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Boot Art was launched in August 2022 as a 6-month hybrid public art / wilding art project –Â in collaboration with the Bone Yard Collective based in Kabi Kabi, Jinibara and Turrbal Land (Redcliffe Peninsula).
The Boot Art strategy employed DIY / BYO tactics across an intermedial landscape/streetscape – claiming space for experimentation, communication and open-ended engagement.
Artists were invited to go wild – working in on and outside the boots of their cars within a research-orientated approach – meaning strategies for engagement could be tweaked.
Boot Art evolved into a 7.5 event project running from August 2022 through to May 2023.
Doodle Table + Flyers were introduced in BA2.
Community Drawing Strategies (Exquisite Corpses + Frottage Exercises) were run in BA3 + BA4 Â in collaboration with Gary Warner (drawing exercises) Â & Louise Crompton (on-ground facilitator).
Speed Drawing Comps were run over BA5 BA6 & BA7 + the BoneYard Birthday Event and the Big Painting was set up for BA6 & BA7.
Open Mic ran over BA5 – BA7… Art on Boots was introduced in BA6
Boot Art was staged in the Bone Yard carpark on the corner of Anzac Avenue and Sutton Streets.  Bone Yard runs an espresso café and vintage record store within the shell of a former petrol station.Â
The site’s decaying past structure glory gives much-needed history and social fabric reprieve from the tsunami of modernist urban development sweeping across the Peninsula.
Bone Yard is a family-run business situated within the endangered Redcliffe retail precinct – home to small local businesses working precariously out of buildings on short-term leases and under the threat of demolition.
The Bone Yard site provides near-perfect public art – coal face – spatiotemporal opportunities. Open but intimate space with multiple viewing platforms and easy, casual, and random access to the community.
The surrounding area includes high-rise apartment buildings, retail centres, roads, intersections, footpaths, thoroughfares, street lighting, and signage allowing artists to work and communicate across the intermedial landscape and within the interconnectedness of the urban ecosystem.
Questions asked…
Can a hybrid public art / wilding art strategy explore and navigate space outside the cultural framework of institutionalized arts practice and what would be the value of engagement for artists and the wider community?
Can artists maintain open-ended experimentation and engagement when government agency-funded projects require cultural filla for predictive public art strategies?
Many thanks to the Artists…
Christopher Cipollone, Erika Scott, Kiki Blundell, Ben Hoare, Jeanelle Hurst, Gary Warner, Russell Solomon, Blair Garland, Em Williams, Louise Crompton, Walter Stahl, Jane E Creative, Karike Ashworth, Genine Larin, Caroline Austin, Katherine Keegan, Walter Baldwin, Tracey Wallace, Layla Le Compte, Leighton William, Dan Webb, Kristian Brennan
Many thanks to the Performers…
Dusan Bojic, Serena Theobald, Nev Branch, Damian Burge, Jimmy Sky, Kellie Peta, Duncan Neil, Alice Milne
Acknowledgments…
Financial assistance for insurance, promotion and community engagement materials was provided by The Regional Arts Development Fund (a partnership between the Queensland Government and Moreton Bay Regional Council).
Boot Art acknowledges and pays respect to the Kabi Kabi, Jinibara, and Turrbal Traditional Custodians, and their elders past, present, and emerging.
Many thanks to the Bone Yard Collective…Â Ruby, Becky & Leigh for hosting this project…
Boot Art was launched in August 2022 as a 6-month hybrid public art / wilding art project –Â in collaboration with the Bone Yard Collective based in Kabi Kabi, Jinibara and Turrbal Land (Redcliffe Peninsula).
The Boot Art strategy employed DIY / BYO tactics across an intermedial landscape/streetscape – claiming space for experimentation, communication and open-ended engagement.
Artists were invited to go wild – working in on and outside the boots of their cars within a research-orientated approach – meaning strategies for engagement could be tweaked.
Boot Art evolved into a 7.5 event project running from August 2022 through to May 2023.
Doodle Table + Flyers were introduced in BA2.
Community Drawing Strategies (Exquisite Corpses + Frottage Exercises) were run in BA3 + BA4 Â in collaboration with Gary Warner (drawing exercises) Â & Louise Crompton (on-ground facilitator).
Speed Drawing Comps were run over BA5 BA6 & BA7 + the BoneYard Birthday EventÂ
The Big Painting was set up for BA6 & BA7.
Open Mic ran over BA5 – BA7… Art on Boots was introduced in BA6
Boot Art was staged in the Bone Yard carpark on the corner of Anzac Avenue and Sutton Streets.  Bone Yard runs an espresso café and vintage record store within the shell of a former petrol station.
Bone Yard Collective is a family-run business situated within the endangered Redcliffe retail precinct – home to small local businesses working precariously out of buildings on short-term leases and under the threat of demolition.
The site’s decaying past structure glory gives much-needed history and social fabric reprieve from the tsunami of modernist urban development sweeping across the Peninsula.
The Bone Yard site provides near-perfect public art – coal face – spatiotemporal opportunities. Open but intimate space with multiple viewing platforms and easy, casual, and random access to the community.
The surrounding area includes high-rise apartment buildings, retail centres, roads, intersections, footpaths, thoroughfares, street lighting, and signage allowing artists to work and communicate across the intermedial landscape and within the interconnectedness of the urban ecosystem.
Questions asked…
Can a hybrid public art / wilding art strategy explore and navigate space outside the cultural framework of institutionalized arts practice and what would be the value of engagement for artists and the wider community?
Can artists maintain open-ended experimentation and engagement when government agency-funded projects require cultural filla for predictive public art strategies?
Many thanks to the Artists…
Christopher Cipollone, Erika Scott, Kiki Blundell, Ben Hoare, Jeanelle Hurst, Gary Warner, Russell Solomon, Blair Garland, Em Williams, Louise Crompton, Walter Stahl, Jane E Creative, Karike Ashworth, Genine Larin, Caroline Austin, Katherine Keegan, Walter Baldwin, Tracey Wallace, Layla Le Compte, Leighton William, Dan Webb, Kristian Brennan
Many thanks to the Performers…
Dusan Bojic, Serena Theobald, Nev Branch, Damian Burge, Jimmy Sky, Kellie Peta, Duncan Neil, Alice Milne
Many thanks to the Bone Yard Collective…Â Ruby, Becky & Leigh for hosting this project…
Acknowledgments…
Financial assistance for insurance, promotion and community engagement materials was provided by The Regional Arts Development Fund (a partnership between the Queensland Government and Moreton Bay Regional Council).
Boot Art acknowledges and pays respect to the Kabi Kabi, Jinibara, and Turrbal Traditional Custodians, and their elders past, present, and emerging.
