Brittany Veitch

Brittany Veitch is a felt and soft sculpture artist trained as an Industrial Designer. Brittany makes handsewn toys under her label, The Vibrant City, which was launched in 2007. In 2009, Brittany collaborated with Ben Landau to present Bio-Accessories at the City Library niches as part of Craft Victoria's Craft Cubed festival program. In the same year Brittany was part of Veni, Vidi, Vici, a group exhibition at C3 Contemporary Art Space with Katie Jacobs and Rohani Osman.

Pardon My French!, 2010, felt, chain, thread

French profanity, curse with style. Hand-embroidered felt speech bubbles in black, de rigueur for Melbourne chic, slung from gaudy gold chain.

Pardon my French! is a tongue in check expression of fashion frivolities mixing cheap material, commonly associated with mass production, with traditional craftsmanship skills to bring a subtle quality to what is an essentially crude trinket.

Emblazoned in finely detailed hand stitching, Zut!, a French expletive, pays homage to Paris, France, an icon for fashion.

And so to this folly, say oui oui, and curse to your heart’s content.

www.thevibrantcity.blogspot.com

Katie Jacobs

Katie Jacobs is a ceramicist, having graduated from Monash University in 2002 with a Bachelor of Applied Art (Honours) in Ceramics.

Recent solo exhibitions include Domestic Flights at BUS Gallery in 2007 and Raining In My Heart at Pieces of Eight in 2009. Selected group exhibitions include The PAN Gallery Ceramic Art Award: Bottled in 2009, where she took home the main prize, Veni Vidi Vici at C3 Gallery, Abbotsford Convent with Brittany Veitch and Rohani Osman,

Fingernail earrings, 2010, acrylic nails, nickel findings

Fake nails have always freaked me out. They can cross the line between attractive and scary, and I am in turns fascinated and repulsed by those ones that look like animal talons. Being repulsed is always good for art! For enhancing your boring ugly pathetic useless fingers, you can get diamantes, spray painted hibiscus, nail charms, piercings and a blog user called Michael says, "there are now professional-grade fake nails for children, specifically 3-7 year olds! Before you jump the gun and say that it’s “over-sexualizing” young girls, please keep in mind that in Japan these things are cute, and they simply don’t see it that way. Besides, I’ve seen blush for babies to give them that rosy-red-cheek look."[1] Wow. You sold me. I’m going out right now to get a 3 year old so I have something to put my fake nails on.

1. http://www.japantrends.com/bambina-fake-nails-for-japanese-3-year-olds/

www.kateisonthemake.blogspot.com