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What's On!in SHAC's CoLab2 Gallery
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"Mesh - Art of Healing"
by Ilsa Bennion
2020 isolation has seen a surge in art as therapy.
My arts practice over the last 30 years has been used to reflect and accept life’s events.
Opening Friday October 16th 6pm. CoLab2 art gallery
Artist floor talk Saturday October 17th 11am -12 noon
CoLab2 gallery open Saturday 17th until Thursday 22nd October
Times: 11am - 4pm or by appointment 0408 881 33
CoLab1 studio: artist workshops
Polymer clay play - workshop, $40.
Sunday Oct 18, 2 - 4 pm
Monday Oct 19, 4 - 6pm
Mindful pinch pot - workshop, $40.
Tuesday Oct. 20, 4 - 6pm
Wednesday Oct. 21, 4 - 6 pm
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SHAC’s Sustainability Day this year follows the theme of celebrating and protecting the biodiversity in our own back yards and in the Fremantle region. We have some of WA’s top writers, activists and earth workers who will present their views on restoring diversity and resilience in our communities and urban wilderness.
HERE for full program ART EXHIBITION: Colab2 Gallery, SHAC, 3 Cower Mews, White Gum Valley (behind Sullivan Hall) Open: Sat 19th Sept. Until: Wed 30th Sept. Times: 11am - 4pm Fri, Sat, Sun (or by appointment Lynne 0476 302 269) |
SHAC's Annual General Meeting - 29th August 2020, 1pm CoLab1
3 Cower Mews, White Gum Valley
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Incubate Programme
Opening Friday 1st May 6pm Facebook Live event www.facebook.com/groups/SHACfreo Incubate exhibition of new collaborative works curated by Fiona Gavino & Natalie Scholtz Saturday 2nd May From 11am Circus Performance & Skills Workshop online with Lynda Moylan & Gaea Anastas Collaborative work performed reacting to current crisis and the history of female clowns/buffoons From 1pm Indigenous New Art Masterclass with Marcelle A Riley & Seantelle Walsh Engagement with Noongar cultural processes to create new artworks From 6pm Poetry/music Performance with Elsewhere/Rebecca & Tineke Van Der Eecken Experimental new work in digital sound & spoken word - live facebook event Walk by to see artist research images & films to be projected onto SHAC building on Nannine Ave from dusk Sunday 3rd May From 11am Nature Art Workshop – with Lynne Tinley & Mikaela Miller Moving into Change, let painters Lynne & Mikaela lead you into deeper connections with the bush - live facebook event 1pm Incubate exhibition talk with Fiona Gavino & Natty Scholtz Discussion of curating and installing collaborative work in CoLab2 gallery 3pm SHAC Incubate artists panel – discussion online with creatives All free to view on SHAC_Sustainable Housing for Artists and Creatives facebook and virtual gallery on shacfreo.com/shac-virtual-gallery |
SHAC CoLab2 Gallery New Hanging System
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Hooray!! SHAC has acquired a wonderful hanging system for the Gallery, a digital projector for education and display purposes, plinths to display sculpture, and bright and visible outdoor signage! Early this year we received funding through the Stronger Communities Grant Programme. Labour MP, Josh Wilson, selected our Gallery project proposal for submission. Thanks to his office and to the work put into the application by Rachel Riggs, Lee Marshall and Stephen Lobo we were awarded the grant. |
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A message to our members, friends and community March 2020
Over the last couple of weeks globally, we have been faced with a series of unprecedented challenges with the effects and disruption of COVID-19. Many of us are facing an uncertain future, and we are all coping with the changes in our daily lives.
In line with current advice from government and health authorities, SHAC is acting to protect the health and wellbeing of its members, artists, audiences and wider communities by closing the CoLab 1& 2 spaces to the general public.
Whilst SHAC had been preparing for our refurbished gallery opening this Friday with funding support from the office of Josh Wilson MP, Federal Member for Fremantle. SHAC members have taken the difficult decision to close our doors, to help stop the spread of COVID-19 in our resident and local community.
As artist members live in the SHAC residence area next to the CoLab gallery and studio spaces, we feel our duty of care is to suspend activities for our audiences for the foreseeable future. Some of our resident SHAC artists are in a high risk group from the virus, and therefore their safety within our residential area is of high priority.
Many of our SHAC members are already greatly affected by the impact of the virus, with loss of income from arts projects, performances, festivals and events cancelled. As a community of artists, creativity is at the heart of everything we do, and we will be finding creative solutions to delivering our core program.
SHAC was pleased to announce we recently received funding through the office of Josh Wilson MP, Federal Member for Fremantle, to update the CoLab 2 art gallery for enhanced community participation.
However, as a precautionary measure, from today CoLabs 1 & 2 will no longer be available to visit by the general public. The scheduled opening of Fiona Gavino’s Rust and Other Stories at 6pm on Friday 20 March is now postponed.
We will, however, be putting exhibitions in the gallery space online, so our audiences can continue to view the gallery and artwork will be available for sale at www.shacfreo.com
SHAC Incubate – established women artists mentoring emerging female future artists. Sponsored by the City of Fremantle. Fri May 1st– 15th Exhibition, Workshops & talks. SHAC will working and aiming to deliver the Incubate program online, with live access to workshops and talks, and the exhibition in a virtual gallery on our website, if the current situation remains.
To prevent the spread of illness at SHAC, we are sanitising commonly touched areas daily, as well as encouraging residents & visitors to wash their hands regularly, and people to stay at home if they are ill. SHAC thanks you for your ongoing support in these difficult times. Stay well x
In line with current advice from government and health authorities, SHAC is acting to protect the health and wellbeing of its members, artists, audiences and wider communities by closing the CoLab 1& 2 spaces to the general public.
Whilst SHAC had been preparing for our refurbished gallery opening this Friday with funding support from the office of Josh Wilson MP, Federal Member for Fremantle. SHAC members have taken the difficult decision to close our doors, to help stop the spread of COVID-19 in our resident and local community.
As artist members live in the SHAC residence area next to the CoLab gallery and studio spaces, we feel our duty of care is to suspend activities for our audiences for the foreseeable future. Some of our resident SHAC artists are in a high risk group from the virus, and therefore their safety within our residential area is of high priority.
Many of our SHAC members are already greatly affected by the impact of the virus, with loss of income from arts projects, performances, festivals and events cancelled. As a community of artists, creativity is at the heart of everything we do, and we will be finding creative solutions to delivering our core program.
SHAC was pleased to announce we recently received funding through the office of Josh Wilson MP, Federal Member for Fremantle, to update the CoLab 2 art gallery for enhanced community participation.
However, as a precautionary measure, from today CoLabs 1 & 2 will no longer be available to visit by the general public. The scheduled opening of Fiona Gavino’s Rust and Other Stories at 6pm on Friday 20 March is now postponed.
We will, however, be putting exhibitions in the gallery space online, so our audiences can continue to view the gallery and artwork will be available for sale at www.shacfreo.com
SHAC Incubate – established women artists mentoring emerging female future artists. Sponsored by the City of Fremantle. Fri May 1st– 15th Exhibition, Workshops & talks. SHAC will working and aiming to deliver the Incubate program online, with live access to workshops and talks, and the exhibition in a virtual gallery on our website, if the current situation remains.
To prevent the spread of illness at SHAC, we are sanitising commonly touched areas daily, as well as encouraging residents & visitors to wash their hands regularly, and people to stay at home if they are ill. SHAC thanks you for your ongoing support in these difficult times. Stay well x
Media Release – Monday, March 9th 2020
Community, Culture, Collaboration, Celebration
SHAC is pleased to announce it has received funding through the office of Josh Wilson MP, Federal Member for Fremantle, to update the CoLab 2 art gallery for enhanced community participation.
CoLab will open its first exhibition – Fiona Gavino’s Rust and Other Stories – at 6pm on Friday 20 March.
“Arts practitioners and businesses are the very definition of the creative economy, and you would be hard-pressed to find leaner and meaner enterprises or people or organisations that do more with less, so it is incredibly rewarding to have been able to help
SHAC provide a professional gallery space for Fremantle’s artists.” :Comment attributable to Josh Wilson MP
“The new hanging system, signage, and up-to-date technology for displaying digital art, means SHAC can access more artists – established and emerging – to exhibit their art work in the CoLab 2 art gallery at an affordable price. This in turn facilitates artists to engage in local community, develop and grow with supported arts practice at the heart of the White Gum Valley Eco Village.” :Comment attributable to Rachel Riggs SHAC CoLabs Manager
2020 SHAC CoLab programme includes:
Rust and Other Stories – a solo exhibition by Fiona Gavino who has delved into the studio archives to create works out of found and up cycled materials, she has collected over the last 10 years. Open 6pm Friday, March 20 – until Mar 22 at 5pm.
SHAC Incubate – established women artists mentoring emerging female future artists. Sponsored by the City of Fremantle. Opening night – Fri May 1st – 6.30pm. Workshops & talks – 2nd, 3rd, 9th May. Exhibition until May 15th
ReVIVAL – curated by Lynne Tynley, a group exhibition of local artists on sustainable futures in a climate emergency environment, part of SHAC’s annual Sustainability Day in September
SHAC, in partnership with Access Housing Australia, is part of the new WGV Eco Village. The cooperative features artist residencies, and two new creative studios CoLab 1 and CoLab 2, now open to the community to hire. SHAC was funded and developed with the support of City of Fremantle, Landcorp, Access Housing, Josh Byrne & Assoc, and Architecture Studio (formerly Donaldson Warn Architects).
The federal Stronger Communities Programme provided $5,000 for SHAC’s new gallery hanging system.
Media Contact: Rachel Riggs – SHAC Colabs Co-ordinator
0435 591 243 shacfreoartists@gmail.com
SHAC is pleased to announce it has received funding through the office of Josh Wilson MP, Federal Member for Fremantle, to update the CoLab 2 art gallery for enhanced community participation.
CoLab will open its first exhibition – Fiona Gavino’s Rust and Other Stories – at 6pm on Friday 20 March.
“Arts practitioners and businesses are the very definition of the creative economy, and you would be hard-pressed to find leaner and meaner enterprises or people or organisations that do more with less, so it is incredibly rewarding to have been able to help
SHAC provide a professional gallery space for Fremantle’s artists.” :Comment attributable to Josh Wilson MP
“The new hanging system, signage, and up-to-date technology for displaying digital art, means SHAC can access more artists – established and emerging – to exhibit their art work in the CoLab 2 art gallery at an affordable price. This in turn facilitates artists to engage in local community, develop and grow with supported arts practice at the heart of the White Gum Valley Eco Village.” :Comment attributable to Rachel Riggs SHAC CoLabs Manager
2020 SHAC CoLab programme includes:
Rust and Other Stories – a solo exhibition by Fiona Gavino who has delved into the studio archives to create works out of found and up cycled materials, she has collected over the last 10 years. Open 6pm Friday, March 20 – until Mar 22 at 5pm.
SHAC Incubate – established women artists mentoring emerging female future artists. Sponsored by the City of Fremantle. Opening night – Fri May 1st – 6.30pm. Workshops & talks – 2nd, 3rd, 9th May. Exhibition until May 15th
ReVIVAL – curated by Lynne Tynley, a group exhibition of local artists on sustainable futures in a climate emergency environment, part of SHAC’s annual Sustainability Day in September
SHAC, in partnership with Access Housing Australia, is part of the new WGV Eco Village. The cooperative features artist residencies, and two new creative studios CoLab 1 and CoLab 2, now open to the community to hire. SHAC was funded and developed with the support of City of Fremantle, Landcorp, Access Housing, Josh Byrne & Assoc, and Architecture Studio (formerly Donaldson Warn Architects).
The federal Stronger Communities Programme provided $5,000 for SHAC’s new gallery hanging system.
Media Contact: Rachel Riggs – SHAC Colabs Co-ordinator
0435 591 243 shacfreoartists@gmail.com
Rust and Other Stories, an exhibition by Fiona Gavino
Mar 20 at 6 PM – Mar 22 at 5 PM
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Rust and Other Stories, is a solo exhibition by Fiona Gavino who has delved into the studio archives to create works out of found and up cycled materials she has collected over the last 10years.
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'Pressed Flowers' by Mikaela Miller - FRI, DEC 6 - DEC 8
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'Pressed Flowers' is Mikaela Miller's first solo exhibition, featuring all new works. For Mikaela, this show is a reconnection with studio practice after three years of working predominantly in the public realm. It is an exploration of scale, colour and technique in the process of lino-cut relief printing - pushing an otherwise familiar medium for the artist, into new and unfamiliar places.
The title, 'Pressed Flowers,' plays on the act of printmaking. Immortalisation of individual blooms, through physically pressing onto paper from a carved block is not unlike the notions of the age-old craft. The beauty of their image is taken out of its natural context and presented to us preserved and flattened - stunningly poetic, yet somehow seeming more fragile than the living subject itself. Mikaela asks us to find enjoyment and familiarity in their forms, but also to question why we may need to behold, preserve and/or document their likeness. What 'pressures' could be at play that see our normally resilient flora humbled to a more fragile existence? All works will be for sale. |
Detail - 'Diuris brumalis / Some Dreams Come True By Accident' 2019, Mikaela Miller. Lino print on paper.
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
Mikaela is a young artist from Fremantle. After studying both design and community development, she’s spent the last three years painting murals and facilitating a variety of community public art projects. Her works extend across metro and regional WA, featuring in cafes, street art festivals, and on community amenities. Mikaela has a keen interest in native flora and hopes to remind both herself and others to slow down, observe and savour the world around them – to look, to feel, to learn something new, and to remember little things which may have slipped by the wayside somewhere along the line. www.mikaelamiller.com Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/mikmiller_/ Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/mikaelamillercreative/ This exhibition will take place on Wadjuk Noongar country. Mikaela Miller and SHAC respectfully acknowledge the Elders of this land: past, present and emerging. We are grateful to live and work on Noongar boodja. |
Round & Round by DNA Puppetry/Imaginary Leaps
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From the makers of Fringe World 2019 award winning show ‘Cloud Child’ a special production for early years children and their families. DNA Puppetry/Imaginary Leaps present their newly adapted storytelling theatre play ‘Round & Round’ in a Fremantle tour Dec 2019! Thanks to sponsorship from the City of Fremantle
‘Round & Round’ is a show specially made for very young children and their carer, highly visual with little spoken language accessible for all! There is a 30 min story telling puppetry performance with interactive, sensory play activities afterwards for 10-15 mins to aid full experiential learning and engagement.And also an originalstory book to accompany, and continue experiential learning when the performance & play is over. ‘Round & Round’ performed at TATE Britain, London, Awesome Children’s Festival and many other places! Imaginary Leaps is proud to be part of an international network of quality theatre for young children http://smallsizenetwork.org/ Imaginary Leaps’s practice starts with the exploration of physical properties (such as material and everyday objects) through simple play approaches, similar to the way children explore the world. Underpinning this exploration is the desire to transform the ordinary to the extraordinary, reflecting the ease with which children do this everyday in their imaginary play. Coordinating with Early Years Framework outlines. ‘The purpose of creating work in this way is to encourage and stimulate the imaginative play of children, engaging them as audience and participants in a process of creating characters, stories and worlds out of the everyday objects around us. When creating work for early years audiences, the company takes care not to introduce conventions, assumptions or concepts that are beyond young children’s immediate experience or comprehension.’ R.Riggs |
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Rachel Riggs - Creative Director with Adam Bennett – Puppeteer and Lynda Moylan – Performer
Childrens centre Show & Play Dates - Busy Bees, Fremantle& O’Connor , Hazel Orm Kindergarten, Little Peoples Place, East Fremantle Dates – 4th-5th Dec 2019Times - 9.30am & 1.30pm Public Shows– Fri Dec 6th 9.30am at Fremantle Arts Centre - free Dates - Sat Dec 7th 10.30am & 1.30pmat CoLab 1, SHAC, 3 Cower Mews, White Gum Valley, 6162 Tickets $10 each – limited places, babies in arms free – call 0435591243 to book or email rachel@imaginaryleaps.com Supported by the City of Fremantle For more information, interviews and publicity photos –rachel@imaginaryleaps.com Kind regards, Rachel Riggs - M.A. Fine Art Tel 0435 591 243 Early Years Professional Creative Consultant - Imaginary Leaps http://www.imaginaryleaps.com Artistic Director- DNA Puppetry & Visual Theatre http://www.dynamicnewanimation.co.uk |
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A Secret Geography I by Madeline Clare 10-13 October 2019
We invite you to A Secret Geography, an exhibition of work by Madeline Clare. An opening will be held on Thursday 10 September at 6pm and the exhibition will run over the whole weekend, 11 - 13 October,
11 - 4pm.
Madeline will give an artist talk in CoLab2 on Saturday 12 October at 2pm.
A SECRET GEOGRAPHY I is the first of a series of exhibitions featuring sketches and prints from time spent in deeply secret places. From moors to mountains, tongues to trikonasana, this quietly illuminative work is about paying homage to wholeness and well-being where rhythm and repetition in landscape, inside and out, merge for the organism to be eternally omnipresent. The intensity of Iceland's voluptuous volcanic backdrop and fiery underbelly with its soft, expansive rhythmic undertones has provoked deep and extensive enquiry, which is beginning to be revealed in these emotive pieces.
Madeline has been living, studying and working in Fremantle since 1998. She supports sustainable initiatives, sharing spaces and resources. This will be Madeline’s first exhibition in the Gallery at SHAC.
11 - 4pm.
Madeline will give an artist talk in CoLab2 on Saturday 12 October at 2pm.
A SECRET GEOGRAPHY I is the first of a series of exhibitions featuring sketches and prints from time spent in deeply secret places. From moors to mountains, tongues to trikonasana, this quietly illuminative work is about paying homage to wholeness and well-being where rhythm and repetition in landscape, inside and out, merge for the organism to be eternally omnipresent. The intensity of Iceland's voluptuous volcanic backdrop and fiery underbelly with its soft, expansive rhythmic undertones has provoked deep and extensive enquiry, which is beginning to be revealed in these emotive pieces.
Madeline has been living, studying and working in Fremantle since 1998. She supports sustainable initiatives, sharing spaces and resources. This will be Madeline’s first exhibition in the Gallery at SHAC.
SHAC Sustainability Day
Sept 28th 2019
SHAC presents our annual day of discussion, workshops, talks and art exhibition in our CoLab spaces on sustainability, environment and climate change.
Come and join us for morning coffee at 9.30am, and a whole day programme, with more to be announced!
Eco talks and presentations
10 - 11am - 'Plastic Substitutes that won’t break the Household Budget' with Annolies Truman
11-12pm - 'Electric Vehicle Today' - gold coin donation
2pm Lynne Tinley Artist talk - free
2.30-3.30pm 'Oily Moyly Eco products workshop' - $20 pay on door - Come to this workshop and learn how to make your own washing powder and all purpose spray. All ingredients provided. We will be using beautiful Doterra essential oils with Lynda Moylan.
4 pm Ken Tinley - 'Recovery of Wetlands Worldwide lecture/presentation'- gold coin donation
Sustainable Housing for Artists & Creatives (SHAC)
3 Cower Mews, WGV Precinct, 6162
shacfreo.com
K.Ward - Chair, T. Grant - Secretary, A. Bennett - Treasurer
SHACC acknowledges that we are living and working on Bindjareb and Whajuk Noongar Boodjar and pay respect to all Noongar people and Elders, past and present and emerging.
Come and join us for morning coffee at 9.30am, and a whole day programme, with more to be announced!
Eco talks and presentations
10 - 11am - 'Plastic Substitutes that won’t break the Household Budget' with Annolies Truman
11-12pm - 'Electric Vehicle Today' - gold coin donation
2pm Lynne Tinley Artist talk - free
2.30-3.30pm 'Oily Moyly Eco products workshop' - $20 pay on door - Come to this workshop and learn how to make your own washing powder and all purpose spray. All ingredients provided. We will be using beautiful Doterra essential oils with Lynda Moylan.
4 pm Ken Tinley - 'Recovery of Wetlands Worldwide lecture/presentation'- gold coin donation
Sustainable Housing for Artists & Creatives (SHAC)
3 Cower Mews, WGV Precinct, 6162
shacfreo.com
K.Ward - Chair, T. Grant - Secretary, A. Bennett - Treasurer
SHACC acknowledges that we are living and working on Bindjareb and Whajuk Noongar Boodjar and pay respect to all Noongar people and Elders, past and present and emerging.
An Exhibition of Works by
Lynne Tinley
'Earth Grief'
Lynne Tinley, Totem 1, 2011, Acrylic on paper, 70 x 55cm
CoLab2 Gallery, SHAC, 3 Cower Mews, White Gum Valley
Opening: Friday 27th September at 6pm Exhibition open 11am to 4pm 28 – 30 Sept 2019 Artist Talk 2pm 28 Sept EARTH GRIEF is a retrospective exhibition featuring paintings and monotypes from the past 10 years. Darkly evocative, with textured spaces and powerful semi abstract forms, ex African Lynne Tinley’s emotive works emerge from the depths of her despair for losses wrought by the planet’s climate crisis and the inexorable extinction of species.
Lynne has been living and working in Fremantle since 2003. She and ecologist husband Ken are now residents in the Sustainable Housing for Artists and Creatives (SHAC) in White Gum Valley. This will be Lynne’s second exhibition in the Gallery at SHAC. The previous exhibition, lyrical impressions of Booyeembara Park, was successfully received and a near sell-out. |
Madeline Clare
'Secret Geography : prints and sketches'
Opening night Oct 10 at 6 PM – Oct 13 at 5 PM
Rachel Riggs – New Works 2019
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Paintings created spontaneously, from the subconscious, with a psychedelic dream like quality and cosmic imagery on reclaimed canvases - uncensored with unknown outcomes.
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Opening night
share a welcome drink at this first night preview, door prizes and surprises! Date: Thursday 29th August Time: 6.30pm - 9.30pm Free SHAC CoLab2 gallery Address: 3 Cower Mews, WGV, Fremantle 6162 Open: 11- 4pm Fri 30th, Sat 31st Aug & Sun 1st Sept |
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Artist talk
Come and meet the artist, and find out more about the artworks
Date: Saturday 31st August
Time: 1pm - 2pm
Free
Artist workshop
Make a cosmic community artwork painting with artist Rachel Riggs, exploring abstract, contemporary and free flow symbolic imagery. Refreshments provided
Date: Sunday 1st September
Time: 11am-1pm
$20: to book call 0435591243 or email yardworksart@gmail.com
Since becoming a resident artist at SHAC, Rachel's art practice has developed significantly. Living and creating in her studio at home, has taken her in new directions playing with paint, colour and texture.
Rachel Riggs MA in Fine Art - Site and Archive is a multi media artist, exploring the superimposition of discarded fragments, amplified by reclaiming what human kind discard.
'Rachel impresses by the breadth of her artistic interpretation that informs her work, ' Harris museum & art gallery, UK
By drawing on her background in puppetry and children's theatre, she creates stories with visual art works drawn from fairytale imagery, animism and spirit. Her work has a childlike naivety and innocence which is open and unpredictable.
Contact Rachel – 0435591243 for more information
Come and meet the artist, and find out more about the artworks
Date: Saturday 31st August
Time: 1pm - 2pm
Free
Artist workshop
Make a cosmic community artwork painting with artist Rachel Riggs, exploring abstract, contemporary and free flow symbolic imagery. Refreshments provided
Date: Sunday 1st September
Time: 11am-1pm
$20: to book call 0435591243 or email yardworksart@gmail.com
Since becoming a resident artist at SHAC, Rachel's art practice has developed significantly. Living and creating in her studio at home, has taken her in new directions playing with paint, colour and texture.
Rachel Riggs MA in Fine Art - Site and Archive is a multi media artist, exploring the superimposition of discarded fragments, amplified by reclaiming what human kind discard.
'Rachel impresses by the breadth of her artistic interpretation that informs her work, ' Harris museum & art gallery, UK
By drawing on her background in puppetry and children's theatre, she creates stories with visual art works drawn from fairytale imagery, animism and spirit. Her work has a childlike naivety and innocence which is open and unpredictable.
Contact Rachel – 0435591243 for more information