Everything you need to know about the Melbourne Bicycle Film Festival can be found at the festival website www.bicyclefilmfestival.com.au

The Ideas Catalogue is the brainchild of Melbourne contemporary artist Gabrielle de Vietri. It is a book in which ideas are up for sale. The first issue, launched in September 2005, was created as an output for the ideas left over from the art practice of the catalogue’s founding editor, Gabrielle de Vietri.

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Do you have a text message stored on your mobile phone that you can’t bring yourself to delete? Have you ever been tempted to peek into someone else’s inbox and read their messages? This book will have you laughing and crying out loud at 200 tales from the short message service. Collected from inboxes all over the world, the book speaks volumes on the way we live and communicate today. Read the rest of this entry »

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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