April 2012
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Painting, printing, carving, drawing making...
Week 2 Well I am well and truly into the second week of my residency at Harvest now and I have to admit that I am enjoying transforming my illustrations into some more sculptural pieces. By that I mean the whole deal, no splitting the tasks/processes between two people anymore! Katherine used to mainly sculpt and hand build all of Golden Ink’s porcelain pieces and I would paint them. So I...
Apr 24th
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Setting up my work station at Harvest Textiles
Week 1: One of the first things I did at Harvest was pin up some of my drawings, colour palettes and designs for planning what to spend my time making during my residency. They all look so pretty sitting together on a clean white wall, not cluttered and stacked in piles! Very refreshing to cull from a collection of inspiration, sketches, ideas, plans, articles and miscellaneous things all...
Apr 23rd
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Harvest Textiles residency
I have been lucky enough to be the artist in residence at the amazingly beautiful and creative hub known as Harvest textiles in Brunswick, Melbourne. Lara, Jess and Emma; the Harvest girls, have all been so accommodating and inspirational to work around during my transition. Definitely worth going past at some stage to see all the amazing stuff these ladies are up to, and the great workshops...
Apr 23rd
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Goodbye Golden Ink
So this is the news…  Katherine and I have decided to draw a close to our lovely label Golden Ink Collaborative. Whilst we have both enjoyed working on this wonderful project together, the time has come for us to focus on our own retrospective practices. We will be officially closing up shop mid year, and will only have stock in our retailers until June, but we are squeezing in one last...
Apr 22nd
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Playing catch up!
Yes.. It has been a long time since I last made a post :/ I am excited and a bit saddened to share some news…. but before I do, and after being a bit overwhelmed about doing a post for everything that has happened since november last year - here is a quick speel: Golden Ink collaborative were so pleased to be part of the incredible open house extravaganza curated and set by Lucy Feagins...
Apr 22nd