At Eveleigh Market I met a fellow cardboard afficionado... A customer showed me the cardboard handbag she'd bought from him, so I went to the other end of the market shed to check it out.
"I work with cardboard too!" We both started waxing lyrical... "I love it! It's simple but elegant... It's raw... It's abundant... I love the 'fluting' inside... yeah, the corrugations, I love the edges too!" Well, something like that...
His name is Jeff McCann... he's from Wagga Wagga but was having an artist's residence at Gaffa Gallery in the Sydney CBD.
One of Jeff McCann's paintings on cardboard - image via Between the Sheets of Cardboard
Jeff makes cardboard handbags/satchels, they're folded into a delicious pillowy shape, with brown paper tabs along the sides. He says he likes cutting up the big brands and featuring bits of text and colour. I do that too in my collages. Sometimes he does that, other times he decorates with original drawings. My friend Kirsten bought one with a gorgeous Fox on the front.
Jeff McCann's flute handbags - image (left) via www.jeffmccann.com.au Photograph by Rory Madigan. www.omigadesign.com. Image (right) via Between the Sheets of Cardboard
Find out more about Jeff's work here at The Cardigan Threads Collective.
Jeff was sharing a stall with Nina Baker, from The Side Project. Nina's work is awesome! It's edgy and beautiful. Some of Nina's jewellery designs feature thin strips of metal collected from the street - they've fallen out of street sweeping machine brushes.
I snapped one up at a previous market! It's got two strips of metal, some bright yellow teardrop beads and a tiny pearl, on silk thread.
Read more about the street sweeper jewellery here - and also here
I also love The Side Project's brooches - photos printed onto aluminium sheet - quirky images like burlesque beauties from a bygone era, Australian scenes - street signs, suburban homes. More images here at sideprojectcollective.com
This one's mine all mine. Ain't she beautiful?!
Mind you, this is just the "side project"- more on Nina's jewellery here
That is one of the great things about doing markets - meeting other like-minded people who love to create.
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