a selection of magpie treasures

DIY Magpie Workshop Walking Tour of Taupo part 2

six for gold

Drew's Goldsmith's

Joanna Campbell's ribbon necklace

seven for secrets not to be told

Taupo's question mark

Octavia Cook's brooch

eight for a wish

wishing well

Matthew McIntyre Wilson's coin brooches

nine for a kiss

rose garden

Pauline Bern's Mend brooches

ten for a bird not to be missed

Magpie

Lisa Walker talk 2pm

At this point we laid out the collections and started making, making, making.

DIY Magpie Workshop Walking Tour of Taupo part 1

instructions: go to the magpie show.  check out all of these artists.  walk around taupo and draw connections between the old folk rhymes and themes in the jewellery show.  make. make. make.

one for sorrow

early settlers cemetery

Mary Curtis, black brooch

two for joy

Salvation Army

 Cath Dearsley, theory of toys

three for a girl

Taupo primary

Rachel Bell, found-feminine domestic

four for a boy

Taupo primary

Ross Malcolm, necklaces

five for silver

The fly

Jennifer Braithwaite, necklaces

(real silver I am sure!)

..... more soon

MAGPIE review

MAGPIE: New Adventures in Jewellery opened last weekend as apart of the Taupo Erupt festival.  I may be a bit biased, but I thought that the show looked  fabulous.  The tiding, charm, gulp, flock, murder of jewellers descended on Taupo for a weekend of talks.  Lisa Walker spoke on Saturday and Pauline Bern/Tim Walker on Sunday.  It was a lovely event.
I led two public workshops on Saturday and Sunday that involved a walk around town linking concepts in traditional jewellery to works in the show via the magpie rhyme.  The particpants magpied up lovely treasures that we then made into pendants.  More pictures to come shortly.

one for sorrow, 

two for joy,  

three for a girl,

four for a boy,

five for a silver,

six for gold,

seven for secrets not to be told,

eight for a wish,

nine for a kiss,

ten for a bird not to be missed,

Good Moodies

The Wire: Adventures in Modern Music saves the day, and provides a much needed performance art/ experimental music fix care of The Moodies.  The link will take you to two interviews with the band.

(photo via The Wire)

Here is what The Wire has to say about the interviews:
Hear two Clear Spot documentaries where Adrian Whittaker talks to members of The Moodies, the musical and performance art group which grew out of Reading University Art Department in the early Seventies. 

The two programmes, originally aired on Resonance FM on 24 and 25 February 2010, also include archive live recordings from 1974 and examples of various ex-Moodies’ later work with Brian Eno, Ian Dury, Michael Karoli and Paul Burwell.