IKEBANA - A MOMENT IN TIME #3

 

Hello all,

Here is a Virtual Tour of our exhibition, supplied by Jacquie Nichols-Reeves from Artspace at Box Hil Town Hall. As it is attached to another exhibition, you will need to click on the right hand side of the image for our exhibition and go from there.

https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=x6ewbAhEYgy

I have a few more photographs from our exhibition to share with you. The above arrangement was Bredenia's. She used a driftwood-like material balanced on a ceramic vase and with it she massed yellow chrysanthemums at the front and nandina domestica nana to the back.

Jenny, in her arrangement below, used dried rhododendron branches and hydrangeas in autumn colours, in a large ceramic container.

Nicole's miniatures were a big hit with the public. People are often drawn to the 'cuteness' of the miniatures. My mother is one of them. Over the decades she has seen countless ikebana arrangements in mine and my sisters' homes but she never comments on them. Except for the miniatures. She, absolutely, loves them.

Lucy's metal sculpture, below, is made using a material from the building trade called 'reo chairs'. This is an example of the lesson in Book 5 - 'Composition Using Unconventional Materials'.

In contrast, Lucy's second piece, below, was a large, naturalistic, freestyle arrangement. She used ginkgo biloba for her main branches, pomegranates and lisianthus in a tall, ceramic vase. Over the two weeks of the exhibition, Lucy had to change the flowers more than once. She later replaced the lisianthus with white hydrangeas.

Cym's second arrangement was in a large glass cabinet with only a 35cm depth. She used dried, lichen covered branches, a stem of cordyline, dried amaranthus and philodendron chango leaves in a heavy ceramic container. For the second week, Cym replaced the cordyline with two, large New Zealand flax leaves.

Christopher's second arrangement was displayed in a glass cabinet.during the exhibition but, here, it has been photographed out of it. It is a birchwood sculpture with nandina domestica nana and 2 sedge leaves in a large, contemporary, ceramic container. This container is, understandably, much prized by Christopher. It was created by Echizen Potter, Yutaka Nakamura and was acquired by Christopher in 2011 whilst on the Norman and Mary Sparnon Endowment Scholarship.

Christine's arrangement lasted for the two weeks of the exhibition without requiring any maintenance. She used a dried, vine-like material, sprayed black and a single sunflower in a small, ceramic container.

Dianne's arrangement is from the curriculum. It is 'Variation no. 2 Slanting style Moribana'. She used leucodendron branches and roses from her garden in a ceramic suiban.

Lei's arrangement was also from the curriculum - 'Using Only One Kind of Material' and that was Umbrella grass (Cyperus Alternifolius) in a contemporary design.

Wendy's 'Vertical Arrangement' was also from the curriculum. She used gladioli stems and agapanthus leaves in a ceramic container. In contrast to Christine's arrangement, Wendy's flowers were short lived and had to be replaced several times. Wendy was very diligent in making sure that the flowers were always fresh.

My original arrangement using umbrella grass stems only lasted a week and had to be replaced. So, I made another one, using the same technique but a different design. I was looking for a way to showcase the pomegranates that I was able to save from the possums by covering them in plastic bags.

Bye for now,

Emily