Some Photos

A fellow stall holder at Rose Street Artists Market gave me a cd of photos that her photographer friend (Carla Gottgens) took. The photos were of me! They were taken a wee while ago while I was printing at the Australian Print Workshop. You can see me struggling to turn the wheel of the lovely old printing press!

Also I should announce that Rose Street Artists Market is now open on Sundays as well as Saturdays. The stalls on each day will be different, it's a chance to get more artists/ makers involved in Rose Street Market. I will continue to do Saturdays until mid September, then I'll be packing up all my things and heading over to Belfast, Northern Ireland to see what's happening there!

Rose Street Market has also started it's online shop, so if you can't make it to Fitzroy, Melbourne on Saturday or Sunday then log on here and see what's available!

Exciting News

A few more hiccups before I'm truly back at my blog! I had a few weeks where I thought this computer had died, but it seems to be working again without me doing anything to it! Another hindrance is I can't locate my camera recharger, so I've having to scan everything in and I have a very substandard scanner!

I have decided to finally upload images of some of my scholarship etchings that I did while at Australian Print Workshop the past year. These are the etchings included in my recent exhibition at APW which finished on the 20th December. I have now added these two below to my 'bridgetfarmerprints' etsy shop.
So, what is my exciting news? Well, I have two pieces of news. As I type, my sister in law is in labour with the first baby of our immediate family. They are in Belfast and I am in Melbourne, so I've been kept up to date by my brother with texts. I'm sending them lots of good thoughts!

My other news is that I've bitten the bullet and finally, actually bought myself a printing press. So I'll be printing away whenever I want now. I can't wait to get it all set up and working. I'd take a photo of it to show, but as I said, I can't find my camera battery charger and it would be a bit too difficult to scan!

Bird Song Exhibition

I am included in an exhibition at the Australian Print Workshop this month. It is entitled 'Bird Song' and is about native Australian birds. There are four artists involved Kate Hudson, who 'specialises in reduction linocut prints.' Jennifer Rogers who 'employs the considered and precise method of wood engraving to create her detailed interpretations of the natural world.' Leslie Van Der Sluys who makes 'linocuts of floral and faunal subjects," and of course me, Bridget Farmer, I make acid etchings of Australian birds.



It opens on 5th April and goes until 10th May 2008. Australian Print Workshop is located at 210 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy, Melbourne. Do come along and do a spot of bird watching!