Look: Mel Robson Guns & Pigeons Brisbane

Look: Mel Robson Guns & Pigeons
Brisbane

We were quite taken with these guns and the below pigeons made out of old plates. Mel Robson is a ceramic artist located at the top end of Australia in Brisbane. She makes a lot of interesting bits and pieces but it was the more recent work with recycled willow pattern type plates that got us excited.

Using either side of each item they are cut out using a water jet cutting process. We’re particularly drawn to the gun shooting out bits of plate but a small flock of pigeons on our wall would look quite smashing too. If you want to see more visit Mel’s blog here.

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no thanks on the guns.

posted by SydneyBristow on July 30th 2008 at 9:10am
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The gims are a rip off of Seattle artist, Charlie Krafft.

posted by sammy123 on July 30th 2008 at 9:13am
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correction - guns

posted by sammy123 on July 30th 2008 at 9:13am
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what is it with the gun designs? does anyone buy this stuff (had a better word than 'stuff', just being nice)?

posted by Kris on July 30th 2008 at 9:49am
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Call me cynical...but like the guns and would great on my wall in the hallway

posted by MilenaB. on July 30th 2008 at 10:15am
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i think guns used here or in Krafft's work are effective thought-provoking pieces. If it's not your cup of tea, that's fine but don't dismiss it as shi* because there is actually a lot of folks who dig it.

posted by badnewsbetty on July 30th 2008 at 11:10am
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I think there might be something lost in translation here. There is a huge difference between gun culture in the US and Australia [since Australias gun amnesty in the late 90's following a massacre and the subsequent law reforms], as Australia has comparatively no guns.
To me this reads as an intentional contradiction between something pretty and fragile and somehing industrious and aggressive - as art I think it's fantastic.

As far as Charles Krafft goes, some of his themes cross over into this work, but his work is unsettling and deliberatley provoking, this seems naive and light hearted.
I'd like to see Krafft's work in a museum, I'd like to see this on my wall.

posted by pinky speedway on July 30th 2008 at 3:07pm
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I like the pigeons, not a fan of the guns.

posted by suzy8track on July 30th 2008 at 4:57pm
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brisbane is not at "the top end of Australia".

it's on the eastern coast in the center of the country.

i live two hours from brisbane (part of the year).

posted by *heather leaf* on July 30th 2008 at 10:15pm
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The Aussie blogger is from Melbourne. Anywhere north of the Murray river is 'top end' (and she'll know with a comment like that, I'm from Sydney.... he-he-he.

posted by Deb of Oz on July 31st 2008 at 1:23am
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