Saturday 26 – Sunday 27 November 2011
Discover the making of art. Artists, Makers and Creators of the West, invite you to their studios. See demonstrations, performances and artist talks.
Download the complete program with artist information, locations and event calendar here.
Open Studios 2011 program download!
Plan your studio tour using this google map MAP HERE
The Open Studios...
MREAM in exile
(Entry via Bunbury Street)
MEL WAYS 42 E5
Saturday and Sunday, 10am – 4pm
Since losing a second studio base in as many years, the MREAM artist group is back with a pop up gallery and studio. The ream artists represent a diverse group of visual artists. During the weekend spoken word performance will occur spontaneously.
Artists @ Altona
Louis Joel Arts and Comm unity Centre,
Louis Joel Arts and Comm unity Centre,
5 Sargood Street, Altona
Sunday only, 10am – 4pm
MEL WAYS 54 G11
Always a home of vibrant creative activity, the Louis Joel Arts and Community Centre is proud to host a pop up studio. www.louisjlcc.com.au
84 Honour Avenue, Wyndham Vale
MEL WAYS 205 B7
Saturday only, 10am – 4pm
Pop right in at this pop up studio on the city’s fringe and meet edgy artists that delight and inspire located in the one space to demonstrate the secrets behind producing their artworks.
Studio launch – Honouring art with HONOUR ARTS at its new garage studio. The Eco-Living Centre, 28 Ridge Drive,
Wyndham Vale. Pop in for the launch and lunch at 12noon.
Dianne Beevers @ Docklandstudio
Unit 26, Docklands Cotton Mills,
91 Moreland Street, Footscray
MEL WAYS 42 D6
Saturday and Sunday, 10am – 4pm
Dianne Beevers maintains a practice incorporating fine art, design and education. In the past decade she gained a Diploma of Art (Furniture Design) and Master of Arts-Art in Public Space (RMIT), reflecting her gravitation towards three dimensions, in jewellery and furniture design. Large scale commissions for public art, in collaboration with Andrea Tomaselli, include Piazza Italia in Lygon Street, Carlton and recently installed Seeds of Hopes and Dreams, a series of steel sculptures in St Albans.
Body Voice Centre
50 Wolverhampton Street, Footscray
MEL WAYS 42 A3
Sunday only, 10am – 4pm
Featuring performances by John Howard, Georgia Snowball, Victoria Bonte, Anna Liebzeit, Caroline Lee and Indigo Eli. Performance Practicum is a collegial company for the independent artist providing a context for the development of singular works. Practicum traverses performance and directorial methodologies, dramaturgical ideation, scenography and design principles, vocal training, performance techniques, writing performance, basic technical skills for light and sound toward a performance outcome. www.inthecompanyofothers.com.au
Matthew Bracken
Docklands Cotton Mills,
Unit 26, 91 Moreland St, Footscray
MEL WAYS 42 D6
Saturday and Sunday, 10am – 4pm
Since studying Gold and Silversmithing at RMIT in 2003 Matthew Bracken has worked in public art, wooden boat building and in jewellery workshops. Brackens thirst for new skills and techniques combined with a love
of all materials see him in many creative spaces and projects.
Tim Denton, AboutFace Productions
19 Rennie Street, Seddon
MEL WAYS 42 B6
Saturday and Sunday, 10am – 4pm
Tim Denton is well known as adesigner, performer, teacher and director in the arts on projects as diverse as community events, schools programs, TV, theatre, parades and street performance. With 30 years of rofessional experience, he has been highly acclaimed as an image-maker, puppeteer, mask, and physical theatre performer and has toured nationally and internationally to major festivals and theatre venues.
effeMmeRA
66 Napier Street, FootscrayMEL WAYS 2S G10
Saturday and Sunday, 10am – 4pm
Effemmera studios and gallery is an artist run space. Located upstairs at Ercildoune, an old, historic bank building in the heart of Footscray, it is home to five visual artists. Practices include photomedia, botanical art, collage, charcoal on paper,
and textiles. Sometimes collaborating, sometimes working solo, the artists exhibit widely, often responding to the big issues - whether social, environmental or political - as well as what’s happening locally. Featuring Heather Horrocks, Sylvie Leber, Karenne Rees, and Vicky Saray.
Footscray Community Arts Centre
45 Moreland Street, FootscrayMEL WAYS 2S K9
Saturday and Sunday, 10am – 4pm
Footscray Community Arts Centre (FCAC) will feature three exhibitions as part of the 2011 Open Studios program: Liddle Facts (Roslyn Smorgon Gallery) – FCAC’s ArtLife visual arts collective explore the limitless possibilities that a fact can bring and the strange little realities of everyday life; Body & Land (Gabriel Gallery) – an exhibition of new work by FCAC’s Drawing, Painting & Drawing and Studio Arts workshop participants; and Out of Bounds (Basement Lounge) – the final exhibition for FCAC’s Young Curators Program in 2011.
1/185 Somerville road, Yarraville
MEL WAYS 41 J8
Saturday and Sunday, 10am – 4pm
Paper puppetry, book making and hand made books. Dagmara opens her studio doors in collaboration with artist Leonie Kervin – painter and life drawer.
Jessica Morrison
Docklands Cotton Mills,
Unit 26, 91 Moreland St, Footscray
MEL WAYS 42 D6
Saturday and Sunday, 10am – 4pm
Jessica completed her BA in Gold and Silversmithing at RMIT in 2004 and over the last 7 years has built her career as a contemporary craftsperson. Teaching Jewellery at Box Hill Institute since 2006, Morrison also works in her own studio were she continues to explore and develop her production ranges and exhibition works. Career highlights: The Fillipo Raphael FRE SH Award 2004 – winner; exhibitist in the Colin and Cecily Rigg Award 2006 – The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia.
212a Whitehall street, Yarraville
MEL WAYS 42 D7
Saturday only, 5pm – 1am
Into The Red Music and Art
Six gobsmacking hours of art, music, cabaret and utter madness. Never before has kindred housed such a radical collaboration between more than 70 artists of the musical, digital, visual and theatrical flavour. 18+ only. Live music by: Spoon Bill, Nice & Ego, Kuya, Ehsan Gelsi and more...
Snuff Puppets
395 Barkly Street, Footscray West
MEL WAYS 41 K4
Sunday only, 8.00pm
Snuff Party is set to be a nonstop puppet show town. Take a gamble on a night of artistic trickery coupled with devious shock-jock entertainment as we let you into our creative experiments. Be amused, enthused, dance, drink, fall
over, laugh, cry, you won’t be able to leave this irresistible shakedown.
638 Barkly Street, West Footscray
MEL WAYS 41 G3
Saturday and Sunday, 10am – 4pm
Post Industrial Design provides a commercial platform for artists and designers to sell and showcase their work. Post Industrial Design supports the notion that artistic practice and business should not be mutually exclusive. Jos Van Hulsen and Mary Long work in partnership to showcase
literature, artwork and accessories designed and created by locals for locals. The open studio initiative will allow the public the opportunity to view and hear first hand the creative process of designing, making and marketing their work.
373 Barkly Street, Footscray
MEL WAYS 42 A4
Saturday only, 10am – 4pm
Julie has over 10 years experience as a professional mosaicist. Plus an expanding personal contemporary arts practice showing experience in a variety of mediums, including conceptual and experimental work, sculpture, video and photography. With mosaics, she has a particular interest in architectural installations, public art and community settings.
Level 1/119 Hopkins Street, Footscray
MEL WAYS 42 D4
Saturday only, 10am – 4pm
Trocadero Art Space is an Artist-Run Initiative that has been running for over six years right in the heart of Footscray. Its annual exhibition calendar presents new and contemporary art with a focus on offering a diverse program of engaging and high-quality exhibitions across its three exhibition spaces. It is proud to be part of Melbourne’s art scene in the west and lives by it’s maxim; often edgy, always contemporary.
14 Murray Street, Yarraville
MEL WAYS 42 B8
Saturday and Sunday, 10am – 4pm
Connecting with the Land at
Iramoo – Paintings and Prints.
Iramoo was the Woiwurrung language name given by the first inhabitants of the region, the Kulin nations to the great grassy plains that once encircled what is now Melbourne. Iramoo also meant a meeting place between tribes. The name Iramoo is used with permission from the Kulin Nations Cultural Heritage Organisation. www.livingcolourstudio.com.au
4B Goulburn Street, Yarraville
MEL WAYS 42 B8
Saturday and Sunday, 10am – 4pm
Julie Ughetti is a glass artist who creates kilned fired pieces by fusing and slumping sheets of glass. She principally uses dichroic, an exotic type of glass which transmits and reflects light, giving a dynamic interplay of colours. Up to 5 layers of glass are used; she also incorporates metals such as copper,
silver and 22 carat gold. She creates jewellery art pieces which include rings, pendants, ear-rings, cufflinks, and bangles. Her work is currently exhibited and sold throughout Europe and Asia.
198 Somerville Rd, Kingsville
MEL WAYS 41 H6
Saturday and Sunday, 10 – 4pm
Cath Williams works in oils, oil sticks, collage and thread to create abstract landscapes. She is inspired by both Australia and New Zealand having spent half her life in each country. As an occupational therapist she is also interested in how art
and craft work as mediums to enhance people’s quality of life.
4/136 Central Ave, Altona Meadows
MEL WAYS 53 C11
Saturday and Sunday, 10am – 4pm
Jackson Pollock stated, “painting for me is energy made visible”. Helen aims to capture the experience of her
travels through South East Asia, Europe and Australia, using colour and form. There is always an intense emotion that relate to a memory. Helen translates this in paint capturing the diverse environments in which she has lived and travelled using nature as a starting point.
6 Scott Court, Altona Meadows
MEL WAYS 208 H2
Saturday only, 10am – 4pm
Karin produces artworks for exhibitions and commissions. She also teaches art classes and workshops in drawing, watercolour, and acrylics.
Tarneit Commmunity Learning Centre,
150 Sunset Views Blvd, Tarneit South
MEL WAYS 202 G4
Saturday only, 10am – 4pm
Tarneit Community Learning Centre is home to Arts Access Wyndham; a fortnightly creative arts collective that includes young people with disabilities. Facilitating professional artsists Jo Davidson and Colleen Burke invite you to come and work alongside the group, and get the inside story on the group’s creative processes.
93 Princes Hw y, Werribee
MEL WAYS 206 C6
Saturday and Sunday, 10am – 4pm
Janet is a professional artist working with oil, acrylic, watercolour, pastel, as well as drawing and charcol works. She invites you to her studio gallery space where she teaches painting. Day and evening classes are available, as well as weekend workshops.
Rosemarie Reber
Factory 3/57 Industrial Ave,
Hoppers Crossing
MEL WAYS 203 E11
Saturday and Sunday, 10am – 4pm
Rosemarie is a fine art artist. She paints, draws, sculpts, and sometimes she is a printmaker. She also makes jewellery and craft items such as scarves.
2/88 Sayers Rd, Laverton North
MEL WAYS 208 K7
Saturday and Sunday, 10am – 4pm
Westside Crafts & Eggshell Artists are four ladies. Sue Manihera and Roseline Wattelet who create intricate carvings on eggshell; Pam Browne makes the detailed decoration on the eggshell, while Madeline Ackerly creates beautiful beaded jewellery. Please come both days to see us.
Wednesday 30 November – Sunday 4 December 2011
Seen the artists in their studios? Now come to Wyndham Art Gallery and buy some work straight off the wall just in time for Christmas. For four days Wyndham Art Gallery will be transformed into a fine art and contemporary craft gift shop. All works are handmade, original and priced under $80.00. Launching on Wednesday 30 November @ 6.30pm
Event Brought to you by Arts and Culture at Wyndham City.
