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 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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
Mardie Whitla blogs about her ceramic sculpture Poseur It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Do you see what I see? My Italian friend, Patrizia, arrived in Melbourne on 27 February 2020 for her six-week holiday. It was her first visit to Australia, and she arrived on the day that […]
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 […]
Mardie Whitla blogs about her handbuilt ceramic carousel It’s taken about 25 years to realise I must have an inner carousel connection. Years ago we went to France for a week to celebrate a special birthday at, among other places, Michelin Star restaurant Tour D’Argent. On our final evening in cold and windy Paris, we […]
Marina Chamberlain blogs about how a collage artist found treasure As a collage artist, I found a treasure trove during the prolonged pandemic lockdown in Melbourne. Flea markets are my favourite source for finding treasures that I can use for creating my collage artworks, but I have been unable to visit these during our lockdown. […]
Mardie Whitla blogs about her handbuilt ceramics installation Dubrovnik’s Leaf There’s a story behind the creation of my handbuilt ceramic and found object installation Dubrovnik’s Leaf. It all started with a wall and a leaf. It took more than 450 years to build, extend and fortify the defensive walls of Dubrovnik, Croatia. The city and […]