Jodie Goldring

It was exciting to drop the willow trailer I made off to Jess and Lily yesterday before they move down to Torquay. Jess loves the trailer and Lily is in training to get used to the trailer!!!

A second enjoyable day yesterday with the Moorabool Fibre Artists in Bacchus Marsh. We nearly finished our shopping baskets by creating the rim. Handles just have to be added. These days always involve wine and cake!!

I worked with some amazing young artists at the Art Gallery of Ballarat yesterday. The kids already had wonderful drawing skills (they must have great Art Teachers at school!). There was a creative buzz in the air as budding artists manipulated cardboard and paper to make relief portraits to celebrate the Archibald Prize.

I have nearly finished a willow and cane basket that will be attached to a bike trailer. Jess commissioned me to make it so that she can ride along the foreshore of Torquay with her dog in the back. I had to make it so that this strong visual image I had became more concrete!

I had a lovely day yesterday with a group of fibre artists in Bacchus Marsh. We started the base of a shopping basket over a mould. Thanks to Anne B and Anne G who instructed us (they learned how from Edit at Basketmakers of Victoria recently). I have to do homework before I meet them … More Making a basket with the MFA