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MINX ART
goes postal!
What’s better than a letter box stuffed full of bills, thai menus and flyers for gutter cleaning? Send your friends some mail box love and keep your postie on their toes with new and inventive packaged mail box surprises. Addressing the package inventively always delights when the collector has to produce identification for “Madame Fru-Fu - Mistress of the Manor” at the local post office. Brilliant! Why? to let them know you’re thinking of them!
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Keep your eyes peeled at your local café, cinema, restaurant, uni, museum or gallery for the spiffy new MINX Art postcards free for you to pluck fresh from the stand and post to a loved one. It’s printed on EMAS accredited and non-chlorine bleached card with soy-based inks & the matte varnish is biodegradable.
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The fine folk at Avant Card have a project named ‘Calling All Artists’ set up to provide national exposure for emerging Australian artists, and to showcase fantastic postcard images their displays. So get your creative hats on and send them your goods! |
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The Avant Card crew accept submissions with a variety of artistic styles from all over Australia. They like to promote diversity, and successful images are chosen on their ability to inspire, innovate, inform or intrigue the general public.
You can get the full low down at www.avantcard.com.au or send them some inbox love at art@avantcard.com.au You could see your art in a postcard print run of up to 20,000 copies hitting the far corners of Australia and featuring on fridges and bedroom walls across the country.
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MAIL ME ART!
Mail Me Art is a British-based project. Over the course of a year, the first Mail Me Art project brought together a vast collection of artistic work sent in the form of mail by both professional and amateur artists of all ages from across the world. A wide variety of media were used in an equally wide variety of styles and the work arrived on everything from postcards and envelopes to boxes and pieces of wood.
Mail Me Art 2 is now open for submissions! Following the success of the first project, they are looking forward to having just as much fun with Mail Me Art 2. This second project will run for around 6 months and there will again be a monthly prize, along with another exhibition at the end. There might even be another book, depending on the success of the current one…
The Mail Me Art exhibition, held during April 2009 at the Red Gate Gallery in London, showcased work from around the world it provided visitors with the opportunity to view and buy the artwork that made the project possible. |
Visitors came from around the world to visit – such as the United States, Guatemala, Japan, Brazil and Spain!
The address for all entries is:
Mail Me Art
37 Thames Court
Victoria Avenue, West Molesey
Surrey KT8 1TP, United Kingdom
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A stitch in time saves nine
MINX ART is paying homage to those who have revived skills which seem to have been lost under the rug in recent years. One artist who has been subtly brightening corners of the streetscape with her fluffy, homemade creations is Grrl + Dog. She is a Guerrilla Knitter who has been ‘knitting one and pearling one’ all over the inner west of Sydney in recent months.
Her woolly delights cuddle poles around town, she cleverly ties the theme of the item into the location, such as a piece which reflects the Aboriginal Flag, near the iconic Aboriginal mural in Newtown. A colourful and non-destructive form of street art, Guerrilla Knitting has many fans.
Check out Yarn Bombing www.geekgirl.com these guys have knitted an entire cardigan for a bus!
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From an artist who knits clothes for objects to another artist who uses knitting needles to make jewellery. Brisbane based Liana Kabel fashions bright and shiny creations out of recycled, plastic knitting needles and Tupperware.
She has a loot of lovely bangles, rings, necklaces, brooches and earrings. We're big fans of the 'Measure-Up Brooch' made from a tape measure. She's also made a Tupperware dress
Her show names in recent years say it all ‘I’m a Tupperware Lady’ and 'Nana Is The New Black.' Her work is fun and playful. You can get your hands on you own piece of Plastic Fantastic at her online Etsy store.
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