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To mark 10 years since the Red Hot Fibre exhibitions and concept began, preliminary planning is underway to hold an exhibition and associated workshops, residency and public events in Redcliffe in the period June to August 2008. Expressions of interest are sought from natural plant fibre papermakers and other artists working with natural plant fibres for exhibiting, tutoring and demonstrating. Please send a brief email stating your primary interests and attach a one page (A4) professional history and one image (jpg format) to redhotfibre@uqconnect.net .

The Red Hot Fibre Bee is a celebration of natural fibre arts and of people working together and it celebrates the completion of the Botanical Book Project in the garden where the first project workshop was held. The Bee draws on the concept of the 'community working bee' to create an event where people have the opportunity to do, to make and to have a good time together.

The venue will be Cascade Place Community Garden - an open
access community permaculture garden located in Humpybong Park, Hutchinson Street Redcliffe. Tours of the garden identifying fibre plants and discussing other aspects of the garden will also be available. The Cerebral Palsy League operates Cascade Place as their Adult Day Centre in Redcliffe. Cascade Place also provides a venue for other community activities, hosts Redcliffe's Green Fair and has been responsible for initiating the Community Garden as a joint project between the clients of Cascade Place and the wider community. The Red Hot Fibre Bee will include a range of activities for artists and visitors.

The Red Hot Fibre Bee is also intended to create a more concrete link between the work of artists exhibiting in the Paper & String exhibition at the Redcliffe City Art Gallery (03 May - 01 June 2002) and the community visiting and viewing that work. Five of the artists exhibiting in Paper & String are actively participating in the Red Hot Fibre Bee as workshop tutors or speakers or both. A number of other artists and craftspeople who have been involved in the Botanical Book Project will also be actively involved in displays or demonstrations at the Bee.

This project was made possible by a RegionalQuick Response Grant - a Commonwealth Government initiative through the Regional Arts Fund, supporting the arts in regional and remote Australia.

Workshops

• Book Carving by Graham Hay, sculptor & paper clay specialist, Perth, WA (Note this 2 day workshop will be held 4th and 5th May) - Learn how to create unusual and unique book and solid paper sculptures from old documents and books. Imagine creating a sculpture by binding and carving up your old pulp novels, or all those dull work reports. Note: this workshop will 2 days 4 & 5 May 2002, 9am - 4pm. Cost $110 ($100 concession)
  
  
• Fibre Montage by Noela Mills, visual artist specialising in fibre montages based on the manipulation of hand made papers and found objects on large canvases, Maleny - Chunky textures, embedded fibres and fabrics, luscious metallic surfaces, all achieved with ordinary household recycled paper, minimal equipment, some paints and dyes, and a lot of fun! 9am-4pm, 11 May, $65 (concession $55)
  
  
• Shibori by Margaret Barnett, a shibori artist with over 10 years experience in this medium both in Australia and overseas, Caboolture - Introducing shibori, the Japanese method for embellishing textiles by shaping cloth and securing it before resist dyeing. Chance and accident give life to the shibori process, and this is its special magic and appeal. 9am-4pm, 11 May, $65 (concession $55)
  
  
• Beetle Kites by Tony Rice, an artist and kitemaker, Tony has been making kites since the early '80s as a means of flying his paintings off the wall and into the sky, Brisbane - Tony Rice would like to share his creation the 'Beetle Kite' through this workshop. All materials are supplied; advice on decoration will be given as well as flying lessons. This beautiful kite is a flat bowed style, which can be easily rolled up for transportation. 11 May, 2 x 3 hour sessions, 9am-12pm & 1pm - 4pm, $30 per session ($25 concession)
  
  
• Weaving by Adrienne Kneebone, a string maker, weaver and dyer from the Northern Territory whose weaving is strongly influenced by the dry open tropical woodlands, Darwin River, NT - Pandanus basket making workshop using twining techniques incorporating a variety of coloured pandanus. 9am-4pm, 11 May, $65 (concession $55)

• Plant Fibre Paper Making by Lesa Hepburn, a professional paper maker and designer with over 10 years experience in plant fibre papers, Redcliffe - This introductory workshop on plant fibre papermaking will explain the fibre preparation process, discuss fibre sources and get hands on with sheet forming and basic decorative techniques. 11th May, 2 x 3 hour sessions, 9am-12pm & 1pm - 4pm $30 per session ($25 concession)
  (Right: A Red Hot Fibre Bee (!) by Lesa Hepburn)
  

• Permaculture Gardening by Vanessa Smith, a permaculture gardener and community development worker who coordinates the volunteers and design of the Cascade Place Community Garden, Redcliffe - No-dig Garden Workshop - how to start a vege garden without breaking your back 11th May, 2 x 2 hr sessions, 9am-11pm & 2pm - 4pm $15 per session ($10 concession)
  

Guest Speakers - Artists - Performers 12 May 2002

The Red Hot Fibre Bee was a celebration event from 10am till 3pm in the Cascade Place Community Garden. Free demonstrations of natural fibre artworks and guest speakers, garden tours, the Second Wind Concert Band as well as a range of stalls and other attractions.

Guest speakers included:

• Jill Jordan, Maleny, Qld - well known facilitator and community development activist will speak on developing community cultural networks
  
  
• Paul West, Tamworth, NSW - print artist and TAFE lecturer will speak on the outcomes of his recent Churchill Fellowship - to study hand made paper production & marketing within the economic and social context of isolated indigenous communities and their paper mills in Ecuador and Egypt. Also an investigation of their partnerships with Western training and marketing agencies in the USA & UK. Paul may also speak on his experiences in helping the Boggabilla community to establish a community based paper mill
  
  
• Graham Hay, Perth, WA - sculptor & paper clay artist will present a slide lecture on his work. Graham Hay has conducted over 70 paperclay workshops with artists, educators, students and hobbyists. For nine years he has developed, used and shared paperclay techniques. His work is on a cover of CraftWest, Pottery in Australia and an UK book on paperclay. Regularly exhibiting internationally he is a founding member of the Thermal Shockers and Robertson Park Artists Studio, Perth. A trained and inspiring educator, Graham enjoys helping others get excited about paperclay.

• Vishna Stanuga-Collins, St Ives, NSW - freelance knitwear and costume designer, teacher and lecturer will present a slide
  lecture on her crochet raffia costumes as exhibited in the
  Paper & String exhibition. Vishna specialises in wearable art
  using hand and machine embroidery, knitting, and crochet and costume design.
  (Right: Pink Hibiscus)

• Adrienne Kneebone, Darwin River, NT - fibre artist will present a demonstration on her work. Adrienne has been hand rolling string and weaving using local materials in the Northern Territory since 1997 and finds working with hand rolled string fundamentally exhilarating, fresh and real.
  
  
• Glen Hyland-Reid, Sandgate, Qld - Director, Cascade Place, will speak on the establishment of Cascade Place as a community facility and the future of Cascade Place and the Community Garden.
  
  
• Vanessa Smith, Redcliffe, Qld - a permaculture gardener and community development worker who coordinates the volunteers and design of the Cascade Place Community Garden, Redcliffe will speak on the principles of permaculture and their application to the Cascade Place Community Garden.

Other activities on Sunday at the Red Hot Fibre Bee will include:

• performances by the Second Wind Concert and Stage bands;
• demonstrations of natural fibre spinning weaving and dyeing;
• demonstrations of hand made books for the self publisher;
• walking tours of the community garden; and
• fibre plants and seeds for sale as well as craft items.

For more information about the Botanical Book project, Paper & String
Exhibition or the Red Hot Fibre Bee, contact:
Red Hot Fibre,
c/- 650 Oxley Avenue,
Scarborough, Qld, 4020
ph: (07) 3203 6221

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Kathy Lobo rolling out
hand made paper for
restraint drying at Cooroy
Butter Factory workshop