We have already had a busy start to preparation for Term 3 at Rosny.

The Costume class have spent a number of days in at school during the holidays preparing costumes for our in- house presentation of songs from WICKED.

 By the end we had added a very green flavour to everything! 

And talking of green we are examining green issues in Design and Production Textiles.

We had a wonderful session with Jane beaming into us from Brisbane with all her knowledge and information on how to be more informed dressers and makers.

Next week we are booked to go on a virtual tour of the exhibition of “Collecting Comme” on at the National Gallery of Victoria. The designer Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons has much to inspire us in our recycling of clothing. This will be a very exciting opportunity we haven’t tried before.

We are also looking forward to a visit from contemporary embroiderer Nicole O’Loughlin for those of us who want to upcycle our clothes with embroidery.

We are also very busy in Object Design as this is the term TRANSMOGRAFYING materials and ideas into for our designed objects culminating in an exhibition in the last week of term.

We have had more online visits from our university mentors and a flurry of making and journal work in the Design Studio.

Emma is 3d printing moulds to make LEGO like bricks from recycled paper:

And Nahhar is transforming fabric with bleach and patchwork:

And testing her pattern:

 We look forward to welcoming Ashley from Launceston physically into our classroom on his next mentor visit but it has been great to stay in touch online and an opportunity we hope to continue here in the Design Studio!

Josh and Ella are working in the field of Computer Graphics and will have an online visit from Beale next week.

During this term we will be having a drop in day for students to come and work on their projects – Costume, Textile or Object!