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Experimenting with Oils and Found Object Assemblage

Experimenting with Oils and Found Object Assemblage Nancy Lane describes creating joint works with Pat Duncan Part of the funding for the Creativity Cluster project, Melbourne: Our Creative Heart, was for experimentation across mediums. Pat Duncan and I were interested in working with each other. However, with the Covid pandemic still rampant, we were hesitant […]

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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 […]