I heART Japan Online Charity Art Auction

 

In the days following the devastating 11 March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, Brisbane-based Japanese ceramic artist Kenji Uranishi and his wife Sonia felt overwhelmed with sadness and a sense of helplessness being so far away and unable to help.

Turning their grief into positive action, a call went out to their network of artist friends and colleagues for help and was answered by more than 20 talented artists from around the country.

What resulted was i heART japan, a beautiful collection of work by a talented group of artists including ceramicists, painters, photographers and designers to be auctioned on eBay over a 2.5 day period starting Friday 8 April (3pm EST) and ending Sunday 10 April (8pm EST).
Net proceeds of the auction will be donated to the Red Cross Japan and Pacific Appeal 2011.
Some of wonderful work that you can bid on include these by Pru Morrison, Matt Dwyer and Mel Robson.

        

Check out the other fabulous pieces here.



Brisbane Artisan Studio Tours 2011

In 2009, artisan developed two half day artisan studio tours in partnership with the Ideas Festival. Each tour had 30 people and visited 3 artisan studios where a brief 15 min talk was undertaken by the practitioner and the opportunity for studio sales occurred. The tours were a great success with excellent feedback from both participants and practicioners who opened their studios. Practitioners were introduced to new clients, some sold their works directly to the public and great media was achieved !  

Artisan will again conduct artisan studio tours in 2011. We are calling for expressions of interest from practitioners who want to be considered as a studio for visiting. The tours will be Brisbane focused for 2011. If you have a great studio/space/workroom that can accommodate up to 30 people, and are willing to do  a short artist talk,  then please contact Andrea Higgins, Sector Development Manager, on 3215 0800, to be discuss for this special opportunity. An artist fee of $100 is paid by artisan to all practitioners. You will need to send a photograph of your space, current 2 page CV, 5 images of recent work and a short description of your practice to sector@artisan.org.au

Expressions of Interest open till end February 2011.

Images shot by Andrea Higgins and Romy Willing for artisan at Barbara Heath's studio, East Brisbane Ceramic Studio and Urban Art Projects.

We heart Bridget Bodenham's white porcelain brooches!

Shannon has been busily photographing a selection of our new Cherish stock to ensure that our online store is choc-a-block full of goodies for Christmas. Cherish, (m)art's annual Christmas Shopping Showcase launches this Thursday the 18th November at (m)art design store Fortitude Valley, coinciding with the opening of the last two artisan exhibitions of the year - Jaishree Srinivasan and Yuta Badayala. A portion of the Cherish selection such as the lovely white ceramic brooches by Bridget Bodenham (above) will be available from our online store from Thursday. So if you can't make it to one of our stores don't despair, (m)art design store online will be brimming with Christmas gift ideas.

Chicks with Guns

Send a subtle message at your next board meeting with a Ky Curran ceramic brooch.

You may be sweet, but you're also deadly!

Come on ladies, show em whose boss!

This statement brooch is available from our online store.