Artist & Creative Producer
Arie Rain Glorie
I make projects that are about the human experience– our interactions with the world, emotional regulation, perceptions of self and how thoughts work.
The Anxiety Shop was a pop-up store in Melbourne's CBD that operated for three months. It sold products by local artists and designers that help spark conversations about mental health as well as hosting workshops. As an artist-led business, its impact was measured through social change, as opposed to profit. Over the course of it operation local residents, businesses and rough sleepers became regulars in the shop.
Anxious Creatures is an illustrated deck of 32 cards depicting cartoon creatures experiencing intrusive thoughts. These cards help bridge the topic of intrusive thoughts in a creative and humorous way. It is a conversation starter, helping us to collectively bring shame out into the open, where it cannot survive. Sold online, in stores and exhibited in public space through street posters.
The Amazing Painting presented a painting in a booth with a light and sound show to explore how our perception of a single image can change depending on environmental factors. Audiences entered the booth and pressed a big red button to begin the two minute experience that was like a carnival ride. Presented in the Melbouren Fringe Festival Hub the project speculated on an alternative mehtods of exhibiting art.
The Sublime was a live artwork in an old Quarry where audiences were taken on a walk while listening to a radio play. In the play two robots discussed the environmental devestation of Earth and their plan to exterminate the human race as the only way to save it. The work encouraged audiences to think about their relationship with nature- do you see yourself as a master of it or a part of it?
Carousel exhibited twenty paintings on a stager revolve to seated audiences. Each time the wall turned a new artwork was presented for 1 minute, forcing audiences to endure looking at it. The project explored our perceptions of time our consumption of art.
The Librarian was a collaborative project with real life librarian Peter. Together we discussed the changing role of libraries in the 21st century and how different people access knowledge across many centuries. Working with costume designer Katie Vinicombe, a uniform was commissioned for Peter, in consultation with him, to say thank you for his many years of service.
Waltz was a projection art and video installation about how our perceptions of self have changed since the introduction of the video camera. In the video a man dances with his own reflection captured in a large celluloid frame. The work was inspired by the first footage of a video and sound recording that shows two men dancing together, which was then rarely seen on screen for the next one hundred years.
Australiana was a performance artwork made in collaboration with Torie Nimmervol. Over the course of 6 hours we uncoiled and coiled barbed wire with our bare hands, while wearing the Australian sporting colours of green and yellow. The project was a meditation on Australia's colonial history and the invention of barbed wire as a tool to define borders and take control of people, animals and land.
A Very Merry Complicated Christmas is a pack of 10 different christmas cards for people who have complicated feelings about the festive season. The project opens up a dialogue about anxiety, depression and trauma in a light-hearted and accessible way. Its an antidote to Hallmarks representation of the nuclear family and the idea that everyone has a loving and healthy relationship with their families.