Festive wishes from the Colour Factory team

Phill, Shane, Linsey & team wish everyone well for the Festive Season and thank you all for your support in 2009! Enjoy the break and we look forward to working with you in the New Year. Holiday hours The Colour Factory, including the Colour Factory Gallery, will close on December 23, 2009 and reopen on…

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STELLARC work at the Colour Factory Gallery in January

The Colour Factory gallery will re-open in January 2010 with a work by STELLARC, kindly on loan from Scott Livesey Galleries. As you may remember back in our July eNewsletter, we featured an article on analogue projection printing. The subject of the article was the challenging creation of a 4.2 x 2.7m hand print of…

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Leading a Double Life

Michelle Tran Double Life First Site, RMIT Union Gallery Opening night Tuesday December 15, 5.30 – 7.30pm Exhibition runs till December 21, 2009. Need a studio space? Rear View studios and gallery in Smith St, Collingwood have one studio space available.  4m x 5m, closed room, has wireless internet, $56.50 per week. Call 0424 273…

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Graduates show off their work in End of Year shows

It’s that time of year when there are plenty of great graduate exhibitions to be seen! RMIT Master of Fine Art Graduate Show Guildford Lane Gallery Opening night Thursday December 10 2009, 6 – 9pm Local and international graduates of RMIT University’s Master of Fine Art present an exhibition of exciting new work at Guildford…

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Upcoming digital photography seminars

Thankyou to those who attended Tim Handfield’s recent ‘Creating Photoshop Masters’ seminar. It was an interesting and successful workshop, and we look forward to many more in the new year. See the list below for our upcoming one day workshops and two hour myth-busting sessions. Tim Handfield Courses – Jan to June 2010 One-day Workshops…

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Tips for Archival Storage of Negatives

At the Colour Factory we have recently been required to scan a client’s negatives that have been in storage for some time. Difficulty was experienced when removing the negative from the plastic sleeve, and once removed, we noticed an obvious indentation on the surface caused by the red dot sticker that had been left on…

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Exhibitions opening at The Library Artspace & Brightspace this week

EXHAUST Kotoe Ishii The Library Artspace Opening night Wednesday December 2 2009, 6 – 8pm Ishii presents a series of video works from two years study towards a Masters of Fine Art at the Victorian College of the Arts. Exhibition closes Saturday 19th December. RMIT BA Photography Graduate Exhibition Graduating students of Commercial and Science…

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