It suddenly dawned on me as I was putting together work for the installation of my exhibition in CrossXPollination in Colac that I had sent quite a few pieces of the Coqueclicot/France work up to Berry as workshop samples. The colours of these are so lovely and warm for a winters day that i sewed like the fury to get some more done and then forgot to photograph them- well to be more accurate ran out of time to photograph them as we had to install work on Wednesday afternoon. I will post some photos next week. The exhibition opens tomorrow night- the more the merrier and it is still possible to join workshops or to come and view the exhibitions which will be open until Sunday week. There will be a makers market this Sunday and then a creative foyer throughout the week.
Thursday we did a Scarecrow making workshop in Colac- we had five family groups and we had a lot of fun, painting faces ,sewing bodies, dressing and stuffing with hay- we made a mess but there was a lot of smiling faces, and I had not realised quite how large the scarecrows would become, but they became so life sized that the kids were really proud of their efforts.
I was expecting attention spans to wane but everyone stuck to their task and we managed to finish them all- they looked so funny and as we were working int he foyer of the Copacc Cinema Centre our activities attracted quite a lot of attention- we will install them in the exhibition as a group drinking a cuppa and having a yarn.
And then during the week some exciting news for Sentinelles , including those embroidered by other people. We had been planning to show my bigger sentinelles and many of the embroidered ones at Palaiseau with a quilt group there, organised by my friend Christine Moulin- we were going to include as many of the embroidered panels as possible as each one has turned out differently, and I am trying to secure places to exhibit it in Australia.
Then the organisation at Palaiseau thought they would make a great exhibition for their Voix au Féminin in March of 2014- and so they invited me to be guest artist- and then to exhibit as many of the embroidered panels as possible. So if you have purchased a panel off me and you have embroidered it please email me if you would like to be part of the exhibition. It is also still possible to purchase a panel if you would like to embroider one. The price of the panel is $15 and postage is $2.60 for overseas. I will be doing one more print run but then I will have to discard my linocut as it is deteriorating with the washing which affects the hemp on the back.So email me if you would like a panel or you would like to join the exhibition- the deadline for delivery of the embroidered pieces is late January 2014. The only expense will be postage and possibly return postage though I will work on trying to get some funding for that.
Thursday we did a Scarecrow making workshop in Colac- we had five family groups and we had a lot of fun, painting faces ,sewing bodies, dressing and stuffing with hay- we made a mess but there was a lot of smiling faces, and I had not realised quite how large the scarecrows would become, but they became so life sized that the kids were really proud of their efforts.
And then during the week some exciting news for Sentinelles , including those embroidered by other people. We had been planning to show my bigger sentinelles and many of the embroidered ones at Palaiseau with a quilt group there, organised by my friend Christine Moulin- we were going to include as many of the embroidered panels as possible as each one has turned out differently, and I am trying to secure places to exhibit it in Australia.
Then the organisation at Palaiseau thought they would make a great exhibition for their Voix au Féminin in March of 2014- and so they invited me to be guest artist- and then to exhibit as many of the embroidered panels as possible. So if you have purchased a panel off me and you have embroidered it please email me if you would like to be part of the exhibition. It is also still possible to purchase a panel if you would like to embroider one. The price of the panel is $15 and postage is $2.60 for overseas. I will be doing one more print run but then I will have to discard my linocut as it is deteriorating with the washing which affects the hemp on the back.So email me if you would like a panel or you would like to join the exhibition- the deadline for delivery of the embroidered pieces is late January 2014. The only expense will be postage and possibly return postage though I will work on trying to get some funding for that.
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