Tenmoregirls get crafty again

Saturday October 29th saw Salerno Gallery in Glebe bursting with craftiness yet again as we held our second Kids' Jewellery + Art Workshop as part of our latest exhibition, 10 Girls. 10 Colours.

In a frenzy of colourful craftiness, members of tenmoregirls were joined by local children and their parents, creating fabulous wearables, from the cute, to the beautiful, to the weird and wonderful. We even had a spot of impromptu millinery, in honour of Spring Carnival Race weekend.

Our workshops were generously supported by funding from the City of Sydney Council as part of their Matching Grants Program. On Saturday we were excited to welcome Ashley Heath, from City of Sydney Council, to visit the workshop and be part of the crafty fun.

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Kids' Jewellery + Art Workshop in Glebe

Salerno Gallery lit up last Saturday, October 22nd, with the first of our special tenmoregirls jewellery and art workshops for kids.

Our participants included local kids and their families, visitors to the nearby Glebe Markets and one crafty dog. The workshop was run by several members of tenmoregirls who, naturally, couldn't resist the creative urge. As well as assisting the participants, they also turned out a wonderful collection of 'quick jewellery' made from repurposed materials.

Called 'The Silhouette Project', the workshop gave each participant the chance to create some great pieces using their own silhouettes, that were photographed and printed on the day.

Our next workshop will be held this Saturday, October 29th, from 12pm. Join us at Salerno Gallery, 70 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe for heaps of crafty fun!

The Patina of Age - Tenille Evans explores the colour yellow for 10 girls. 10 colours.

The colour yellow is the patina of age.

It is the colour of sickness, jaundice and degeneration. Yellow is the colour that our skin, teeth and nails turn when we grow old. Yellow is a stain. It is the colour of our bones as we decay. It is also the mark of age on the domestic objects we keep. Books, fabric, clothing and paper all turn yellow as they deteriorate. There is some beauty and comfort to be found in the realisation that our treasured household objects and furnishings all yellow in the same way our bodies do. The inevitability of each of us, as individuals, changing and decaying in the same way is a universal truth. Recognition and acceptance of this certainty gives us the ability to unite.

Existing comfortably with our mortality and impermanence links us to, but at the same time lifts us out of, the everyday domestic spaces we inhabit.

Using this concept as a starting point, I have experimented with various domestic materials, eventually exploring the aesthetic effect that can be achieved by folding antique book paper. I enjoyed the consistent yet unique way each piece was formed. It is a representation of the inevitable and continual process of generation and decay, something that occurs over and over again, in similar yet distinct patterns.

10 girls. 10 colours. - two weeks to go!

10 girls. 10 colours. is on very soon! Please make sure you put our opening night - Tuesday the 18th of October, as well as all of our other great events in your diary now!

10 girls. 10 colours. dates announced!!

We have some exciting news to share about our 2011 exhibition....

We have now officially confirmed the date and location of the exhibition and are pleased to announce that 10 girls. 10 colours. will be showing at Salerno Gallery from the 19th of October until the 6th of November 2011.

Our opening night will be on Tuesday the 18th of October, so make sure you save the date! We will also be running 'meet the artist' events each Saturday that the exhibition is open.

Salerno Gallery is located in the vibrant inner city suburb of Glebe at 70 Glebe Point Road. It is an amazing space that will really showcase our work to the highest standard. We are so excited to be exhibiting there!

Exhibition Update: Busy Busy Bench Bees

Our ten little benches are buzzing with activity!

Hopefully you've been catching our regular artist profiles here every Wednesday. We have been talking about our work, our inspiration, the materials we use and where we come from in terms of our creativity and art practice.

In a few weeks we'll start showing you some images of our 10 Girls 10 Colours work in progress. There are definitely some exciting things going on already. At our last meeting we continued a discussion into the wonderfully diverse concepts that we are all exploring. If the results are as inspired as the ideas, 10 Girls 10 Colours is going to be amazing!

Although we haven't announced the official date and the gallery for the show yet (but are very close to doing so!) and opening night is quite a few months away, there are some very good reasons for us to be working so hard on our pieces already.

Firstly, we have a photo shoot planned for the first week in May. That's only a couple of weeks away! The photography studio has been booked and that means we have to show up with something awesome to take pictures of. A macro lens is NOT kind to unfinished solder joins or dodgy polishing. Trust me! We need to photograph our work so we can use it in our promotional material, on our website and for any editorial exposure we get.

Another reason we are so busy at our benches right now is because of stress-enforced time management! In the weeks leading up to the exhibition, we will have SO much other work to do for the show. None of us want to be trying desperately to file an edge straight with all of the other deadlines looming. And Murphy's Law of jewellery making says that if you leave it to the last minute, it will inevitably fall apart. Literally. Your piece will melt under a hot flame right before your very eyes. Devastating.

But thankfully, this won't happen because we are all working hard and are well into our making processes (*gulp*).

In addition to the updates you'll be seeing here, you can also learn more about and follow us individually. Many of us are posting updates, sneak previews and insights into our making practice on our individual websites and blogs. Click on our names to follow the links and find out more.

• a mi kim


• andrea iglesias


• bernadette trainor


• carol faulkner


• danielle butters


• jo piper


• majella beck


• nikki majajas


• radka passianova


• tenille evans

Check back next week for some pictures of our next meeting and a few thoughts about marketing an exhibition.

tengirls tencolours

First of all, welcome our new members of tenmoregirls,
Carol Faulkner, Danielle Butters, Jo Piper & Tenille Evans.

The title of tenmoregirls' exhibition 2011 is tengirls tencolours. each artist randomly selected a different colour to make pieces for this exhibition and 10 colours with each artist are;
a mi kim : brown
andrea iglesias : green
bernadette trainor : orange
carol faulkner : white
danielle butters : purple
jo piper : black
majella beck : red
nikki majajas : pink
radka passianova : blue
tenille evans : yellow

we had our meeting last week talking about each colour and where we are upto. everyone had great & different idea based on each selected colour. We look forward to designing/making wearable pieces or objects for this exhibition.

we also have twitter account. Come and check our general making process @tenmoregirls as well as this blog.