Takehara

Thank you for all the support of our Pozible campaign... we are here in Takehara!
We arrived 2 weeks ago and have been busy making making making. At the moment we are setting up and will be exhibiting our pieces over the next week.

We are staying at Chosenji temple, 5km out of town. We walk an hour to and from our studio, located in the historic district of Takehara. We walk in between mountains and follow the river into town. The views are just breathtaking :)

Chosenji Temple

 Takehara town from above

 Our studio is on the second floor at Kasai-tei (the building is 140yrs old)

View from the studio

10 days to go for our Pozible crowdfunding

We have 10 days left and need all the help we can get! We are 47% there with 53% to go! To help spread the word we have just added a new reward, something limited for this Pozible campaign period only.

Our $3 reward includes: A template of one of our original paper mobile shapes will be sent to you via email (PDF file for you to print out) + a video link on how to make and decorate! Limited for this Pozible campaign period only! (the photo is the shape you will receive, but there will be no pattern. It will be blank for you to paint/ collage/ decorate yourself)

Please help us to go to JAPAN!
To help us, click here to jump to http://www.pozible.com

Thanks!

Takehara International Art Exhibition/ Residency + our Pozible campaign

We have been invited to participate in the Takehara International Art Exhibition and Residency. It will take place over a month, during April and May 2013.
To help us fund for our trip we have started a Pozible crowd funding campaign. We would love for you to have a look, there are also some very special rewards only available for the duration of the campaign.

Takehara is a small historic town in Hiroshima Japan. The Art Exhibition and Residency is an annual Art Festival run by the local government. This year, the festival will coincide with the local Bamboo Festival. You can read more about our residency and the campaign here:

Takehara International Art Exhibition and Residency

We will be presenting our Bamboo Princess installation in this beautiful heritage listed house "Matsuzaka Tei"

Matsuzaka Tei

 Inside view of Matsuzaka Tei

  Inside view of Matsuzaka Tei

Will keep posting updates and you can follow our progress on instagram

One week left at Craft!

Our Craft Victoria window exhibition has one week to go!
Time seems to be flying by very fast. It was such a busy Christmas and New Years, here is a little glimpse as to what happened to us!

We created a piece for "Useful", an exhibition at Carriage Works curated by Liane Rossler Here and Now
We created a mobile using our mini paper crystals. 8 lucky crystals growing+floating happiness!

After that we moved onto planning our exhibition for Craft Victoria.
We moved out our furniture from the living room and set up a mock installation space.

 At the end of last year Papier Mache magazine used our shapes for their collaboration with Cotton on Kids. The shapes will appear in their up coming season campaign. This was followed up by a few watercolour artworks we created for their window display and campaign collaboration.

This will be up in their top 20 stores around Australia from Feb 2013.

Now for some beach time!

Hope you had a great start to the New Year  :)

Mountain God + Crystal Queen at Craft Victoria

Our window exhibition "Mountain God + Crystal Queen" is on at Craft Victoria until the 2nd of Feb 2013.
You can read a little more about it here: Craft Victoria

Craft Hatch and Finders Keepers

We had a great time at Craft Hatch in Melbourne and Finders Keepers in Sydney.
We met some lovely people, Handmade Romance, Beattie Lanser, Harvest Textiles, Paradise Structures, Yoko Ozawa

Here is a little interview we had with Finders Keepers on their blog: Featured Designer: Dear Plastic

Thanks everyone for your lovely support.

We hope you have a wonderful christmas and wish you all the best for the new year.
xxx

letters

Yesterday I received a lovely letter from Ebony. The beautiful hand made envelope and cut out shapes reminded me of my letter-writing days in Primary school.
I have kept all my letters and cards in shoe boxes, pushed to the back of cupboards. Some are more than 25years old.(...wowzers?!). Here are some oldies and newies(?) I am sorting through:

Little mini notes, open/close flaps, pop ups, art works, little presents all bundled up in a letter. There is something so special about opening these precious handmade gifts...I should get writing again.

p.s. Thanks Ebony, Emma, Miwa, Kao-chan, Junko chan, Simon for all your letters.