Geelong Forum

I am just back from teaching at the Geelong Forum where I had the smallest class of all but we had lots of fun and my students produced some fabulous work. Now that I'm back I have to think about (and do some work for!) The IAPMA Bulletin and Newsletter and the Valda Quick Biennial Paper Arts Exhibition which I am co curating and need to print out the invites. The first posted piece arrived today, it is going to exciting to see the work as it comes in, I'm hoping to collect a lot on Saturday at the PoV meeting.

I've given up trying to pictures here after wasting half a day then loosing all I'd done so here is a link to some pictures from my class and to the displays of a few of the other classes at the forum. Carol Barton was also teaching there and she has some photos from the forum on her blog http://carolbartonstudio.wordpress.com/.
















My books arrived back from the Melbourne Show today and I discovered that the book that won the best in bookbinding was my Eastern entry, a concertina with feathers.

The book I made after the Glen Skein workshop got first in the art books section.

Now back to work! I still need to finish off a couple of pieces for the PoV exhibition though they are mostly done and I have a few more workshops to prepare for.

poetry swap, show and new books

Haiku for today

water gurgles by
as the fern
shines in the sun

All this poetry started when Valda challenged us to write a quatrain for the newsletter so I wrote one to describe Amanda Degener's workshop, then I submitted several copies for a yahoo papermaking group poetry swap, printed on flax paper of course. I was looking for a poem to go in a book and I discovered the allpoetry website and started taking some online classes, so here I am inflicting my Haiku on my readers. Anyway I finally bound the poems from the swap, I made it difficult for myself by sewing the pages into two concertina strips then coptic binding the concertinas.

Here is a new book featuring a Melbourne landmark the skipping girl vinegar sign in Richmond, I've sewn the text block onto tapes and extended the tapes as a closure.

This is one in progress that I'm making to donate to Curves for the Girls Night In which is fundraising for breast cancer research.

Here are my books from the show with their ribbons.

Nest Book mixed plant fibres, coptic bound.

Oriental Fern Book kozo with fern laminated in cover and endpages, bound with toji binding using hemp string.

Oriental Indigo Book kozo dyed with indigo toji binding with indigo dyed cotton thread.

Byron Bush Book mixed plant fibres with digital images and haiku bound with hemp string and a stick found on the walk in the rainforest near Byron Bay.

And finally a photo of one of the sports teams from my high school years showing off our wonderful sports uniform of Swedish bloomers, I think they were meant to be worn down nearly to our knees but noone did. I was reminded of these when I read a friend's blog bettybloomers.blogspot.com where she is researching the history of women's cycling. By the way I'm not in the photo, I was never good enough to get in any of the school sports teams.