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Images from April’s Mixed Media Journal Club, led by Ursula Harris, can be found here. Held the 3rd Sunday of the month from 10am – 3pm (excluding December) at the Kingborough Women’s Clubrooms. The Club is open to all interested in learning mixed media skills. We are using journals to experiment with colour, design and techniques. The emphasis is on learning…
After the March AGM we have a new committee. Many thanks to our outgoing committee members for their contributions, particularly outgoing president Chris Hussey. Our new team is: Public Officer – Joyce Batchelor President – Gay McKinnon Treasurer – Karen Stack Secretary – Sue Roberts Committee members – Nina Brown, Heather Jagger To find a full list of our current position holders…
Seeing Time, on NOW.! …………by artist June Hope. It’s a textile/mixed media body of work including wet-felting, papers, fibres, collaged into works inspired by the history held in aged surfaces. “As I time-travel through Tasmania’s early settlement era, I wonder what quiet stories are preserved, hidden in texture and time. Seeing Time is my visual response to such history. The medium…
In June, the Tasmanian Quilting Guild will open entries to Island Quilts 2026 (https://tasquiltguild.com.au/island-quilts/island-quilts-event-information-2026/). This large, always exciting and diverse quilt exhibition will run from 1st to 3rd October in the MAC02 shed in Hunter St, Hobart, in conjunction with the Craft Alive trade show. For those interested in entering, more information can be found in the Island Quilts 2026 Handbook (https://tasquiltguild.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/IQ-Handbook-2026-Master.pdf). The Tasmanian…
Drawn in Wax: The Secret Language of the Pisanka. Long before chocolate confections and pastel packaging, the Polish decorated egg—pisanka—was a coded object, its surface inscribed with meanings that outlasted the hands that made it. In the grammar of wax and dye, people once drew their hopes for spring—and, perhaps, their delight at its return. The origins of pisanki predate Christianity, reaching…
Our next monthly gathering is Tuesday, 21st April. Please note the change of day and venue…………..at the Kingborough Women’s Club (KWC) Rooms. For information on how to locate the venue and what to bring, click here. You can see photos of members’ show and tell from the North and South here. The Tuesday 9-1 gathering will continue to be $5…