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hobby horses

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Last year I made four hobby-horse heads by cutting the shape out of pieces of 5-ply any then covering them with different objects:  shells, Monopoly money, a jig-saw,and some NZ stamps from the 1970‘s. The eyes are made of beer-bottle caps & black buttons, the reins are pieces of inner-tube, while to make the manes I used wool for two heads and old typewriter ribbons for the others. This week I mounted them onto bases and took them in to "Buana Satu".

artweek opening

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It’s Artweek in Auckland, and last evening the opening for the K Rd section was held at the international art and craft store “Buana Satu” in K Rd. I had been assisting with retail sales at the shop during the afternoon, and stayed on to run the bar for the evening. A small but enthusiastic group attended, networked and had a fun time.....

jandals & driftwood

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This week I have made some more jandal art pieces for "Buana Satu". I mounted the fish-shapes cut from jandals found on my beachcombing trips around the North Island here in NZ onto interesting pieces of driftwood I have salvaged along the coasts. Pieces of discarded fishing ropes serve as hangers so that the works may be attached to walls ..... As an environmental artist I attempt to fashion artworks which address serious environmental issues (in this case the pollution of our seas and the depletion of fish stocks) in a gentle, even humourous fashion, as I find that people respond to humour in a far more positive manner than they do to blaming and accusatory approaches.......

Buana Satu update

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Helen at “Buana Satu” in K Rd has displayed the jandal fish and shell hangers as well as the Feng Shui artworks I took into the shop last week.With the advent of spring retail activity should pick up, and of course Christmas shopping will begin soon. Let’s hope for some sales - which will give me an excuse to make more pieces! clock from junk.... united tribes flag

NZ road trip videos

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After a break from the computer I have been busy uploading short videos of my autumn 2016 road trip up to 90-mile beach - along the way I beachcombed for jandals and interesting floatsam and jetsam for my environmental artworks. See my youtube channel for these videos (and more!): www.youtube.com/user/MartinAdlington

pheasant road-kill

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On my Far North road trip: just out of Waipapakauri on 90 Mile Beach I found a recently killed pheasant by the side of the road. Back at camp Te Araroa tramper Tyler shared some preparation techniques, then a couple of days later at Ahirapa camp Grahame helped me eat my find. See the video at: https://youtu.be/R7h72JOTnEo

I find some old photographic slides

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My Far North Road Trip - in a Kaikohe junk shop I came across a box of old colour slides from the 1970’s. I find discarded social history of this sort fascinating - here are highlights of someone’s life, carefully, and probably proudly, recorded and annotated....then under different circumstances simply junked. Thanks to www.freesfx.co.nz for the soundtrack.... See the video:   https://youtu.be/Ip44pln-Q3g