tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62802322953891295692024-03-07T07:02:17.457+11:00papergailPapergailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08572646073558735224noreply@blogger.comBlogger238125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6280232295389129569.post-286698210741866702023-01-22T13:45:00.007+11:002023-01-22T13:45:38.739+11:00Forthcoming exhibition I have an exhibition at Bulleen Art and Garden https://gallery.baag.com.au/event/p-l-a-n-t-w-o-r-k-s/Papergailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08572646073558735224noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6280232295389129569.post-25138977524774361722022-09-09T12:58:00.007+10:002022-09-09T12:58:59.426+10:00Contemporary Arts Society Annual Exhibition I have submitted two of my cyanotypes from the three rivers exhibition and several unframed pieces with plant material embedded in mitsumata paper. Plus ten of these cards will be available for just $4 each.Papergailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08572646073558735224noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6280232295389129569.post-70988242011220461392022-09-06T21:25:00.002+10:002022-09-06T21:27:04.590+10:00Three Rivers Exhibition, better late than never Here are a few photos of my works that were in the exhibitionPapergailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08572646073558735224noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6280232295389129569.post-71821224160139106692020-06-10T11:00:00.005+10:002020-06-10T11:13:03.496+10:00Rainbows in Lockdown It has been over a year since I last posted and one of the first things I said I'd do was to update my website, sorry that hasn't happened yet and I've had three months!!!
I'm posting this here as an addition to the Papermakers of Victoria magazine The Deckle Edge. I wrote an article about making some rainbow paper but there wasn't room for all the images so here is the article with all thePapergailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08572646073558735224noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6280232295389129569.post-3524524170650058502018-02-24T15:52:00.000+11:002018-02-24T15:52:32.297+11:00Pear PrintsI just noted that it is almost a year since I posted so thought it was time for another. It isn't that I haven't done anything in a year but there have been a few changes around here, the biggest is that my partner has retired. Last year I taught a few workshops and spent quite a bit of time making preparations and samples for these. So far this year I have three workshops scheduled the first wasPapergailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08572646073558735224noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6280232295389129569.post-31766944001535601172017-04-28T13:55:00.000+10:002017-04-28T13:55:54.822+10:00Cards and workshopThere are still a few spaces left in the Beginners Papermaking workshop that I am running for Papermakers of Victoria next week.
You can still enrol at the papermakers website.
As part of the class I'll be teaching basic recycling and will cover fibre selection, pulp making, sizing, sheet forming, pressing and drying. In addition we will emboss paper, make paper with various inclusions and do a Papergailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08572646073558735224noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6280232295389129569.post-48019769680677189122017-04-10T14:07:00.000+10:002017-04-10T14:07:56.082+10:00Website updatedAfter quite a hiatus and a lot of mucking around with iprimus and dreamweaver I have finally updated my website.
Also we had the opening of the Papermakers exhibition Paper is that is on at Mont de Lancey in Wandin yesterday, it rained most of the day so not a great day for an opening however we had quite a good turn out. Last Monday I decided that my leaves would look better green so I got out Papergailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08572646073558735224noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6280232295389129569.post-8738543726547383712017-03-20T13:46:00.000+11:002017-03-20T13:46:17.886+11:00Paper is: LeavesI have been having a great time with some abaca that I beat in the valley beater for 7 hours. It took two trips to Bundoora but it is such a wonderful fibre. This particular piece uses wire embedded between two sheets of fibre. The longer you beat the pulp the more the paper shrinks. The area braced by the wire becomes taut while the rest shrivels.
Papergailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08572646073558735224noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6280232295389129569.post-10720728419236464082017-03-16T17:00:00.000+11:002017-03-16T17:00:07.338+11:00Paper is: CirculationI have nearly finished my most ambitious piece for the exhibition next month at Mont de Lancey in Wandin. I've called it Paper is: Circulation playing on the title of the exhibition and on newspapers and the spots and other circular imagery in my spherical books.
When I took these photos I had made six books with cases but decided it looked better with an extra three so I have now made nine Papergailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08572646073558735224noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6280232295389129569.post-81970431283780711352017-02-24T13:30:00.000+11:002017-02-24T13:30:09.126+11:00Herring Island Summer Arts Festival
Each year a small group of volunteers puts on an arts festival on Herring Island, a lovely bushy island in the middle of the Yarra River. The first two for the year were Association of Sculptors and Basketmakers of Victoria and next up is the Contemporary Art Society of Victoria followed by A4 Art. I usually enter both Contemporary by Nature and A4 Art however this year I've just entered Papergailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08572646073558735224noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6280232295389129569.post-39871876700241417132017-02-23T13:33:00.000+11:002017-02-23T13:33:08.526+11:00Second box
My second box also incorporates the well beaten abaca plus the hemp that used to be my Christmas tree.
I made a drum from a cardboard cylinder with abaca and hemp. I made the string from a mix of the two fibres and the bits on the end from hemp pulp. The abaca worked beautifully as the drum surface. It makes a lovely sound, I made a video but unfortunately had the sound Papergailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08572646073558735224noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6280232295389129569.post-64836153339336378992017-02-16T11:44:00.003+11:002017-02-16T11:44:50.474+11:00One Black Box downAs part of our Paper is exhibition we have a black box challenge where we make a work to fit inside the box. My first piece is done.
After two trips over to Bundoora and 7 hours in the valley beater I have some abaca that I am loving. It stretches beautifully over armatures and is almost like velum in appearance and feel.
This piece is Paper is Light and although you can't see in the picture a Papergailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08572646073558735224noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6280232295389129569.post-83848139579702113892017-02-15T10:56:00.000+11:002017-02-15T10:56:11.039+11:00Back on BoardFirst post for the year and it is almost 7 months since the last. I had a fabulous trip away last September and October travelling to South America, mainly for the IAPMA congress in Brasilia but also to visit Iguassu falls and Machu Picchu among others then it was off to the US to attend a wedding in Boise Idaho. While in the US we visited Yellowstone, the Grand Tetons, The Grand Canyon (only forPapergailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08572646073558735224noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6280232295389129569.post-35737342111873948462016-04-11T16:16:00.001+10:002016-04-11T16:17:50.193+10:00April and workshop prepMy gelatine printing workshop that is happening in May is already full so we are scheduling another one for August. Check the Papermakers of Victoria website for details. I am also teaching a beginners paper making workshop on the 24th April.
As a result of our T'Arts meeting last month thanks to Lin, I have been trying out some new ideas and have had a lovely play today with some new tools and Papergailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08572646073558735224noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6280232295389129569.post-43641298687854106792016-02-18T12:40:00.000+11:002016-02-18T12:40:58.764+11:00Questionnaire and A4 Art
I was recently asked to answer some questions by a student from Ireland and thought I would share them here along with my answers.
How did you become an artist? have you an artistic background?
I sort of fell into it really, my early training was in the sciences but I always did some creative activity with my hands, knitting, crochet, bargello, enamelling, pottery, jewellery making. You namePapergailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08572646073558735224noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6280232295389129569.post-68359135766080420002016-02-08T18:43:00.001+11:002016-02-08T18:45:27.116+11:00Workshop PreparationI am teaching a workshop for Papermakers of Victoria this coming weekend on making Japanese style paper from kozo and making sculptural pieces using an armature so I've been busy last week and this preparing fibre, making armatures, sewing muslin on and trying out my sugeta that has sat in it's box for a few years. Here are a few images of works in progress. There is still some space in the Papergailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08572646073558735224noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6280232295389129569.post-32529996239632611122016-01-28T16:36:00.000+11:002016-01-28T16:36:18.277+11:00IAPMA, Papermakers of Victoria and paper donationEarly in December Barb was contacted by Liz Z to see if Papermakers would like some paper donated, of course we said yes and I volunteered to store it. Little did I know what I was letting myself in for though I must say I was warned. There are three types of paper mostly made from off cuts from the garment industry in Bangladesh. Lots of lovely colours of silk paper, it isn't paper as you know Papergailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08572646073558735224noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6280232295389129569.post-88140460457305614402015-12-29T22:06:00.000+11:002015-12-29T22:06:09.782+11:0025 Days of Fibre Paper
At the start of December Helen Hiebert started a project where she posted on her blog something paper related for each of the December days until Christmas. She called the project 25 Days of Paper and every second day provided instructions for projects and the other days information about different paper businesses.
I managed to keep up with the projects for the first week and a bit Papergailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08572646073558735224noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6280232295389129569.post-49320294721550098232015-12-09T15:49:00.000+11:002015-12-09T15:49:42.588+11:00Silkies
About three months ago a friend gave me a margarine container with some tiny silk worms in it, little did I know what was in store for me. We have a mulberry tree in our back yard and that was fine for the first couple of weeks. After a while it was getting difficult to find enough leaves to keep the hoards satisfied. I started with them in a shoe box but it wasn't long before I had to Papergailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08572646073558735224noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6280232295389129569.post-77807355793645665792015-11-26T21:39:00.000+11:002015-11-26T21:39:41.438+11:00Alcove Christmas Sale
The Alcove Art Shop is holding it's annual Christmas Affair at the Box Hill Community Centre for the next couple of weeks. it opened on Monday, I haven't seen it yet but am on duty this Friday evening and again on Wednesday next week so hopefully there will still be some bargains left for my Christmas shopping. I finally got around to putting some books together using Gelatine prints, Papergailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08572646073558735224noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6280232295389129569.post-67875346538895113482015-10-28T10:35:00.004+11:002015-10-28T10:35:39.795+11:00Belated Blog - Finding Content workshop with Marama WarrenWhere has the month gone, here it is nearly November and I am writing about a workshop I participated in back on the 12th and 13th of September. A small group of us gathered at the Stables for a workshop titled Finding Content that was facilitated by Marama Warren and put on by Papermakers of Victoria. Marama introduced herself to us and talked a bit about her life in the fast lane as a Papergailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08572646073558735224noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6280232295389129569.post-76294451414743416562015-09-25T10:54:00.001+10:002015-09-25T10:54:38.707+10:00As If: 40 Years and Beyond Celebrating Womens Art Register
I have been the convenor of Women's Art Register for the last fifteen years, we are very excited to be celebrating our 40th anniversary this year with a fabulous festival that includes several exhibitions throughout Melbourne along with some workshops and artist walks. We will be hanging the member show on Monday and will really brighten up the space at the Queen Victoria Women's Centre in Papergailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08572646073558735224noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6280232295389129569.post-7591873336460473172015-09-22T07:44:00.001+10:002015-09-22T07:44:48.809+10:00Contemporary Art Society and Jelly Prints
I started writing this about two weeks ago but life and commitments got in the way. I have two works in the Contemporary Art Society annual members show that is on at the moment at Gallery 341 that is at 341 Church Street Richmond. I will be there on Thursday 24 September after 11 am until 2-3 pm. Here is one of the pieces I entered.
Untitled Collage 42 x 30 cm
I have been having aPapergailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08572646073558735224noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6280232295389129569.post-36285047665084531092015-07-23T13:46:00.000+10:002015-07-23T13:46:03.202+10:00Workshop results and As If Women's Art Register members show
Since I got back from teaching in Ballarat I have made a bit of paper and done some batik dyeing. Women's Art Register is turning 40 this year and we have funding to put on a women's art festival in Melbourne this October. The theme for the Festival is As If : 40 Years and Beyond and it promises to be a great boost to the Register and to the women artists represented.
I am one of the Papergailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08572646073558735224noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6280232295389129569.post-9193106656358620202015-06-10T15:06:00.000+10:002015-06-10T15:06:08.231+10:00More workshop prep
These books are some examples I have put together for my forthcoming workshop in Ballarat, all the paper has been made using the mould and deckle that will be made in class. We will have a theme for the artist book that we will produce and I am thinking along the lines of flight but we will do some brainstorming once the class is underway. There are still a few spots available but it starts in Papergailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08572646073558735224noreply@blogger.com0