stuffed exhibition....open for business

opening night

maggie, tristan, mai le, estelle, beck, jake & emmelene

tristan jalleh

gillian bencke

looby lu

wendy june

maggie pereyra

beck wheeler

gemma noble

maggie pereyra

beck wheeler

my paper crane

tristan jalleh & beck wheeler

"almost finished"

gillian bencke

tristan jalleh

jake henzler

"estelle poses....aint she pretty"

cathy parry - boxy ladies

beck, tristan & estelle shuffle things around

tristan works some magic with maggie's work

tristans sushi rocks the front counter

call back soon

this blog is dedicated to the stuffed collective and the first show that we put together. There are a million photos to come, but this is a start.....call back soon for the whole process of the exhibition and also some sweet as shots of the finished product....nice work by all involved, it was brill!

the toys start rolling in

this is a pic from a couple of days before opening day, it is of the back part of the cafe....Darrens artwork is in the background....the mountain of white furniture is being installed and the white toys are being arranged

maggie and Lyndal

this is Maggie Pereyra, and other than having a very cool name....she is a creative lady that sews kooky skeleton toys (image at the top of post), and faceless elephant-men (they are my fav).
this is Maggie painting the props white with Lyndal. Lyndal made these giant stuffed letters for the front window of the space

tristan

introducing....tristan jalleh...tristan rocks. he is such a talented fello....he helped paint and install the show. he has got a great eye for display and can precariously suspended things while dangling from a ladder....this boy should be in the circus....he makes wonderful toys too...the hammerhead rocks almost as much as he does.

per square metre

the illustrators at per square metre (darren, emmelene, sam and bernie) painted there beautiful and wacky characters on the back walls of the cafe.

beck

introducing.......drum roll....beck wheeler: curator of stuffed and illustrator/plush toy designer.
heres a few shots of my work in the kitchen space of the cafe/exhibition space. I tried to incorporate all the objects in the kitchen space into the art work, the floor included...it looked sweeeeet when all the toys started pouring in...