Model Urban

Model Urban, a small sculpture show opens tonight at Manningham Gallery in Doncaster. The show has a pretty amazing line up of artists, I am feeling very privileged to have been included in this show. If you have time tonight - Wednesday 9 September from 6 - 8 pm please come and join me at the opening. If you can't make it tonight then it is on for a month.

Image: Greer Honeywill, Off the plan, 2009, wood, horse hair, found object, 124 x 70 x 84cm. Image courtesy the artist. Photo by John Best.

Featuring Daniel Agdag, Daniel Crooks, Sally Darlison, Daniel Dorall, Greer Honeywill, Llawella Lewis and Susan Robey. 
Curated by Davey Warnock.

A collection of small scale sculptural works engaging contemporary urban environments.

To be officially opened by Corbett Lyon, architect and co-founder of Lyons Architects and the Lyon Housemuseum.

RSVP by Friday 4 September

Hope For Women in Unexpected Places

Hope for Women in Unexpected Places is an exhibition  by TEAR Australia, it is a photo exhibition, but I was asked to create a piece for this show - that isn't a photo.

I was very excited to support TEAR as they do fabulous work both here and overseas with those who are the poorest in our world.

I was asked to create something that honoured women and the work they do. I chose to focus on water as this is an essential of life and sometimes one that poses difficulty.
While I was in Nepal I  noticed that the women collected water in large metal containers and then often carried them in a large basket they carried slung from their heads. Washing is also often done in public, communally, at the water taps or down near the river. This also involves carting the garments in the basket.
Washing in Nepal is a colourful palette flying in the breeze and the dhaka fabrics, traditional to the area I visited, are particularly beautiful.

I chose to combine these images and fabric along with a map of Nepal to create my piece for the exhibition.
Washing in Nepal is the result. It depicts the water vessel, the woman carrying the basket of clothes and the washing blowing in the breeze above the stepped rice fields of Nepal.

 detail of dhaka fabric and map of Nepal used in the piece.

Washing in Nepal

detail of the water container image

If you would like to see this piece and the rest of the exhibition you can find it at 

Chapel on Station Gallery 

cnr Station st  & Ellingworth Pde, Box Hill, Victoria

from February 20 - March 4 

Tues - friday 11.30- 3 

Saturday 1-4pm

Sunday 4.30 -7pm

There is an event on Friday 27 February with speaker Hailey Bartholomew of 365 Grateful 

and music from 2 members of The Tealeaves

hope to see you there, tickets are available here 

Summer show

Term 4 is always a really busy time for me as a teacher, thus I have been slack and haven't written an update for ages!!

So... I was asked to fill the Meeniyan Art gallery www.meeniyanartgallery.com.au for the month of January, so I have put together a collection of work from my last show as well as a few new small Italian pieces and a couple from other shows.

The work will be on show from January 2 - 29. The show will be called Fragments of a Journey. 

Here's 4 new little 20 x 20 cm pieces who will join the show.

Cinque Terre

San Gimignano

Tuscan Tower

Venetian Canals

5 Frames

 I was asked by a friend, whose daughter worked as a teacher in Ernabella Anangu School for a number of years,  to provide some art work for the 5 Frames exhibition.  

5 Frames was established as a fundraiser for the Ernabella Anangu School Ceramics Work Project. Ernabella is a remote Aboriginal community in the north-west corner of South Australia. The Ceramics Work Project provides senior girls in the school with the opportunity to study ceramics as a Vocational Education and Training unit in an environment where employment options are very limited.

 Each frame holds a piece 14 x 19 cm. The resulting art works are sold for $100 each with all proceeds and donations going to the ceramics project. 

The opening of 5 Frames 2013 is on Sunday May 26^th at the Sorrento Sailing Couta Boat Club. The Club generously provide us with the venue at no cost and works will be exhibited until the end of June.

Here are my contributions. Get down to Sorrento Sailing Couta Boat Club to view the whole exhibition from may 26 until end of June

Paris, the last of the European books. Book 12

So, at last I have done the Paris book. It is a carousel book as we saw many carousels ( merry go round) in Paris. This book is made from the brochures of the L"Orangerie and La Louvre and a Paris map; of course.
It includes  page for Giverny and Versailles as we had a day in each of these places.
I loved Paris, and of course I couldnt include or capture everything in this little book. Even though I did this at home I used only the materials I took with me with one exception - a gold marker that I have used to frame the Versailles page - it really needed gold .. so over the top!

Book 8 Florence

We spent a week in Florence, we spent time exploring Florence itself, did a cooking class and then did a few excursions out of Florence. Book 8's design is based on a a folded map I bought in Pisa - it is square with all sides folded in. Each edge has a different excursion on it.      

Book 2 - Switzerland

So I have managed to create the second in my mini travelling book series.
This one is made from  a a brochure's map pages to create an X- book with pockets to hold the tickets, the cover is several tickets stitched together then stitched to the X book,

Last week for christmas gifts

Well, this is the last week to organise your christmas gifts. Still need a gift or 2? Cards not done yet? I have it all!! Gifts AND cards!! Check out my madeit site or send me a message. Here are some more things I have in my stash of gifts, all easily posted.

Buy Handmade this christmas

 This Christmas consider where the gifts you buy are coming from.
One way is to  great to support Fair Trade by buying gifts from Tear Australia, and Oxfam. 


May I also encourage to buy from the makers, this supports the many artisans in the community and you get to give an original and handmade gift. 
One way of doing this is to click on the link above and it will take you to the Made it site. 
A site for makers of all things beautiful and amazing.


 Check out my pieces for sale - see my online store, I will be updating these throughout the month leading up to Christmas.


This Sunday is a Pottery Expo at Federation Square, another way of supporting local artists. My friend Adriana is going to be there selling her beautiful ceramics. 

I've Made it!! to Made It - online store

So I have entered into the world of selling on the web!!! Wow, it has taken me all day and I have managed to post about 5 things so far. I have created a "made it"store. Hopefully I will get faster at the whole process... but here goes

The Wonderful Creative Things Fair

I spent a lovely day at Abbotsford Convent in St Helier's cafe, chatting to fellow stall holders, catching up with printmaker friends and selling collages, cards and prints.  There are, of course, still plenty left, so if you were wanting cards, or small gifts,  I have some for you.
Cards are $3 plus postage and collages/prints range from $10 to $40. plus postage.
Images include, caravans, cars, lighthouses, trees.

 My beautiful assistant!!

                                     

                                      

                                     

                                       
                                          The full range at the Fair

                                                   

                                         

The Wonderful Creative Things Fair

Only three days until The Wonderful Creative Things Fair at the Abbotsford Convent. Some really great Artists are participating this time again and there will be a great range of affordable things to  buy- especially with Christmas approaching. Pop down and say hi, I'll be there with cards, collages, prints. Things for boys!! ( cars and boat prints) 

Today I'm busy finishing off all the pieces I've started for this, of course there is always just one more idea  that I could pursue!!. Never enough time.

 

Such a lovely day I will have to be disciplined to stay in the studio and not be distracted by the garden.

Also getting ready for the book making class on Saturday, another lovely workshop day with enthusiastic makers.

Busy, Busy- Another Wonderful Creative Things Fair

Next weekend will be a very busy one.
There are still a couple of places in the  bookmaking workshop on Saturday 26 November ! Come and join me for a lovely day day of making, eating and chatting. Only $160 for the day - everything is included.

Sunday 27 November
The Wonderful Creative Things Fair - returns to St Helier's Cafe at Abbotsford Convent. Drop by to pick up some gifts for christmas. 11am - 4pm.
I have whipped up a few new pieces and many cards for the fair.