Social Signs Exhibition

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We had a great night at our mini exhibition, Social Signs, on Saturday Night. This is a little about our project taken from our website.

Do you know your neighbour?  

What about that man with the walking stick in the shopping isle?  

Or the lecturer in the pink top rushing from her car this morning?


Did you answer no to all of the above?  That’s no surprise.


As society becomes more reliant on social media to communicate and interact we are slowly losing the true human social behaviour.  “Hello, how are you?” has turned into likes and digital comments, while goodbyes are replaced with gtg.  I don’t know about you but that makes us sad.  


We are blue monkey installations and we are here to introduce social signs.  For us Social Signs is our own personal interpretation of digital communication crossed with physical interaction.  How and what you say?  Well..


Social Signs is a group project that aims to connect people with people. We often walk, shop and drive with people who have challenging journeys, impacting stories, and insightful knowledge. Our project’s mission is to introduce these people of Townsville to Townsville. A project inspired by Brandon’s Humans of New York, Social Signs will take portraits and stories from people all around the city.  These images will be transformed into artworks and presented in a one night event at Movimiento. 


It was developed by 4 James Cook University students as an assessment piece for Creative Exchange. 

The Social Signs Team


Some of our walls

They are posters of people we photographed. We then invited those people to the night to meet the other faces on the posters, and we all had a really good night meeting new people.




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Mountain Lines

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The book arrived today! 

 I am excited about future projects, and about what I have learnt during this time. 

 Many thanks to the brilliant poet, Martha Landman, and my teacher, Ron McBurnie.

Cover of Mountain Lines

Poems by Martha Landman and Illustrations by Katherine Anne (me) :D

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NUMINOUS Exhibition Townsville

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Numinous has been such a great achievement for all of us completing our 3rd year at the School of Creative Arts, JCU. It was a packed night and I can't thank all my friends and family enough for coming along to that night and to see the exhibition during the weeks following. 

 On the opening night I was delighted to find out that I was one of 10 artist selected for a new exhibition in August the following year. It is in collaboration with Umbrella Studio Townsville. There are a lot of things still to be confirmed, but I think it will be a great show, one I will be traveling back for. 
Numinous 2014, speaker Andrew Rankin

Myself with my two friends

Myself with my friend Sarah

Myself with two of my uni friends

 The four pieces completed.

Positioned nicely for the night.
The space was filling quickly at Perc Tucker

The vinyl logo

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Janet Marsh's Nature Diary

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These are some pictures of a nature journal I found, in an old second hand book store, in Mackay. It is probably one of my most prized possessions. I find myself collecting similar books, as well as books devoted to the Rose. 
Janet Marsh is one of my favourite illustrators. I have not researched her as much as I would have liked, but the way she has set out this book is an inspiration to my latest collaboration and book, Mountain Lines. 
It is also an inspiration to my future books as well. While creating Mountain Lines, I wished I could have put all my dreams and skills into the one book, but I found my brain was quite full of how to actually publish it and what the heck was copyright. 
In future collaborations (especially since I am moving to Victoria) I would really like to start working on publications about birds, more landscapes (in Tasmania), more poetry, more short stories, and even children's books. 
I find publications an easy way to push myself to complete projects and drawings. I know I really need deadlines to keep me working on drawings, so if I make deadlines for myself outside of Uni... I think that could work. 

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