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Brooching the Subject Competition
"Remembering" - Wood, Clay and Cloth Sculpture : Wilma Simmons
Thank you to all who voted in the recent People's Choice - Brooching the Subject Competition held at Timeless Textiles Gallery ( Newcastle NSW Australia) . Special thanks if you happened to vote for my entry, 'Remembering', a wall brooch pictured above. The winner with the most votes online was a beautiful felted piece, another wall brooch, entitled " Papevero (Italian Poppy) " by Becky Williams.
Papevero : Becky Williams from https://timelesstextiles.com.au/past-exhibitions/
The competition in the gallery was judged by renowned Queensland artist, Sylvia Watt - Here is a video of what Sylvia decided and said about the brooches...
1. Water Guardian : Alysn Midgelow-Marsden ; 2. Amelia : Judith Bee ; 3. We are Connected - Trudi Nisbet
All of the brooches can be viewed on the Timeless Textiles Gallery website here. Congratulations to all the artists who entered - the exhibition was amazing!
This week I've been working on fish and sticks .... The sticks are the message stick art dolls which were very popular, attracting some attention and a few orders at the Wise Women exhibition. Each of the message stick dolls are from the Wise Women series, each with her own personality and message of wisdom, handwritten on a handmade timber tag. I gather the sticks during my walks around my neighbourhood and the tags are made from special bits of timber, some collected by me or my husband or from off cuts gifted to us from another doll making friend whose husband makes bagpipes. These dolls start off very simply with a wrap around a stick, in the general shape of a body. 'Naked" message stick dolls - strips of wadding wrapped around found sticks. Then I usually wrap other layers of fabric, wool, and/or fibres, over which I do some simple embroidery. I sculpt or mould small face masks for these dolls. I really like using "sari ribbon" as w...
There are many songs about fruit cakes - not all of them referring to the Christmas cake we know and love.It is really surprising to learn via Google that there are 89 listed songs with references to Christmas cake or fruit cake - not all of them complimentary. Probably one of the most famous folk songs about Christmas cake is Miss Fogarty's Christmas Cake (a favourite sung by The Irish Rovers). This first recorded comical Christmas song was written by C Frank Horn in 1883 in Pennsylania, as a variation of an Irish folk song, 'Miss Mulligan's Christmas Cake' . The chorus might give you the hint that Miss Fogarty's cake was not for the faint hearted or those who suffered from a weak stomach. Chorus : There were plums and prunes and cherries, There were citrons and raisins and cinnamon, too There was nutmeg, cloves and berries And a crust that was nailed on with glue There were caraway seeds in abundance Such that...
Newcastle Entertainment Centre became an 'arty place' when the Craft and Sewing Show came to town a fortnight ago. I heard some visitors say that there wasn't much there, but I found lots of fun things to do.... and enjoyed at least two different new arty techniques to try. I did a workshop on paper quilting with Michaela Laurie . I have made a few gift tags, but nothing quite as complex as this example of Michaela's lovely work (image jewelled elephant from the website ). I also purchased a kit for this little container made by weaving strips of Japanese fabric and I amazed myself when I completed it in one night. One of my favourite stalls was Wabi- Sabi Designs manned by Shuji Yamazaki from whom I bought a beautiful silk kimono style jacket. Wabi- Sabi Designs is based in Canberra and has a regular stall at the Old Bus Depot Markets in Kingston as well as online shopping...
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