After making the kinetic sculpture “Bee Here Now” with a very erratic mechanism.. (the cogs lurch and jam !), I did some research and found the amazing Kinetic Sculptor, Arthur Ganson and after some initial disappointment at finding that he, seemingly, has used up all the ideas in the universe in the department of  ‘comical whimsey, tempered with deep insight’ .. I girded up my artistic loins (!) and on the assumption that mine is a unique and creative intelligence , I studied his ‘you tube’ channel and have been making simulacrums of his Wire Gear making Jigs for the last few days .. Thank you Arthur Ganson and your Unique Insightful and Lovely Intellegence !  and for showing the world your Jigs !

testing, testing 1 2 3

Look ! Gears !!!

bearing from a trashed angle grinder..

Bits n’ pieces..

sacrificial chuck

Should have them finished today .. hoping for some less Krunchy Kinetics !…

Watch this space !

We had a great night at the Bi-annual ‘Hammer and Hand’ Exhibition..June 20th, this one the winter one .. our favourite !  with Mulled wine, Fire drum blazing.. (Dark !) .. good eats.. and a Crackin’ show by “Moondog Gypsy Blues Band” .. and then there were the works !  These are some of mine….Get over to Hammer and Hand Byron to have a look at all of the Collective members’ works… “EXHIBIT A”

“Bee Here Now”

“Bee Here Now” detail… We rely on the Bees for our well being.. they have come to rely on our husbandry to survive ..Our hand on the management of the ecology is destroying the Bees … a seemingly small link in the chain, but crucial to our survival.

“Bee Here Now”

“Wind up toy”

“I am my son, my mother, my father,I am born of myself
my own flesh sucked..And someone squeezed my heart
to make me go through my number. I was a wind-up toy
someone had dropped wound up into a world already
running down The world had been going on a long time already but it made no difference It was new it was like new I saw it shining and it shone in the sun and it spun in the sun and the skein it spun was pure light . My life was made of it , made of the skeins of light…”

From Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s poem ‘True Confessional’

Naked running Blue Wizard

 

 

 

 

 

Have a look at Ben turning up the heat !  .. BenBeames is the Manager/Curator of the Metal and Jewellery Collective, Hammer and Hand in Hobart, Tasmania,

Ben Beames, ABC Open

And.. While you are at it .. Check out my son Josh’s current works for “DARK MOFO” in Tasmania… See a bit of ‘process’ creating his installation in the Brisbane Hotel..

WWW.joshpringle.com

And… just a little reminder about Hammer and Hand Byron Bay’s Exhibition Friday night 5.30pm till 8pm EXHIBIT A 

Hammer and Hand Exhibition

Having fun making a rattly gearbox for a thing for “Exhibit A” exhibition opening night at Hammer and Hand Byron Bay…

        ..Friday 20th June ..5.30pm till 8pm.

gearing up

Come along if you can and enjoy the new creations from the Hammer Crew and get some Blues action for your ears with the “Moondogs Gypsy Blues Band”

I have been out and about a bit this year, me and Rosie,… Melbourne, Sydney , Central Victoria, NSW table lands and over the hills and far away,  ….. Brisbane, Sydney again, Gold Coast .. all separate trips mostly .. It has been quite difficult to engage with an “arts practice” after each time away.. Returning from Central Vic and NSW, I was unwilling to translate visions ..(of self as ‘burning post in a burning landscape’ !) into jagged metal so I reverted to my comfort-zone and made a bit of ‘product’ …(Stainless pendants, kilt-pins and Cake slices etc for the shop here in Byron..).. However, a poem by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, ‘True Confessional”  and some scrap blue painted steel from the trailer re-build, got me going again so there is a bit of ‘work in progress’ going on..

“I am my son, my mother, my father,
I am born of myself
my own flesh sucked
And someone squeezed my heart
to make me go
through my number
I was a wind-up toy
someone had dropped wound up
into a world already
running down”
From Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s poem ‘True Confessional’

Naked running Blue Wizard. Mild steel from old trailer

…also… I have entered a piece in the “Border Art Prize” and am waiting to hear if it is accepted…. (!)

… Been mentoring a young bloke. Connor, through two weeks of “work experience” and was pleasantly surprised to find him so quick to learn and so skilled in his application. … not to mention how consistent his yawns !.. (this a youth thing ?).. he took to forging like cream to pudding and I managed to impart some burns and blisters and sore muscles.. well done Connor !

Connor Denney, work experience.

Dragged ‘kicking and screaming’ into a repaint by the Byron ‘Hammer’ Crew.. we are all well pleased with the resultant fresh new cleaned-up Studio/Gallery/Shop ! Ready for our up coming Exhibition “EXHIBIT A”, (check it out on Facebook), opening on Friday evening 20th June.

Okay ! ..back in da hood !!