Well, I had to post it, hope you can enlarge the media copy but at least you won't miss the 'oh sexy on cloth shot' xx 4 sleeps! very excited x

Butterflies

The gallery space is ready and the butterflies are jolly. Natural dyes are simmering in huge pots, the aroma permeating the air with a homely scent. Just the signs to erect and the mulled wine to make and we should be scheduled for a great weekend.....maybe I need to give that studio space a tidy too!

Remember, there are lots of studios to visit this weekend of

Dandenong Ranges Open Studios.

You can plan you route online, how very clever.

Show UP !

This is my third year doing Open Studios. What a journey! Its so amazing living in the hills surrounded by creative folk who pop their heads out of their studio spaces once a year and come together to celebrate. Yes! celebrate, being an artist and not creating art in a void. The comfort that others around you are in the same place, head space, zone, sometimes state of disarray! 

Opening night is Friday 18th May at Burrinja, Glenfern Road, Upwey from 6.30pm

 

BUT......after that all studios are open on 26th and 27th May......I'm NUMBER 10

Show's going up and mulled wine will be on tap to warm you up!

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Open Studios 2012

The opening of our group exhibion is Friday 18th May at 7.00pm in the Jarmbi Gallery, Burrinja.
A thriving creative hub in Upwey, just east of Melbourne

http://openstudios.org.au/artists/jude-craig

There are lots of other fantastic artists to peruse on this website but I thought I would start you of with ME!

Planes

My piece for Burrinja Open Studios Group show is underway...silk planes, photographed from an obtuse angle. Well I don't want to reveal my hand just yet!

Spirals of Metal

Scrap metal yards are one of my favourite places to visit, sporadically, as is my want and I find pieces of beauty like nowhere else. This spiral of metal is a great example, I mean.....yes! I could have selected a piece of metal and twisted it into that shape...et voila! but that piece of 'found' metal had already been melded into that position for a reason and then was vanquished to the bin.

A fortuitous meeting one day and in my studio, it has played it's part in the dyeing process, making it's mark on silk and mordanting the colour to the cloth and now, it embellishes my textile work.

Plucked from imminent metal melt-down, bet that piece never thought it would have a life like this!

Lets get this Show on the Road

Just easing back into the creative blogging which I have seriously neglected...a picture a day... may be the way!