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Author Archives: Nancy
Highlights: Chandeliers and Sculptural lighting of the Woodford Folk Festival.
Kez Howell designs the amazing chandeliers and sculptural lanterns for the Woodford Folk Festival. These ingenious creations adorn the venues, lakes and walkways. Kez Howell and Cliff Salaun sculpt, forge, weld, print, paint, dye sew then run the electricity through … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazing lanterns, Cliff Salaun, festival lanterns, Festival Light design, festival lighting, festival lights, Kez Howell, Kez Howell artist, lake lanterns, Light sculpture, sculptural lanterns, Woodford Festival lanterns, Woodford Festival lights, Woodford Festival pond lights, Woodford Folk Festival lights, Woodford lake lanterns, Woodford lantern parade
Festival season
I visited Maryborough for the Festive heart of Christmas celebrations. There were a range of offerings each day for families, from interactions with rescued wildlife to mural painting. It was held in the historic town hall. It was great to … Continue reading
Upcycling workshop
Some photos from a workshop I ran for Brisbane City Council: recreating clothing. The workshop was part of the Revive festival, where the speakers addressed the issue of waste from the textile industry and the disturbing phenomenon to junk fashion and … Continue reading
Posted in Festivals, printmaking
Tagged printmaking, upcycled fashion
Screenprinting at Raw Art
http://rawart.com.au/product/screenprinting-101-with-nancy Date: Sat October 28th Time: 12.30-3.30 Have you ever wanted to learn the basics of screenprinting without having to watch every dodgy YouTube clip on the web…? During this very fast paced and enjoyable workshop you will learn … Continue reading
Making porcelain jewellery
I’ve been making more porcelain jewellery, printing and shaping the clay, glazing and firing the porcelain pieces, adding extra cobalt to make deep classical winters blues, bending sterling silver for the earring hooks with my assortment of pliers. When pieces … Continue reading
Screenprinting at Impress
A weekend at Impress Printmakers studio. I was tutoring a two day studio session in Screenprinting for an experienced group of artists. Impress Printmakers studio at Kedron is a beautiful working space with high ceilings, flooded with natural light. The … Continue reading
Artbeat
Artbeat festival at Ipswich. The crowd flocked to the festival to try the huge range of creative offerings. There was woodturning, hula hoop making, mosaic, flying fish, magic wands, felting sculpted monsters, body painting, musical instrument making, sculpted paper brooches and … Continue reading
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Tagged Festival activities for children
The Planting
The Planting festival at Woodfordia has grown from a small spades and gumboots gathering to a festival with shady trees, arts, talks, ideas and music. The trees have grown, and now the plantings are of tree orchards, a ceremonial planting … Continue reading
