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25.01.2022 Congratulations to Karen Lynch from all of us at AWAF xxx Karen was the 2019 Australian Wearable Art Trashion Category Winner in 2019 and keeps on extending her art exploration...

25.01.2022 Wonderful opportunity to learn skills and techniques from Award Winning Kirsten Fletcher. $15 a session - book now - limited places.

25.01.2022 Alice Springs Beanie Festival has gone online for 2020 and Australian Wearable Art 2019 Trashion Winner, Karen Lynch has an entry :-) To check the entries out...and vote for Karen click link below...

24.01.2022 Art Begins with a Cup Of Tea.(Part 1) Have you ever wondered while drinking your cuppa tea where it came from or even possibly what its potential could be after the drinking part of its life is over Enter Artist @deniselamby_bciart who is simply unable to throw away even a single soggy tea bagbecause instead of rubbish she sees ideas for creative art literally jumping out everywhere from art on the wall to incredible shoes to headpieces to chess boards and pieceswith ...every part of the tea bag used string - bags and tea leaves! See her tea bag story unfold with these photos - over several posts - and you will never look at a tea bag in the same way...ever again! Contact Denise through BCiArt if you are interested in purchasing any of the unique Tea Bag Art she has for sale...from small framed collections to larger wall art... #wearableart #trashion #reuseeverything #teabagart #recycling #upcycling #artist #notlandfill

24.01.2022 I was so lucky to be a part of the interactive Zoom workshop last night with award winning Wearable Artist and Bespoke Costumier Kirsten Fletcher! Kirsten talked about gathering and pleating with some wonderful examples using a variety of textures and finishes using fabrics and plastics. She demonstrated a variety of looks that can be obtained by playing around with the sculptural forms created using these techniques. (Personally I love sculptural shapes in wearable art - ...;-) ) Workshop credit - Teddy McRitchie 4th photo is Kirstens Award Winning piece at WOW World of Wearable Art 2019 Next Workshop: The 2nd of Kirstens online wearable art techniques workshop is all about Weaving - Thursday, May 28, 2020 at 7 PM 8:30 PM Tickets for Registration - $15 https://sunshinecoast.i-events.info//zzzz5acd638a/regform

24.01.2022 Everything conspired perfectly to line up with this creation by Kelcie Bryant-Duguid to give Photographer Grant Wells...that special shot...while filming for the 2020 Virtual Paper on Skin Paper Wearable Art Competition in Tasmania last month......<3 Congratulations to Kelcie for creating Pretend Print-cess (More about multi disciplinary artist and Australian Wearable Artist 2021 finalist Kelcie tomorrow...) "A fleeting momenta split second. During a rolling break, Olivia (the model) and I froze. It was then I noticed the amazing shadows. I grabbed the Fuji, dialled in the exposure and fired off 3 frames. On the third, Olivia turned her head (without direction from me) just enough for her shadow to be in perfect profile. My fave shot!"

24.01.2022 When you have Wearable Artist Denise Lamby for your Mum...you are exposed to outside of the box thinking...and when you are as confident as Malakai Lamby it is reasonable to decide to go to school as - A Bed - on School Pajama Day...

23.01.2022 Australian Wearable Art are proud to support the Noosa Open Studios - this is the 2nd largest art trail in Australia this year boasting 98 artist and galleries along 5 art trails to explore! This is an amazing achievement for any year but especially outstanding for the incredibly uncertain 2020! The launch is this Saturday 10th October 2020 from 4.00pm - 6.00pm, at a beautiful award-winning property in the Eumundi hills - Moon Mountain. If you are a lover of sundowners with s...pectacular views, slow foods, music, arts, culture, design and socializing, this is an opportunity to experience it all. A SOIREE AT MOON MOUNTAIN Tickets: $75 (Noosa Open Studios artists and members $65) Tickets include a Slow Food Flavours of Noosa epicurean delights picnic box (vegetarian available) by Ohana AND a glass of Tyrrells Moon Mountain on arrival. An audience with Woodford Folk Festival founder Bill Hauritz Adiamus String Quartet Australian Wearable Art display Craft beers, spirits, wine and mead As well as enjoying all of the above you can wander through the grounds of this multi-design winning property that hosts carefully curated sculptures by Nick Warfield and we’ll unveil his new work The Two Sides of Bob Hawke during the event. For Tickets (limited) https://noosaopenstudios.com.au/moon-mountain-soiree/

23.01.2022 Great event at Lynn and Ron Scott's lovely property with the Brumbies being the extra special highlight xx

23.01.2022 We are delighted to introduce Paula Herrera, an Argentinean Designer, and advocate of Street Fashion as one of our international entrants to our 2021 competition of extraordinary wearable art! Paula embraces and embodies the Trashion Category of wearable art in her use of reused materials that she often gathers from the streets of Buenos Aires and La Plata for use in her collections. Each piece Paula makes is unique, carries a message and at the same time challenges the pub...lic. A promoter of street fashion which encompasses trends that are outside of magazines and catwalks, Paula participated in the London Queer Fashion Show, in September 2019. This event is championing gender-fluid fashion and inclusivity to the core. The LQFS stage is home to established and emerging fashion designers and is the show to spot new queer talent. The purpose of the show is to express all identities in order for every individual to be recognised and acknowledged. Paula has had a long journey in artistic and cultural production, whose origins date back to her very early years growing up where she collected a box with scraps of fabrics from the dressmakers in her neighbourhood. I was the girl in front of the TV copying the designs of the stars of the movies," she recalls. In the late 1990s, her sewing machine along with the sale of clothes she had accumulated during her youth, served to give birth to a second life. She left behind her family and life of 16 years to move to Buenos Aires to study apparel design and then to La Plata, where she continued in Fine Arts and from there into her stained glass studio windows Chino Calzn in La Plata. @superrcalzon #streetfashion #wearableartist #trashion #zerowaste #sustainablefashion #fashionrevolution #artwork @ Venue 114

22.01.2022 Art Collaborations: Take an Amazingly Beautiful Natural Dyed Creation Add Lana as a stunning Natural Model... Find the Perfect Australian Backdrop ... and add Awesome Photography... ... Birdtribe Wearable Art tick All The Boxes Nina was a Winner at our Inaugural 2017 Wearable Art Event. I was awed and privileged to caretake her entry. Check out more of her stunning work on her Etsy site...I did...and I bought something very special... that I will share in little while.. See more

21.01.2022 Remember Belinda Marie Kuhlewein with her amazing Botanical Beauty that won the 2019 Floriana Category... Belinda continues to create out of the box amazingness... How Queensland is this!!

21.01.2022 Cannot help feeling just a little bit proud - major understatement ;-) - of Wearable Artist and Photographer Larissa Salton to be selected as a Finalist in the Clayton Utz Art Award 2020! Combining her two most loved creative endeavours Wearable Art and Photography - =The Award offers a $20,000 winners prize and exhibition space for the finalists and is awarded to an outstanding artwork by a Queensland-based artist, or an artist with a strong connection to Queensland.=

21.01.2022 Anybody here interested? A bit short notice ...but rush deadlines can be... stimulating..lol

20.01.2022 More Masks - this time from FREYA JOBBINS Freya is a multi-disciplinary artist. Her practice includes assemblage, installation, collage, image, video and prints. Freyas signature masks made of skin tone plastic doll parts, turn a tradition into contemporary commentary. www.freyajobbins.com... @freyajobbins Please note and respect that all photos are copyrighted to Freya Jobbins ;-) #wearableart #wearableartist #strangetimeswelivein #covid19artwork #artwithoutborders

19.01.2022 Art Beginnings.... with Wearable Artist Denise Lamby (part two) Magazine pages cut up (perhaps while drinking her tea...check out her Botanical Tea Art series in last pics) become beads - straws - skirts - headpieces - bowls...and so much more... Slide through these photos and you are only touching the surface of Denises exploration into the infinite possibilities of everyday materials... #wearableartist #artiseverywhere #recycleeverything #recycledart #notlandfill... @ Sunshine Coast, Queensland See more

18.01.2022 We LOVE Wearable Art...and when its made from paper we are in awe of the diversity and imagination of artists around the world that explore this medium. We also support (and are in awe of) the team at Paper on Skin with their commitment and lateral thinking to work within the constraints of Covid 19 to still bring on the 2020 show in Burnie Tasmania... Winners announced today - lots of photos to follow.. ...and.. ps we are also quite a bit proud that members of our AWAF 20...19 and 2020 Family were finalists in this show ..and winners... (Cynthia Hawkins) Highly Commended Denise Lamby Tasmanian and Hearing Implant Centre Dr Kellie Walkers Encouragement Award - New Life and Karen Benjamin Award in honour of Pam and Neil Thorne with Kelcie Bryant-Duguid - Finalist See more

18.01.2022 Hello - we have a last minute space available - due to work commitments - in our Worbla Workshop next Saturday - 29th May at Mooloolaba - 10am to 2pm - $50 You will have a sheet of Worbla to use to create your own headpiece and I have a bag of take home goodies for each of you to play with after the workshop... Limited to 10 people with C-19 recommendations in place. To let me know that you want to be this lucky person email Wendy at [email protected]

16.01.2022 It is not too late to plan your Tomorrow!! Join Artist and Horticulturist (AND Australian Wearable Art 2019 FLORIANA WINNER) Belinda Kuhlewein from Husk & Vine - Wednesday 12 August at 10am. Pop onto Sunshine Coast Libraries Facebook page to join in :-)... Enjoy a walk through nature as Belinda takes us through re-purposing feathers, foliage, succulents, bark, pods and berries in the art collection process. This workshop will focus on Rings and Accessories with more videos and resources available on the Libraries website after the event. See more of Belindas absolutely stunning pieces at @huskandvine on Instagram or Husk & Vine on Facebook.

15.01.2022 When one of our Wearable Artists has an opportunity to showcase his or her work we here at Australian Wearable Art will support them as much as we can...maybe you can spread the love too :-) Jo Ireland from Western Australia has entered a fabric design competition by Australian Designer Gorman. If her design is chosen it will be made into fabric and used in collaboration to make a lovely Gorman garment. There is also a Peoples Choice... link below to vote... Our Artists name... again is Jo Ireland and you click on View Art to vote. Thank you and Best Wishes to Jo xxx ps Jo sent her 2020 Australian Wearable Art Festival entry over to me before we cancelled this years show due to Covid 19...so I am now caretaker of her (now) 2021 Entry!

14.01.2022 Its hard to smile in a mask but for sure there is a smile in there somewhere ;-) AWAF 2021 Entrant - Neenzel Squiders take on Iso Masks - one of them anyway <3 This one is a sea grass mask woven with wooden painted sea themed embellishments.. Iso Wisdom from Neenzel: Focus. If we focus only on what we can gather in nets then we ourselves will always remain trapped. Greed may bring us wealth, but what does it really cost us long term? #wearableart #wearableartist #artontheru...nway #maskedart #isolationcreations #isolationmessage See more

14.01.2022 Teddy McRitchie - talented winner of the Student Award at the 2019 Australian Wearable Art Festival was so lucky to further his career trajectory spending an exciting day with Cindy Vogels in her studio last year.

13.01.2022 Big heartfelt thanks to Australian Wearable Artist Amelia Jan Tahere Angus who made this personalised tapestry key tag for me...beautiful gift xxx

13.01.2022 Runner Up at 2020 Paper on Skin Wearable Art Competition...

12.01.2022 Australian Wearable Art Festival a year ago yesterday...Sensational Night! Then like so many events we are skipping 2020... However fast forwarding to planning for May 29th 2021... Put this date in your calendar so you dont miss out on incredible creativity on the runway...... Artist: Vivien Eardley from Cats Claw Creations Model: Jacquie Sandy Photography: Owen Lyell

12.01.2022 Cynthia Hawkins Highly Commended entry into the 2020 Virtual Paper on Skin Wearable Art Competition... Cynthias attention to detail is what caught the Judges eye with her Australian Wearable Art 2019 Entry winning the Haute Couture Category. Dynamo Cynthia completed her Paper on Skin entry while juggling single parenthood - 4 children one only a now 6th month old - moving house - covid restrictions - homeschooling - creating amazing meals that made me wish I could travel to Tassie for a meal with her...

11.01.2022 The Paper On Skin 2020 Awards Presentation

11.01.2022 "I have sought to map a journey through densely stitched snapshots of a familiar landscape as viewed through a car window while travelling on a country road. Long car trips are part of the ritual of growing up in rural Australia. The open expanse of sprawling countryside reminds us that we all live under the same blue sky. Reinforcing our shared humanity.... The clouds gather a chance of rain, a sign of hope." "...Our shared humanity..." this could have been written with 2020 in mind... Introducing Australian Wearable Art 2021 Finalist Kelcie Bryant-Duguid. Kelcie Bryant-Duguid is a visual artist living in Sydney. Her art practice is multi-disciplinary with her primary focus lying in the territories of encaustic mixed media and textiles. Her work is a response to the environment, events and issues that resonate with her; with the themes of memory, family, relationships, place and belonging being constantly revisited in her work. Kelcies work is sometimes political as she uses her art practice to give a voice to broader community and societal issues that are of importance to her. It is hard to do justice to the thoughts behind the expression of Kelcies art in this short piece so I urge you to go to her website and read the stories and thoughts that inspired her art... http://kelciebryantduguid.weebly.com/ Kelcie was also a finalist in the 2020 Paper on Skin competition in Tasmania with the photo of her entry Pretend Print-cess taken by Grant Wells one of his favorite photos...see the photo on his blog ... https://www.grantwellsphoto.com.au/grant-wel//be-prepared #multdisciplinaryartist #wearableart #wearableartist #arttellsourstories #paperonskin #visualartist #textileart # freemachineembroidery

11.01.2022 Annual General Meeting of Australian Wearable Art Inc will be held at the Imperial Hotel, Eumundi on Thursday 5th November at 5pm. Interested parties are welcome :-) Please RSVP

09.01.2022 In these extraordinary times, the iconic image of the surgical mask has emerged as a symbol for COVID-19 and the era of social distancing. To document this, artisan invited the international making community to make, remodel, rework, embellish and decorate the simple home-made surgical mask as a creative reflection of the current global experience. Surgical masks carry great meaning. Filtering more than our breath, they can partially obscure our identity while protecting us... from it, and them from us. Artists bring their understanding and experience of this extraordinary time to the surface, using the mask as a starting point. These masks will endure and serve as a document for right now, for what we are going through and for who we really are, in the face of Covid-19. THREE Australian Wearable Artists have entries in this event: Denise Lamby: - pg 2 A Cup of Isolation + p2 Masking shortages Amelia Jan Tahere Angus pg 2 Koru + Kia Ora + Pango Karen Lynch pg 2 Mask of Palm + Woven Together (on same entry frame)

09.01.2022 Helen Perry from Fresh PR & Marketing and Wendy Roe talking Australian Wearable Art Festival 2021 <3

08.01.2022 Here's my Worbla Workshop piece finished, learnt lots along the way. We'd love to see how everyone elses turned out, so please post pics here. Shall we wear them for Halloween?? Kait M

06.01.2022 Sunshine Coast Libraries teamed up with Horizon Festival for PlaceHolder, an opportunity for local Sunshine Coast-based artists to submit original contemporary artworks created in response to 2020...a winner has been selected however there is also a Peoples Choice Award so we The Public can vote for our favourite... Denise Lamby is an eclectic artist who primarily uses materials already here to build some stunning artwork - including used teabags for Wearable Art!! Her Arti...st Statement below plus the link to vote... https://library.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au//Sho/Denise-Lamby Artist statement 2020 and Im ready to share my artistic passion. Open Studios, Fashion runways, gallery exhibitions Enter Covid19. From flat out to lights out Covid19 has rocked the entire world. Initially we grappled with the term Coronavirus remodelled to Covid19 as we understand it today. But its the litany of new phrases, words and underlying meanings that have shifted so quickly, that inspired the creation of Vocabulary Shift. Acrylic on canvas, recycled paper. At first the words are big, bold and new as they enter the media mainstream and the public psyche. Presenters stumble over the specific meaning of terms like self-isolation, quarantine and reproduction rate. As time progresses so does our acceptance and understanding of the words and phrases. They themselves become the new normal. As you scan down the word montage you may notice the subtle shift as the words become more ordered, consistent in size and not quite as bright and shiny. Vocabulary Shift reflects our acceptance, like the ordered backdrops and neatly stacked book displays, the new normal in the numerous Skype and Zoom meetings to which weve become so accustomed. Even those backdrops have shifted as were learnt to present our polished-selves to the outside world.

06.01.2022 I absolutely love how the Australian Wearable Art platform helps our Artists and Designers springboard into other opportunities <3 Take this video for example with the very talented artist and gorgeous person Belinda Kuhlewein from Husk and Vine. Belinda was the AWAF Winner of the 2019 Floriana Category and was approached after that win by the Sunshine Coast Councils Living Smart program to host a series of wearable art videos...... In this video Belinda will show You how to step into the world of creating Your Very Own piece of Wearable Art... https://youtu.be/7Wy-qb1KRcw

04.01.2022 From all the AWAF Team... Olivia Denmead, Helen Perry, Kait Manchip, Patrick Smith, Amber Rollings, Belïnd Scarcell and Wendy Roe We Wish All our Followers and Artists Worldwide a Very Happy & Safe Holiday Season!

04.01.2022 Bookmark a trip to Gympie these school holidays - so much happening at The Gympie Regional Gallery including a workshop with Australian Wearable Art Festival 2019 Judge Cindy Vogels - join her at "Fashion Club" and learn some of her design secrets!

04.01.2022 We had a simply marvellous evening at Ron and Lynn Scott's stunning property last night for the launch of the Noosa Open Studios 2020 Art Trail... Wearable Artists Yanni Van Zijls @yanni_artist and Amelia Jan Tahere-Angus @ameliaj.designs showed cased their 2019 Australian Wearable Art Festival entries to the delight of everyone there...including Lynn's inquisitive horses... #wearableart #noosaopenstudios #horses #brumbies #countryliving #artinthepaddock

03.01.2022 Worbla Workshop today, end of the day results. I think we all enjoyed exploring a new medium & the possibilities it creates. Please share with us your completed works, & thanks for being a lovely bunch to spend time with.

03.01.2022 Natures Sculptures at Noosa Everglades... Art is everywhere giving inspiration to create...and yes I would love to take a boat full of wearable artists down the everglades and see what they would create for Australian Wearable Art Festival....

02.01.2022 The Noosa Open Studios Art trail begins this weekend for an 10 day array of art over 5 trail options. 98 Artists and Galleries are participating this year making this the 2nd largest Art Trail in Australia! An amazing tribute to the artists involved! Look online https://noosaopenstudios.com.au/art-trail-noosa-guide/or pick up one of the booklets to browse through and plan your trips :-) We are delighted that two of 'our' Wearable Artists are participating this year:... Yanni Van Zijl - a Sculptor, Ceramist and Mixed Media Artist seeks to investigate shadow and form in her sculptural pieces with aesthetic appeal purely for the joy for her and the viewer. As with her wearable art Yanni continues to explore themes around the environment and climate Cee Vanderaa is predominately a Textile Artist who designs, stitches and creates. she is passionate about vintage linen which she has redesigned into goddess aprons and pinnies. Being fluid between domestic roles Cee has designed these pieces demonstrating how we have broken free from traditional programming into a more free place of self expression.

02.01.2022 Worbla Workshop @ Mooloolaba Sunshine Coast on Saturday 29 August 4 Hours $50 This lightweight thermoplastic material has so many uses for wearable art and cos play...Think The Lord of The Rings battle armour and swords...think sculptural shaping for wearable art...... To Book contact Wendy at [email protected] Only a couple of places left... #wearableartist #cosplay #creativeart #worblacosplay

01.01.2022 This stunning exhibition and competition of Paper Wearable Art will be Live Streamed TODAY at 12noon. Go to Paper on Skin page or stay tuned here for some amazing Lunch Time Art and a glass of wine ...and I will share the link here... SO Exciting!!!

01.01.2022 Congratulations Denise Lamby - New Life Winner of the Tasmanian and Hearing Implant Centre Dr Kellie Walkers Encouragement Award Paper on Skin- Wearable Paper Art Competition - Burnie Tasmania Photography here by Larissa Salton from Hinterland Photography

01.01.2022 Starting on our Warbla workshop with Teddy McRitchie lets see what we create...

01.01.2022 Libby Evans - one of our very talented Student Wearable Artist in 2019 and a finalist for Australian Wearable Art Festival 2021 - has been busy creating in other art disciplines while so many of her usual art shows were cancelled for this year... Noosa Regional Gallery announced Libby as the winner of the Year 10 category in the Draw 2020 Student Drawing Award with her artwork "Taches de Rousseur" The Peoples Choice is still open for voting if you would like to take a look ...through the Virtual Gallery... Libbys work "Taches de Rousseur" translates as Freckles ...and with that hint I am sure you will find her artwork!https://www.noosaregionalgallery.com.au//draw-student-dra/? See in comments for a photo of Libby wearing her 2019 AWAF Entry made out of X-Rays and are entry into this competition...