The Front Room
The Transitional Space
The Back Room
Monday, March 9, 2009
Nesting
For those who won't get a chance to see the show here are some pictures of the works insitu.
The Front Room
The Transitional Space
The Front Room
The Transitional Space
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Only days until exhibitions and workshop
Since I last posted our state has been torn apart by bushfires, there were devastating ones a fortnight ago with over 200 deaths, they are still burning and new ones started yesterday. What a crazy country this is we haven't had any rain in the south for what seems like months we could really do with some to help the fire fighters and up North they've had record floods across vast areas of Queensland and Northern NSW. If only some could find its way down here.
Here are lots of pictures of one of the books in the show, I loved the way some of the sheets scrunched up so just had to make a book, it doesn't have a title yet but I guess it will by this time next week.
We have done a lot of cyanotypes and some gum bichromates of this bird and lots of other photographs of birds, nests and eggs.
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Busy time
I have been very busy lately with editing the Women's Art Register bulletin and preparing for my March exhibition and workshop as well as documenting the postcards coming in for My Paper My Land. It is drawing close to the cut off date so they have been coming in in droves. Yesterday I photographed about twenty which I plan to post asap and today there were another dozen in the mail. It is going to be a great show.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Happy New Year
Well it has been quite some time since I posted anything here, what with Christmas and all. It is really hot today so I've spent most of it sitting at the computer, I've caught up with the postcard blog and shared journeys, sorted out a bit about tennis for next season and have started promoting Nesting, the exhibition I'm having with Zoe in March. I figured it was time to update this blog. I seem to have done so much since December I don't quite know where to start.
Perhaps I'll start with the nests that I was given by Tricia and a couple of her basketmaker friends.
This one fell out of a tree at Tricia's, I found something similar in my backyard, we are not sure of the bird which made it though.
The clever blackbird that made this nest built it around a plant pot.
These three came from another of the basketmakers who's been saving nests for years but was quite happy to part with them.
When we first started planning March seemed so far away, now it is just around the corner. We have been meeting regularily and working on Cyanotypes on large sheets of paper I bought in Korea a few years ago. The sheets are so long we have to expose them in two goes and wash them in large black rubbish bins, it really tests the strength of the paper. We use A3 size negatives and fit 3-4 on a sheet, I think we've done three and we need at least another three or four for the space. We have also been making some nest shapes by moulding over balloons, rice bags and armatures.
This one was made by making the armature, covering it with gauze then dipping into a vat of Kozo then removing the cloth once it had dried.
This one is made from several layers of paper draped over an armature, the inner layer is kozo, then there's bluebell flower stems, mixed plant fibre and the last dark bits are banana which has been cooked but not beaten. The sticks I've used for the stand are blackwood wattle. I spent two days at my sisters place steaming and stripping branches off her tree to collect 1.2kg of fibre for the Aussie plant fibre book. I've cooked it and it is now washing, I'll deal with it once it cools down a bit (the weather I mean!). Anyway the sticks are a very nice byproduct.
This one was made over a balloon.
Now for something completely different, some holiday pics of my time at Mallacoota.
Ahh the serenity!
And the sea
Plenty of wildlife!
Oh and one last thing, before we went away I sent off my contribution to Mapping the Island. My piece of map had some interesting features on it one of which was a mountain group called the eyebrows, it also had murder's peak and duck point, I deciderd to work with the eyebrows. I used dyed bluebell stem paper on recycled.
The front and the back.
Perhaps I'll start with the nests that I was given by Tricia and a couple of her basketmaker friends.
This one fell out of a tree at Tricia's, I found something similar in my backyard, we are not sure of the bird which made it though.
The clever blackbird that made this nest built it around a plant pot.
These three came from another of the basketmakers who's been saving nests for years but was quite happy to part with them.
When we first started planning March seemed so far away, now it is just around the corner. We have been meeting regularily and working on Cyanotypes on large sheets of paper I bought in Korea a few years ago. The sheets are so long we have to expose them in two goes and wash them in large black rubbish bins, it really tests the strength of the paper. We use A3 size negatives and fit 3-4 on a sheet, I think we've done three and we need at least another three or four for the space. We have also been making some nest shapes by moulding over balloons, rice bags and armatures.
This one was made by making the armature, covering it with gauze then dipping into a vat of Kozo then removing the cloth once it had dried.
This one is made from several layers of paper draped over an armature, the inner layer is kozo, then there's bluebell flower stems, mixed plant fibre and the last dark bits are banana which has been cooked but not beaten. The sticks I've used for the stand are blackwood wattle. I spent two days at my sisters place steaming and stripping branches off her tree to collect 1.2kg of fibre for the Aussie plant fibre book. I've cooked it and it is now washing, I'll deal with it once it cools down a bit (the weather I mean!). Anyway the sticks are a very nice byproduct.
This one was made over a balloon.
Now for something completely different, some holiday pics of my time at Mallacoota.
Ahh the serenity!
And the sea
Plenty of wildlife!
Oh and one last thing, before we went away I sent off my contribution to Mapping the Island. My piece of map had some interesting features on it one of which was a mountain group called the eyebrows, it also had murder's peak and duck point, I deciderd to work with the eyebrows. I used dyed bluebell stem paper on recycled.
The front and the back.
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