Winter Working Wonderland

Whats on This Month:

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In The Studios

STUDIO 1
Kevina-Jo Smith

knitting, weaving, braiding, knotting, drawing, painting, carving, machine sewing and hand sewing. 

fabric, wool, wood, string, clay-board, paper, leather, paint, ink, metal, beads, seed pods, shells, feathers, dried plants.

come to black and blue gallery on Friday 12th June. you will see what i have been busy with.....

STUDIO 2

Cara Stricker

Wallflower By Warflower exhibition launched Thursday night to a hazy room of projections, fantasies, feathers, mirroring dreams, wolfs, sounds by angels and little green fairies. The exhibition is open for another 2 weeks so if you would like to purchase pieces, email me (cara@carastricker.com) to let me know when your coming. I should be around from 12 - 5 every day (apart from sunday).

Watch a sneak video/article from the show HERE

Check out some photos from the night down below in Studio 9 photographs.

Otherwise what can a little fairy get up to in a busy week:

Shooting Vanshe Press shots for their new album Ze Vemixes

STUDIO 3

Trischelle Roberts

Things I have involved myself with, in between writing words and music, include:

- Japanese cooking

- Tellus #23: The Voices of Paul Bowles

- Illustrations of Australian native flora

- Jaguar basses, in various colours

- Rereading Heart of Darkness

- Expensive phone calls to Barcelona

More shows and new frontiers next month.

Vivian Huynh

I have been spending my time:

Buying a new guitar.It’s a shiny black on black Fender M.I.J. ’72 Tele reissue. It sounds very nice.

Quitting jobs, starting jobs. I stopped writing the Brag music news, after 4 odd years. I started working on SOYA, reviewing books for Time Out, and drinking more coffee.

Going to parent teacher interviews. I had to step up in place of my scratchy English parents, for my 14 year old brother. I found out he gets nervous when giving Tech presentations, and made one silly mistake in a maths exam.

Getting a new pen. It’s green Uniball Vision RT 0.8. It writes like a dream. I already have it in red.

STUDIO 5

Benjamin Tuffy

Grant Keats

Christopher Samuel

NUMBER FIVE IS ALIVE

This month sees the boys in studio5 come together as a collective group running under the name of Studio5 yeah yeah! With the gorgeous Michaella Solar-March moving onto her dream job at SPUNK Records, we struggled to find HUMAN replacement worthy to fill the vacant spot, so to fill the emptiness we invested in a large format Poster & Fine Art printer, and in respected memory called it Michaella.

YEAH YEAH? 

Yeah thats right, Studio5 yeah yeah! will run as a digital & print media studio. Offering custom format printing, photography, high-end re touching, graphic/publishing design and Art direction.

Check our website www.studio5yeahyeah.com for all printing prices, paper stock and details, but be sure to check back on the 8th June for our complete site.

Other work from the yeah team:

Benjamin Tuffy

benjamintuffy@gmail.com

tuffydesign.com (site under construction)

0438 881 550

Grant Keats

grantkeats@gmail.com

grantkeats.com

0410602813

STUDIO 6

Elke Kramer

THE BIG FASHION SALE IS BACK!

Australia’s best young designers, all under one roof, at amazingly discounted prices.

Brands include Ellery, Nathan Smith, Rittenhouse, Gary Bigeni, Cohen and Sabine,

Kate Hurst, Shakuhatchi, Jessie Hill, Michelle Robinson and Elke jewellery.

on Fri 5th - Sun 7th of May, from 10am - 6pm, at China Heights Gallery, Crown St, Darlinghurst.

Designer clothes & jewellery at up to 75% off retail prices.

New stock delivered daily.

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A sneak peak at my new SS 09/10 collection - LOOK TWICE!

Greedyhen

We'll be showing at the MCA soon
more info is here 

also...
Greedy Hen made a music film clip for Josh Pyke's "Lighthouse Song" a while back
and it's now nominated for a 2009 Inside Film Award
you can vote for it here


and watch it here



x Katherine & Kate

STUDIO 7

Benja Harney

This was a bespoke one off pop-up book I made for Harpers Bazaar Australia. It was two weeks of solid work with a very tight deadline. It almost killed me, but the result was perfect and I was over the moon with it. I pulled an all nighter to meet the deadline. It was kool to spend the night working away with Kevina pottering outside my door. It made me feel more at home in the studio to work for 12 hours straight here. This project felt like the next step up the ladder in terms of my paper engineering skills and I was so proud when it was completed. Harpers were very impressed with the result and the whole office even gave me a round of applause!

Here is a movie of the pop up in action.

STUDIO 8

Helen Fitzgerald

A teepee from me this month. Made from $2 shop bath mats, my current obsession.

Also, the beginnings of a porcelain light piece that I'm making by soaking material in porcelain slip. Very crafty.

STUDIO 9

Wallflower by Warflower Exhibition

Photographs by Emilie Sullivan, Byron Spencer & Reef Gaha

THANKYOU FOR SHARING THE NIGHT TOGETHER. IT WAS A ROARING SUCCESS.

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EVERYONE AT BJB WANTS TO CONGRATULATE LUCINDA FROM STUDIO 8, WHO EARLIER THIS WEEK VENTURED TO MELBOURNE FOR THE ST KILDA FILM FESTIVAL, AND WAS AWARDED BEST ANIMATED MUSIC VIDEO AND AUDIENCE FAVOURITE AWARD.

DICTIONARY

Brisk: Cold but fresh and enlivening.