Lead Up Events

Jenni Farrell

Jenni Farrell & Cheryl Gregory ran a felt making workshop at the Kitchen Gallery behind the Grand Hotel in Broken Hill on 9 November 2016.

Felt is our oldest textile and pieces of it have been found in tombs dating back 4,000 years. Modern forms of Felt-making came to Australia about 40 years ago and “nuno felt”- felting on fabrics - was invented in Nimbin Australia in the 1980s. Australians now create beautiful felt artworks, wearables and functional pieces.

To make felt is a relatively simple process and requires 3 main ingredients – wool, water and pressure. If you put some wool fibres in your shoe and walked on it all day you would have a piece of felt.

In this workshop we will start with some samples - a flat felt piece, a 3D piece, felt dreadlocks and balls and felt on silk fabric (nuno felt).

The main project will be a nuno felt scarf or window/wall hanging.
All materials will be provided – wool, silk fabric, some yarns and pre-felts for decoration and bubble wrap which you will use to felt your project.

Marie Lund

Marie gave an artist talk about travel sketching describing types of paper & sketchbooks she travels with. We learned about how to travel light and what equipment is useful when travel sketching. Marie hosted a group to draw Plein Air in Patton Park Broken Hill

Helena Lloyd

Helena Lloyd is a visiting artist who visiting broken hill in October of 2016. She held a workshop over a weekend to get artists out among the scenery. Helena was in the silver city as part of the Artists in Residence program and was fathering inspiration from the unique landscape. While in Broken Hill, she ran a wrokshop with local artists around plien air drawing. Plien air is an artistic technique in which the artist works outdors in order to fully capture the essence of their subject. This technique is a personal favourite for Helena. The workship was held in Patton Park.

Transition Water to Air

Isabel Hertaeg

Isabel Hertaeg performed as a feature artist at BHAE's Desert Equinox Water Prize Awards Night. Performing songs that took us on an extraordinary journey from the domain of water to the all-encompassing sphere of air. From 19th Century chamber music to 20th Century chorales, her repertoire of classics on themes of air and water delivered us to the DE Air Prelude in a breathtaking fashion.

Deborah Kayser & Nick Tsiavos

Deborah Kayser and Nick Tsiavos appeared in Broken Hill as guests of the Broken Hill Art Exchange to help us usher in the Desert Equinox Air Prelude on the heels of the Desert Equinox Water Prize. Their transcendent music performance took us by the hand and walked us through an extraordinary cultural landscape of traditional and contemporary harmonies that evoked the ethereal, the reflective, and the imaginery