Closing date: 8 August 2010 Adelaide
Applications are now open for Bowerbird Bazaar – Adelaide’s Design Market, 8-10 October 2010. Emerging and established artists, designers and makers are encouraged to apply for a stall in this dynamic and upmarket environment. It’s an event where ongoing relationships, opportunities and sales can be created with retailers, media and the very enthusiastic public.
For more info please visit their website here.
So i realized looking back that I’ve completely mislabeled a bunch of posts as the same day, as the wrong day, as whatever. Oh well. It’s just goes to prove how busy and consumed I am with my work lately : )
So anyway – today saw the opening of our first soda firing. I’m going to share a couple pics of my work with you, but I should really be showing the work of Robin and Darlene who also had pieces in the kiln as theirs we’re quite a bit more successful. I’m not trying to be self deprecating. The result just really weren’t what i was hoping for and i would be willing to accept some of the surprises except for the bits of soft brick (we think) that seem to have landed in 90% of my pots. Sigh, I really was meant to be an electric kiln girl.
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Some other explorations…
A couple cute boys checking out our firing.
SODA!!!! : )
Getting a tour of the Hive Artist’s Hub.
The lovely Chelsea teaching us how to use the jigger press. (so awesome OMG!!!)
I woke up this morning bright and early, happy that my boys (son & husband) we’re going to be arriving for a visit, but alas as soon as I reached the studio and started up my computer I realized that the day was threatening to turn sour. A few cracks in 2 pieces I have to deal with slowly but consistently over the next few days, but it shouldn’t be too bad.
But worse than that my computer died. Won’t even start up. Can’t seem to find the start up disk. Sigh. It’s a 8 year old Mac which has survived a previous hard drive fail (2 weeks before my thesis was due) and recently (a few months back) was drown in a coke. It’s led a good life, so maybe it was just it’s time. Cruddy thing is I only have an equally temperamental and threatening to die hand me down laptop from my mom to replace this one and the monitor on that one only works a fraction of the time. But I’m not winging. I’m just letting you know in case my blogging becomes a bit more sporadic until I can get an adequate replacement. I guess this is a good excuse to have to go back to the wonders of Hycroft China again to retake all the photos I’ve lost
: )
I just want to take a minute to say thank you to everyone that’s posted comments on the blog or emailed me with kind words about the stuff I’ve been posting this month. It’s been really fun so far to share all this work in progress with you and always so lovely to have feedback.
many thanks
xoxox
Now i’m off to stress about my artist talk this evening…
