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The Co Work Co in Brunswick

Had a lovely evening last night celebrating the 5th birthday of the Moreland Women’s Network.  It was held at the CoWorkCo studio and is a really great space and the chocolate cake was fantastic too!

 

The Cowork Collective is a coworking, workshop & event studio at 421 Lygon St, Brunswick East in Melbourne’s inner north. It was set up by Bec Mutch, a learning and development gal who’s all about creating environments and experiences that coax big dreams into reality.

The studio and services are designed to support the diverse and vibrant community of members in their first years as freelance creatives, coaches, consultants and solo entrepreneurs.

 

Unlike lots of other coworking and creative studios they intentionally focus on the needs of people who want a flexible, inspiring, well resourced space on a part time basis. Some members have a home office setup and come to  collaborate, connect and work alongside others with the added benefit of being able to hold client meetings outside their home. Others are just getting started and need a flexible space to seed their dream.

When you’re ready to leave the kitchen table behind or you’ve worn out your welcome at your local cafe, contact Bec  to schedule a visit.  They’re always on the lookout for fun and interesting people to join the family, and may even inspire you to greatness.

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Jessie Deane

This is Jessie Deane’s piece, “Maersk Containers” which was shortlisted for the inaugural 2015 Victoria Craft Award – beautiful stitching and wonderful colours.

Jessie Deane is a textile artist from Yarraville in Melbourne’s west. She recently won the 2014 Melbourne Fringe Best Visual Arts Award for her exhibition, ‘(Thr)edifice’ and her latest exhibition, ‘Stitching Spotswood’, is currently showing at the Duchess of Spotswood. “My work captures, in thread, the richness I find in the decaying urban facades and streetscapes of Melbourne’s west. Stitch-by-stitch, in vibrant colour, I recreate these abandoned, fading or forgotten structures that are for me, objects of beauty.” You can view more of her work here. http://jessiedeane.com/thumb_IMG_1758_1024

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Black Holes – Restructuring Matter

In 2015, the curatorial theme for the Banyule Award for works on paper is In Space

Space surrounds us; we are in space, as space is in us.

Space is private and public, it is emotional and psychological, and it can be transformed, stimulated and activated, or neutralized and void.

Space is subjective; it is social, cultural, and psychological.

I have just submitted this piece comprising of 4 black holes so fingers crossed!

Black Holes – Restructuring Matter’, takes the challenge of representing the visually unrenderable: gas, light and movement. With stitch in paper I interpret the fascinating phenomena of Black Holes; each piece uses thread to represent the colours of space. Hand stitching allows time for mediation and contemplation.

A black hole is not empty space. It is a great amount of matter packed into a tiny area resulting in a field so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape its pull. Black holes are thought to hold matter and energy prisoner before eventually releasing them, albeit in a garbled form. This may be an analogy of many people’s lives today; pulled into the dark prison of consumerism.