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

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     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

THE SECRET LIFE OF PAPER

In March 2009, paper artist extraordinaire Helen Hiebert visited Primrose Park from her home in Portland, Oregon on her way to the IAPMA conference in Burnie, Tasmania. She kindly gave me a copy of her beautiful short film, The Secret Life of Paper, and her permission to share it with you.



Below are some examples of the work we produced at Helen's Paper Lanterns Workshop.

More of Helen's work can be found on her website, along with details of how to obtain her DVD Water, Paper, Time.

JEAN RILEY
President

LEARNING THROUGH PAPERMAKING

Jeanette Bakker has sent this short but heartwarming video of how papermaking has inspired one group of children:



Thanks Jeanette!