Ballarat Through My Eyes competition 17 August – 15 September 2013 Last month the Ballarat International Foto Biennale in partnership with United Way Ballarat presented a new photographic competition for BIFB’13. ‘Ballarat Through My Eyes’ was open to photographers of all levels to submit outstanding images on what quintessentially and personally represents Ballarat to them.…
Innovation Through Collaboration – The Hub Melbourne Busy day yesterday. Great mix of around 15 people including City of Ballarat and Ballarat Business Centre representatives, members of Ballarat Arts Alive, shared a bus trip to Melbourne to visit The Hub Melbourne – creative co-sharing space located at Donkey Wheel House, located opposite from Southern Cross Station. My…
Ballarat’s We R You project has now wrapped up its wings – our friendly helpers will be visiting the sites for some time and replacing a couple of damaged posters. I wouldn’t be myself if I haven’t collated some kind of handy statistics for you. 135 Days Project duration 174 Signatures of Participants 1082 Files/Portraits taken…
ABC Ballarat Lily Partland interviewed participants of We R You faces Ballarat public art project. Great stories from great people – thank you again for your participation, energy and sharing your beautiful stories. The City of Ballarat’s arts and culture unit has been working with various community groups and services on an inclusive public art…
Public Art Ballarat A new exciting public art mural has just been completed at the Civic Hall / Library car park in Armstrong St. Ballarat youth who participated in the project worked all week alongside a professional Ballarat artist Pauline O’Shannessy-Dowling in creation of some 30 metres of this colourful & textured mural. The project…
Last Installation of We R You Faces – completed Ballarat: You are awesome! Public art Ballarat! Get down to Bakery Hill to see 29 metres of posters. Find your face and most importantly please keep the public art discussion going! Without your input, consistency and new ideas it won’t happen. Our biggest We R You Faces…
Ballarat Heritage Weekend in postcards Vibrant history does live in Ballarat: Ballarat Heritage Week is one of the most popular events exploring the rich heritage of the gold mining town: finest Victorian buildings, steam train rides, vintage costumes and high tea. In Living Heritage, the first year acting students from the University of Ballarat have…
We R You on Eclectic Tastes cafe walls Another day.. another wall.. Eclectic Tastes Cafe apart from an excellent coffee and sticky dates caramel pudding, also serves a good dose of street art on its walls. Thank you to the owner for contacting us and letting us use your walls. Come down for a coffee…
Ballarat street art Gooey sticky hands!!… Just finished the posters at Weeremar Park Wendouree West & Victory Park Sebastopol And, don’t forget – it’s tomorrow! Bridge Mall photo shoot will be happening this Saturday. Great Opportunity to have your portrait featured in the We R You project! Open to public. Saturday April 27th 10am – 2pm Join us from 10-2pm…
Diverse Cultures – Photography Exhibition 19 April-19 June :: Ballarat City Library Doveton St Nth . Aldona Kmiec is a Polish born artist, professional photographer and Multicultural Ambassador of Ballarat. “My Australia is one outcome of Aldona Kmiec’s ongoing inquiry into the nature and meaning of ‘multiculturalism’ in contemporary Australian society. Working with local culturally diverse communities, Aldona creates images that are…
Last week visits Huyghue House, Alfred Deakin Place Ballarat Closing Statement “I have never imagined that I will achieve such a great small success with My Australia exhibition & Open Studio. The idea evolved in just a couple of days before setting up the space and was one of the best creative uses of that space. It was alive!…
Open Photography Studio Backspace Gallery Huyghue House, Alfred Deakin Place Ballarat. Exhibition runs until April 14th “My Australia is one outcome of Aldona Kmiec’s ongoing inquiry into the nature and meaning of ‘multiculturalism’ in contemporary Australian society. Working with local culturally diverse communities, Aldona creates images that are sometimes straightforward and at other times atmospheric and…
We R You street art project Great news! Yesterday we’ve finished installing new faces on the coarse brick wall of The Lane – George Hotel laneway between Armstrong/Lydiard St Nth. A couple of iPhone shots below, more to come.. The Lane street art project. A comment that has just arrived: “The laneaway looks great Aldona, I…
Commissioned work for Central Highland Arts Atlas For My Australia Photo Exhibition at the Backspace Gallery from March 28th – April 14th 2013 Alfred Deakin Place Ballarat I set up a temporary Open Photographic Studio and invited the public to come in to be photographed by me or themselves using a camera remote control. My latest article features…
Commissioned by Central Highland Arts Atlas A friend of Shiree Pilkinton’s recently said “so you’re Maori-English-Croatian, you speak French and you live in Australia….how did that happen?” Not surprisingly, she is often asked this. It does seem like an unusual mix, but as Shiree points out, there were a lot of Maori-Croatian intermarriages back in…
We R You – New sites & community ideas call Most of you have by now seen the We R You project paste ups on Blockbuster Building corner Camp/Mair Streets… Guess what? We have a couple of new permissions for public artwork in new visible sites!! Exciting isn’t it? Last week me & Deborah went…
‘My Australia, My Journey’ photography project exhibition Opening Night Backspace Gallery Huyghue House, Alfred Deakin Place Ballarat. Exhibition runs until April 14th, open Thu-Sun 12-4pm “My Australia is one outcome of Aldona Kmiec’s ongoing inquiry into the nature and meaning of ‘multiculturalism’ in contemporary Australian society. Working with local culturally diverse communities, Aldona creates images that…
All of us… …was the theme for the 3rd Harmony Fest Ballarat held yesterday in Camp Street. Organised by the City of Ballarat Harmony Fest event featured a great synergy of music, dance, food and diversity of cultures bringing 5000 visitors for five hours of events. Food included Thai, Africa, Japanese, Mexican, Indian, Italian, French…
Photography Exhibition & Open Studio “My Australia is one outcome of Aldona Kmiec’s ongoing inquiry into the nature and meaning of ‘multiculturalism’ in contemporary Australian society. Working with local culturally diverse communities, Aldona creates images that are sometimes straightforward and at other times atmospheric and abstract. Taken together, her body of work is a narrative…
We R You – photography workshops around Ballarat You might have already seen our first public building transformed into an outdoor exhibition space. The makeover of the Blockbuster video building corner Mair/Camp street is now out for public to see (and judge). The public reaction have met our expectations – there were generally very positive and uplifting comments like: ‘I drove…