Tricky Walsh

Why Do They Hate Tasmania? - Tasmanian Times Why is the pro-stadium lobby so happy to burn Tasmania to the ground for their pet project? Alan Whykes challenges their foundational myths.

#politas

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Also use your thumbs!

Nosur vivors also looks Latin enough to be fun

Agreed

‘Incredibly dangerous’: Fiery protesters slam Creative Australia over artist dumping Dozens of protesters descended on the arts agency’s office on Thursday as the backlash over the Venice Biennale decision continues.

@omarsakr.bsky.social (pictured at right in this preview image) said: "When art must serve the government’s political agenda, it’s no longer art, it’s propaganda"

YEAH

This is such a pathetic, dark day for Australian universities

Oh the secret of NIMH was great. 😍😍😍

So we're still not sure that the sludge of dead salmon washing up on the coasts near to the salmon farms is coming from the salmon farms? Really?

It would be great if Creative Australia could provide a list of subjects and people that artists must avoid if they wish to keep their govt contracts over the next 25 years #estimates

Khaled Sabsabi will no longer represent Australia at the Venice Biennale in 2026 Move follows an article in The Australian newspaper, which called attention to controversial works by the artist including depictions of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah

I can’t believe this..

Image of a small copper hand loom with an incomplete tapestry of a grey cube in a pink background

Screenshot of artist statement. Tricky Walsh stutterloom V2, 2024/2025 The loom has its associations to computing through its punch-card programming, its adherence to patterns and the way it deconstructs information into bits or pixels. I think a lot about how our technological literacy waxes and wanes. How we have gone from understanding a physical thing because we can see how its parts interact, to being faced with microscopic circuitry which performs abstractions and presents them as almost-magic. To the point that when it fails, our only option seems to be a quick resuscitation, hoping, sometimes praying, for recovery.

Artist statement continues. Before the loom, weaving was a slow and laborious process. I undertook a residency at the Australian Tapestry Workshop last year where I learned the fundamental basics of weaving by hand. I like learning new things because you get to make mistakes. We’re actively discouraged from doing that after a while, as we develop skills and perfect them. I’m not fond of perfection, to be honest, because it feels finite. There’s nowhere left to go. So sometimes I make things that are illogical, like this stutterloom, which is a machine whose function is to weave, obviously, but under the duress of errors and glitches. Or maybe it’s to actively make mistakes for a world that focusses exclusively on accelerating outcomes. Maybe it’s a kind of protest. A strike. _______ Augmented reality is embedded within the tapestries which you can access through the Artivive App, via this QR code. Remember to tag @creativehobart and @trickywalsh if you post about the work online.

I'm putting some things in the yellow boxes later this month in Mawson's place, Hobart.

This.

I mean, hopefully. 😬 I'm not optimistic.

“Google on Tuesday updated its ethical guidelines around artificial intelligence, removing commitments not to apply the technology to weapons or surveillance.” archive.is/JzVB6

Oh yeah. That's not good.

Watch this. And then watch it again.

Bloody hell. They're not going to be happy until they stick some rubbish up there. I wish they'd just let it be a mountain.

list of banned keywords

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Rhetorical or no? Trump fired everyone.

An aluminium ladder sits in front of a corner of a building where a pink wall meets a blue wall. The colours are reflected in the ladder and the window on the pink wall, which is now blue.

Just doing some conservative painting for the building before it gets put on the market. Business up front. Party in the back. Mulletbuilding.

Pitches for 8 page comics for Island Magazine, a literary magazine in Tasmania closing in on 50 years of age and opening its doors to more literary forms like the graphic narrative. Details at islandmag.com/submit

You need to stop looking for logic and realise the clowns are going to kill you all either through incompetence or design. But at least they'll get a good photo op?

Copper loom #secondcrushslightlymorecomplicated

Making some new copper looms.
#firstcrush

Pickle them!

Utah should probably ban houses and apartments for the prevalence of domestic violence that occurs with them by straight men, but oh that's not the point is it. Wtf are straight women afraid of.

You have obviously just met an alien

Almost 20 years ago, a doctor on TV was asked, "Isn't 12 a little early for a kid to be deciding to transition?" And her response was, "It's old enough for them to decide that it's not worth living anymore if they can't."

That was the only argument I ever needed to hear about gender affirming care.

So Trump's shutting down of the entire government's funding system for American projects is literally so he can go line by line and target transgender people and other minorities.

When we said transphobia affects cis people too, well... here you go.