Workshopping at Northcity4

Lauren and I will be presenting an unnatural jewellery workshop in Melbourne next month hosted by our wonderful friends at Northcity4.

Coffee love at Studio 20/17

I have work in the upcoming exhibition For the love of coffee curated by Zoe Brand at Studio 20/17. 

Anyone who knows me well knows that I need to be appropriately caffeinated with two cups each and every day or I don't function.  So it's quite an appropriate exhibition for me! I thought long and hard about what I would make in response to such a ritualised addiction in my life and came up with a response to beginnings, thoughts and conversation. An opportunity to do some painting - a place to start and make some simple threaded work as a response - a string of thoughts. Here are the pieces:

A place to start.

The beginning of the day.

The beginning of a friendship.

The beginning of an idea, a thing.

A string of thoughts.

Conversations.

Fuel for making. 

For the love of coffee features work by Vernon Bowden, Karen Thompson, Erin Keys & Regine Middleton, Mary Hackett, Alice Potter, Bic Tieu, Linda Blair, Nina Baker, Barbara Cotter, Elizabeth Shaw,  Melinda Young, Regine Schwarzer and runs from 2 - 13 October at Studio 20/17 with opening drinks & artist talks on Saturday 6 October from 4 - 6pm. 

Some floral inspiration...

Some beauty from our trip to Vanuatu earlier in the year. Have been enjoying observing these trickle into my new work. 

On the street and on the bench

More pink...