We’ve partnered with Up The Hill B&B to give one lucky follower a destination experience in Mundaring. Win a night’s accommodation and come to our Habits of Horses Open Day in Mundaring on 20 August 2017!
This incredible prize package includes: beautiful accommodation for two people, a trail walk, cooked breakfast and coffee at A Patch of Country and 10% discount at their gift shop. The lucky winners are then invited to spend the day enjoying the art and free community events at the Habits of Horses Open Day, run by the Mundaring Arts Centre.
Read MoreTo celebrate the horses birthday, the Mundaring Camera Club are showcasing their photographs of horses at the Boya Community Centre from today, 1 Aug, until 30 Sept. The club members had a great day installing on Saturday and their exhibition has already attracted a lot of interest from the library visitors.
Read MoreYear 1 to 6 students from Helena College Junior School learned the art of fibre sculpture and made hay horses, complete with machine stitched rosettes and saddles from recycled blankets. With their art teacher Marie Jacquier, the students created their horses and used a hand crank machine to sew saddles and rosettes.
Read MoreTraining for the Great Hobby Horse event to be held on the Habits of Horses Open Day Saturday 20 August at the Mundaring Sculpture Park is well underway! Check out these amazing moves and equally impressive jumps crafted by local artist Denise Brown!
Read MoreEastern Hills Year 9 students worked with textiles artist Katrina Virgona to learn the art of feltmaking with the unusual addition of horse hair. Over three weeks the students created neckpieces, small sculptures and brooches incorporating stitch and hanks of horse hair to explore their connection with horses. Their work drew on notions of whimsical, playful talismanic weaponry and adornment.
Read MoreUnder the guidance of Katrina Virgona, a large and enthusiastic group of community members learnt how to make small felted sculptures, jewellery and rosettes, adding horse hair to give their creations a curious quality.
Read MoreThe Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers' Centre will be participating in Habits of Horses with a large story and poetry display at the Centre featuring horse-themed works from members - fiction and non-fiction - in the shape of a horse.
The Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers' Centre is calling for submissions for the community stories project.
Read MoreStudents from Moorditj Noongar Community College made amazing stop motion animations and zoetropes as part of Steven Aiton's residence at Midland Junction Arts Centre. Using found objects and scrap materials the Year 4s and 5s photographed their horses in stages and made short films.
Read MoreArtist Dan Iley worked with Year 5 and 6 students from Mt Helena Primary School to create a mob of wild brumbies that ran across the walls of Gallery 2 during Habits of Horses. These beautiful horses were created using papier maché, then carefully painted and given fibre manes and tails.
Read MoreLouise visited Moorditj Noongar Community College, where Year 4s and 5s took part in the Habits of Horse Project, creating artworks for the Horse Tales exhibition. Over 2 sessions students created sculpture hay horse using binding and wrapping techniques.
In a whirlwind of hay and colourful wool the students created their unique freestanding horses, considered their connections to horses, movement and adding decorations such as felted saddles, manes, tails and stitching with coloured yarn. The huge paddock of horses was an audience favourite with many excited families visiting their creations whilst they were ‘in-stalled’.
Read MoreStudents from Gidgegannup Primary School made wonderful hay horses in two workshops with artist Louise Snook. Working with a wire armature, the Year 5 and 6 students wrapped hay around the wire and embellished their horses with stitched manes, saddles and bridles. Some horses even had tiny stirrups made from ring pulls!
Read MoreArtist Ross Potter recently completed a six week residency at Midland Junction Arts Centre where he created a remarkable life-size drawing exploring proportion and rendering techniques to capture the texture and feel of horses. Whilst creating his stunning portrait of ‘Thunder’ Ross also ran a series of community workshops
Read MoreGetting down to business today as we kicked off our next community project 'Habits of Horses'. It was fantastic to have so many passionate community groups represented at the meeting sharing all things horses. Watch this space as we unveil an exciting program of horse art, stories, exhibitions, talks events and more!
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