Hello from Lybster!

Hi folks! I'll be sharing some photos and thoughts periodically throughout my time here in Lybster to both record what I do and show you a little about the great community and facilities here at Northlands Creative. A quick intro....my name is Rose, I graduated from the Australian National University with honours in 2016 and since then have had a studio at Canberra Glassworks. From there I make both exhibition and production works and I love working within that community of makers and thinkers! My website is rose-maryfaulkner.com if you'd like to see the type of work I make! My artist statement and a bit more about my winning piece 'Continuum' can be found in a previous post thanks to Wagga gallery. While I'm here I'll be taking two master classes - Silvia Levenson, Shifting Boundaries and Anne Petters, Hot Glass Printing: Frit de Verre.

BIG THANKS to Michael Scaronne and the team at Wagga Wagga National Art Glass Gallery and Friends of the Wagga Wagga Gallery for providing emerging artists with this opportunity. And thanks to both Wagga and the team at Northlands for getting me here so smoothly! 

I've been here for two days now attending Northlands Creative 23rd Annual Forum - Glass Nexus. It was amazing to see people from all around the globe gather in this tiny village - the accents were vast and strong! We heard from notable speakers including Jeff Zimmer, Susie Silbert, Dr Jane Cook, Dr Karlyn Sutherland, Meng Du and Nadania Idriss - artists, curators, scientists, educators, all with ideas on ways to sustain practices, make glass accessible, foster collaborations and approach making.

Shelligoe - Lybster 

Shelligoe- Lybster

I was particularly thrilled to see the Bullseye Byre Project at Latheron House, one I had heard Karlyn Sutherland speak of when I first met her in Canberra. To be de installed tomorrow (just made it!) after a two year period, Karlyn's work - mapping the light shafts using sheet glass and powder after recording and tracing the lights' movement throughout the byre - was both extraordinarily well executed and simply beautiful. I loved its lightness, its still presence and the way it activated the ordinariness of this old cowshed into a really engaging gallery space in order to alter the way we experience that place and its architecture. I also had a deep appreciation of the skill required to accurately measure and hang these panels with such precision that they align with the sun light at a particular point in time. I'm just thrilled to have seen it! 

Site specific performance Dr Inguna Audere and Michael Rogers

 We've also been treated to plenty of bag pipes, salmon and Celidh dancing! 

Local highland dancers at our conference dinner

Opening gathering - glass blowing and bag pipes !

 Talk soon!