Flying Star Toys blog: Exhibition

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Thursday, December 04, 2008

Luv-able + Hug-able Exhibition, NYC

Flying Star was invited to participated in the plush artists' exhibition Luv-Able + Hug-able at Gallery Hanahou in New York City.

Luv-able + Hug-able: made with love by 30+ artists and crafters from all over the world, these original soft toys will range from cooky critters to adorable anthropomorphic objects. Nab an armful of plushes at the December 4th opening party, or order from our online shop at galleryhanahou.com for your hug-able holiday gifts!

Participating Artists

Anna Chambers * Anna Hrachovec * Ayumi Sato - Junie Moon * Betz White * Blythe Church * Christina Gordon (Jamfancy) * Corinne Dean * Doinky Doodles * Eloole * Forest Creatures * girlsavage * Heide Murray * Heidi Kenney * Helle Jorgensen * Hello, Brute * IMAI SAYAKA * Katie Park (caffaknitted) * Kup Kup Land * Lexi Franks * Lizette Greco + Grecolaborativo * Lynda Lye * Nicole Gastonguay * The Ossu! Syugeibu * rei☆komurasaki * SPOOKS by Kobayashi Mayu * Weebco * Yuko Hara * Yuriko Sera * Ariana Marinelli * Coco Howard * Flying Star Toys by Florence Forrest * Hansigurumi * Jenny Harada * Made By Moxie * Robyn Fabsits * Aaron B of SOWA

Luv-able + Hug-able opens December 4th showing until January 7th 2009.

For this exhibition I've sent 4 of an as yet to be released toy called Home Away from Home. This picture above is a sneak peak for you :) Home Away from Home will be offically released early next year.

Friday, November 28, 2008

GoMA Christmas Design Market

Flying Star Toys will be attending the Brisbane GoMA Christmas Design Market on Saturday the 6th of December.

The good news is that all Flying Star Toys on the stand will be at special market prices!

The GoMA Christmas Design Market will be located on the Sculpture Lawn outside the Gallery of Modern Art Brisbane located in the Arts precinct of South Bank.

The GoMA Christmas Design market Saturday 6th December from 9am -5pm.
Looking forward to seeing you there!

(click image for large version to see the list of other participants.)

Tags: art, craft, toys, GoMA, design, market, Brisbane, Christmas, gifts, handmade, artists, Flying Star Toys, windbagandthunder, Windbag and Thunder, Florence Forrest

Friday, November 14, 2008

Cracker! KickArts Christmas Retail Show

Tonight the KickArts Christmas retail show Cracker! opens. There should be heaps of wonderful gifts to choose from. If you live in Cairns or will be by that way soon I recommend popping in.

Cracker! runs from the 14th of November until January 3rd 2009.

For this show I've made six special Star Boomer joeys called White Star Boomers as a tribute to the iconic Australian Christmas song "Six White Boomers" by Rolf Harris. They are made with natural linen and creamy white pin corduroy with the cream star hand embroidered in linen thread.

Friday, November 07, 2008

Plush You! (2) at Double Punch Gallery

This month Flying Star Toys will be on show at Plush You! This year the Plush You! exhibition of plush toy artist at Schmancy in Seattle is having a sister show in San Francisco at Double Punch Gallery.

A new version of a Flying Star Toys original Novas Infinite called Novas Infinite Neon are representing Flying Star Toys for this exhibition. Novas Infinite Neon will be officially launched next year. These two Novas Infinite Neon are called Silver Arrow and Blue Lightning.

Plush You! (2) will be opening on Friday November 7th at Double Punch - 1821 Powell St, San Francisco, CA, USA.

Monday, November 03, 2008

Mathilda's Market this Sunday!

The Mathilda's Market began in Melbourne and became so successful they have branched out to hold them in Brisbane and Sydney with other states to follow. They feature quality handmade designer wares suitable for children and mothers. Being a toy maker they asked if I would be interested - and I was :)

So if you would like to treat your little one, yourself, or thinking of someone who needs a treat this Christmas please come along.

Mathilda's Market Sunday November 9th from 9pm to 1pm at St Joseph's College, 1299 Sandgate Rd, Boondall, Brisbane, Qld.

That's right! This Sunday! and don't forget to say Hi :-)

Friday, October 10, 2008

Plush You! 2008 - plush toy art exhibition USA

This month Flying Star Toys will be on show at Plush You! This is a yearly exhibition of plush toy artist at Schmancy in Seattle, USA. With approximately a hundred toy artists exhibiting it has to qualify as the biggest international plush toy art exhibition.

Piccabu Elephant and Molehill Mouse, together with Ishmael's Whale are representing Flying Star Toys for this exhibition.

Plush You! will be opening on Friday October 10th at Schmancy - 1932 Second Ave, Seattle WA, USA.

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Super Plush! Exhibition LA, USA

Later this month Flying Star Toys will be on show at Super Plush! an exhibition of plush toy artist at Los Angeles gallery Ghetto Gloss. Toy artist Mr Funky has organised a big show featuring such renowned toy artist as While She Naps, One Red Robin, Fern Animals and Soto Softies.....I could go on!

A large collection of delightful one-of-a-kind Pimmie Parrots and three shy Snow Walkers are representing Flying Star Toys for this exhibition.

Super Plush! Art by 22 amazing plush doll and soft sculpture artist will be on from September 25th until October 2nd. Ghetto Gloss - 2380 Glendale Blvd, Silverlake, CA, USA.

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Aqua Vitae - Exhibition KickArts Cairns

The Umbrella Collective was pleased to be invited to do an exhibition wall at KickArts Contemporary Art Gallery in Cairns, Australia. The exhibition is called Aqua Vitae - The Water of Life. The Umbrella Collective members participating are Kylie Johnson (Paper Boat Press), Liana Kabel (Art, Design, Jewellery), Shannon Garson (Porcelain), Rebecca Ward (Jewellery) and myself.

Aqua Vitae is showing from 5th August until the 30th August 2008.

About Aqua Vitae: Aqua Vitae is Latin for the Water of Life. In the language of medieval alchemists it conveys the sense of a living being of substance as a directly contrast to the rigid immateriality of mind in the abstract. The vital water was the junction of spirit, soul and body and is an apt expression for how makers feel about their process, product and art as they mould, shape and cut their creations into being.

Water is one of most ubiquitous symbols present within the psyche of man - it is a powerful solvent, it brings opposites into unity, it represents the unconscious itself and is the fountain of all life. Here the water symbol unites the work of the five craft artist of the Umbrella Collective.

My 100 Water Houses, Ishmael's Whales and Rain Berries are included in this exhibition.

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Biscuit Bunnies in Charity Exhibition London

Flying Star Toys has donated 6 Biscuit Bunnies for the charity exhibition Cancer Sell for Cancer Research and The Florence Nightingale Hospice, Aylesbury, Bucks, UK.

Cancer Sell will be held on the 31st July 2008 at 98 Leonard Street, London, EC1V 9AY. 6pm - 11pm. FREE ENTRY

You can see images of the exhibition in the Cancer Sell Flickr group

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

100 Water Houses in the Sandgate Library

I have a strong relationship with the Sandgate Brisbane City Council Library. Lovely librarian Sue organised the lilli&tom miniature year long tour in 2006 and last year the Coastal Birds series was a featured display with them. For this year Flying Star Toys collection 100 Water Houses is currently on display for the month of February at the Sandgate Library.

Thursday, January 17, 2008

Plushed: Art Gone Soft exhibition

Flying Star Toys is pleased to be invited to participate in the toy exhibition Plushed: Art Gone Soft.

January 21st to February 1st

West Gallery, Patti and Rueff Galleries,
Yue-Kong Pao Hall for the Visual and Performing Arts,
Purdue University, West Laffayette, Indiana, USA.

I've sent three Snow Walkers to the US for the Plushed exhibition. I hope they arrive in time! They should look something like this. I'll post images from the exhibition once I get them.

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Toy Box Exhibition Images

Beverley from KickArts Contemporary Gallery sent me some images from the Toy Box exhibition Flying Star Toys was a part of in December 2007. I thought I'd share them here with you. In the top image you can see that they displayed my FlockA2s hanging downwards in a line - very imaginative! It looks like it was a fun exhibition and I was very happy to have been invited to participate :)

Now that it is over the KickArts shop (and online shop) is stocking Flying Star Toys.

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Delightful Shows

The Umbrella Collective Christmas show was another successful and happy day. Saturday the 17th of November started for me driving into the city watching moody clouds pouring forth a grey column of rain but these visitors were quickly travelling across the skyline soon to pass. They toured across the sky all day so we enjoyed an atmosphere that hadn't been felt in Brisbane for sometime, a wonderful sub-tropical gloaming that brought a sense of magical expectation. Everyone was agreed that it was a prefect setting for the show.

Above you can see the Umbrella Collective members from left to right: Shannon Garson (porcelain), Kylie Johnson (Paper Boat Press), Liana Kabel (Plastic Girl Jewellery), me of course, Rebecca Ward (jewellery), with Sarah Bowe the sixth member of the Umbrella Collective who did not present work this year but was there to help taking the photo. The photo below shows the Flying Star Toys stand as seen at the Umbrella Collective show.

The GOMA show on Sunday the 25th was also an excellent day with a great turn out from the public and I got to meet up with some other of our fellow Queensland artists such as Sarah and Lee from Audrey and Rose, Luke Johnson from Robots Robots, Erin from Blossom Creations and new toy maker Kia Hing Fay. Her toys for children are beautifully made and I was pleased to be able to do a swap with her for one of the very popular show favourite Biscuit Bunnies. Below is a photo she sent me of him in his new home shown with one of Kylie Johnson's ceramic stars. I'm sure we'll be hearing more about Kia in the future.

Finally, I'd like to thank all of those people who came out to support us and those who sent there well wishes or very kind apologies, you are all truly Friends of Flying Star Toys :)

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Toy Box Exhibition - Cairns

Flying Star Toys series Flocka2s and Red Finch White Finch will be featured at the KickArts retail exhibition "Toy Box: the Art of the Toy" running from Friday 23th November to Saturday 29th December 2007.

KickArts Contemporary Arts
96 Abbott St, Cairns, Queensland, Australia.

Monday, November 19, 2007

Christmas Design Market at GOMA

Did you miss the Umbrella Collective Christmas Show? Not to worry because I'll be at the Christmas Design Market outside the Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane on Sunday the 25th November from 9am to 5pm. For more information phone (o7) 3840 7147 (the Gallery Store).

Now back to making more Biscuit Bunnies!

Thursday, November 08, 2007

Delightful Things For Christmas - Umbrella Collective Christmas Show 2007

saturday 17 november 2007
9am - 2pm

delightful things direct from the artists

st francis theological college
233 milton road milton
entrance via baroona rd

parking available
cash or cheque only

umbrella collective
www.umbrellacollective.blogspot.com

ARTISTS:

florence forrest
flying star toys

shannon garson
porcelain

kylie johnson
paper boat press

liana kabel
plastic girl jewellery

rebecca ward
jewellery

I'm getting very excited about this show. If you can come along it will be a great opportunity to pick up our work at special show prices. And don't be shy! Introduce yourself and say hello I'd love to see you.

Friday, July 13, 2007

In the Press - 100 Water Houses

As promised, the article about my work 100 Water Houses in the up coming "Threads of Change" exhibition at Reverse Garbage in Brisbane. I even got to plug the Flying Star Toys on Etsy shop :)

Also, this week I was the first feature artist on the new Plush Team Blog. If you'd like you can read the detailed interview at featured plush artist.

Thursday, July 05, 2007

100 Water Houses in Threads of Change

I had such a fun day today - I had a photo shoot for an article about my work in the textile exhibition Threads of Change being staged at Reverse Garbage. Most of the shoot was spent in a rather awkward position on the floor amidst my soft sculptures called 100 Water Houses. The article will be published next week so I'll post it then...I hope it turns out well!

100 Water Houses was created especially for this exhibition and since the idea was to use recycled textiles I was excited by being able to call upon all the wonderful fabrics I've been collecting from thrift shops for the last couple of years. I must admit, at first I was a little stumped as to what I might make...however, while wondering I picked up one of my books on Hundertwasser and inspiration just flew up and hit me between the eyes..so to speak :) The painting above called Yellow Ships - Sea of Tunis and Taormina (1951) spoke to me and I went immediately into the studio and began the process of making tall, soft sculpture houses.

I named them 100 Water Houses in honour of Hundertwasser, whose name means 100 waters. Hundertwasser was an artist well known for his "green" ideas. The title also reflects the intimate connection between water and the home brought to focus during our sever drought that has brought about the necessity of installing water tanks(houses) to collect the rain.

Threads of Change opens Friday 20th July at 6pm and runs until Saturday 11th August at Reverse Garbage, 296 Montague Road, West End, Brisbane. If you're in the area, why not come along to the opening and say hi :)

Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Coastal Birds Under Glass

Ever since Lilli&Tom miniature had their year long tour of the Brisbane City Council libraries in 2006, I've had a great relationship with Sue the Sandgate librarian. Earlier this year we talked about another little project and I mentioned the Coastal Birds series I designed based on the collaboration with Brisbane artist/illustrator Rachel Arthur. Sue thought they would be a nifty display for the library too and booked me in for a display in April.

I installed them on Tuesday morning at the hideous hour of 8:30am. Anyone who knows me understands that I currently get up at around 10am and go to bed around 2am - these blogs don't write themselves you know ;). Sue pointed out that April also coincides with the annual Easter Bluewater festival here in Sandgate that kicks off this Good Friday with the start of the Brisbane to Gladstone Yacht Race, it brings in heaps of spectators to Sandgate and Shorncliffe to watch the starting line in Moreton Bay. So it seems that it will be a good theme for the season after all.

Some of my beloved regular readers might notice a new toy that I have yet to show you...it's a sneak peak at a new Flying Star Toy called Flocka2s. They aren't technically coastal birds and don't belong to that series (which might be a bit misleading), but they are native to the area and neatly filled the space I'm calling the "sky" in this display. Stay tuned for more on Sandgate Flocka2s soon!

Coastal Birds Series of artist made designer toys can be seen at Sandgate BCCL from now until the end of April.

And wishing a Happy Easter/Chocolate Egg season to all :D

Monday, November 06, 2006

Delightful Things for Christmas

It's nearly Christmas and Santa's elves are busy at work making all sort of wonderful gifts for you. As a toy maker this is an especially busy time as Santa invariably out-sources much of his elves' work.

But before Santa gets the pick of the bunch we've stashed away a few of our favourite goodies to present in a special Christmas show.

My fellow Queensland makers and I, have banded together to create The Umbrella Collective - Artists United by Craft and Friendship. You can keep up to date with all our latest work in one place!

And if you happen to be in Brisbane why not come to the show and solve all your gift dilemmas in one hit! But Shhhhhh....don't tell Santa ;)

Saturday 25th November
9am -3pm

St Francis Theological College
233 Milton Road, Milton
Brisbane
entrance via Baroona Rd

parking available
cash or cheque only
refreshments available

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