Creativity ClusterSustainable Living Festival exhibitions Make Art, Not Landfill The exhibition Make Art, Not Landfill was held as part of the Sustainable Living Festival 2023. Where: FOUND:ling Reusery (formerly The Reimaginarium), 107 Moorabool Street, Geelong When: 1-28 February for the SLF, but it has been extended until the end of May 2023. Open 10am-5pm, Tuesday to […]
Melbourne: Our Creative Heart exhibition Creativity Cluster artists display their artworks The exhibition Melbourne: Our Creative Heart ran from 9 November – 1 December 2022 at the Library at the Dock gallery in Docklands. This exhibition, supported by a City of Melbourne Arts Grant, portrays the many ways that Melbourne nurtures our creativity. The seven […]
Combining Ceramics and Junk Nancy D Lane describes working with Mardie Whitla When I expressed interest in trying my hand at ceramics, Mardie Whitla invited me to the home studio in her garage. There we had a great day, with Mardie teaching me the ropes of creating hand-built ceramics. Mardie started with the basics, showing […]
Botanical Splendiferous Mardie Whitla and Deidre Ogilvie describe the creation of their botanical installation Seven artists from Melbourne-based Creativity Cluster began planning for our exhibition, Melbourne: Our Creative Heart, with a group lunch meeting at Beaumaris in early January 2022. We were able to develop this exhibition, thanks to support from a City of Melbourne […]
Experiments with Paint and Junk, part 2 Nancy D Lane describes working with Deidre Ogilvie I invited Deidre to join me at River Studios so that we could share our respective mediums. I am not a painter, so it was fun to experiment with her paints. While Deidre chose to paint on glass and metal […]
Participating in Planning for Melbourne: Our Creative Heart Nancy Lane describes the process In our initial planning meetings for the exhibition Melbourne: Our Creative Heart, our Creativity Cluster group made several decisions. Firstly, we agreed to create three centre pieces, five clusters of framed works on the walls and the river as a connecting link. […]
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 […]