Match Box Projects Yute (more of Yute will be uploaded to our works and projects page soon)

We recently created and presented work for our People Make Places: Deniliquin series at the Deniliquin Ute Muster, one of the largest national rural themed festivals in Australia. Over 18 000 people came together to celebrate Ute and Australian culture.

Utes come in from all over the country, and boy are they prepared.

People spent days in their utes before the event even started lining up on the side of the road camping to make sure they got a great position to set up at the festival. The traffic jam at 6am on opening day was phenomenal.

We met so many wonderful characters.

Every year they have a blue single world record attempt. Unfortunately they were not successful in breaking the records this year, but it was an amazing attempt, especially considering the wet and muddy conditions.

Mateship was every where

xxxx girls

The ultimate utes

Utes come from all over the country to enter various ute competitions

meant a lot of fun, but mud galore.

There were mud fights happening everywhere.

The morning after…

The rain did not stop 1000s coming out for the evening concerts

Adam Harvey and Beccy Cole

“What is in the back of your ute”

We were really fortunate to have an Apollo Camper on site with us. It definately was the place to stay in the muddy conditions. Many festival goers informed us of the diverse objects they put in the back of their ute. More about this project later..

We thank Apollo Motorhomes, Arc@COFA, Australian Glass Group, Deniliquin Ute Muster, Edward River Glass and Aluminium, Kata, Manfrotto, McClean Beach Caravan Park, SanDisk and Rodes for their support.

Special thanks to Pat from P & I Engineering, Sydney and Daryl Whately, the McAllister Family, and Tarria Moore for helping us make it happen.

This project has benefited from an Arts & Design Grant courtesy of Arc@UNSW Ltd (University of New South Wales

We will be at The Soroptimist Booth in Cressy St, Deniliquin (opposite target and NAB) for matchbox delivery/pick-up on the following dates.

Friday, 23, September               9am-12pm

Saturday, 24, September           9am-12pm

Tuesday, 27 September             9am- 2pm

Wednesday, 28 September        9am- 4pm

Look on our news page for extra times we may add (or if in emergency change around)

If you can’t make the above times, please contact

us on 0410 331 600 or 0419 388 108 and we can make an alternate time to meet.

NOTE: Make sure you read our matchbox instructions before completing your box. View them on the Soroptimist Booth Window or online at http://matchboxprojects.com/MatchboxDeniliquinPortraitInstructions.php

In April we spent time in Deni at the CMCA Deni Rally and McLean Beach Caravan Park conducting action research for a project which we are planning to create across Australia next year touring in a Gallery Camper. We recieved amazing advice from CMCA Rally members, and hopefully will see many on the road during our tour.

One of our first advisors with a great tip
Conducting action research at CMCA Rally

Advisor, 2011

Conducting a Screening of our work at McLean Beach Caravan Park

We thank the following for their support towards this project.

We just got back from rural NSW - Deniliquin - home to the largest rice mill in the Southern Hemisphere and the annual Play on the Plains and Deni Ute Muster. We were at the Campervan and Motorhome Club of Australia’s 25th Anniversary Rally conducting research for a future project we are developing to take across Australia. We would like to thank CMCA attendees for their invaluable advice and Apollo for their generous support towards our action research.

Please view our News page for our upcoming exhibitions and events.

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How? By creating something responding to the theme “Sydney - my city” inside our Match Box Projects matchboxes. It can be anything that represents their own (experience of) Sydney, from an image to an object, a piece of writing, something made or something found.

Instructions for matchboxes can be found at

http://matchboxprojects.com/MatchboxSydneyPortraitInstructions.php

DELIVERY POINTS
We will be having different delivery (and pick up) points for matchboxes, the first is at the Paper Mill Gallery, until Saturday 23rd October. The Paper Mill is located at 1 Angel Place, Ash St in the CBD (approx 2 mins walk from either Wynard Station or Martin Place). A map to the papermill together with details when we will be there to accept matchboxes can be found in the Blog Post below.

The Paper Mill is Sydney’s fantastic New Artist Run Gallery and Studio Space. We will be creating new work in their Shopfront Window Studio until Saturday 23rd October. Please pop by, we will be happy to introduce you to the work we are creating and show you some of the photos and amazing matchbox creations we collected in Shanghai whilst there a few weeks ago. We are also working on the final stages of the 2ndEdition of our Sydney Ari Guide and look forward to inviting you to the launch at Paper Mill.

The Paper Mill is located at 1 Angel Place, Ash St in the CBD (approx 2 mins walk from either Wynard Station or Martin Place). A map to The Paper Mill is below. A larger map can be found via our Sydney ARI Guide Art Map which you can download at www.sydneyariguide.com

We will be in the studio on the below dates. Please take our mobile numbers, if we have popped out for a break, we will be very close by! Leanne: 0419 388 108 Naomi: 0410 331 600

Fri 15 Oct 6 - 9 pm
Sat 16 Oct 11am - 9pm
Wed 20 Oct 4-8pm
Fri 22 Oct 12 - 6pm
Sat 23 Oct 11am – 6pm

Hope to see you very soon

We are hosting a free walking tour through some of Sydney’s new exciting Artist Run Galleries on Saturday 9 October. Please join us.

This tour is an affiliated event of the City of Sydney’s Art and About. It is complementing the launch of our new Art Map introducing over 30 of Sydney’s ARIs. Our Sydney ARI Guide Art Map is being created with the support of the City of Sydney, Inner City Arts and Adobe.

More info at www.sydneyariguide.com

We have just come back from Shanghai where we were creating new work. Hope we can exhibit it in Sydney soon.

We are having a solo exhibition at galleryeight, a new art space in Millers Point, on the outskirts of The Rocks, Sydney. We are presenting a body of work we created in New York last year.

More info at www.galleryeight.com.au

PEOPLE MAKE PLACES: NEW YORK
CITY TALES (i)

Encounter….. New York

Exhibition Dates: 12 - 24 June

Where: galleryeight, 8 Argyle Place, Millers Points NSW 2000

Opening Hours: Thursday - Sunday 12 - 6pm

Opening Night: Friday 11 June, 6-9pm

Artist Talk: Saturday, 19 June, 2pm

Closing Reception: Wednesday, 23 June, 6-8.30pm

A map to the gallery can be found at http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=8%20Argyle%20Place%2C%20Millers%20Point%2C%20Sydney%2C%20Australia