OPEN Studio Trail

Part of the DESIGN Canberra Festival Program. Open Studios welcomes members of the public into working studios. The Inner-City Trail conveniently links three studios together.
Why not start with breakfast in Campbell and finish with lunch in Braddon! Along the way visit 3 addresses and 4 artists with diverse practises using a range of media including painting, photography and ceramics.
These four artists will throw open their doors on November 9, creating a convenient trail for you! Frattempo Michele England Artist Peter Ranyard and Tiffanie Brown www.tiffbrown.myportfolio.com
This free event will include refreshments and demonstrations. Works will be for sale, including original artworks, homewares, prints and other items. All welcome

memento mori - pop-up interactive shrine

Memento Mori, is an interactive art installation investigating themes of loss, longing and nostalgia and their intersection with concepts of ritual, memory and remembrance. The installation references burial practises and devotional rites throughout history and specifically draws inspiration from Ancient practises, such as burial mounds and catacombs.

By combining ceramic shards and objects with printed fragments and other found materials, this interactive work creates a type of shrine. Participants are encouraged to pause and reflect by making a clay votive or placing a virtual candle. The shrine will grow and develop throughout the course of the day.

A Design Canberra Festival event, this collaborative market and open studio event brings together a range of ceramists. Tea Blenders Endeavour Teas and Shop Girl Flower Girl, Florist.

There will be working open studios to visit, ceramics to browse and buy, tea to taste and purchase and florals to delight your senses. All in the beautiful grounds of the Canberra Potters Courtyard. Free event.

Artist talk about my recent Artist Residency in Skopelos, Greece! at the Canberra Potters in Watson.

All are welcome. Drinks and nibbles are provided. Gold coin donation entry.

Visit four open studios in a single location, see behind the scenes as to how eight individual craft, design and visual artists work with clay from sculpture to tableware, interior and exterior design .

Featured makers include FRATTEMPO, Linburn Handmade, Jo Victoria, Andres Caycedo, Curiosity Smith, Lesley Lebkowicz - wild clay, Alya Khan and Girl Nomad Ceramics

To enhance your experience we will also have a collaborative event, bringing together makers of ceramic tableware, local tea blenders Endeavour Tea and florist Peonynpearl to indulge your senses in an intimate and thoughtfully curated market in the gardens of the Watson Arts Centre.

Many thanks to The Garden, botanicus perfectus for supporting our event.

Inaugural Canberra Event

The popular Makers and Shakers Market runs twice a year in Melbourne and Sydney, and now for the first time it comes to Canberra!

I'll be there with my latest designs on offer.

Join us on Saturday May 27

10 - 3 at the Albert Hall, Commonwealth Avenue

The Eco-Elves Night Market showcases and celebrates local, handmade, eco-friendly, fair trade and up-cycled gifts. Eco-minded shoppers return each year for the diverse array of stalls, the local food BBQ, live music, the lake views at sunset and the family-friendly atmosphere.

Featuring live music, food and a local wine bar and 45 unique stalls, the market takes place on the picturesque grasslands by the lake outside the Canberra Environment Centre.  The site is easily accessible by bike, public transport and car and nearby parking for stallholders will be provided. Sunset and the last light at this time of year is typically between 8-8.40pm, so the market will take place while the sun sets and the night begins.