The
sites where we will be projecting are:
1.
TELSTRA EXCHANGE
Walkway
between Rokeby Rd and Park St, in front of Freshia
Noodle Bar and Brew
Ha, next to Crossways
Shopping Centre (where Farmer Jacks is
open until 10pm weeknights).
2.
SMALES WALL
Back
wall of Smales
Jewellers, down the walkway off Rokeby Road in
the council carpark.
3.
FORREST WALK CAR PARK
Council
carpark on the corner of Rowland and Forrest Sts, behind Jacksons
Drawing Supplies and in front
of
Beyond the
Trapdoor homewares
and gifts (who are staying open until 9.30pm every night of
the projections for last-minute Xmas shopping).
4.
iiNET / ACE CINEMAS WALL
Large
wall between Ace
Cinemas and iiNet,
opposite Hungry Jacks, KFC and Baskin Robbins.
5.
WILSONS CARPARK
Wall
behind Llama
Bar + Kitchen, Nova and Daneechi,
above the entrance to the Wilsons underground carpark.
Download
a printable PDF handout with map here,
thanks to the wonderful Kool
Kreative.
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Site 1 “Eat,
Drink and Be Merry”
This animation features characters from Medieval stained glass
from French cathedrals such as Chartres, Troyes, Bourges and Sainte-Chapelle,
circa 1200AD.
There is some contention regarding why everyday people performing
very secular occupations are featured in the windows of these Cathedrals.
Traditionally it was said that these represented sponsor guilds
who had paid for the cost of their own featured panel in the window,
but the windows are actually older than the guilds.
Another
suggestion is that it was the Church's attempt to make peace
with the local
people as the taxes imposed to build these Cathedrals were very
high and led to rioting in the case of Chartres. Perhaps the
bakers and winemakers featured in the windows had provided bread
and wine
to feed the stonemasons and other workers building the Cathedral
and being immortalised in glass was their payment? No documentation
from the time exists to explain why these everyday people were
featured, but their expressiveness makes them just as engaging
as when they were painted over eight hundred years ago.
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Site 2 “How
Does Your Garden Grow?”
This animation features characters from the late 19th Century
decorative arts movements in France and the United States of America,
including Joseph Vantillard and Louis Comfort Tiffany.
With the development
of a middle class during the 19th Century, stained glass became
very popular in the homes of wealthy families.
The subject of these windows was often not religious. Country gardens,
courtly knights and ladies and other historic and lyrical scenes
were very popular, in contrast to the rapidly increasing urbanisation
in society at that time. Tiffany was very interested in making
three dimensional forms from glass, leading to his iconic “Tiffany
Lamps” which you can still buy today.
Our favourite
animator is Terry Gilliam from Monty Python - perhaps you can
tell? :)
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Site
3 “The
Christmas Story”
This animation features characters from Medieval stained glass
from French cathedrals such as Chartres, Troyes, Bourges and Sainte-Chapelle,
circa 1200AD. One of the
earliest uses of stained glass was the “Poor
Man's Bible” - illustrated scenes used to communicate biblical
stories to a largely illiterate populace. Like a comic book, the
windows would tell a story in a series of scenes. The Christmas
Story was a popular one of these. The panels we have shown are: The Annunciation (Angel appears
to Mary); Angel appears to Joseph; Herod orders census; Joseph
and Mary travel to Bethlehem; Angel appears to Three Kings; Angel
appears to Shepherds; No Room at the Inn; Three Kings follow star
to Bethlehem; Nativity scene.
Neighbouring
homewares store Beyond
the Trapdoor has
partnered with us to stay open until 9:30pm every night of
the projections for last-minute Xmas
gifts :)
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Site 3a “Hark
the Herald Angels”
This animation features
stained glass by Pre-Raphaelite artists such as Edward Burne-Jones,
Morris & Co and their contemporaries
created in the mid to late 19th Century in England.
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
were a group of artists and writers who idealised pre-Renaissance
art and society. Their work often
featured characters from Arthurian legends and they advocated abandoning
modern industrial techniques in favour of hand-processes – for
example wallpapers and fabrics were block-printed at Morris & Co.
As they were
so enamoured of Medieval culture, they were also very keen to
rediscover lost techniques – for example, they experimented
with glass staining techniques to reproduce colours featured in
French Cathedrals of the Middle Ages. Although they were only a
small group, the Pre-Raphaelites were very influential internationally,
seeding such wider trends as the Arts and Crafts Movement and Art
Nouveau.
These beautiful
images were all shot by Dave
Webster - photographer of antique stained glass in the UK.
One day we'd love to do a stained-glass tour of the UK and Dave's
Flickr would be our ideal Guide Book.
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Site 4 Stained-glass themed artwork by local kids
Subiaco Library, Princess Margaret Hospital for Children and local
primary schools have all contributed artwork using various techniques
to look like stained glass. If a child contributed work, get them to come up and tell us and
we will try to find their work and take a photo of them posing
with it for their family.
Thanks especially to the following for giving us artwork:
See Kids
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Site 4a Stained-glass themed live drawing by artist
Jenna Downing
Jenna will
be digitally 'painting' stained-glass style artwork as people
watch.
She is using
either an iPad and the app Sketchbook
Pro, or a Linux notebook
and the program MyPaint.
She will
do a new piece each night, so call by at different times to see
the work develop.
You can see
more of Jenna's work at EvilGeniusInResidence.com including
her brilliant Zoetrope
workshops.
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Site 5 “Here
Be Dragons”
This animation features mostly German stained glass circa 1900,
formal in design and often heroic in theme. We've added a little
Monty Pythonesque influence to it though :)
You can see this
from the back area at the newly-refurbished Llama Bar + Kitchen,
the perfect place for a post-projection bevvy and bite :) |
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