotary Club of Maleny

Shopping Bag Design Competition

The Rotary Club of Maleny is supporting the drive to rid our community of plastic bags.

In conjunction with Art4place, Rotary is inviting expressions of interest from local artists and designers to create an image to be printed onto the front of shopping bags.

The bags will be sold through several major local outlets, and profits will be used for local community Rotary projects.

The best design, chosen by The Rotary Club of Maleny, will receive a prize valued at approximately $700, consisting of:

• A midweek night for two at the "The Falls", Montville, http://thefallscottages.com.au/

• Dinner for two at “Wild Rocket”, Montville, http://www.wildrocketfood.com.au/

• 'Brunch' for two at “Elements”, Montville, http://elementsmontville.com.au/

Design elements:

• The base bag colour will be black,

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Bag size is 36cm wide and 40cm deep,

• Image size needs to be 21cm wide and 24cm deep,

• Image must reflect the character or icons of Maleny,

• The official Rotary logo must be included in the bottom right corner as shown above.

• For a high resolution image of the Rotary Maleny Logo at: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B2QTKzfVeOK5fk5rY1hmVkdHMEFrbEttekxVVlA4NG9Hbkxrc2RsSFo5cmZJY2pOWUtwV3M&usp=sharing

• Those submitting must agree to transfer the rights of ownership of their designs to Rotary,

• Entries will be on display in Maleny later in the year.

• To enter, please fill in and send the APPLICATION form, along with your design in electronic format, to donnacervantes@acc.edu.au with a copy to rictownsend@gmail.com

• Dates for entries, finalists and launch are on the Application Form,

• Finalists will be required to send a hard copy [a print out or original art work] to The Rotary Club of Maleny.

*...........you can copy and paste this form into a new document, or email Rotary at one of the addresses below for a new form...............

Rotary Shopping Bag Design Competition

Application Form

Please fill out this form and email to The Rotary Club of Maleny along with a JPG or PDF of your design which is titled with your name.

Due date for applications July 15 2015

Finalists will be chosen and notified by July 31 2015

Finalist’s hard copies to be sent to Rotary by July 15 2015 PO Box 70 Maleny Qld 4552

Winner notified and announced by August 15 2015

Name:

Address:

Email:

Phone no:

I agree to conditions as set out by The Rotary Club of Maleny.......... [please highlight]

yes no

I have attached an image of my design which has my name in the title.......... [please highlight]

yes no

Now please email this form and your named image to Maleny Rotary Club at:

donnacervantes@acc.edu.au with a copy to rictownsend@gmail.com

malenyrotary.blogspot.com/

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