it's not easy being green...

A while ago I posted about some green stuff I had been making...

 

Well, it has just finished its showcase appearances at A&E Metal Merchants and the Powerhouse Museum shop and is now having a stop over at my house before being installed at the fantastic gaffa gallery for the group exhibition make_do which opens next Thursday night (8 May). I am very excited about make_do and looking forward to seeing what everyone has made... there are 23 fantastic artists in the exhibition whose practices span painting, ceramics, textiles, jewellery, multimedia, drawing, photography, graphic design and 

installation... 

Some of my favourite people in the whole world are in this exhibition. We have forged lasting connections and friendships after having been work colleagues at one time or another at Object and this show is a great way to get together. This is the second year we have had a show together - last year the exhibition was called make do. So exciting! 

Update: The exhibition is UNREAL I am so proud to be a part of it! Click here to see some pictures from the opening taken by photographer extraordinaire Joe Wijangco.

                                                                           

Love to Liana

I have to say an enormous thank you to Liana Kabel for the beautiful post on her blog a few weeks ago. I found it quite overwhelming to be the subject of such a lovely post as Liana has been a bit of a hero of mine for a while now. It was Liana and Anna Davern, who quite apart from being two of the loveliest ladies I know and absolutely fantastic jewellers, inspired me to start this blog. 

I love this brooch by Anna Davern, it is called Sad... 

pink rope

Finally I have made some pink thread rope... it's fantastic in an Olivia Newton John 'let's get physical' kind of a way and also kind of kinky looking as I guess only pink rope can be (especially when it has silver jump rings threaded through it - thanks to Debbie for pointing out the kink factor!!!). I have a few plans for it - one is to make some decorative rope knot pieces. It has also become a great way to solve the threading problem for some of the other pieces I have made/am half way through. 

Big thanks to the superbly lovely Mark Vaarwerk for the terrific string making lesson at the fantastic workshop he ran for the Adelaide JMGA Conference in January. 

busy, busy...

I haven't posted for a little while, but I haven't been idle, in fact it has been full pink steam ahead the past few weeks - I have completed eight new pieces and am working on three bigger pieces as well. Unfortunately the weather has been crappy the past few weeks and I haven't been able to take any decent photos of the new work, sunlight is my special photography friend! So here is a picture of my (messy) bench taken a couple of weeks ago with some work in progress. There is a bangle to the left, two half made brooches, the start of the dodgy dots neckpiece (see post below) and the ball of thread - as you can see - there's still lots to go. I should have measured its girth before I started, but by eye, I think I might be about 30% of the way through it...

these dots are driving me dotty!!!

I promised to post everything good and bad - I have been lucky for the past little while and things have been going my way. Until this
It is a neckpiece with little pink sticky dots stuck to it like beads. It's kind of cute. But the damn dots don't stay stuck - not even long enough for me to take a picture...