I’m super excited to be teaching a kids workshop on Gelli® mono-printing. We are going to be making pop-up Christmas cards, book marks and gift tags. I can’t wait to see how the children go.
Helen O'Hara – Community Artist – Joondalup, Perth, WA
I’m super excited to be teaching a kids workshop on Gelli® mono-printing. We are going to be making pop-up Christmas cards, book marks and gift tags. I can’t wait to see how the children go.
Here in Perth we have been waiting 5 years for the refurbishment of our state museum. The new museum has been named “Boola Bardip” which means “Many Stories” in the local Aboriginal language. The most impressive thing about the museum is the way indigenous people are represented, not with a token exhibition out the back but with an entry level permanent exhibition, amazing temporary exhibition and Aboriginal objects and artworks throughout all of the galleries.
The current temporary exhibition is called “Songlines – Tracking the Seven Sisters“. This exhibition features some amazing woven sculptures of the sisters displayed dramatically on reflective plinths and hanging from the ceiling. There are also many painted canvases on display along with objects, stories and films.
There are more woven sculptures elsewhere in the museum.
Also on display are numerous baskets, pots and this beautiful decorated kangaroo skin.
I’m currently working on several pieces for an exhibition next year. They are all textile pieces mostly done with the needle-felt machine. You’ll have to wait until the exhibition to see the whole thing!
It will soon be time for me to record another video tutorial for Gelli Arts®. I have the new year slot so I’m going to be showing how to make a Gelli® mono-printed cover for your diary. I’ve been playing with the process before I record the tutorial.
Today I have taken some Gelli® mono-prints on fabric and combined them with commercial fabrics and hand dyed fabrics into these colourful book covers.
I’ve also been playing on my needle-felt machine lately and those experiments have become 2 more book covers
I’ve taken some of my hand-dyed indigo fabrics and pieced them together to make these beautiful book-covers. These will be for sale at next CQG meeting and I hope to have more available in my Etsy store soon.
This is the last batch of hand-dyed fabrics for a while. These were dyed with procion dyes in red, magenta, purple and blue. Most of the fabrics were folded, scrunched or clamped before the dye was applied to give these beautiful tie-dye patterns. These will all be for sale at next Contemporary Quilt Meeting.
Today I went to see the quilts of Marjorie Coleman at the Lyrical Stitch exhibition in the Homes a Court Gallery. There are a large number of quilts on show spanning 5 decades of work. It was interesting to see how Marjorie’s work evolved through several different styles. The exhibition is on until 28th November so be sure to take a look.