Rachel's Blog: Art

Art That Scares You Auction - 6 days to go!

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:40:02 +1000

Have you checked out the auction items lately? There are new ones going up all the time, and many still without any bids at all. There are all sorts of arts, crafts, death metal demo tapes, guitar lessons, books...Go! Go see!

All the money raised will be going to Paul Haines to help fund his fight against bowel and liver cancer.

Art That Scares You Auction

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 22:41:12 +1000

The Australian speculative fiction and art community are holding an online art auction to raise funds for Paul Haines, a talented writer currently fighting bowel and liver cancer. The theme 'Art that Scares You' was chosen to reflect the kind of creepy, disturbing and macabre fiction that Paul is known for, as well as the fear and horror surrounding cancer itself.

The ART THAT SCARES YOU auction will be going live from Art That Scares You from 14-28 August 2008. Items include "The Survivors" by Shaun Tan, "Heaven and Earth" by Cat Sparks and "Chairman Sanders" by Andrew Macrae (pictured below). Other items in the auction will include original art commissions, manuscript assessment services, fabric art, sock puppets, cards, jewellery, sculpture, china and various rare and unusual books. If you would like to donate an item, contact Tansy at artscaresyou@gmail.com.

You can visit Art That Scares You from 14-28 August 2008 to bid in the auctions. Please feel free to redistribute this information.

In the meantime, if you'd like to make a donation via paypal click here:

Monument to a Suburban Backyard.

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 18:14:28 +1000

I've decided that our garden needs a scale model of Tatlin's Monument to the Third International. I'm sure it could be aligned to act as a sun dial.

Step One: Learn to weld.

Abbey's Alien

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:14:03 +1100

I was shifting things around on my desk earlier and found a card that had come home with Abbey from kinder last year. No matter how hard I look at it I can only see one thing.*

See it?

See it now?

* For the record I figure she was trying to write her name, but had the pen in her left hand, her right hand fingers in her mouth and her brain at lunch.

Huge friendly kinetic scaffolds

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 15:17:03 +1000

You won't be sorry you watched this.

(via Endicott Studio)