BLOOD, SWEAT & TEETH

This short film I made a while back won Most Disturbing Movie at the Honolulu Underground Film Festival. Chris is so afraid of the dentist, that he decides to take his decayed teeth out at home, using ordinary handyman tools like a drill and pliers, and a breadknife. The results are sometimes scary and often hilarious.

BRAINS book launch

Dr Martin Simpson talks about his latest release, the pulp fiction novel BRAINS, a deliciously trashy hospital thriller. If this is the state of our hospitals, please don't let me get sick.

THE FYRES

Here's another video of ours. A tale of jealousy and hellfire with a great fire eating performance.

IT'S ALL IN THE MIND

The home psychiatry channel is here to help

This week's subject Krystal Klea thinks she's an alien. Dr Karl thinks she's insane. But who is right? And how good is alien sex?

Vermin

The movie that moved vermin to the front of your imagination. Hilarious short movie that shows the real power in the kitchen is not down the drain but in your face.

Sculpture Artist brings relief to you

'Three Flying dicks' is a ceramic wall relief that takes a ribald dig at the 'Three Flying Ducks' wall hangings which were a standard feature of every suburban house in the nineteen fifties. Measuring 26 cm (10.5 inches) wide x 15 cm (6 inches) high in bright glazed ceramic, this work of art featured on your wall will make a fascinating talking point.



To secure one of the few remaining examples of this edition, contact the artist at irenewalls@gmail.com

The greeting card to keep in touch

'Flying Dicks' by Irene Walls is the right card for every occasion (well maybe not for granny's birthday - but then again...)
Only $7.99 plus GST + postage.
Card comes complete with sequin lips in coloured envelopes.



email me at irenewalls@gmail.com to order.

Love, Irene

Labyrinth

This is a slip-cast mold I made.

Read more about labyrinths here

coco

Nicolai Poliakoff
the first Coco

coco

coconut

Ceramic wall hangings by Irene. Link to my clown site: CLOWNS

My new work

This bluebird mobile is made of sheet metal on black bamboo hangers cut from my garden.

spinoza buddha the doctor

photo of John Pertwee as Dr Who by Rob Walls

my heroes!

Jeremy and Teapot

This movie, made by Briann in 1976, ran for 25 minutes and won Best Film 1982 Womancraft International Film and Video Festival. Tucson, USA.
I was the makeup artist and also acted as a fairy on roller skates. Plus sound effects.

International Womans Day 1975

In this documentary by Briann, I participated giving my opinion 0n how I felt being a woman at that time.
I also did the makeup on Leona who also spoke.

Pino - The ghost women who dances

In this radio play I played the lead, Pino. I am the Ghost Woman!

Solo Exhibition of sculpture and painting

MY PHALLOSOPHY.

This exhibition is called 'Castings and Gleanings' and is an overview of my work from 1988 to the present day.



Gleanings refers to my use of found objects such as feathers, insects, beach glass, driftwood, stones and shells in my work.



Some of the works are coloured with pigments ground from ochre stones. There are paintings, pastels, sculptures and wall hangings in the exhibition.



The castings referred to are bronzes and slip cast ceramics based on three molds; a mask, a nude figure, and a take on the suburban icon of three flying ducks - a group of three flying 'dicks'.



I think the phallus is a taboo icon in our society yet in other cultures, for example Japanese and Bhutanese society, it is a revered and respected image for its evocation of the procreative spirit. I have given my penii wings, a kind of angelic interpretation of the image, and have since been interested to discover similar winged phalluses are to be found on the walls of ancient Greek frescoes and Egyptian tombs thousands of years old. The image clearly is an archtypal one, alluded to as such in the writings of Carl Jung.

In this varied and fascinating exhibition, I meld the psychoanalytic with the suburban in humorous homage to the ceramic wall hangings of the nineteen fifties, but there is a philosophy, or should I say phallosophy, behind my subversive interpretations.

Solo Exhibition

November 12-17, 2002

Michael Commerford Gallery

16 McLachlan Ave.

Rushcutters Bay NSW Australia

Artist's Biography

Sometime builder's labourer, musican and writer but always artist, Irene Walls derives her constant inspiration from found objects in nature. Gathering a history cast before her by wind, sea and time, she constructs an uncompromising world of loss, whose gain is in the philosophical and intellectual realm. In the detritus of the past she finds keys to decisions about the future of a world we need reason to treasure.

Born in Amsterdam during the Holocaust, Irene came to Australia at the age of fifteen as one of the great influx of post World War 2 boat people that began the multicultural redevelopment of Australia .



In her long and varied artistic journey since sculpture has always been her passion. Even during her early career as BBC trained make-up artist working on such classics as the TV series Dr Who, the Hollywood production 'Blue Lagoon' with Brooke Shields and the seminal Australian film 'Newsfront', Irene's on-location collection of found objects became a source of much fascination for cast and crew.

By the mid 1980's she had moved full time into sculpture and painting, teaching at the EORA Aboriginal College for the Visual and Performing Arts. In the bi-centennial year of 1988, she sculpted 'The Muses' in consultation with the cartoonist Bruce Petty, painted a section of the Pitt Street Sydney Mural and brought to life with colour a giant animatronic flying watermelon in the 'First State '88 Exhibition'.

During the 1990's Irene pioneered the use of Hebel block as a sculpting material, colouring her works (often the sinuous forms of native lizards) with natural ochres from her found collection.

From sculpture she moved into mold making and bronze casting. The art of molding led her into ceramics and her most recent works develope this strand of her talents.

The works in her latest exhibition are gleaned from examples of her output over the past decade or more and cover a wide range of materials and techniques. The artisan attention to technical discipline in the work powers the pieces with impeccable surface and the dramatic subtlety for which she is renowned.



In celebration of nature, Irene finds delight in the power and mischief of the reproductive instincts, promoting the harmonious possibilities of human existence, whilst alluding to the tensions beneath.

This exhibition explores the yin-yang, light-heaviness of being. It resonates with the vibrant warmth and unique intelligence of the artist's life view.

Nothing without Belinda

I am also a member of the famous Sydney acapella choir 'Nothing without Belinda'

That is me in the front with the red hair!

This beautiful song is called 'El Peublo'




We have a CD out called 'Waterloo Tuesdays'.
Email us for a copy at markdas@hotmail.com

A Capella singing

Here we are in Canberra at the National Folk Festival Easter 2008 singing (a bit of) 'Mrval'




We have a CD out called 'Waterloo Tuesdays'.
Email us for a copy at markdas@hotmail.com

irene walls art works 03 08

life with a cat

Pwooyam

Is the name of our house and I painted it in the window. It means sleeping lizard in the Eora language of the Aboriginals from the Sydney Area.

Gene-X

Young research doctor Tom Gray is on the brink of a genetic cure for cancer. Nurse Casey Gordon, desperate to save the life of a child in her care, seduces Tom into testing his therapy. But is the cure worse than the disease? And how many deaths will the cover-up cost?
Have a look at a great preview here:http://www.gene-x-movie.com/


For full credits on this film see Australian Film Commisssion

Blood, Sweat and Teeth

Mockumentary - directed by Irene Walls and written by Chris Piper. Additional footage, editing, and special effects by Martin Simpson.

Lars, whose fear of the dentist has driven him to home remedies, taking us through a black comedic lesson in denial, hygiene, using handyman drill, pliers and breadknife.

The Fyres

The female half of a club act begins a relationship with her stage manager and finds she is playing with fire.
For full credits on this film see Australian Film Commisssion

Irene's film credits

Irene has helped produce:
Blood, Sweat and Teeth
The Fyres
Gene-X

She has also helped direct:

Blood, Sweat and Teeth
The Fyres

And written:
Blood, Sweat and Teeth
The Fyres

For full credits on these films see Australian Film Commisssion

Meet Irene

Born in Amsterdam during the holocaust, Irene came to Australia at the age of fifteen as one of the great influx of post- World War Two boat people that began the great multicultural development of this country. In her long and varied artistic journey since then, sculpture has always remained her passion. Even during her early career as BBC trained make-up artist working on such classics as the TV series DR WHO, the Hollywood production BLUE LAGOON with Brooke Shields, and the seminal Australian film NEWSFRONT, Irene's on-location collections of found objects became a source of much fascination for cast and crew.

By the mid 1980's she had moved full time into sculpting and painting, teaching at the EORA Aboriginal College for the Visual and Performing Arts. In the Bi-centennial year of 1988, she sculpted the MUSES in consultation with the cartoonist Bruce Petty, painted a section of the Pitt St mural, and brought to life with colour a giant animatronic flying watermelon in the First State '88 Exhibition.. During the '90's Irene pioneered the use of Hebel block as a sculpting material, colouring her works (often in the sinuous curves of native lizards) with natural ochres from her found collection of stones.

From sculpture she moved naturally into mold making and bronze casting. The techniques of mold-making led her to ceramics, and her most recent works develop this strand of her talents.
In celebration of nature, Irene Walls' work promotes the harmonious possibilities of human existence in a world where all living things are treated with universal compassion, and the interweaving of all lives is a constant revelation.