An exciting 2015

Hello, hoping everyone's years are off to a good start. We are eagerly awaiting the arrival of Abbie's first baby! Weave Length will be taking a bit of a break from any major projects but Abbie continues to take painting commissions- check out her work here- and Amy is working on various interesting things you can follow along on her website, with a screening of some recent film and photography coming up next Sunday. Be great to see you there or somewhere along the line soon x

                                 

Australian Artists in New York

View the promo video for exciting project 37degrees 48' S: Artists Navigate Melbourne, featuring 12 amazing Melbourne artists, curated by Carmel Wallace and Dianna Gold, heading to New York next month. Amy has been documenting the project, visiting artists at their studios around the city, and looking forward to travelling overseas in October as part of New York Print Week.

 
37° 48' S - artists navigate MELBOURNE from Peter Corbett on Vimeo.

Dianna Gold, Amy Tsilemanis, & Carmel Wallace at Project launch, Sofitel Hotel, Melbourne. Image by Aldona Kmiec

Box Space Artistry

Amy's 5 part series of local art and interviews wound up last week with the amazing Suzanne McRae and a song and projection work-in-progress by Amy. Enjoy more of the project media here and look out for more Box Space action around town soon!


Big Space Event: Artist Amy Tsilemanis & Weave Length Productions from Aldona Kmieć Photography on Vimeo.

We Were Almost Entirely Happy

In 2009 a group of young artists came together to create cross-artform work A Tale of Winged Things, inspired by the poetry fragments of Sappho. From this work, Weave Length Productions was formed, named so by writer/performer Smiljana Glisovic.

  

Don't miss her new collaborative theatre work We Were Almost Entirely Happy this September at La Mama Theatre.

Love. Painfully inexpressible.
The loneliness of this inexpression causes weird pain.
- George Barker

In 1938, Elizabeth Smart, browsing in a bookshop in London, discovered George Barker’s poetry, determined to marry him, and began raising the funds to bring him to her home in Canada. George and Jessica Barker arrived at the bus stop in June 1940. Elizabeth Smart was there to pick them up.

We Were Almost Entirely Happy is an exploration of Elizabeth Smart’s By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept (1945), and George Barker’s The Dead Seagull (1950). In each, Smart and Barker detail a ‘fictional’ account of their life-long love-affair.

I was writing about one thing: the emotion felt by a woman in love.
- Elizabeth Smart

Text by Smiljana Glisovic after Elizabeth Smart and George Barker

Directed by Caitlin Dullard

Performed by Smiljana Glisovic, Olivia Wilson and Stuart Duffield

Designed by Simon Coleman

Sound by Anita Quayle

Image by Georgia Symons


Wed 6.30pm | Thu, Fri, Sat 7.30pm | Sun 4pm

Approx 70 minutes

Box Space Gallery at Big Space

Big Space is up and running as a shared artist and photo studio with collaborative work and hire opportunities! Amy is keeping busy, curating and presenting a 2 month window box gallery and event series called Box Space- check out all the details on the Big Space website.

This Friday she will be chatting with featured artist Kelly Grundy at 6pm, come say hello and enjoy some fine vinyl from Mr Bren Luke. See you there! 119a Sturt St, nestled in at the front of the beautiful Ballarat Mechanics Institute.

Big Space, Big Ideas

Lots of projects on the go as always (including some much needed recovery after all the work on a huge Ballarat Heritage Weekend) but we are excited to say that Weave Length is part of continuing to build 'Big Space' a trial coworking space for digital creatives next to the fabulous Mechanics Institute in the main street of Ballarat. Stay tuned for more!

Photo shoot for Living Heritage: Trades & Traditions, Ballarat Heritage Weekend 2014. Featuring Federation University performing arts students, curated by Amy Tsilemanis

Each to Each Exhibition- on until May 4th

Thanks to all who got along to the fabulous opening night last Friday of Each to Each: Artists respond to the poetry of Nathan Curnow, featuring live music from Fionnuala McKenna, dance performance by The Shirley Knots, opening words from Sean M Whelan, new theatre by Lee Taylor and Sam O'Brien, and poetry reading from Nathan Curnow himself. The exhibition also features 2D and 3D work by Aldona Kmiec, Hap Hayward, Abbie Matthews, Michelle Dunn, Alison Shirley, Amy Tsilemanis, and Niki Lakerink.

Get along to Wolveschildren Gallery where the show continues until May 4th.