Up/away/back/home
Four chevrons and a couple of excerpts from a Stuartholme Road sign.
Oh and one boxer named Gem.
Inkahoots road sign facade coming together
Jason Grant—my partner in crimes of skip hopping/scrap grabbing/sign reassigning—is cladding an external wall of the new Inkahoots studio with a swag of our booty.
Some plotting/planning snaps here.
Nice work Inkas! Can’t wait to see the finished product.
Love Sign in Laruche’s “One Small Miracle Art Auction”
The Love Sign will be among the art up for grabs at Laruche’s “One Small Miracle Art Auction” on Saturday 12 May—in support of the Mater Little Miracles Charity Foundation.
This is a great opp to bag some cool art at bargain prices, while supporting a good cause. The line-up includes …
Richard Bell
Vernon Ah Kee
Megan Cope
Sam Cranstoun
Dord Burrough
Liz Burnett
Ward Squires
Gyton Grantley
and Al and the Love Sign!
More info here.
Mindfulness 101 at Cleveland Library
The Mindfulness 101 prototype, as acquired by Redland Art Gallery.
Now on permanent display at Cleveland Library.
Some new pics of steely mirror …
Tina & Erik’s Pareidolia blackboard with Charlie
Tina says:
Charlie sitting in front of the blackboard wall in our dining room with our awesome new “sign” – thanks Al James. I love it!
I love the irony. And I love the yellow. Looks great on the blackboard – it’s going to stay as our “text” wall. As we cross off more of the reno “to-do” list, I’ll get family and friends to add their own words of wisdom. 
Thanks Tina. I love the blackboard setting with the very cute Charlie. (The sign is secure, yes?!) I think it’s great that she’ll grow up with a well developed pareidolia radar!
More on Pareidolia here.
Redland Art Gallery acquires Mindfulness 101
Pleased to report that Redland Art Gallery has acquired the Mindfulness 101 prototype, which will go on permanent display in Cleveland Library.
Excited to be in a public collection. And a library!
Thanks to everyone who made it to the exhibition.
Some pics from Redland Art Gallery exhibition
Photos above: Sean Young
Signs of Life
Redland Art Gallery
December 2011 – January 2012
Exhibition catalogue …
Mindfulness 101 in Louise Martin-Chew’s Art Words blog …
Presence of mind, 2012
“Signs of Life: Text-based Artworks by Alan James” includes the artwork pictured above, which sums up many of the early lessons delivered by 2012. Called “Mindfulness 101” it features the archetypal wayfinding words “You are here” in the small text in the centre. Although part of an exhibition at Redland Art Gallery, it is hung in an area of the gallery adjoining Redland Council’s customer service area. This positioning is masterful, and reinforces “Mindfulness 101’s” reminder of the transitory nature of existence, the artificiality of the human construct, and nudges strenuously at our sense of the here and now. As far as public artworks go, this one is up there and out there to engage its audience.
This detail reflects, on the shiny two-pack surface of the artwork, the traffic and busyness outside in Cleveland’s Bloomfield Street
Presence of mind, 2012
Louise Martin-Chew
Art Words
24 January 2012
