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 […]
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 […]
Interview with Nancy D Lane Nancy D Lane creates her art under the name NancyDee Sculptures. She was recently interviewed by Elle-May Michael, owner of Incube8r Gallery where Nancy exhibits. The interview follows, along with photos of several of NancyDee’s artworks and brooches. These show the variety of mediums she works in. Tell us a […]