WELCOME VIDEO

A short welcome video to introduce prospective members to Primrose Park Art & Craft Centre and the work of Primrose Paper Arts.

CREATIONS FROM SANDY WEBSTER'S WORKSHOP

Sandy Webster from the United States gave generously of her time and expertise at her recent workshop at Primrose, and the participants responded with the wonderful and personal works you will see below.

Brenda Livermore's collection box relates to time she has spent walking through the National Park, around the cliffs and on the beach at Bundeena, always collecting little treasures from the beach or bush along the way. Brenda says it was wonderful to create a space for these treasures to be together and reflect her emotional response to this area.

Chris Hutch's pair of boxes evokes memories of a special place where her family has spent some wonderful holidays. That place is Pretty Beach in the Murramurang National Park on the South Coast of New South Wales. The 'forest' box includes a print representing the dense spotted gum forest of Durras Mountain. The companion piece contains her beach treasures which represent my lifelong fascination with the ecology of rock platforms.

Diana Brandt's box is a response to her most recent trip to Bali which became a more profound inner journey than previous trips, taking her to places of self-healing and spiritual realization that she needed to document in her box of memories. In Bali, and particularly Ubud, she discovered a sense of freedom she does not experience anywhere else.

Jean Riley opted for a practical and craftsman-like approach and created a box to house her collection of beads, needles, threads and tapes which she uses in her handmade books. The box reflects her passion for this ancient craft.

Marie Waterhouse's 'treasure box' was constructed with compartments of different depths to fit precisely the objects she wished to house there and which she has collected in her walks along the beach or a bush track. These objects, which include animal bones, a bird's skull, dead leaves, empty seed pods and scribbly bark, reflect nature and its processes through the life cycle.

Sue Shaw's box was created to hold memorabilia from her family history, including a watch belonging to her grandfather, her uncle's drawing implements, a cup and saucer from one grandmother and pearls from the other. To finalize the collection, Sue added her own baby shoes and a Milly-Molly-Mandy book.

Valerie Rubel's box was built to house the symbols of memories, reminders of who and where and when, and to 'place' that which would otherwise remain hidden in drawers, cupboards, boxes, and pockets.

Here are three more creations by ...

Karen Vernon

Michele Skelton

Nui Boonyubol.

RESULT OF RAFFLE

Held at ‘Festival of Paper Arts’ Open Day, 26 March 2011.

The raffle was won by Susan Baran of Tamarama.

Look out for a bigger and better raffle at our exhibition at the Palm House, Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, 11-24 August 2011.

INVITATION

A FESTIVAL OF PAPER ARTS

Primrose Park Art and Craft Centre, at Matora Lane, off Lower Young Street, Cremorne, celebrates its 20th anniversary as a community arts facility.

You are invited to attend the Open Day celebrations on Saturday 26 March, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m, to watch demonstrations of calligraphy and various decorative paper techniques, or join in the hands-on activities including paper-making, printmaking and bookbinding. You are also welcome to visit the photographic studio.

Make it a family day and bring a picnic lunch.

Paper artists at work at Primrose Park.

JEAN RILEY
President, Primrose Paper Arts

JANUARY 2011 UPDATE

This is a general invitation to all members to attend the wine-and-cheese afternoon following the General Meeting on 12 February, at which we will discuss the planned exhibition, SEED, at the Royal Botanic Gardens. Bring along your collections of seeds or anything you think will inspire members to get their creative juices running. See the January Newsletter for further information.

Here are some extra images of possible outcomes for the next three workshops:

1. Engineered Book Structures, 26 February and 12 March

     DAY 1

     DAY 2

 

The following two workshops have been organized to inspire those members who are contemplating entering either 2D or 3D works in our exhibition at the Palm House in August.

2. Boxes and Books: Construction Around the Found Object, 8-10 April

Diana Brandt writes:

I did a workshop with Sandy Webster in Geelong some years ago., at which I made the first of my boxes. Sandy is certainly very inspiring and her work is quite different from anything we have previously done at Primrose. She is extremely talented and outgoing and there seems to be no end to what she can do. Her strength lies in her ability to combine different media in an interesting way.

 

 Don't forget to visit Sandy's website.

3. Using Monotype to Crack Your Creative Barrier, 14-15 May

Here are additional images of Sandra Pearce's work:

You can see more of Sandra's work on her blog.

A happy and creative New Year to all.

JEAN

DIVERSITY IN PRINTMAKING

Susan Baran will be exhibiting her work with three other printmakers at the Dank Street Gallery, 7-19 September.

Susan invites her friends to join her for drinks at the gallery on Tuesday 7 September, 5-7 p.m.

Click on image to enlarge

JEAN RILEY
President

THAT WAS THEN, THIS IS NOW

The images below represent a small sample of the exhibition 'That Was Then, This is Now' by five members of Primrose Paper Arts. The exhibition will be on view, on the mezzanine level of Primrose Park Art and Craft Centre, until 30 August.

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Here are two Native American paper sculptures by Allen and Patty Eckman. To see more images and learn more about their technique, visit their website.

JEAN RILEY

President