Thursday, June 22, 2006
Friday, June 09, 2006
Thursday, February 16, 2006
world doodles
Hey World–
Join the world of doodles!
I’m collecting doodles from around the world and posting them on this blog site.
http://worlddoodles.blogspot.com
If you have any doodles from super detailed to supersimple – please e-mail me a photo.
Any kind of doodle will do - squiggles, loose figures, faces, absent-minded writing, political doodles, flower doodles… what ever you consider a doodle.
I’d like to collect these as an ongoing project.They can be your doodles, someone else’s doodles, found doodles ...(etc).
Please include the city and country they originated in and any other information you would like.
– if you have a website or a blog that you would like toadvertise with your doodle or a comment to put withyour doodle –please include it.
I’m looking forward to hearing from you. All the best!
Melissa
Join the world of doodles!
I’m collecting doodles from around the world and posting them on this blog site.
http://worlddoodles.blogspot.com
If you have any doodles from super detailed to supersimple – please e-mail me a photo.
Any kind of doodle will do - squiggles, loose figures, faces, absent-minded writing, political doodles, flower doodles… what ever you consider a doodle.
I’d like to collect these as an ongoing project.They can be your doodles, someone else’s doodles, found doodles ...(etc).
Please include the city and country they originated in and any other information you would like.
– if you have a website or a blog that you would like toadvertise with your doodle or a comment to put withyour doodle –please include it.
I’m looking forward to hearing from you. All the best!
Melissa
Tuesday, February 07, 2006
Monday, January 30, 2006
letter to the editor
Editor Dominion Post
Thank you Ray Mahabir for bring Wellington the Mulana Project
(25 Jan) I attended a workshop by Ray Mahabir with 6 other Wellington-based artists at the Wellington Arts Centre. TV3 News gave a glimpse of the workshop and the exhibition of beautiful tapestries showing the art of the traditional embroidery that Ray Mahabir is reviving through the Mulana Project.
In the workshop we learned about the women who do embroidery in West India and their art form that has been passed down through generations. Sadly their technique is being lost due to tourist demand for cheap, quick work. This project is drawing attention to the beauty and quality of the art. We saw how young people living in London have responded to the project through words and imagery. We engaged in a group discussion of identity and develop our own designs that will be embroidered by the same women in India making a beautiful large tapestry that will be brought back to New Zealand in a year. This hands-on workshop opens up possibilities of dialogues, discovery, and cross-cultural exchange. Material travelling distances and passing through hands can bring awareness of people in the world, our wonderful similarities and differences, and most of all, our connections on this global tapestry.
I’d like to say thanks to Ray Mahabir for bring us the workshop and to The Wellington Arts Centre for actively creating and hosting opportunities for engagement and discovery.
Melissa Wyman
Wellington artist
Thank you Ray Mahabir for bring Wellington the Mulana Project
(25 Jan) I attended a workshop by Ray Mahabir with 6 other Wellington-based artists at the Wellington Arts Centre. TV3 News gave a glimpse of the workshop and the exhibition of beautiful tapestries showing the art of the traditional embroidery that Ray Mahabir is reviving through the Mulana Project.
In the workshop we learned about the women who do embroidery in West India and their art form that has been passed down through generations. Sadly their technique is being lost due to tourist demand for cheap, quick work. This project is drawing attention to the beauty and quality of the art. We saw how young people living in London have responded to the project through words and imagery. We engaged in a group discussion of identity and develop our own designs that will be embroidered by the same women in India making a beautiful large tapestry that will be brought back to New Zealand in a year. This hands-on workshop opens up possibilities of dialogues, discovery, and cross-cultural exchange. Material travelling distances and passing through hands can bring awareness of people in the world, our wonderful similarities and differences, and most of all, our connections on this global tapestry.
I’d like to say thanks to Ray Mahabir for bring us the workshop and to The Wellington Arts Centre for actively creating and hosting opportunities for engagement and discovery.
Melissa Wyman
Wellington artist
Saturday, January 28, 2006
Friday, January 27, 2006
Tuesday, January 17, 2006
Review of Threadbare
This was from a review of Threadbare in The TLC Newsletter
“For me, one of the most poignant details of the whole show were two works by Melissa Wyman – called ‘Global Threadbare’, both of which were largely constructed using old fabrics and organic fibre – bright, easy works, until you notice the plaster casts of toes from left and right feet… strangely vulnerable details that, combined with the fact that most of the fabric comes from her old clothes makes these intensely personal works.”
For the whole review go to
S:\Newsletters\TLC Newsletters\2006\Jan42.doc
“For me, one of the most poignant details of the whole show were two works by Melissa Wyman – called ‘Global Threadbare’, both of which were largely constructed using old fabrics and organic fibre – bright, easy works, until you notice the plaster casts of toes from left and right feet… strangely vulnerable details that, combined with the fact that most of the fabric comes from her old clothes makes these intensely personal works.”
For the whole review go to
S:\Newsletters\TLC Newsletters\2006\Jan42.doc
Monday, January 09, 2006
Thursday, January 05, 2006
Threadbare is on now
The show “Threadbare” is on now at the Wellington Arts Centre
61 - 69 Abel Smith St
Until January 15th
10am to 5pm on weekdays
10am to 3pm on weekends
We will be taking it down at 2 on Sunday, Jan 15th
If you get a chance pop in for a look
As material becomes worn the threads un-weave themselves, become disentangled and go their separate ways. Threadbare is a show of work by 16 artists from New Zealand and abroad unravelling the stories that brought them to Wellington and rethreading them in an intersection of narratives. Art works will include collage, assemblage, textiles, photography, mixed media sculpture, plaster etc.
61 - 69 Abel Smith St
Until January 15th
10am to 5pm on weekdays
10am to 3pm on weekends
We will be taking it down at 2 on Sunday, Jan 15th
If you get a chance pop in for a look
As material becomes worn the threads un-weave themselves, become disentangled and go their separate ways. Threadbare is a show of work by 16 artists from New Zealand and abroad unravelling the stories that brought them to Wellington and rethreading them in an intersection of narratives. Art works will include collage, assemblage, textiles, photography, mixed media sculpture, plaster etc.
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