#storybombing Ashfield

May 25, 2020#storybombing, Art Projects, Community, Creativity

In September 2019 the Sydney suburb of Ashfield was #storybombed. Inner West Council invited me, along with Spineless Wonders publisher Bronwyn Mehan and writer Richard Holt, to bring #storybombing to the centre of Ashfield as part of the 2019 Ashfield Edge festival. A roaming writer under the alias Walther Write (Richard Holt) interacted with locals … Read More

INPUT // OUTPUT

February 20, 2017Art Projects, Community, Creativity

A study residency at frontyard Marrickville, March 9th-22nd The goal of this residency at frontyard is to not have a goal. During my residency, I will seek to get INPUT through reading, pausing, thinking, talking, visiting, exploring, engaging, walking, meditating. My intention is to use my frontyard “getaroom” wall to map process, beliefs, insights, emotions and connections. I endeavour to unlearn … Read More

#storybombing

March 1, 2016Art Projects, Community

  The #storybombingSydney project brings to the city immersive and playful encounters with bite-sized Australian literature through text, voice, audio and visual elements. Whether via low or high tech (from pavement chalk and fortune cookies to time-lapse recording, decal transparencies, digital riso printed billboard posters, large-scale projections or sounds generated from text), throughout the story … Read More

Notes from the Ice

January 9, 2009Art Projects, Creativity

In 2007 and 2008 Bettina travelled as artist in residence aboard the M/V Lyubov Orlova and Icebreaker Kapitan Khlebnikov to the Antarctic peninsula. Influenced by this experience she worked on a series of paintings in oil on glass and on found wood. She also brought back photographs to share snapshots of her time in this astounding … Read More