These shoes show the signs of their life. A life they’ve shared with me. They began as a comfortable pair but eventually grew to become my significant other. Our first big trip together was to Africa, Ghana first. These shoes took me along dirt roads to work and back, up bush and rocks to a waterfall. In South Africa we made our way up to Zimbabwe and around Victoria Falls, and there they jumped off a bridge on my first bungee jump. Years later we went to Japan and these shoes, showing their maturity now, walked me up Mt Fuji. They weren’t intimidated by other people’s climbing gear; they held their own and persisted to the crater and back down.That was the last hurrah but an incredible one. They haven’t really been the same since. They’re tired, I can tell. But they’re still here; they may very well be here forever. (Donor, Luke Holmes)

These shoes show the signs of their life. A life they’ve shared with me. They began as a comfortable pair but eventually grew to become my significant other. Our first big trip together was to Africa, Ghana first. These shoes took me along dirt roads to work and back, up bush and rocks to a waterfall. In South Africa we made our way up to Zimbabwe and around Victoria Falls, and there they jumped off a bridge on my first bungee jump. Years later we went to Japan and these shoes, showing their maturity now, walked me up Mt Fuji. They weren’t intimidated by other people’s climbing gear; they held their own and persisted to the crater and back down.That was the last hurrah but an incredible one. They haven’t really been the same since. They’re tired, I can tell. But they’re still here; they may very well be here forever. (Donor, Luke Holmes)

Group Art Project @ ClubHouse, Performance Space

Group Art Project get involved

FELLOW TRAVELLERS Join Us, Muck In, Hang Out


We need

    • Shoe donors (people who are happy to part with a pair of shoes and share a ‘journey’ story and even record their own story)
    • Interviewers and/or cataloguers (people to record visitors reflections of journey)
    • Cobblers (artists who will transform shoes into a sculptural art work based on an overall brief)

      WHERE: CarriageWorks, Wilson St, Eveleigh, Track 12
      WHEN:       February 10 –March 6, 2010
      TIMES:       4 - 16 hours a week (for 4 weeks)
      depending on your  availability
      Wed – Sat, 2pm -6pm ONLY

      CONTACT       Regina reginaheilmann@tpg.com.au for information and to register or ‘phone 0421 754 121 also see www.performancespace.com.au

    ‘Fellow Travellers’ is a group art project around the themes of journey and memory involving the imprinting, recycling and transforming pre-loved shoes into a sculptural artifact and intimate sound work. ‘Shoes are like boats – they carry the body and soul of the wearer through the journeys of this life’ (Artist, Yin Xiuzhin)
    Producer, Regina Heilmann