Creativity ClusterWorking with an art mentor In their first blog, Collaboration Inspiring Growth, Lindsay Hussey and Penny Sharples discussed their decision to continue their creative collaboration. They first worked together on a major artwork, Ensemble, created for the Creativity Cluster 2022 exhibition Melbourne: Our Creative Heart, which was funded by a grant from the City of Melbourne. In this blog, Lindsay and Penny discuss how working […]
Collaboration Inspiring Growth During 2022, Lindsay Hussey, a textile artist, and Penny Sharples, an oil and cold wax artist, collaborated on a major artwork, Ensemble. They created it for the Creativity Cluster exhibition Melbourne: Our Creative Heart, which was funded by a grant from the City of Melbourne. A significant aim of the grant was […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]