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.  

                                

An interview with Abbie Matthews and Nathan Curnow

Nathan Curnow & Abbie Matthews on cross-artform exhibition Each to Each from Amy Tinderbox on Vimeo.

Current Projects

Image from 'Ballarat & District 1901'

Hello!

We have been working hard in Weave Length land on various projects across events, curation, research, film, painting, teaching and more and in April and May you'll be able to come enjoy some of the fun!
Weave Length presents a special cross-artform exhibition called Each to Each: Artists Respond to the Poetry of Nathan Curnow. The opening will be at Wolveschildren Gallery on April 11th, curated by the wonderful Abbie Matthews. An interview with Abbie and Nathan coming soon!

And for City of Ballarat's Heritage Weekend this year Amy has been working on Living Heritage: Trades & Traditions, an exciting project bringing local history to life through collaboration with graphics and performing arts students from Federation Uni's Arts Academy and the rich resources of local history held by our people, libraries and museums.

Trades & Traditions celebrates Ballarat's culture of innovation and community, inviting visitors to explore a trail of photographs, history, and stories in shop windows en route between the Ballarat Railway Station, Mining Exchange, Mechanics Institute, and Town Hall, bringing to life the world of some of the city's early 20th century traders and traditions. More details soon but put May 10th and 11th in the diary for another great weekend of exploring with this year's theme of 'Who Made Ballarat?'

Performing Arts students touring the Ballarat Town Hall

Silent Film for Lovers

Amy's wedding gift to Abbie. Congratulations Mr & Mrs Taylor!

Have a fabulous festive season out there folks and see you for a creative 2014!


Abbie & Lee Love Movie from Amy Tinderbox on Vimeo.

Book Eyes and Minds

The sculpture of spectacles rides again, along with some of Amy's photographs of libraries around the world, on display at the Ballarat Library for the month of October.

As an accompaniment, here is a film that combines some of Amy's reader images with those collected from others during the Backspace show. The audio comes from interviews with local readers, librarians, and booksellers about their relationship with books and reading. Thanks again to all supporters in this project including Ballarat Library and City of Ballarat, Yum Studio, and UB's Centre for eCommerce and Communications.

Enjoy!


GALAXY OF READERS from Amy Tinderbox on Vimeo.

Space Between at the Library

More info on the way soon : )

Awards for Abbie

Each year the Ballarat Arts Foundation holds a group show for BAF Alumni. This year's People's Choice Award has gone to Weave Length's Abbie Matthews! Here is the piece, inspired by her recent travels. More soon!    

Buskers at Saint Girons. Abbie Matthews

Winged Things

The aim of Weave Length since we began in 2009 has been to create 'winged things,' weaving together elements, people, and ideas so that they might lead to other things, things that fly.

Here is a very short film - a sense of some of the elements of Amy's recent work The Space Between. The soundscape features Amy playing with the ruined pianos of Tuerong, notes and bones in their own space between.

Hope you enjoy it. Hope it might, ever so briefly, help your mind take flight...


A sense of The Space Between, Backspace Gallery, July 2013 from Amy Tinderbox on Vimeo.

Last Hurrah!

Come along to the gallery this Saturday 27th from midday to celebrate a fabulous two weeks in Backspace exploring all things book! Amy will share what has been collected during the show, including images of people enjoying the space, favourite books and reading memories, gathered images from the online galaxy of readers, and a draft of the special inscription collection book titled 'Inscriptions in the Space Between' in collaboration with mentor Barry Wemyss. There will also be some live music and sushi so come and enjoy! The exhibition will close officially at 4pm on Sunday.

Image contributed by Shane Carey, Allans Flat 2013

Big love and thanks to all visitors and supporters, including the wonderful Erin McCuskey of Yum Studio, The Ballarat Library, Sonya Macdonald at Sago on Tuesdays, The UB Centre for eCommerce and Communications, Abbie Matthews aka Miss Ladybug, The Ballaarat Mechanics Institute, and the guys at the City of Ballarat Arts & Culture Unit. 

Look out for more on this exciting project as after all the great chats in the gallery, it doesn't look like it will end here!

Week Two in the Space Between!

Backspace Gallery is nestled behind the Art Gallery of Ballarat in Huyghue House, entered by Camp St or down Police Lane from Lydiard St, and is run by the City of Ballarat Arts and Culture Unit. 

Big thanks to all who have visited and contributed to Amy's current exhibition  The Space Between so far: an invitation for people of all ages to come and explore the world of books and reading!

The past week has seen fabulous free sessions offered to the public from bookbinder and restorer Sonya Macdonald of Sago on Tuesdays Bindery and multimedia extraordinaire Erin McCuskey from Yum Studio. 

                  

Local artist Barry Wemyss’s book art workshops have also proved popular and are now booked out, but there is still lots to do and see as part of this exciting exhibition.

The Ballarat Library Outreach van will visit again on Thursday morning 9am to midday and Friday morning storytime at 11am will feature the classic book The Very Hungry Caterpillar after last week’s fun with Where the Wild Things Are.

                  

        

Barry and Amy will continue work on the Inscription Collection, inviting visitors to bring in books with their favourite book inscriptions to be copied and added to a special artist book. Book lovers near and far can also contribute to an online galaxy of readers, with pictures already coming through from Sweden, India, UK, and around Australia. More details here

An informal celebration will take place at midday on Saturday 27^th. All welcome, BYO lunch and check out what has been gathered and created throughout the exhibition.

The project has been described as “warm, human, and unpretentious” by local poet Barry Breen, and enjoyed by Louise Jones from ‘Learning that’s Fun’ noting that “there is so much to see, touch and be a part of. It was literally a case of the more laps I did, the more I found.”

Come and join the bookish fun! Artworks by Amy Tsilemanis can also be purchased and donations made to the Australian Literacy and Numeracy Foundation (ALNF).

  

Read a review on the Central Highlands Arts Atlas by Ailsa B Du Bois from the Editorial Suite

See more pictures

Contact Amy: weavelength@gmail.com/ Weave Length Productions on Facebook

Talking Books

Listen to Amy discussing The Space Between with Matt Malone on Voice FM

Come and explore at Backspace Gallery!

It’s a cold and rainy day and week ahead, perfect for coming to visit The Space Between: Amy’s cross-artform exploration of books and reading!

July 13-28

Open Tuesday- Sunday 10-4

Backspace Gallery Ballarat

Hughyue House

Alfred Deakin Place (enter via Camp St or Police Lane, off Lydiard St)

Saturday 13^th

Opening event 2-4pm with readings from Nathan Curnow and a special treat from Liana Skewes and the Ink and Pen Postal Fellowship 

Wednesday 17th:

Meet your local bookbinder and restorer Sonya Macdonald from Sago on Tuesdays. Bring along any questions or books that are in need of some love.

12pm

Thursday 18^th 

Browse and borrow with the Ballarat Library Mobile Van, visiting The Space Between 9am -midday

Make Your Own Concertina Book Workshop with Barry Wemyss

1.30-3.30 $5. Please register at weavelength@gmail.com

Friday 19^th

Storytime with Miss Ladybug

11am

Where the Wild Things Are

Dress up animal or insect!

Saturday 20^th

Make Your Own Concertina Book Workshop with Barry Wemyss

1.30-3.30 $5. Please register at weavelength@gmail.com

Sunday 21^st

Join Erin McCuskey of Yum Studio for a chat about some of the interesting interactive digital book design going on from Stephen Fry to Nick Cave.

Feel free to bring along any books you'd like to add to the Book Exchange at any point too!

What is The Space Between?

The Space Between from Amy Tinderbox on Vimeo.

A Celebration of Books and Reading!

The Space Between opening event is Saturday July 13th 2-4pm but there are lot of ways to get involved! Check it all out here: