the "Meet the Makers" tour in 2011

I talked about the work I was doing in the gardens that year and showed images of my earlier ephemeral installations in Korea,Japan and Denmark. I also showed and had for sale ceramic works, I had developed during my residency at the Guldagergaad Ceramic Research Centre in Denmark.

What a great setting for my artists talk last year

Dr Virginia Jones is a leading Queensland ceramic practitioner with an extensive exhibition resume. Her highly sort after production pieces are often informed by her large-scale environmental installation works. Virginia has recently undertaken a year’s artist-in-residency at the Mount Coot-tha Botanical Gardens. It is in this beautiful external studio that she will demonstrate one of the techniques that she employs in artworks.

MEET THE MAKERS - Artisan Studio Tours 2011

This is last years tour but there will be another organised by Artisan this year towards the middle of 2012.

“Meet the Makers” in a private tour of three working artist studios and discover the artistic talent alive in Brisbane.

Be inspired and discover three of Brisbane’s unique and creative studios. Join artisan for a three and a half hour tour of these rare and restricted spaces.

Participants will enjoy personal presentations by the artists in the fields of jewellery, printmaking and glass making, art and ceramic and will be able to engage one on one with these senior artists. Additionally in some cases you will be able to purchase artists works directly from the studio.

World Environment Day 2011

In celebration of World Environment Day on Sunday June I will be exhibiting my ephemeral installation The Eight Forests in the botanical gardens at Mt Coot-tha in Brisbane. At 10am and 2pm I will be giving an artist talk about this work and my residency this year at the Botanical Gardens.

During the day visitors will be able to take part in an environmental art activity writing on clay and recycled paper what the forests they have visited have meant to them.

My installation refers to the eight major forest types in Australia. Acacia, Callitris, Casuarina, Eucalypt, Mangroves, Melaleuca, Plantations and Rainforests. These forests are one of Australia's greatest assets and are complex, diverse ecosystems that provide a wide array of environmental and socioeconomic benefits and serives.


This work is inspired by the United Nations International Year of the Forests, 2011