Eden's wedding belt and the Hobart studio

Another week in Hobart and working very hard on the light installation. We are slowly starting to see results now. Woke up to some serious snow on Thursday...

We had Adam and Eden's wedding on the weekend, so now I can finally show you the belt that I embroidered for Eden's dress. It has two sides, one for the ceremony (the embroidered side) and a side for the reception (the quilted bright side). I am really pleased that it worked out so well.

En curso

Productive day in the studio. A pin board with works in progress and a new textile piece on it's way. Also the new labels I got made to put on the backs of my textile works.

baby quilt, lamp shades and Hobart again

I can finally blog about the quilt I made for my friend's friend's new baby which is due any minute. The family is based in Tasmania so I wanted to make the quilt really fresh and green. I also wanted to reference the lovely houses in Tasmania that feel very English. I used my favorite Liberty print of the houses and boats to evoke this.

The lampshade is a self indulgent endeavor for our bedroom. On one side there is the cycling man and on the other the city. They look great with the lights on at night. I'd love to do a long artwork for above the bed on the little man cycling through the hills... one day.

Here are some other projects that I made as birthday presents for some lovely friends of mine.

And finally... I was back in Hobart last week. The snow clouds were ever present on the mountain. Very beautiful from the wharves.

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teacher lizzie

I am teaching a class at Amitie in October! I will be teaching textile collage, encouraging students to create unique artworks that reflect their own themes and aesthetic. Very exciting! Check out the website for details. x

goings on diary

It has been a crazy little old month since I last posted. I can't believe it have been so long...

So I can talk about what I have been up to now! Aden Narkowicz and I have been commissioned to create interactive artistic content for an external lighting structure at the Princes Wharf development site in Hobart. It is pretty exciting! More to come soon...

Aden and I were also lucky enough to get a residency at the art school in Hobart, which is perfectly located across the way from the site of the project.

This is our incredible studio.

And the deserted bus ride into Hobart from the mountain.

It's nice to be back in Melbourne at the moment and working on the project from here as well as my own work and hanging out with pupski (as featured with his mates in Warrandyte.) I have been working on some new sewn collages that I started down in Hobart. I am looking at Wardian cases and filing them with strange objects like paper planes and clouds. I like that idea that settlers not only brought plants over to Australia in these portable glass houses, they also brought ideals and ways of thinking.

These are just works in progress.

I have decided to revisit this painting too. I need to finish it! I like the black but my thoughts are that I might paint over it in a soft greeny white... any thoughts?

free brains exhibition

I'm in this group exhibition free brains at sjs gallery, fitzroy. The opening night is on friday 9th july 7pm but unfortunately I will be in Tasmania... but you should go along! I have three sewn collages that are beautifully framed by the guys at Grate Designs in Elsternwick.

SJS Gallery, 120 Alexandra Pde, Fitzroy. It's at the corner of alexandra pde and young st. next to the fitzroy pool. The exhibition runs from the 6th of July to the 17th of July 2010

published printed kanthed and quilted

So this last week has been one for finishing projects and beginning some others. Mainly finishing though! An exciting thing was to find the Melbourne University magazine in the post (being a VCA graduate) and my illustration for this article. 

The print is one that I finished the edition of last week. It is called "Dreaming Riverside" and is available at Port Jackson Press and the Printmaker gallery for now. 

The quilt is finally finished... I showed it to you in the previous post but here it is with its lovely Liberty fabric binding. 

The embroidery is something that I am starting on a piece of dyed silk. I could embroider all day if I could.... sigh...

quilt dreamer

Someone found a nice home in my quilt the other evening as I finished quilting this project that has been a long time in the making. now i only need to add the binding. Oh and here is my glass bottle collection... slowly growing over the years.

It is so cold in the studio today and i am working on some light related ideas. Thoughts of light is warming. xx

The Art Shop in Abergavenny

here's the link to the invitation to a show in wales that i am in.

click here

xx

the new studio

i moved house and studio over the last few weeks. it has been wonderful to finally settle in. atticus has a friend (chico) in the studio and the two of them are thick as thieves until they are both so exhausted that they crash!

the picture of the window and parsley in the sun is my desk at home in the front room. it is a lovely space to do nice things like sewing and spanish homework, story boards and drawings.. in winter we can pull the arm chairs in there and have the fire going.

the studio in brunswick has slowly been getting set up to be able to print again. lately i have been working on illustration stuff and photographing... good projects to start off in a studio. there is a great atomsphere there. we are right by triple r radio station and a wonderful oval for doggy runs.

napkin

i made this napkin for the thread den/ next wave project. i really enjoyed making this piece. i used some not so great screenprints of the houses and then i embroidered some flags into the windows and edged the napkin with left over strips of fabric. i thought the backing fabric was great beacuse it is like  picnic napkin fabric. i found this in the bottom of my material box... had forgotten about it! 

now i need to get back to work again... see you x

pieces for wales

here are some pieces that i will shortly sending to wales for a book arts exhibition that they hold annually there. i think i already mentioned it. anyway, i have been enjoying making some small textile pieces and thinking about letters and book shops and books. the next set of pieces i will make are some collages on paper with book page layouts. at the moment i am carving another stamp. this time of the same bookshops, i wanted to see what it looked like in rubber as opposed to screen printed.

mum's quilt

this is what i made for my mum's birthday.

hello atticus

this is atticus. he is my new little friend. he is in the studio with me today being a very good boy. i made him this little red bed and he loves. he has been exploring everywhere and then is exhausted and loves cuddles.

the houses are a piece i am finishing in a tin to send to wales.