Tuesday, 20 July 2010
We're on the move
Hey Everyone, Get in now while the going is good Studios are renting now - check your emails please you should have a plan - First in best dressed! $85 pcm you need to have $85 as a deposit and $85 upfront on top of that If you are on SS and long term UE you may be able to get help from your job network puzzle? provider or whatever they are called these days - ask - it can't hurt. There are lots of rules and regulations so make sure you read em before you go committing money to this - there are some variables that may come up such as power and water also internet access if it's needed so allow some extras for those type of things.. Wel I'm off to Paris so I'll see you guys when I get back in September!
Monday, 28 June 2010
Saturday, 19 June 2010
Get organized! Simple steps to a clutter free creative space
Just found this link on my Facebook page - I think I need to follow these instructions, how about you guys?
Thursday, 17 June 2010
A New Project To Get Tied Up With - Controlled Yarn Bombing
Why not Visit Aileen Francis at
and check out the community textile project she is running
The project is to knit enough rectangles to join together and
make Summer Street banners to be flown down the main street of Orange in May 2011
There are a lot of banner poles so why not get knitting - sewing, weaving, screen-printing, patchwork or whatever your heart desires, and make your own section -which you can point to proudly and say - I made that one!
Join the community at the
Orange Regional Art Gallery every Wednesday afternoon between 2pm and 4pm
- make new friends or bring your old ones along-
Wednesday, 9 June 2010
Interview with Melanie Pierce ABC Local News
Woo hooo - just had a recorded interview with Melanie re the Barracks!
Tuesday, 8 June 2010
Friday, 4 June 2010
Check out a new member coming to join us!!!!
Nicole Parkins is an artist from Melbourne who has recently landed on the shores of Orange check out her website here
Nicole is going to join us at 3CInc
Saturday, 1 May 2010
What a great initiative!
Hi everyone!
I am so pleased to be able to say that I have taken up a studio space with like-minded souls here in the bowels of NSW, Orange! It will be so great to catch up with you all for coffee and a chat now and then in between bursts of creative work and spurts of energy!
Wow! And a big thanks to Aida the driving force behind all of this! It is so 'about time'....and what a fabulous achievement and a hard job well done! Go Aida!
Sometimes the 'aloneness' of being an artist can make us become very insular and we quite forget what it is to socialise....we often even lose our ability to communicate in words, so engrossed in 'painting' out our every thought and mood. As well, we often forget that there are others out there just the same as us that also need nurturing and friends....so this is great!
Being a self professed 'hermit' myself of several years now, I can easily just make my morning coffee and drift around the studio for a day or so....I can even argue with myself and believe that I am still 'sane'.....a good skill but...... now with a place to go, I feel the discipline will be good, the company welcome and a space where we can bounce ideas around, exhibit together and just 'be artists'....well Wow!
My current works are inspired by 'climate change', mostly because I have too much time to read all the news and watch all the doco's on tele.....I'm not gloomy about it at all, I just see it as a natural part of the planet's life cycles, but one that can potentially destroy humanity....in the meantime though, some of the natural forces at play, some of the images that are being shown, some of the ideas being put forth are extremely thought provoking.......
I find it all quite powerful and rather dramatic....so I am attempting to capture this in my work! Here's a little pic of one!
It's a mixed media work on D'Arches paper but I'd like to try to do it on a larger scale and see how it works......so on with the studio!
See you all there!
I am so pleased to be able to say that I have taken up a studio space with like-minded souls here in the bowels of NSW, Orange! It will be so great to catch up with you all for coffee and a chat now and then in between bursts of creative work and spurts of energy!
Wow! And a big thanks to Aida the driving force behind all of this! It is so 'about time'....and what a fabulous achievement and a hard job well done! Go Aida!
Sometimes the 'aloneness' of being an artist can make us become very insular and we quite forget what it is to socialise....we often even lose our ability to communicate in words, so engrossed in 'painting' out our every thought and mood. As well, we often forget that there are others out there just the same as us that also need nurturing and friends....so this is great!
Being a self professed 'hermit' myself of several years now, I can easily just make my morning coffee and drift around the studio for a day or so....I can even argue with myself and believe that I am still 'sane'.....a good skill but...... now with a place to go, I feel the discipline will be good, the company welcome and a space where we can bounce ideas around, exhibit together and just 'be artists'....well Wow!
My current works are inspired by 'climate change', mostly because I have too much time to read all the news and watch all the doco's on tele.....I'm not gloomy about it at all, I just see it as a natural part of the planet's life cycles, but one that can potentially destroy humanity....in the meantime though, some of the natural forces at play, some of the images that are being shown, some of the ideas being put forth are extremely thought provoking.......
I find it all quite powerful and rather dramatic....so I am attempting to capture this in my work! Here's a little pic of one!
It's a mixed media work on D'Arches paper but I'd like to try to do it on a larger scale and see how it works......so on with the studio!See you all there!
Sunday, 11 April 2010
Committee meeting - 10 April 2010
The minutes of the committee meeting held yesterday will shortly appear in your inboxes
Wednesday, 3 March 2010
Incorporation
We have formed an incorporated Association and henceforth will be known as Colour City Creatives Inc.
Tuesday, 15 December 2009
A project is born
Earlier this year a group of artists identified a need for professional studio space in Orange - we identified a possible building and have been in negotiations to secure a lease for the building.
Yesterday I heard that we have successfuly negotiated ourselves an artspace at a community rent for the next two years at least! There are 15 rooms and a boardroom/gallery plus bathrooms and a kitchen
Part of the conditions include public liability insurance and building insurance for $100,000
The lease will commence on the 1st of May 2010
The next meeting for artists interested in joining this project is on 6 February 2010 at the Art Gallery 10 - 12. at this meeting we will nominate and elect officials for the CCC's
If anyone has any contacts or suggestions for Public Liability Insurance for the group and insurance for the building can you please contact me asap
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