Northcity4 blog and launch

We have been very busy at Northcity4.

You can check out what we are up to on our blog


Remember, our launch is this Friday, March 2, 6-8pm


We have excellent door prizes:

- 2 tickets to Eddie Palmieri, donated by Straightup
- a beautiful necklace made by one of my favourite jewellers and people, Anna Clynes

Also, I have made 2 limited edition hand painted prints which are for sale on the night

Caz Guiney has made a limited edition of badges, and Ali Limb has also made a limited series of special necklaces.

We are hoping to raise money to set up the school.

As green air is important to us, we are hoping to also raise money to buy plants for the building, so we have a plant pledge!

And on top of all that, NC4 is being opened by Marcus Westbury, a man held in great esteem by all of us.

AND we have Natalia Milosz-Piekarska speaking on her recent experiences overseas and the impact that has had on her work.

AND there will be top notch wine from one of my favourite wineries - Mount Langi Ghiran

food from The Brunswick Foodstore, five minutes up the road from NC4

and DJ BS will be spinning some tunes

and I am sure there is more! will let you know

Northcity4

61 Weston Street Brunswick 3056

www.northcity4.com



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the hallway

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art and life

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I saw this image on Catherine Willis's blog, perhaps my favourite blog.

Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) by Nizami 1548 Safavid period

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper H: 31.1 W: 19.7 cm Shiraz, Iran

from Catherine Willis's blog, this image came from yama- bato

and it was here I read this:

Art is a journey into the most unknown thing of all - oneself. Nobody knows his own frontiers… I don’t think I’d ever want to take a road if I knew where it led.

Louis Kahan

different journeys made in front of a computer

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It has been a very busy time lately.
Apologies for very slow replies with correspondence.
I am hoping that things will return to normal soon.
I am not sure what normal is. I am looking forward to finding out

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Possibilities ring with champagne diamonds

18ct white gold Possibilities ring set with champagne diamonds



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'To Hold' ring with green sapphire

18ct yellow gold 'To Hold' ring set with natural green sapphire

I think that this is a beautiful stone

This ring was delivered to e.g.etal this week.

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Limited edition prints for Northcity4

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On March 2 we,(Anna Davern, Ali Limb, Caz Guiney and Romani Benjamin) are launching Northcity4.
This is a momentous occasion for us as we have been working on this project for more than a year.
So far everything we have done with the set up for Northcity4 has been self funded.
So, even though the night is about celebrating the space and what Northcity4 is, we are also hoping to raise funds for Northcity4.
We need to raise money for many things, such as plumbing, tools, equipment, in fact most things needed for the space!
I have made 2 limited edition prints which will be on sale on March 2.
Ali Limb has made a beautiful series of small pendants and Caz Guiney has produced an excellent series of badges.

Here are some pictures of the start of my process for making the prints.
I will post images of the finished prints soon and you can read more about the launch and our fundraising efforts at our blog at Northcity4.

It took me a while to find the images for what I wanted to do for this series of linocuts.
I have been exploring the motif of 'boxes' for a while and continued this with this print series.

 

I also have been exploring how different cultures manifest their belief systems in textile work.

I have been greatly influenced by early English embroideries, most especially from the 15th Century depicting scenes of the garden of Eden. 

So these 2 themes are explored in the 2 prints that I have made for Northcity4.

I will explain further in another post.

 

warning the next picture is not nice!
my poor old hands have not had a break for many months now, and are not looking the best, which is why I do not photograph rings on my hands.
After cutting out these linocuts, I lost the sensation in the tips of 2 fingers on my right hand!
Ay ca-rumba! I thought for 5 mins I was having a stroke as they kept tingling, but then realised it was from holding the tools for long periods of time. They are back to normal now.

 

The limited edition hand coloured prints will be available for sale on March 2, from 6-8pm at the Northcity4 launch.

read more about our activities at www.northcity4.com