Current projects
Water Cooler Games
The Big Hair Show
and the earth sighed
Premiering at the Sydney Festival 2017, ‘The Big Hair Show’ is a wig-filled, non-stop variety show. Presented on the outdoor Meriton Festival Village Stage, ‘The Big Show’ delighted audiences with a heady mix of cabaret, colour-enhanced acrobatics, dance and music. Hosted by the inimitable Bob Downe and directed by the fabulous Leah Shelton and Lisa Fa’alafi, this is upbeat comical cabaret with a coiffured twist.
’The Big Hair Show’ is a variety hour that incorporates guest aerialists, acrobats, singers and dancers and can be adapted for both outdoor and indoor settings.
Watch highlights from ‘The Big Hair Show’ here
For touring enquiries contact Virginia Hyam
by Andrew Baines
Andrew Baines is famous for his trademark surreal beach events. He puts politicians, orchestras, cows, hills Hoists, dachshunds and masses of suited volunteers in the sea - then creates photographs and paintings for exhibitions around the world.
Commissioned for Festival 2018 (art and culture program 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games), this new human art installation brings together suited participants carrying briefcases and mobile phones for a race along the beach, followed by a wade into the ocean. This is all topped off with an award ceremony. For Festival 2018, the gold medallion was presented to all participants by Gold Coast Deputy Mayor Cr Donna Gates.
Andrew Baines is an internationally acclaimed Australian artist who is represented by leading commercial galleries in Australia and overseas. He has collaborated with orchestras, wineries, media outlets, journalists and charities across Australia and was recently commissioned for two projects by for the United Nations Association of Australia (UNAA).
‘Water Cooler Games’ is a highly enjoyable outdoor event suitable for participants over 18 and audiences of all ages.
Image: Water Cooler Games, Festival 2018, Broadbeach April 2018, courtesy the artist.
For touring enquiries contact Julianne Pierce
In an immersive audiovisual installation that re-imagines the relationship between nature and culture, Sydney based artists Josephine Starrs and Leon Cmielewski configure the land itself as active, not neutral, and able to speak about our human impacts upon it.
Using imagery captured by drones, detailed aerial views of Australian landscapes and waterways are dynamically manipulated in ways that reveal their underlying fragility; while Alex Davies' surround-soundscape invites contemplation of the impact of climate change on natural ecologies.
'and the earth sighed’ premiered in Melbourne at Arts House in July 2016.
The installation can be presented as a large-scale installation or wall mounted multi screen work. Watch the documentation here
For touring enquiries contact Julianne Pierce
