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A day working with the collection

Today I worked at the Bundanon Homestead and not at Riversdale. It was a good drive down the coast and I always enjoy the trek through the bush to get to Bundanon. Parts of the drive skirt the Shoalhaven River … Continue reading

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I am full of admiration and inspiration

A group of boys have arrived the day before, they had already started on some of their  projects. Today I would get to see the finished product of a workshop that I had seen the start of, with another group. … Continue reading

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Will I help on your open day?…… YES! Id love to!

Volunteer an extra day? No Problem! Will I help on your open day? YES! Id love to!…. Jeanette we really need you the week after next ….. I’ll be there! Through the rain on a Saturday morning I head down … Continue reading

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It’s gonna be a Lemsip and rest kind of week for me!

Sneezing, runny eyes, aching bones croaky voice and not really feeling well at all, I set off for Bundanon just the same. I felt and obligation to make an effort to get there as the people there had become my … Continue reading

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Timeline of Arthur Boyd

I cannot take credit for the work I am about to post. This is a resource from the Arthur Boyd Trust. Rather than me try to interpret it and potential get it incorrect I thought it would be better to … Continue reading

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Re-arranging the Landscape

In the afternoon of Wednesday a wonderful group of ladies arrived ready to take part in a number of workshops. They were a group of ladies that get together once a year and come along to Bundanon to learn new … Continue reading

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A Sense of Place and Belonging

WOW!!!!! WOW!!! WOW!!! WOW!!!! Bundanon is full of people with different areas of expertise and lets face it you don’t have to be an artist to know what beautiful means. This week one of the people who work at Bundanon … Continue reading

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Did you just say MUD AND MILK?????

Well this was an exciting revelation and a by product of the textile workshop, Linda told us about a dying technique using Mud and Milk. You simply size the paper with Soya Bean milk, paint it with different muds using … Continue reading

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An exciting new textile workshop

Some colleagues of  Bundanon were fortunate enough to go to a textiles workshop in the Blue Mountains recently and were then generous enough to share what they had learnt to assist in formulating a new workshop. Sharing knowledge and technique … Continue reading

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Time to Tidy and Prepare

While school holidays are on it provides a great time to prepare and tidy equipment for the upcoming new term. This week Jim and I got some general cleaning done. We tidied up  trolleys, culled damaged drop sheets, got rid … Continue reading

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