Lumiere Ottawa, 2011

I set up for the Festival early Saturday, and was finished installing my six masks in the beautiful sunshine by 1 pm. Shortly thereafter the skies opened up and we had a heavy downpour. Fortunately, by late afternoon things cleared up and the Festival got underway on schedule. Here are some images of the masks I made for the festival as they appeared in the daylight and then at night.






The crowd that walked through Stanley Park was estimated at about 8000. This Festival holds it's charm with handmade lanterns, candlelight, local visual and performing artists, acoustic musicians and actors. Many come to the Festival in costumes and carrying lanterns.

The grand finale was the spectacular firedancers, whose performance coincided coincidentally with the Lac Leamy fireworks, which could be seen and heard in the background.
I was pleased to meet photographer, Louise Imbeault who took some lovely photo's at the festival and posted them to her website.

Finishing touches for tomorrow's Lumiere Festival --Sat. Aug 20

I put the finishing touches on my 6 masks for tomorrow's festival. When it's all over I'll run a post to show how the pieces look when they are all lit up in the thicket just past the wall along the Rideau River in Stanley Park.





Hope to see you at the Lumiere Festival 5-10 pm at Stanley Park in Ottawa!

Lumiere Festival 2011- Sneak Peak!

I was at Stanley Park this afternoon, scouting out the area where I will be installing the masks that I made for Saturday's Lumiere Festival(photo by Karen Massey)The bicycle wheel chandeliers that I made for the 2009 Festival will be on display as well. There will be music, drama, visual art, shadow puppets, stilt walkers and much more. Bring a lantern or make one on site. This is a free event along the River in Ottawa's New Edinburg, with opportunities to make donations to help keep this unique event going.

Lumiere Festival this Saturday

I've been working away at my series of masks for the Lumiere Festival that takes place this Saturday in Ottawa . I've moved twice in the last five years and have purged a great many items, but was not able to part with a bin full of assorted heat shields. If you've lost part of your exhaust system, or maybe a hub cap in the last 10 years, you might find it has become part of my work for this year's festival. I knew there was a reason I couldn't part with this stuff!

My six masks are nearly complete and I will be working on lighting and mounting them in time for Saturday evening. I'll be posting a few sneak peaks in the next few days.

Lumiere 2011, August 20th at Stanley Park

Lumiere 2011 will be held August 20th at Stanley Park. This will be my third year among a selection of artists that will be creating sculptures for this festival of lights along the Rideau River. This is a photo of my work from last year (courtesy of Andrew Argyle). This year's work is taking shape and needless to say, for those of you who have seen my previous work, it is constructed entirely from found objects (sounds so much classier than junk). Hope to see you there!

Decidedly Low-tech

I've been working away on some art blocks for tomorrow's Urban Art show. This picture shows the hi-tech operation out on the picnic table. Yes, that is the canoe (A.K.A) "the barnacle", peeking out from behind the shed. Typewriter, scissors, glue, old magazines and maps are some of the necessary ingredients. The coffee is essential for that little burst of energy after last night's graveyard shift. I would not have finished up any new blocks for the show if it weren't for late night input and elbow grease from Karen (thanks!), and inspiration from our garden muse.

Hope to see you tomorrow at Minto Park, Elgin and Gilmour, between 9 and 6 pm.

Urban Art @ Minto Park 2011

Come on down to Minto Park at Elgin and Gilmour on July 23 for this annual event that brings together a fine selection of local talent in the Ottawa art and craft scene. I will be at spot number 41A with Mobius t-shirts and artwork, alongside friend and former co-organizer Katie Argyle who has recently relocated, but is returning to Ottawa for this show!

Idle Hands, Spring Into Summer Craft Sale 2011

I'll be here tomorrow. I participated in the Idle Hands Christmas show in 2010 and was really impressed at the selection of Ottawa talent represented there. Come on down to Chinatown and say hi!

Details:

Saturday, June 11 · 10:00am - 5:00pm

St.Luke's Anglican Church 760 Somerset Street West Ottawa

More Info
Come join us for our first annual spring sale. We are offering up delicious food, unique jewelry, clothing, artwork, bath and body products, children's toys, glass works , music, home decor, letterpress prints, and much much more.

Admission is $2 with a chance to win one of our fabulous door prizes ! Please note that this is A CASH ONLY EVENT !

This year we will have a fund raising raffle to help support the non-profit arts collective Chinatown Remix's growth and future events. Prizes have been kindly donated by our vendors, as well as local businesses, including Venus Envy, Patrick Gordon Framing, The Papery, Restaurant 18, Social, artist Adrian Gollner, to name a few.

This years vendors are :
Art Is In Bakery
Oh My Ampersand !
Sweet Molly
Lark
Cuckoo's Nest Design
Ian Roy
Don Kwan
Urbanite Jewellry
Abi Lyon Wicke
Kathrin von Dehn
Auntie Loo's Treats
Indie Go Designs
Flo Glassblowing
Timothy Hunt
Liebchen Designs
Fish On Fridays
Ground Soap
My Real Food Life
BWK Designs
Sweetstitch
Wondergoblins
Jasmine Virani
Neon Matisse
Mad Mother Designs
Annie Bananie
Green Acre Toys
Frash Femme
Play Clothes Press
Lamb Rabbit
Andrea Emery
Meredith Luce
Eufemia Bella
Winged Beast Outfitter
Manusmade
Prairie Girl Creations
Tree Frog Percussion
Higashi Designs
Tweal
Purple Urchin
Elisabeth Baechlin
Spins and Needles

Spins and Needles will also be mixing up some smooth spring time beats and some DIY surprises so there is no need to leave empty handed .

See you there !

Black Box Collage #29: Rub-a-dub dub.

Black Box Collage #29, continuing the series of collages from items in my recycling bin. Inspired by this week's Illustration Friday topic: Soaked.

Black Box Collage # 28

Number 28 in an ongoing series of collages from my recycle bin.

Surfin' Safari: Black Box Collage #27

After a long winter, an unexpected move and a nasty blow to the head, the Black Box Collages are back! #27 coincides with this week's illustration friday topic: Safari.

Merry Christmas!

This was the picture my son drew in the Christmas Card for his younger brother. Happy Holidays everyone!

Who Are We? Seeking Answers to the Big Questions--from the archives

Another collage from my archives (read: under the basement stairs). I can't pinpoint the exact date of this one, but it seems the coupon for TastiTaters on the back expired in July of 1998. Another 40 cents down the drain.

Don't Think Too Hard--From the Archives

From April 2000, another collage from an old bundle uncovered while packing. I did quite a number of these, mostly cut from the Ottawa Citizen or the National Post. I usually made them when I couldn't sleep. I got a big kick out of linking random sentences. When we were kids, my siblings and I would turn the sound down on the TV and turn up the sound on an unrelated radio program and laugh hysterically at the incongruity. We made our own fun.

Sketch 2010

This was my donation to Sketch, the art auction for Saw Gallery a few weeks ago. I thought I'd given it away without taking a picture, but when I got my camera back after lending it to a friend, there it was! The collage is on a piece of orange crate, with Captain Highliner framed by a lock-nut from a bike. The crab claw was from a summer excursion.

Super Cake!

This is another collage from 1998. The background is a recipe for raisin bran muffin's that was on the inside of a cereal box. I was participating in a weekly art project with poet Karen Massey and artist Katie Argyle and the topic of the week was "cake". Special appearance by David Kronenburg.

Future Cloudy

From a series of undated collages using "found" text, probably 1998? Judging from the optimistic tone, I'd guess I made this one during a bout of insomnia.

Moving Countdown

I recently found out I have a few months to move, so I have begun to excavate the layers that I have built around me. This includes digging through boxes from my previous move. I discovered a bundle of old collages from 2000 and before; some damaged, some unfinished, none documented. I'll be posting some of these in the days to come, starting with these two that were stuck together and are now pretty much illegible. I think it gives them a strange fragile beauty. I might work on them some more, or maybe frame them. I like how they have transferred information onto one other, encrypted each other. Or maybe I should throw them away. Right now they are spread out on the floor with my cat sitting on top of them. I'm not much of an archivist.

Annette Hegel, Tanis Denis, Claude Lemay--Open House, Friday December 3, 7-10 pm.

Check out new work by Annette Hegel, Tanis Dennis and Claude Lemay at their Studio at 88 Main St. Friday Dec. 3 from 7-10pm.

101 Frames 2010 - Gallery 101, Friday Dec 5

It's that time of year again! This will be my third year to contributing artwork to this annual art auction, and this year's theme is the 3rd of the 7 deadly sins: Wrath.

101 FRAMES: THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS
WRATH

4-240 Bank Street, Ottawa (entrance on Lisgar Street)

Saturday, December 4, 2010

Doors open at 7pm – 1am

Featuring: DJs The O’Malley’s and Jas Nasty

Tickets: $10 or $15 at the door
or at After Stonewall- 370 Bank Street, Collected Works – 1242 Wellington St. W., Mags & Fags – 254 Elgin

Rumour Has It at Cyclelogik, Friday Dec. 3 at 8 pm.

I'll be exhibiting three pieces in Rumour Has It at Cyclelogik at 1111a Wellington St. West. The opening is friday night beginning at 8 pm. Come on by and check out art from 40 local artists at this very cool cafe/bike shop!

Idle Hands 2010, Sunday Nov. 28th, 10 am -5 pm

This Sunday I will be at the 2nd Annual Idle Hands show at Patrick Gordon Framing 16o Elm st. Ottawa, ON K1R 6N5. Check out www.idlehandscraftsale.blogspot.com for details. This year's event features a stellar cast of artists and artisans with proceeds going to the awesome Lady Evelyn Alternative School.

Sketch 2010, Friday, Nov. 26, 8 pm to 2 am

This will be my 3rd time participating in this annual fund-raising art auction. I don't have a picture of my submission right now, but it eludes to a romantic interlude between Captain Highliner and Carnivale hero, Bonhomme. Come on out to the Saw Gallery this Friday night and buy some local art!

Lumiere Festival 2010, Saturday, September 4!!!

September, already? Time for the Lumiere Festival 2010. Here is a sneak preview of what I've been working on for this year's Festival. As you can imagine, this will look quite different by candlelight. Helpful hint: consider how you will transport an art installation across the city BEFORE you start building. Fortunately, I have friends who were willing to lend me their truck (thanks!!!). I will also be installing my bike wheel chandeliers in the park again this year. If you've never been to this festival, you must check out the lanterns and performers that will populate Stanley Park along the Rideau River this Saturday!!!

Urban Art in Minto Park, Tomorrow!!!

Middle Age Spread

After months of preparing, Urban Art in Minto Park is tomorrow. This is the 5th annual show and the second year that Katie and I have been the organizers. Things are chugging along, so as long as mother nature cooperates, we should have a fantastic day in Centretown.

I will have Mobius T-shirts at the show, as well as small collage work and cards, and I have made three sculptures to place around the park.

Come on down and check out the 60 or so dynamic artists and craftspeople that will be showing their work in this idyllic downtown park at Elgin and Gilmour st.

Apres Duchamp

Stationary Bike

Urban Art @ Minto Park

Just over a week to go until Urban Art @ Minto Park and things are coming together nicely. We have a selection of over 60 local artists. Some are veterans of this 5th annual event (2nd that Katie and I have put together) and for some it will be their first show ever! We have several collectives and will have a booth for Ottawa School of Art Grads and a table for Lady Evelyn Alternative School, who will be selling hand-painted canvas shopping bags as a school fundraiser. Post an anonymous message at the Post-it Secrets booth, or leave your mark with a chalk drawing on the boulevard of this beautiful downtown Ottawa park.

The Stone Book at the 2010 Wakefield Piggyback Fringe Festival

In conjunction with 2wp and the Stone Book performance by Jan Andrews at the 2010 Wakefield Piggyback Fringe Festival, Ottawa artists Timothy Hunt and Annette Hegel will facilitate the audience interactive construction of freestanding stone sculptures at the Molo Café and the Wakefield Farmer’s market on Saturday, June 26th between 11am and 2pm.

Timothy Hunt @ Dovercourt Community Centre June 1st - June 30th, 2010

From the Dovercourt Website

Timothy Hunt @ Dovercourt Community Centre June 1st - June 30th, 2010

This month, local artist Timothy Hunt presents a selection of 18 collages from the Globe and Mail Project. Acting on a free three month subscription from Canada’s National Newspaper and armed with only a pair of scissors, a typewriter and a gluestick, Tim embarked on a 90 day marathon of humorous collages using clippings from each day’s newspaper spanning topics including sports, religion and politics. The results are... well, you be the judge! The entire collection of the Globe and Mail Project can be viewed at timothyhunt.blogspot.com.

Timothy Hunt is an artist and Sculptor living in Westboro. He has participated in numerous shows across Canada with his company Mobius T-shirts and his artwork has been seen around Ottawa at the GCTC and many Art in the Park events. His “bicycle wheel chandeliers” were a big hit at last year’s Lumiere Festival in New Edinburg’s Stanley Park. Tim is also co-organizer for Urban Art in Minto Park, a juried Art and Craft event in downtown Ottawa, Sat July 24th. If something is not nailed down, it may well find its way into Tim’s artwork and he has been know to run with scissors.

Timothy can be contacted at timhuntottawa@gmail.com
For more information about the artist,visit timothyhunt.blogspot.com

Illustration Friday: Early

This week's Illustration Friday topic is Early.

Black Box Collage: #26 , Fearless

This week's Illustration Friday Topic is Fearless.
#26 in an ongoing series of collages made from items in my recycling bin.

Black Box Collage: #25, Not Fastened On

#25 from an ongoing series of collages from the contents of my recycling bin.

Black Box Collage: #24, Longing For Simpler Times

This week's Illustration Friday topic is Cocoon.
#24 in a series of ongoing collages from my recycling bin.

C4 Gallery, Reception: May 6 from 7-9pm.

Current Exhibition:Goulbourn Recreation Complex1500 Shea RdMay 6-June 7
Opening reception: May 6 from 7-9 p.m.
The current exhibit?s feature artists include:
Caleb Abbott, Gail Bourgeois, Daniel Campbell, Erika Ferrarin, Julie Fletcher, Katherine Giles, Christopher Glor-Bell, Timothy Hunt, Caroline Joanisse, Dana Langevin, Amanda Lloyd, Virender Paul Madan, Rohann Matthews, James McCallum, Jessie McComb,Winston Monroe, Ben Probert, Julia Sabourin, Laura Schutte, Alex Stancenko, Alexa Vanveen, and Nancy Webb
The C4 Gallery is a cooperative venture between the City of Ottawa?s Community Art and Public Art programs. For more detailed submission information please visit ottawa.ca/arts or call 613-244-3745.
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