The 2014 Australian Body Art Carnivale saw around 100 competitors embrace this year’s theme of ‘Dreams and Nightmares’.
The colourful community arts event again drew thousands of spectators to Eumundi from May 3-4 to watch some of the nation’s best body artists, face painters, visual artists and wearable art designers create and parade their masterpieces.
Event Manager Danielle Taylor says the theme of ‘Dreams and Nightmares’ drew a wide range of interpretations across all competition categories and some truly incredible art emerged. “Some artists focused on dreams, other on nightmares, and many intertwined the two – showing the duality between good and evil, beauty and horror. We saw works that featured spiders, grotesque gore, sci-fi horror and monsters as well as angels, rainbow sprites, goddesses and knights in shining armour.”
Danielle highlights what a great weekend the event is for art-loving members of the public. “It truly is phenomenal to watch the artists come together from near and far to create something special,” she says. “The artists were under pressure to create their masterpieces within the defined time limits of the competitions, yet all had smiles on their faces and really seemed to enjoy themselves and celebrate the opportunity to work alongside fellow artists.”
Danielle continues: “The support for novice competitors, including two 13 year-old-artists in the Face Painting Competition, was particularly great to see, with more experienced artists really encouraging the new competitors throughout the day.”
For more info on the Australian Body Art Carnivale, visit australianbodyart.com.au.
