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Experiments in Oil and Cold Wax and Textiles

Experiments in Oil and Cold Wax and Textiles for Melbourne: Our Creative Heart Lindsay Hussey recounts the joys of collaboration For me, the most exciting aspect of the City of Melbourne grant project – Melbourne: Our Creative Heart – is the opportunity to collaborate with artists who use different mediums. To see what happens when […]

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Experiments with Paint and Junk, part 1

Experiments with Paint and Junk, part 1 Deidre Ogilvie describes the joy of playing with junk As part of the Creativity Cluster group’s joint experimental works, I spent one afternoon with Nancy Lane at River Studios. We worked with her junk (found objects) and Pébéo Deco paints that I had recently won in an Eckersley’s […]

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Mapping Melbourne for Our Creative Heart

Mapping Melbourne for Our Creative Heart Deidre Ogilvie blogs about her initial ideas After the first meeting of our group, I tried to put together an amalgam of as many ideas as possible that had been put forward. I liked that we came up with a lot of different ideas that we could sort through. […]

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Planning for Melbourne: Our Creative Heart

Planning for Melbourne: Our Creative Heart A grant to help us experiment post-Covid Creativity Cluster artists have begun our new challenge – to explore Melbourne’s creative heart through a collective work. Normally we each work individually in our own mediums. However, for this project, funded by a City of Melbourne Arts Grant, we plan to […]

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Our New Challenge – Exploring Melbourne’s Creative Heart

Our New Challenge – Exploring Melbourne’s Creative Heart Creativity Cluster artists have begun a new challenge – to explore Melbourne’s creative heart through a collective work. Although we have exhibited with each other 10 times since early 2019, we had never tried working collectively before. After two years of on-again, off-again Covid lockdown, seven of […]