World Bodypainting Festival Official Installation Art Gallery

The World Bodypainting Festival has published a gallery with a selection of favourite images from the Installation Award.

Enjoy

Image: Agnieszka Glinska

http://gallery.wb-production.com/World-Bodypainting-Festival/WBF-2015/Festival-Main-Days/Best-of-Gallery-01/Installation-Art

Fabulous snippet from our Coalescence of Creation presentation at the World Bodypainting Festival

The wonderful Lars Hoog took this footage of our installation presentation and shared it on Facebook. More to follow as we have a short film in the works.

Thank you Lars for sharing!

Stories from The Coalescence of Creation: Save The Bees!!

The Coalescence of Creation is an Award Winning Body Art Yarn Bomb Installation Art Piece featured at the World Bodypainting Festival in Austria by Artist Emma Cammack. With Artists, Bodypainters and Models also featured in the presentation there were over 100 Artisans involved with making this extraordinary piece of team work happen, of that 100 over 85 were Fibre Artists creating beautiful handcrafted pieces to be a part of a crochet and knitted fantasy woodland on the banks of Worthersee. Each and every piece and every person that is part of the installation has a tale to tell of how they came to be there...

I am a passionate gardener and lover of nature. Part of wanting to create the crochet woodland wonderland that forms the backdrop to the Installation was my love of nature. I wanted to celebrate natures heroes, one of the biggest of which for me is the humble Bee! Bees are essential to keep food on our plates and for the circle of life to keep spinning. Too many bees have been dying, poisoned by our need to farm "more efficiently". Bees are vital and we work hard at home to provide an environment for them to thrive. I researched lots of images of wild bee hives and inspired by many images I saw decided to free style my own versions to hang in the woodland.

The Honeycomb hive was inspired by the crochet honeycomb image I found on Pinterest, and which I roughly approximated my own version of with double thread yarn and a huge crochet hook.

The Hanging wild bee hive was up cycled from a brown scarf found in a charity shop that was coiled and sewn into the hanging hive shape, with crochet bees sewn on. I am very happy with the results.

A wonderful surprise while we were building the installation was to find a nest of Mason Bees happily living underground within out installation. The entrance to their hive was just here on the ground next to the knitted bollard. If you look carefully in the picture you can see their hole at the right bottom of the bollard.

Save the bees poster resource.

There are many simple ways you can help bees in your own garden. Plant some of the plants on the poster, and avoid using chemicals which will harm them on your garden. We need the bees more than they need us.

Click here for more info from Friends of the Earth on helping Bees in your region.

Stories from the Coalescence of Creation: The Slug Sisters...

The Coalescence of Creation is an Award Winning Body Art Yarn Bomb Installation Art Piece featured at the World Bodypainting Festival in Austria by Artist Emma Cammack. With Artists, Bodypainters and Models also featured in the presentation there were over 100 Artisans involved with making this extraordinary piece of team work happen, of that 100 over 85 were Fibre Artists creating beautiful handcrafted pieces to be a part of a crochet and knitted fantasy woodland on the banks of Worthersee. Each and every piece and every person that is part of the installation has a tale to tell of how they came to be there...

The inspiration for some of the creatures who feature in Coalescence of Creation installation were from many many web searched for beautiful knitted and crochet items. When I searched around for inspirations for the installation there were some amazing images and inspirational images I found for all kinds of creatures, beetles, bugs and butterflies that I shared with my amazing pool of fibre artists. One of my favourites was an image of some knitted slugs. They looked slimy and fantastic. They were ugly things, and I knew they had to be featured somehow as we needed a balance between beauty and beast. No-one wanted to make them, I sadly (having only basic knitting skills and having only just learned to crochet I did not have the level of skill required, so while beautiful butterflies and bugs flooded in my ugly ducking slugs remained unmade. Months went by and every now and then I would look at the slug pictures and wish I knew how to knit well enough to make them.

Luckily my Mum, Dee Cammack, stepped up and knitted the two fabulous slug sisters pictured below. They look particularly fabulous on the grass green twine we found in a skip from a house clearance which ended up in the installation too.

So here they are, The Slug Sisters in all their slimy splendour! Thank you Mum! They are wonderful.

Stories from The Coalescence of Creation: Mimi, a very special Monarch Butterfly.

At the end of last year my friend found a monarch butterfly with an injured wing on the sidewalk near his home in LA. Most people would have walked on by, but not this man. Artist David Gilmore and his partner took the butterfly under their wing and took her home, by the end of the day she had a name "Mimi" and began an artisan life as model, actress and muse.

David's Facebook feed became filled with daily updates on Mimi's progress and as each day went on his friends all tuned in for the latest news and images of this special being, being nursed back to health. Mimi never regained flight, although she retained the ability to fly as David and his partner "flew" her around their home and garden on their hands. They treated her gently and with such love.

Then the inspiration began and beautiful images of Mimi in conjunction with David's beautiful art began to emerge. She was inspirational. She touched us all.

Then one day in late January David broke the news that Mimi had passed, her life cycle had ended. This tiny creature had moved me so much that from the other side of the world I cried, with my children who cried too. We mourned this ethereal being who had meant so much to us from so far away. It was then that I knew I would create a place in my installation to honour Mimi and her effect on us. I had to learn to crochet to do this, and it took many attempts to make a Mimi I was happy with.

Crocheting Mimi on Santa Monica Beach

She was crocheted in many parts of the world, as it was important to me that she should have travelled and created in as many places as possible. I crocheted her in Germany, London, on a flight from Frankfurt to LA, on Santa Monica Beach, in Finland, in Belgium and The Netherlands, on set, off set, and all kind of other places in between. She was finally completed during the road trip to Austria and the World Bodypainting Festival.

The finished result.

Mimi was placed with great love in The Coalescence of Creation Installation as a symbol of hope eternal.

Life cycle of the Monarch Butterfly.

Here is to Mimi.

"My soul is painted like the wings of butterflies, fairy tales of yesterday will grow but never die, I can fly my friends" Freddie Mercury.

The Coalescence of Creation is an Award Winning Body Art Yarn Bomb Installation Art Piece featured at the World Bodypainting Festival in Austria by Artist Emma Cammack. With Artists, Bodypainters and Models also featured in the presentation there were over 100 Artisans involved with making this extraordinary piece of team work happen, of that 100 over 85 were Fibre Artists creating beautiful handcrafted pieces to be a part of a crochet and knitted fantasy woodland on the banks of Worthersee. Each and every piece and every person that is part of the installation has a tale to tell of how they came to be there...

Pinterest Board for The Coalescence of Creation Installation

We have received so many amazing images from visitors to The Coalescence of Creation Installation at the World Bodypainting Festival that we have created a Pinterest Board to share images from it. Please add any images you may have or simply view more fabulous pictures there. Many more will be added over the next few days.
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The Coalescence of Creation Installation - The Family Heirloom Tree

The Coalescence of Creation our Body Art Yarn Bomb Installation at the World Bodypainting Festival features many stories, characters and elements. Over the next few posts we will introduce your to some of our favourite pieces.

The Family Heirloom Tree from The Coalescence of Creation. Award winning Installation Art by Emma Cammack from the World Bodypainting Festival 2015. Sponsored by Cameleon Bodypaint.

The Family Heirloom Tree is made up from precious pieces passed down to our family and lovingly kept. Filled with personal memories of childhood, family, love and loss. The large lace table cloth was collected by my husband years ago in Turkey and has held a special place in family meals and celebrations, the place mats were crocheted by my Grandfather and Grandmother Fred and Kathleen Cammack, both of whom were huge inspirations to me. The Baby blanket was one gifted to us on the birth of our first child by my husband's family, the baby birds represent my husband's beautiful older sister Christine who he never met, but is forever in our hearts. Her baby mittens have been turned into chicks and nestle in a nest made from one of my husband's hats. Family ties, family threads that bind us are represented by this tree, those we wish were here but are not and watch us from heaven. This is a tree filled with love, one that i am sure made my Grandfather smile down on us.

Nesting chicks by Emma Cammack,

from vintage baby mittens belonging to Christine Harre

Nesting chicks by Emma Cammack,

from vintage baby mittens belonging to Christine Harre

Gecko made by Victoria Mitchell

The tree features baby blankets, shawls and table cloths, runners and mats passed down from relatives to our family and treasured and reminders of family and childhood.

The Coalescence of Creation is a Body Art Yarn Bomb Installation piece featured as part of the World Bodypainting Festival, Austria, 2015. The Installation won 1st Place in the Special Awards, Installation Art Award.

To view more art by Emma Cammack visit www.emmacammack.com

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The Coalescence of Creation

An alternative environment of handcrafted wonder. Trees enveloped in brightly coloured yarns, a canopy of crochet circles letting light dapple through their bright colours to the woodland floor. Our need to create as beings is innate, in built, inescapable. Not only the human brain needs to make, create, build and nest, represented here are creatures who build their own environments. Homes crafted from twigs, leaves, silk and mud. Butterflies and caterpillars in their cocoons, various birds nesting, spider’s webs, squirrel’s drays, fox’s burrows, rabbit holes, ant nests. Amongst the brightly coloured trees creatures hide, knitted birds in their knitted nests, Crochet butterflies emerging from crochet cocoons, woven spiders sitting on their silken spun webs, knitted and woven flowers bloom all around.

In our lives we also weave threads of connection. Threads that join us all like a spiders web. Threads span from North, South, East and West, wrapping around the world and uniting here in this coalescent representation of world community. Numerous Artists, young and old, of many creeds, cultures and colours, coming together to create this alternate environment of colour, space and light to represent our world community. From within this world created from yarns, threads, silks and strings emerge colourful dancers who embody the threads of creation themselves dancing a human maypole dance of co-operation, co-existence and creation. The dance embodies life weaving between our fellow earth dwellers, creating ties that bind, close knit, apron strings. Our lives are colourful threads weaving together in an ever changing tapestry of community. Nature gave us all this instinct to build and create. Nature is in us. Nature is around us. We are Nature. We are Art. We are all equal. We are community. We are life.

Come and see our installation in Bodypaint City at the World Bodypainting Festival, Portschach am Worthersee, Austria. http://www.bodypainting-festival.com/en/

You are all invited to our presentation at 5.30pm on Saturday 4th July.

Art Installation at the World Bodypainting Festival

Art Installation at the World Bodypainting Festival

This year I am lucky enough to be creating an Installation at the World Bodypainting Festival. Last year as we drove home we were flooded with ideas for creating something amazing. My daughter, Isobel, was full of crazy pie in the sky dreams of knitted trees and all kinds of incredible things. Fort he nine hour drive home we pondered the possibilities... And then, a few months later after a chat with Alex Barendregt, the festival organiser, we decided to do it. So for the last 7 months I have been working towards realising those dreams from that long journey.

Coalescence of Creation

Trees enveloped in brightly coloured yarns, a canopy of crochet circles letting light dapple through their bright colours to the woodland floor. Amongst the brightly coloured trees creatures hide, knitted birds in their knitted nests, Crochet butterflies emerging from crochet cocoons, woven spiders sitting on their silken spun webs, knitted and woven flowers bloom all around. From within this world created from yarns, threads, silks and strings emerge colourful dancers who embody the threads of creation themselves dancing a human maypole dance of co-operation, co-existence and creation.

Our dreams were to create an alternate reality fashioned from colour and light. We dreamed of multi-coloured trees, of swings wrapped in knitted flowers, of sunlight dappling onto the woodland floor in stained glass patterns through a brightly crocheted canopy of colour. Hand crafted figures, and creatures hidden on branches, knitted flowers growing in the ground. Hand crafted, yarn bombed nature, with the crystal waters of Worthersee and the mountains in the background.

One drawback was that although my Grandfather had taught me how to crochet when I was small, I had entirely forgotten the skill, my knitting was also rusty. So I set out to relearn, and to find fibre artists who would want to join in to make something amazing. So far we have over 100 fibre artists from more than 15 countries who have created pieces for the Installation. Some are young, a group of Girl Scouts from the USA, some old, retired crafters crafting in their retirement home. Many many people of both sexes and all ages. I will share per the next few days some information about some of the amazing artists who have become part of this journey. Creating this piece has truly been a community effort and brings together artists of many creeds and colours from across the globe.

We look forward to building and sharing our Installation with you. Join us at 5.30 on Saturday 4th July for our presentation in Bodypaint City.

Building the Coalescence of Creation our Yarn Bombed Bodypaint Art Installation.

We have hundreds of pieces made by artists around the world. Here are just a few as they were made or arrived in the mail! This project has truly been a thrill each and every day. Thank you to all the amazing artists who have created something however big or small for it.

Come and see our Installation in Bodypaint City at the World Bodypainting Festival. Our presentation is on Saturday 4th July at 5.30pm, but swing by anytime and say hello, we will be there. Why not come and make something with us, we have a crafting corner in our build so anyone can stop by and create something to add. No skill required!!

Meet Leon...

Meet Leon,

Leon is our installation mascot, part of the Cameleon Bodypaint Family. He will be keeping his beady eye on you during your visit to the World Bodypainting Festival. Remember Leon is watching you....

Leon was created by the fabulous Sam Phillips from a pattern by Martina Lûžová / Nellagold. Sam is one of the over 85 textile artists from all over the world who have creates pieces for this installation. Thank you Sam!!

Come and visit us in Bodypaint City, make something and add it to the installation, and do not forget to come to our presentation at 5.30 on Saturday 4th July.

Leon is waiting to meet you....

Leon is waiting to meet you....

Come and meet him and his friends at my Installation at the World Bodypainting Festival.

The wonderful Leon was created by the incredible Sam Phillips.

Fine Art Bodypainting Installation Award at World Bodypainting Festival with Trina Merry

The World Bodypainting Festival happens every year in Austria.

This year I had no intention of painting, but got persuaded by my lovely friend, Trina Merry, who persuaded me to help her paint her installation piece for the Fine Art Installation Award. My daughter, Isobel cam and helped too. It was a beautiful experience in this gorgeous Austrian countryside. Our models were painted to blend into backgrounds painted by Trina and formed part of the live action installation piece. The best surprise was that we won first prize :)