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SOUTH AUSTRALIA
Craftsouth has made the move to new premises at Level 1, 38 Hindley Street in Adelaide. All other contact details (phone, PO address, email, etc) remain the same as previously. Please drop in to say hello and see the new space.
Craftsouth INFORM sessions, through to October 2010:
6 September, 5:45pm for a 6pm start: Information session: the art of selling your work. Presenter Lorraine Thornton, principle LT Associates (retail, business management and training services) and author of Retailing: how to lift sales and profit, will show you how to enjoy selling your artworks by exceeding the customer’s expectations of service through effective and professional sales techniques. Artists and designers participating in the October Bowerbird Bazaar design market will benefit from this session!
Monday, 11 October, 5:45pm for a 6pm start. Workshop: Pricing your work. Presenter Jane Bowden, partner Zu design – jewellery + objects, will lead this workshop in how to price your work, taking into account material costs as well as professional skills, reputation and expertise. Bring a piece of their work along to price. Cost: Craftsouth members $5, non-members $10
For full program information visit www.craftsouth.org.au/inform. For more info or to RSVP, email niki.vouis@craftsouth.org.au
MOMENTUM the 18th Tamworth Fibre Textile Biennial touring exhibition will be at the Jam Factory Contemporary Craft and Design from 29 October – 5 December 2010. More information from www.tamworthregionalgallery.com.au
Australia's first Encounter Bay RUG CAMP will be held in the picturesque town of Victor Harbor - only an hour's drive from Adelaide city, on the 5,6 & 7 of November, 2010. The camp will be fully catered (and includes morning/afternoon teas, lunch and supper - with a pastry cook in attendance we won't go hungry!).
A 'pot luck' dinner is planned for Friday night then we begin work on our individual hooking and progging projects. On Saturday there will be four workshops where everyone can have a go at trying hairpin lace (adapted to rug making), needle felting, basket making with yarn followed by a demonstration of dyeing by Joyce. The workshops will continue throughout the day so that campers will be able to either dip briefly into a project, or become totally dedicated to that craft. The workshops are included in the cost of the camp and all materials will be supplied. Sunday will be free for people to choose their own activities. Accommodation is shared with a bathroom and facilities in each room. The all inclusive cost is $155 ($145 for Australian Rugmakers Guild members). If you would like to see the camp site, check out the website http://www.adarecentre.com.au/ Come just for the Saturday and enjoy all the activities on offer. For just $65 you can expect four workshops, morning and afternoon tea plus lunch - and lots of convivial conversation amongst fellow rug makers. For more information phone Judy (08) 85363451 or Email : jstephens45@y7mail.com
MIRROR: an exhibition of the collages of JEANNIE BAKER. Renowned children’s book author and artist, Jeannie Baker, is launching a new book, Mirror – "a visual story is told, contrasting the hurly-burly of life in Sydney with a remote village in Morocco, revealing similarities between two outwardly different cultures, ways of life and landscapes." This is a travelling exhibition supported by the Australian Government through the Council for Australian-Arab Relations (CAAR). The exhibition is at the Botanic Gardens of Adelaide from 18th March – 13th May 2011.
TAYENEBE – Tasmanian Aboriginal women’s fibre work exhibition is a travelling show through Visions of Australia, and will be at Flinders University City Gallery from 21 October 2011 until 15 January 2012. Tayenebe is a south eastern Aboriginal word meaning ‘exchange’. Over the past three years more than 25 Tasmanian Aboriginal women, aged from 7 to 87, have journeyed together across the island in a determined process of cultural retrieval. "The impetus for the tayenebe project has been the desire to reconnect with the cultural craft of Ancestors. Thirty-seven Aboriginal woven-twined baskets created during the 1800s from lily, iris, sedges and rushes that survive in museums internationally are particularly inspirational for these makers." The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, the National Museum of Australia and Arts Tasmania co-managed the project to ensure that the women involved had support and opportunities to express ideas from making to exhibition to writing and planning future work.’ There is a catalogue available from http://museumshop.tmag.tas.gov.au/store/viewItem.shop?idProduct=101
The Museum of The Embroiderers’ Guild of South Australia Inc., features embroidered textiles from countries around the world among other things. Museum Open Days are:- Tuesdays: 10am-2pm. Embroiderers’ Guild of SA premises: 16 Hughes Street, MILE END SA Ph: 82341104. Website: www.embguildsa.org.au Email: contact@embguildsa.org.au
To apply for an ANNE AND GORDON SAMSTAG International Visual Arts Scholarship (tuition, travel and US$30,000 stipend for students and recent graduates) contact the Samstag Program, SA School of Art, University of South Australia, GPO Box 2471, Adelaide SA 5001 – phone 08.8302.0195 –Email samstag@unisa.edu.au Website www.unisa.edu.au/samstag/ Entries close in June each year, for the following year.
FAN (Fibre Artist Network) is a group of fibre artists, friends and those interested in textiles. "We wish to encourage the sharing of ideas, exhibitions, information, books, historical connections, show & tell, etc. We hope to exhibit and have workshops regularly." FAN meets every three months on the second Monday of the month (Feb, May, Aug, Nov), anyone welcome. Convenor: Suzanne Gummow )- (08.8268.7005); Email suzannegummow@bigpond.com Meetings are usually held at Marden Senior College, Marden Road, Marden (Adelaide) in the Art Room, 7pm open; 7:30pm start. Cost of $3 per person. Plenty of parking available.
