Home To Roost

It's been a crazy busy couple of weeks here in my new studio. The basic move in is done but I haven't played with my work areas much because I've been busy with an upcoming exhibit that I am in with a group of fellow artists.

It's called "Home To Roost" and it will be up for the months of April and May in the Centre for Craft and Design Gallery. 

There are 6 of us in the group, Shari Macleod who is a basket weaver and felter, Sarah Beck is a potter, Teena Marie Fancy is a mixed media artist , Gayle Bird creates wire wrapped jewelry, Katherine Scott designs with paper and me who works in fibers. 

Shari began the idea and invited us all to join her, quite a well rounded group and I think the show is going to be amazing!

Here are some quick pics of a couple of the things I am working on.  Neither is completed but I'll post       pics after we set up and hopefully others will allow me to share their work too. :)

This grouping will be placed in a nest and a Papa bird added with a few other bits.

This fine fellow is nearly done and is having a custom made personal perch made to call home.

I wish you all  were close enough to attend our opening night in a couple of weeks but hopefully those            close by will come along.
                                             
                                                  Now back to work. :)

Lumiere 2011- Wet and Wonderful !

Saturday night downtown Sydney came alive with art installations, music and dance called Lumiere.  Not your usual Charlotte St. evening but even the rain couldn't keep people away. 

A pic of a busy Charlotte St. full of people and traffic.

Empty store fronts were filled with video and photo exhibits.

Katherine Scott and Teen Marie Fancy held their exhibit in the newly renovated YMCA.

Midnight Swim in Phosphorescence : Having combed the seaside for ocean-sourced materials, the artists will reflect on this haiku as they try to invoke the sensation of an ocean swim under a starry sky.

Catherine Moir paints in Black light.

Kent Senacal"s VIP Table, double dare ya to take a seat. :)

laura Moore's light show from a tv and toilet paper rolls, Very Cool!

Shari Macleod's woven creatures. This little dude doesn't look like he trusts the cross walk lines and he's checking good and hard for traffic. ;)

Sidney Ried animated the parking meters with her knitted creatures.

I couldn't find a sign for this artist's work but I did marvel that it was entirely constructed from burrs. Can you say Ouch!

                               This piece is by Onni Nordman and hung in the main window of CBCCD. I had a hard time with this pic because there was a light bulb in constant motion in front of the face creating an hypnotic effect.

There were so many more exhibits and some I may have not fully grasped although I enjoyed the experience and opportunity to view them. The night as a whole was a great success I thought and I hope they do it all again next year. If you didn't attend you missed something wonderful so don't miss it next year if we are all so lucky.