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Creative 2020 At Brisbane Institute of Art

Posted on January 23, 2020 by Nancy

Classes will soon be recommencing At Brisbane Institute of Art.

I am offering the following courses. Click on link for more information and to enrol through their website

Fabric Printing 5 October to 20th November Monday 1pm to 4 pm
https://brisart.org/courses/short-courses/fabric-printing-short-courses/fabric-design-printing-detail

T shirt fundamentals 31 October and 1 st November 2 day course
https://brisart.org/courses/short-courses/fabric-printing-short-courses/t-shirt-fundamentals-101-detail

Introduction to printmaking course
Monday mornings | 9:30am – 12:30pm | 5 October to 30 November | 9 weeks
Total: $ 575.00
https://brisart.org/courses/short-courses/printmaking-short-courses/introductory-printmaking-detail

Visit https://brisart.org/ for more details and enrolment

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Launch of Sally Dillon’s campaign Coorparoo

Posted on November 3, 2019 by Nancy

This was an unexpectedly delightful event at The Pocket community garden in Woollongabba. We were screenprinting onto recycled shirts and repurposing shirts into bags at the festive launch of Sally Dillon’s campaign for Coorparoo. This event at The Pocket community garden Woollongabba was a creative gathering of artists, gourmet pizza cooking, heart felt speeches and local musicians of all ages. The community garden setting with its inviting garden beds, planting and potting, community composting hub and table tennis table is an inspired example of a local community working together for positive change.

Sally, a penny farthing rider has placed discussion, creativity, fun and community connection with all ages at the centre of her campaign, and this event had a feeling of celebration.

Sally Dillon Greens campaign The Pocket Woollongabba

Screenprinting and potting plants Sally Dillon Greens campaign.

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Barcaldine FlyingArts

Posted on September 23, 2019 by Nancy

An artist in residence at Barcaldine as overt of the Small Schools program. The students had been working with Jenny Mace, a local botanical illustrator. My workshops were to make copper tiles and clay tiles for the entrance way to the school.

The students from prep to grade 6 began with observational drawings, and developed their designs from the patterns they observed in the plant shapes and structures.

Barcaldine Small Schools program Flying Arts

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Aerosol

Posted on July 25, 2019 by Nancy

Photos from an aerosol spay painting workshop at Rochedale State High School organised by Flying Arts

The students worked in groups to layer up large format work on panels with stencils

Rochdale State High School

Creating stencils for spray painting

Spray painting art Flying Arts

Stencilling images for aerosol painting

Layering stencils for spray painting

Flying Arts workshop aerosol art artist Nancy Brown

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Archaeology exhibition Logan Art Gallery

Posted on February 26, 2019 by Nancy

Finishing touches for Archaeology exhibition at Logan Art Gallery with FS Hellfisch. I can hardly believe how swiftly the time passed we first discussed the idea of our Archaeology to the reality of the exhibition.

Opens 6.30pm. Logan Art Gallery Cnr. Wembley Road & Jacaranda Avenue, Logan Central Qld 4114.

Nancy Brown sculptural porcelain scrolls, mosaic pieces.

Fresco fragments Nancy Brown

Nancy Brown porcelain scrolls FS Hellfisch sculptural timber pieces. archaeology Exgibition

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Woodford Folk Festival 18-19

Posted on January 3, 2019 by Nancy

My year began at Woodford Folk Festival running workshops in the Children’s Festival, where children can roam and discover a festival designed just for them. This year there was a beautiful permaculture area complete with wisdom from Costa Georgiadis in his red felted pixie hat. There was a mist fountain for staying cool, and we had our own performance by the popular Formidable Vegetable band.

My amazing team: Louise, Georgia, Alison and Alistair helped the children print hundreds of bags and banners, paint and print fans, and make badges. The children cut their own stencils to print over my design for 2018-19. My background was a permaculture garden, with peanuts, beans, onions, carrots, passion fruit, musings and music. This was happenstance, because the edible paradise theme infused the festival philosophy this year. Thanks To Becky Wandell and all the volunteers who organise such an amazing event for kids each year.

Lets make 2019 renewable, creative and happy!

Big Paint Woodford Children’s Festival

Chill out fans Woodford Folk Festival

Drying Screenprint’s Woodford Folk Festival

Hand decorated fan Woodford Children’s Festival 2018 19

Screenprint stencil design Woodford Children’s Festival

Screenprint’s Woodfordia

Screenprintear bags Woodfordia 2018-19

Screenprint Woodford Children’s Festival

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My Arrival: converging stories

Posted on November 10, 2018 by Nancy

My current project is about Arrival stories. Arriving in a new country leaving friends and families behind, The need to understand a new language and oriient a new culture and place. The stories are unfurling stories from lives of change and upheaval. Stories about having to be brave- children travelling without family,children escaping terror

The students in the project are learning English,and the project is funded by Arts Queensland. We began at Logan Art Gallery, making small books and then printing images from them ont T shirts. Our plan is to wear them to the project opening at Logan Gallery in October.

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Fresco explorations

Posted on November 10, 2018 by Nancy

It’s strange how a technique that reigned supreme since the Bronze Age has fallen so deeply out of practice. I’ve been exploring ideas with plaster of Paris and pigments combining fresco painting with pigment printing and carving. I’m now working towards an exhibition titled Archaeology at Logan Art Gallery with the work of extraordinary FS Helfisch.

Some ideas from a weekend session exploring fresco, I believe that the mummified rat was gifted to FS after an archaeological dig At the School of Art. .

Fresco Nancy Brown FS Helfisch fresco

Fresco objets Nancy Brown FS Helfisch fresco

Fresco impressions Nancy Brown FS Helfisch fresco

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Gympie plants, rust and indigo

Posted on June 2, 2018 by Nancy

Visiting Gympie, stunning in its clear green winter perfection. I have visited the gallery space previously running a silk workshop and textile design and printing workshop with Flying Arts. This time the workshop was natural dyes for the Textile and Fibre group. The group were creative and inventive, and so it followed that I made some new discoveries, one that my usual, textile steamer can hold and steam many individual pieces suspended and separated something like loading a kiln for ceramics.

I Stayed on an idyllic property west of Gympie where hosts Marie and Dennis live with their horses dogs and menagerie of birds and a flock of sheep.