More often than not when someone is extremely creative and supremely talented at making something with their hands, doing the head work associated with supplying goods to retail is a challenge. Ambiguous Horse provides a service designed specifically to meet the needs of small-to-medium scale producers of jewellery, accesories or other designed objects.
The service covers every step of the sales process; from preparation of order forms and pdf catalogues, to liasion with a national and international database of retailers, through to management of invoicing and payments. Ambiguous Horse will also provide monthly sales reports and actively promote the designers’ wares to specialist media to drive sales.
The ’stable’ of designers represented by Ambiguous Horse are a select group, by maintaining a focus on quality the agency has devloped a good relationship with retail as a presenter of outstanding product.
See the range of designers in the stable.
For more details on representation contact Director Pip Carroll on 03 9017 3183.
With so many cultural activites taking place in Melbourne, it can be hard to make your opening, launch, exhibition or performance stand out from the crowd. Ambiguous Horse offers a cost effective pre-paid publicity package to individual artists, designers, collectives or venues.
A complete service from writing media releases through to preparing media clippings is offered. Additional services such as event photography and graphic design can be packaged with this service and delivered through a range of subcontractors that Ambiguous Horse maintains.
See the Ideas Catalogue launch for an example of this service.
Ambiguous Horse can help you take the hard work out of making your service, event or organisation known to new markets. Working from outside, we bring a fresh pair of eyes to your existing strategy, expanding it with simple and effective approaches that compliment the nature of your organisation.
With a creative and efficient approach, Ambiguous Horse can help you think up schemes you’d never considered and deliver them with the time you don’t have. See the work done with Arts House on their Arts in a Dry Climate program.
Are you too busy to undertake the funding applications that you know you should apply to? Do you lack confidence in your ability to prepare an application that has the greatest chance of success? Ambiguous Horse works with a number of experienced grant and report writers to assist individuals and organisations in applying for funding. With a 100% success track record (at the time of publishing), assistance is available for applications to arts, music and philanthropic organisations.
Ambiguous Horse will meet with the applicant to discuss their project and their desired outcomes. Four weeks notice from the submission deadline is required, Ambiguous Horse reserves the right to select applicants on their merit. The service is charged by the hour, quoted before commencement. Unfortunately we cannot guarantee success, but can provide your best possible chance of approval.
With more than 7 years of festival, event and project management experience, Ambiguous Horse can handle just about any event you can throw at us. Possessing an intimate relationship with an excel spreadsheet and an astonishing ability to juggle stakeholders, Ambiguous Horse will deliver your event on time, in budget and with flair.
With an extensive team of subcontractors and staff available at short notice, there is no event to big or too small. View some previous event contracts.
Hello and welcome to the on-line home of Ambiguous Horse. This site has been a long time coming but if you stop to take a look around you will see how busy we have been!
This site is designed to give you a quick run down of our services and catalogue our client work. It also tells you about the projects that we do just for the love of it.
If you’re more of a picture-speaks-a-thousand-words type, then have a look out our flickr site showing images from projects.
If you have any questions or would just like to say hello, please get in touch. And please do come back because this site, like the Ambiguous Horse, is constantly moving, and you never quite know which way it’s going to go…
In January 2007 Ambiguous Horse was contracted by Arts House to manage the foyer refurbishment at the North Melbourne Town Hall. Together with Moth Design and Studio Organic, a contemporary feel was added to the into the heritage listed building, while not interfering with with the many layers of refurbishment that had gone before.
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In August 2006 Ambiguous Horse was contracted by Arts House (with venues in the North Melbourne Town Hall and Meat Market) to find new and niche audiences for its ‘Art in a Dry Climate’ season. New audiences were reached by targeting special interest groups , disseminating marketing collateral and leveraging special ticket offers and promotional activities through targeted outlets.
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An invitation only trade show, the inaugural Under Capricorn was the major event of the Melbourne Design Festival in 2006 and venue for the festival opening night. Featuring new products from Australian designers in all disciplines, the event was held in custom built marquees on the Federation Square carpark roof.
View images from Under Capricorn 2006
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Ambiguous Horse is a management agency for the cultural sector. Established in 2006 by Pip Carroll, Ambiguous Horse helps creative people be productive and productive people be creative. Services include Agency, Event Management, Grant Writing, Project Management, Publication Editing and Strategic Marketing
The agency works with individuals, small groups and large organisations on short-term, long-term and ongoing projects. You can find out more about past projects through the clients menu.
We also provide all of our stable of designers works for sale online through our SHOP. International delivery is available.
The name (because i know you’re wondering) comes from an optical illusion, which is also the company logo. The horse is ambiguous because it could either be looking at you or looking away, and we like to think that the business is just as adaptable (or unpredictable).
On top of client work, Ambiguous Horse also runs the occasional project just for fun, or more specifically, our own personal agenda. You can find out about these ‘cultural interventions’ on the projects page.
