Super busy for everyone, in rather many different ways. Nevertheless, most of us have been able to fit in a bit of textile art between all the other commitments…
There was the exhibition at the Brisbane Square Library from 21st April to June 24…. Jan and I set it up and pulled it down, the latter being much quicker than the former – the art quilts did look excellent there though… as well as the 3D works which were our summer challenge.
This was followed up by some of the members showing off (and selling!) work at the Bribie Island Community Centre Art Gallery over the first two weeks of June, as part of the Textile Art Groups biennial exhibition. Again that was quite a busy day setting up but it was a great venue, light and airy and a coffee shop where we all had morning tea and lunch!
Loving those red dots and blank spaces! Some of our work at the Bribie Island exhibition “The Nature of Thread”
The culmination of our work over the last three years is currently on display at the Pine Rivers Art Gallery in Strathpine: “Collective Self” in which we display our group Challenge – do come and see it – On show until late September. There are some workshops running and presented by some of our members, and meet the artists on 17th August from 10.30 am – 2.30 pm. More photos to come in a new post, but here is a wee peek at the artists with their work.
Collective Self – The Reddy Arts artists at Pine Rivers Art Gallery – apologies to Jill who had to leave before this photo was taken. Also missing is Ryl who was unable to attend.
Today’s meeting welcomed two new members, Lyn and Sheralyn, and everyone else brought hand work or machine work to keep them occupied as we all caught up on the news and reminisced and made plans for the rest of this year and next year. More in another post.
So glad we were able to meet in these Covid times, and let’s hope we can meet up again next month as well.
Last month we had such a fun day, with a workshop with Kim Herringe on lino cutting. Di’s daughter Stephanie joined us, which was lovely. We all learned heaps and had lots of fun, some of us relying on some of Kim’s designs and others doing their own – keeping it simple was key, as the more complicated it was, the longer it took to carve, and in the end one of us at least had to work through her lunch break…. and was playing catch up for the rest of the day… (guess who), still printing when everyone else was cleaning up… we wrapped up a bit early because a massive band of fierce thunderstorms were rapidly bearing down on us and the drive home for many of us was fairly unpleasant.. torrential rain and much hail…. low visibilty etc etc! It was much more pleasant today, fully clear blue skies and warm north westerly winds… hooray for an airconditioned venue!
Here are some of the lino printing results on the day.
Unfortunately, I just did not get time to photo the girls at work, indeed I was so engrossed in what I was carving and printing I just did not have time to even think of doing so, so my apologies as that would have made for a more interesting post.
Fast forward to today, and everyone was working diligently after our meeting and discussion on the new challenge! Some very exciting new directions planned, it will be a very interesting year ahead!
Jill had some repurposed toilet rolls which she had mushed up and mixed with various ingredients to make a kind of plaster, from which she will fashion some paperbark. Watch this space! Her plan was to paint these today…but inadvertently left behind some essential paint….
Alison has commenced preparation of a silk scarf for shibori dyeing, and Lyn was finishing a couple of small quilts showcasing her hand dyed fabrics.
Here is a wee sample of what we each were working on.
Brenda working on a large piece to be mounted on a canvas.
Jan is working on another fabulous commissioned concertina booklet
Jill’s paperbark to be…
Sheralyn was testing out some canvas sheets with inktense pencils and medium.
Sue finished carving a lady bug, to be printed in two steps… hmmm…
Di was doing preliminary lace stitchery on wash away fabric in preparation for construction of a vessel
Various activities by the members at our November meeting.
Then of course, there was Show and Tell:
Jill showed her silk quilt, and a rather dashing hat she had made with silks and feathers.
Kim showed a pink, black and white charity quilt with Audrey Hepburn prints – her 70th charity quilt ! and the toiletries bags she made as Christmas gifts for members of her family.
Di showed her wonderful wool couched decorative gourd, plus a bag she ahd designed and made for her first project when she did a City and Guilds course in the UK a longish time ago! Her teacher at the time was Janet Edmonds, who has since published a number of books.
Alison showed a number of scarves she has made during a 2 day ecodyeing workshop..
See in the gallery for her combination of eco dye followed by shibori, using half strength indigo for a more teal blue result. Sue made a bag for her mini iron, but it could equally be used to carry other things, like lunch!
Sue made a bag for her mini iron, using shiva stick rubbings for the top. It could equally be used to carry other things, like lunch!
Jan worked at home on her lino cut from last month and printed it very successfully onto fabric.
Lyn showed her hand dyed fabric quilt, plus a printed, stamped and freehand drawn book cover.
Jill’s silk quilt
Jill’s hat detail
Di’s wool gourd
Di’s City and Guilds bag
Alison’s eco dyed scarf
Alison’s eco and shibori dyed scarf
Sue’s iron pouch
Jan’s beetle on fabric
Lyn’s quilt
Lyn’s book cover
Show and Tell
That’s a wrap, folks!
Until next time, have a great month packed with creativity!
Show and Tell: Eco dyed concertina book and cyanotype covered sketch books by Alison, Dear Jane quilt started by Chris Tasker and being completed by Kim, fabric painting by Ryl, A 3D Challenge article by Jill, papier mache bowl and leaf also by Jill; Mono prints by Jan and her globe templates; clear representations of teh many houses Brenda has lived in; a wee mixed media booklet that opens flat by Sue.
What we were working on:
Alison was producing more yo-yos, Ryl added some stencils to her painted fabric, Jill was working out some gold embroidery, Jan was talking! actually working on the submission for our display in the Brisbane Square Library in the City in May and June this year. Brenda was working on her 3D houses, Kim was hand quilting, and Sue was hand embellishing (seed stitching) her seabirds quilt – long ongoing…..
It looks like it will be a very fun and exciting year with much planned and another exhibition scheduled for July through to September at the new Pine Rivers Art Gallery.
What a year it has been so far. I cannot believe it is a full year since the last post here! How did that happen? We as a group were rather busy last year getting work ready for the exhibition we had planned for this year: “Woven Together”. We will be incorporating our 2019 challenge pieces as our main exhibit, and everyone is providing up to two extra works apiece in addition. The work is completed in the main – the exhibition was scheduled to run from August through to October 2020; however due to circumstances beyond our control, this has now been postponed, and will run 24 July – 18 September 2021, still in Pine Rivers Art Gallery which is being relocated currently to another location. More later!
Like everyone, we have had a forced break due to the Covid19 restrictions, but were back together for our first gathering in almost 3 months. It was a lively meeting, with several discussions precipitated by two of our founding members who have decided it is time to wind down their creative lives a little, and relax and enjoy other activities. We are very sorry to see them go, wish them all the best and of course we will keep in touch.
What everyone was working on:
Jill was working on a piece of hand dyed fabric she had purchased.
Helen working on hand stitching a quilt
Di was making fabric wrapped cord
Alison was finishing her Ganges piece – this is the back!
Everyone was bright and early for our June meeting earlier this week. First up was a very interesting demo from Alison – a wee taste of what can be done with gelli plate printing, with several of us keen to try it sometime… I know I have tried but not very successfully, with acrylic paints… it might be that with the right amount of fluidity in the paints, I might be a little more successful…
We followed the demo up with the unveiling of 17degrees of Difference challenge ,
then show and tell.Â
Kim had loads of Show and Tell: her SELF piece
Her 2QAQ monthly colour challenge blocks all finished!
Her MIM challenge in two parts
Part two of MIM
Jill is making a felted vest for a friend on her embellisher
Detail of Jill’s WIP
A journal cover Jill is making
Jill had fun making up several paper woven blocks that Brenda showed last monh
Another woven block from Jill
Ryl was working on this Hippie bag
Di was the lucky recipient of this lovely eco dyed birthday card by Donna
When Alison wasn’t doing the demo, she was working on a few more Suffolk puffs
Detail from Brenda’s Windows piece
Brenda showed us her punches and how to use them for making the dots as per previous phtot
Punch equipment
Helen showed a small piece made for the Carte Blanche Group.
After morning tea, there was discussion regarding the hanging of our Briscape in the level 2 lift foyer at the Brisbane Square Library.Â
This took us through to pretty much lunch time, when we finally got down to some work…
The meeting began with a full house, and amiable conversation whilst everyone worked away at various pieces. One of the things we don’t often mention here is the amazing morning teas we have, this month thanks go to Ryl for bringing yet another superb spread!
What we were doing
Kim at work on her red “line”
brenda with her pattern design for MIM’s challenge
The 2nd design in Brenda’s MiM challenge
Jill drawing a portrait of her husband preparatory to KHF class
Ryl stitching some felted circles
More of Ryl’s cirvles
Helen’s slow stitching
Di working on her second tree
Donna’s needle felted piece
Jan was working on her Metamorphosis piece
Sue was stitching on her thread sandwich from Di’s demo
Show and Tell
Kim showed this nifty pair of scissors – the yellow bit flips around and acts as a spring to assist opening the scissors for arthritis sufferers
Brenda showed her pens from JJ’s
Brenda was also working on making another colour chart
Jill showing her design for self, which will be made up of silk pieces left over from the following quilt
Quilt top using silk fabrics by Jill
Deliciousness in a basket – the basket made by Di and given to Ryl.
Ryl’s thread sandwich
Di’s completed tree 1
Alison showed some earlier botanical prints. This a finished quilt
More prints
More prints again
Sue’s Scaly lorikeet and Flame Robin for 2QAQ challenge…
A quiet meeting today – we missed seeing Donna and Ryl; Helen was here for half a day due to some other commitments, and Kim dropped by for a short while returning our Briscape pieces, between returning from AQC on Sunday and getting ready to fly out to Japan on Wednesday…. so no newsletter this month. We didn’t have any major discussions, everything can wait for our next meeting, but we still managed to find an awful lot to talk about!
Those who came mainly brought handwork to do, Helen working on the same piece, Jan was preparing to put a bag together for her grandson, Brenda showed us the bird she did in Julie Haddrick’s AQC class, but I didn’t get a photo of it, unfortunately. She also showed and then worked on some blocks she started in a workshop with Gillian Travis at AQC. Helen and Jill were very interested in this, and tried it out. Di was busy wrapping cord, amazing process but incredibly effective, can’t wait to see the vessel she eventually makes with it. It looks like she has a few miles to go….she showed us the piece she is entering into the Paper exhibition at Pine Rivers Art Gallery. Sue showed some bird art she has been working on….. Alison was working at putting suffolk puffs together using her indigo dyed pieces for her SELF challenge. Here is a gallery for show and tell, followed by the various work in progress shots.
Jill’s face mask began as a tiny pellet, wouldn’t want to mistake it for a peppermint or a pill!! haha! Add your own moisturiser and apply to your face! found in Canberra.
Sue’s art pieces. Experiments with watercolour paper and stitch, and some slow stitching
Jan is making huge headway with her SELF piece
Jan has also made a pencil roll for her daughter
Jan’s book cover using the prints she made in Allison’s mini workshop last year.
Detail from Jan’s book cover
Detail from Di’s piece “Memories” for the Pine RIvers Art Gallery exhibition “Paper”.
Detail again of Di’s work “Memories”
Brenda’s blocks
Another block from GIllian Travis workshop
Alison showed us her donation canvas to go to SoTA exhibition
A busy morning sorting out the basic plan for our next challenge…. we don’t really mean to make life hard for ourselves, but then, a challenge is exactly that! So we had fun, and then after show and tell we settled in to some quiet activities.
Show and tell:
Kim’s dyed pieces
Kim’s sunflower started in Sue’s class last week
Kims’ WIP for her COOTS piece
Cards by Alison and Jill
Donna’s COOTS piece
Helen’s shibori
Brenda with her commission
Commission puppy by Brenda
Jill’s embroidered piece from last month’s demo
Jill’s quilt for John
Jill also made this lovely hexagon quilt with Japanese fabrics
Ryl’s embroidered piece
Ryl’s COOTS piece
Detail
What we were doing: not much apparently as I have didn’t seem to take many photos…. but here is Jan’s Shorncliffe Pier piece that she was working on, and Sue started a drawing which here is shown finished…..
Jan’s depiction of the Shorncliffe Pier and beach – a WIP
Detail
rly was working on empbellishing another felted piece
Sue’s Kookaburra
Finally as we were leaving, Helen and Sue spotted this bird sitting on the fence right in front of us….
Once again we all assembled on this hot-ish day in sunny Sandgate for much sewing and planning and discussion of the year ahead –  our 2019 Challenge – we settled on a theme and format…. instigated initially by Di, who along with Brenda seems to be one of our main ideas people! Then on to the pre planning of the next group exhibition, prior to Jan’s meeting with the powers that be in the Moreton Bay Regional Council’s Arts Department. She has subsequently had a fruitful meeting and we are looking at an October slot in 2020 for one of the Region’s Galleries. Which is fortuitous as it gives us time to get a decent body of work prepared. As requested I have sent through a few images of new work by several of our members. Now without further ado, here are a few pics of the work in progress/show and tell on the day!
Helen continues to make progress on this delightful piece
Alison was putting some of her delicious indigo pieces together in what will be a fantastic piece when finished
Ryl was working on her 17 degrees of separation piece
Adding texture.
WOnderful bottle tree detail from Jan
Demo piece
Jill had been doing some fabric painting
Jan has not been idle! Her outback piece is stunning as usual
Detail of Alison’s work
Di brought her textured sandwich in to demonstrate the process of construction
Brenda was reinventing her “Windows on Moreton” piece, and Sue was binding her entry in the SotA exhibition, which prohibits publication of any images until after the jurying and judging…. so we will have to wait a little longer to see it.
The year kicked off with a great catch up on all the doings over the Christmas New Year break, and our AGM. Roles will remain ISQ, and there are decisions yet to be made regarding our 2019 Challenge and our 2020 exhibition.
Show and Tell :
Ryl had made a quilted piece
Donna brought a piece started in a Gloria Loughman class, which she is planning to complete
Alison started this turtle in a class with Phyllis Cullen recently
Di had a piece of work that she had used part of to decorate a box she made for Jan
Jill brought her completed 17 deg piece
What people were working on:
Ryl was working on a machine embroidered quilt she is making for a friend
Helen was working on her “Windows” challenge piece
Reddy Arts Textile Group 
June 2020
What a year it has been so far. I cannot believe it is a full year since the last post here! How did that happen? We as a group were rather busy last year getting work ready for the exhibition we had planned for this year: “Woven Together”. We will be incorporating our 2019 challenge pieces as our main exhibit, and everyone is providing up to two extra works apiece in addition. The work is completed in the main – the exhibition was scheduled to run from August through to October 2020; however due to circumstances beyond our control, this has now been postponed, and will run 24 July – 18 September 2021, still in Pine Rivers Art Gallery which is being relocated currently to another location. More later!
Like everyone, we have had a forced break due to the Covid19 restrictions, but were back together for our first gathering in almost 3 months. It was a lively meeting, with several discussions precipitated by two of our founding members who have decided it is time to wind down their creative lives a little, and relax and enjoy other activities. We are very sorry to see them go, wish them all the best and of course we will keep in touch.
What everyone was working on:
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