Back in 2013, I facilitated a series of installations of large format paste ups, designed to combat tagging in known graffiti hotspots. Black and white posters were displayed in more than 9 locations and featured portraits of hundreds of Ballarat residents. Working with various community groups was very rewarding. During the five months long project,…
Photo wall mural Stoked to be featured on Channel 7 Better Homes and Gardens with Tara Dennis, who joined me during the program, touring Ballarat and showcasing all it has to offer in terms of arts and culture. Watch the episode here.
Earlier in July, I landed a great opportunity to feature Ballarat on a national TV and showcase some of the artistic projects that are happening here in Ballarat. The crew from Better Homes & Gardens spent three days in our beautiful town, the filming is almost complete and it was awesome to involve a couple…
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…
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…
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…
4 – 31 MAY – WE R YOU: OUR FACES, OUR COMMUNITY MADE BALLARAT :: DYNAMIC PUBLIC ART INSTALLATION … M.A.D.E is proud to feature ‘We R You’ for the month of May. Funded by the Victorian Department of Justice and supported by the City of Ballarat, ‘We R You’ is engaging people across our community…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Street Art Ballarat – We R You project Our Faces Our Community Happy smiling faces are staring at Ballarat pedestrians thanks to a new paste-up photography project, We R You street art project recently started in Ballarat. We’ve just pasted up posters on the Blockbuster building corner Camp/ Mair St. Come & join us, tell…
We R You Project Update – Large photography prints are ready! Yesterday we received our final batch of large format photography prints from our project partners QuickPrint! They are really big and look amazing!! It’s exciting to see what a little camera and a talented eye of our project participant can create. We are now…
ARTeFACT ed March 2013 CLICK HERE TO VIEW ALL ARCHIVE PROJECT IMAGES What are your thoughts on this project? Tell us using the comments below:
Firefighters photos Yuille Park P-8 Community College in Wendouree has also joined the We R You project! The paste-up portraits will be displayed on the wall near school and will be enjoyed by the local community. We meet each Friday to take and work on images. Last Friday we had a great pleasure to talk to our guests from…
Paste-up photography – we’re in editing stage yay!!! Seven sessions and wow – just have a look! Fun portraits aren’t they! Our group is also growing – we now have Afghani, Australian, Togolese, Chinese, Japanese and Polish participants – we are a very creative multinational, multilingual and multicultural group. Anyone can join us regardless of…
Street art activity – mid February Five sessions so far have produced close to a half thousand of portraits! Next activity day – Monday Feb 18 at 4pm meeting outside the Huyghue House (behind the Art Gallery). We’ll be looking and editing images and choosing the best ones to go on the display. See you…
Paste ups street art Wednesday Portrait Session Feb 6th Exciting! We’ve becoming larger group each time. Thanks to John who brought his friends Lunophare and Andre and thanks to Rachel and Vivianne who introduced Benedicta to our paste up project!! Today we’ve learnt how to use a reflector to bounce back the sun and even…
Ballarat Community engagement project Look who’s in on Monday!! A lot of energy going on – great for the start of our project. Next activity day – this Wednesday Feb 6 at 4pm meeting outside the Art Gallery. Bring your family & friends! WHO              We R You is an initiative of the CoB Arts…