February 12, 2012 by nscg
The NSCG met this week for our first group meeting of 2012 to begin planning joint activities for the coming year.
After our Christmas exhibition we had enjoyed a lovely Christmas party at our President’s house in December looking back on the year and taking the opportunity to involve our long suffering partners in our socialising.
During the summer holidays, however, our members were far from inactive. Many were involved in exhibitions and workshops locally and internationally.
Barbara Schey, a regular tutor with Handweavers and Spinners Guild NSW as well as an active member of NSCG, gave a workshop on Buttony during the Guild’s Summer School workshop program. Barbara has long been an exponent on the history of button making and maintenance of the required skills and techniques through education of such. Her dorset buttons are simply to die for!
Buttons created during workshop by student Brigitte Sieber
Barbara was also involved in the World Shibori Symposium recently held at the Hong Kong University in late December 2011. 19 works measuring 30cm square were sent from Australia under the theme “Out of the Box” including this work (below) by Barbara. She was unfortunately unable to travel this time to Hong Kong to attend herself due to her busy schedule especially disappointing as she had been to the previous 5 Symposiums in Chile, Melbourne, England, Japan and France. The artists decided to donate their beautiful work to the University who expressed their thanks for this gift.
"Out of the Box" exhibit 2012 by B Schey
Also at the recent Shibori Symposium in Hong Kong, Barbara’s colourful kimono (below) was exhibited in Energy Nexus Exhibition. This work was selected to be exhibited at the ancient temple at Foshan in Ghanzhou, China opening on 17 February 2012 - would love to be there. Philomena Hali from Alice Springs was the only other Australian artists accepted. The kimono is dyed silk organza and measures approx. 2 x 2.5m. It could be worn on a catwalk perhaps but is primarily a wall piece.
Kimono by B Schey
You can see more of Barbara’s work along with work of other NSCG members at our upcoming Contemporary Craft Exhibition and Sale in June 2012, Ku-ring-gai Town Hall. Pymble. Follow this blog for more details.
