 |
| Chrissie Ianssen and Majid Rabet, Hello installation sketch, 2012 |
 |
| Chrissie Ianssen and Majid Rabet, Hello installation sketch, 2012 |
Chrissie Ianssen is a painter, multi-disciplined artist and the coordinator of The Refugee Art Project Studios. She hand painted a series of ping-pong tables for the 2012 Sydney Festival in Parramatta. She completed a Masters of Visual Arts with a scholarship in 2008, at The University of Sydney. In 2010, she was awarded the Parramatta Artist Fellowship and with this she explored the design nuances of Granville. She has floated down the Parramatta River on a hand painted raft in her 2010 project Homage to the River. Also in 2010, she won the Lane Cove public art prize and made a suite of street furniture, which is now installed outside the Lane Cove Library. She was awarded an ArtStart grant in 2011. Her current solo exhibition, supported by an Australia Council New Works Grant, is being held at Brush Farm House from the 6th of October to the 14th of October. Later this year, she will undertake a wall work commission for the Parramatta Artist Studios. www.chrissieianssen.com
Majid Rabet is an artist, engineer and inventor. Operating his own forge in his native Iran, he produced large scale, hand made steel works. Majid also hand made electronic cars for films. He has designed and built large-scale drilling machinery for industry. During his time in Australian Immigration detention, he ingeniously exploited whatever material he could find, creating a massage machine from jeans and a dvd player, and paint brushes using the fur from a stray cat he befriended. In his Sydney studio he has built a marching robot that is activated by a mobile phone, and an exquisite scale model of the Anzac bridge by shaping spaghetti with an angle grinder. He continues to paint and exhibit with the Refugee Art Project. www.therefugeeartproject.com
