To coincide with the July meeting FIBRESPACE held its 2nd "RETREAT".
Members offered a range of workshops, for members to participate in, which provided the opportunity to develop new skills and ideas with experts on hand.
Marbling, dry felting, plastics manipulation, organic basket making and beading were some of the art forms on offer.
This was a great opportunity for people to get to know each other better and develop new ideas in a supportive environment.
Love this group, people don't need any encouragement to get involved and the exchange of ideas is inspirational...
INTO THE NIGHT - photographic exhibition
The Curdnatta Photographers have had a few excursions into the night, primarily to develop camera skills, but we ended up having quite a bit of FUN as a group.
We had to overcome a few obstacles, other than dealing with the technical side of working a camera in the dark, such as hidden ant's nests, rough terrain, security guards and lurking shadows.
We are pretty happy with the results which can be seen as a collection of work at Curdnatta Gallery during July.
Ah the joy of turning two...
It was too wet to hold a party in the park but plenty of fun was had with Tom, Sophie, Alex and Billy .
The Dirt Girl World cake was an instant hit .
One of Curdnatta's past members is holding an exhibition at the gallery in June. The opening turned into a reunion for old friends and Srirling residents and was turning into quite a social event when all of a sudden all the smoke alarms at the gallery went off in unison.
Now this creates quite a noise because the safety requirements stipulate that every room in the gallery must have a an alarm so there were at least 12 alarms blaring.
The cacophony continued until the fire brigade in full regalia attended and set about finding the offending alarm.
No fire but an event to remember as we had to continue our conversations out side.
It is time to catch up on a few happenings that I have been remiss in posting here.
Back in May we spent a week with John,Tamsin and Polly in Barham, a little town on the border of New South Wales and Victoria.
It took us a couple of days to drive there, staying over night in Mildura.
We acted as Nannies while the adults were working on a project for the Melbourne Museum. These duties included playing in all the local parks, having cups of coffee and baby chinos and walking around the streets with baby Rara and Penguin in their pusher. We even had time to wash the car.
We met most of the people involved in the project and managed to see some of the daily filming results and then had time to explore the local forest and river where the filming had taken place.
It is a very beautiful spot and Barham is a tidy little town with very friendly people.
