February 2012
6 posts
Spend time with conceptual artist Christina Henri...
Cascades Female Factory Artist-in-residence Christina Henri will be conducting intimate bonnet-making seminars on site where bonnets can be sewn or embellished for the Roses from the Heart(R) memorial to all convict women transported to Australia (1788-1853). Christina will share stories and anecdotes of her 2010 overseas tour of the UK with the iconic Memorial project.
Christina is a weekly...
Mayor of Subiaco, Heather Henderson attends...
Mayor of Subiaco, Heather Henderson, attended the opening of the Roses from the Heart(R) bonnet display at the Subiaco Library last week. Also in attendance was Subiaco Library newly appointed staff member Oonagh Quigley who previously worked as a curator at the Fremantle Prison World Heritage Site in Fremantle when Christina Henri’s exhibition, Vessels of Hope featured in the Fremantle...
Learn about convict women and Roses from the Heart...
Christina Henri supports Irish Gig at the Platform...
Christina Henri will be in Western Australia supporting Fred Rea and a number of talented musicians and performers including Fiona Rea and Lateisha Boucher who are featured on the Roses from the Heart CD.
Those who know Fred Rea, musician and also publisher of the Irish Scene magazine, will know the talent of this man. Fred is bringing together a group of musicians who are bound together by their...
Bonnets and Boats and intimate afternoon with...
Christina Henri will be guest speaker at the (air conditioned) Beverley Town Hall on Saturday 10th March at 1.30. Christina will be sharing information about Roses from the Heart(R) and her trip to England, Ireland and Jersey in 2010, the completion of her PhD and her plans for 2012/2013/2014.
Christina looks forward to catching up with bonnet makers and interested folk and the many friends she...
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY 8th March 2012:...
As part of International Women’s Day celebrations artist Christina Henri - who has conceived Roses from the Heart(R) - will be a special guest at the Irish Club of WA, 61 Townsend Road, Subiaco, WA.
Members of the public are invited to arrive by 6.00pm to eat and then attend the concert that begins at 7.45. Light supper will be provided at the end of the concert. Tickets to the concert are...
December 2011
3 posts
October 2011
4 posts
Tasmanian Premier, the Hon Lara Giddings MHA, ...
Making their Mark(R) is a trail of individual bonnet tributes to convict women permanently installed in places that hold a relevance to each specific woman. A bonnet for Mary Eagen will be permanently installed at the historic Gaol in Oatlands. For the next month the bonnet will be on display at the Supreme Court Museum in Oatlands. In December a Making their Mark(R) bonnet for Eliza Lacking will...
Tasmanian Premier, the Hon Lara Giddings MHA, ...
Tasmanian Premier the Honourable Lara Giddings MHA opened artist Christina Henri’s Roses from the Heart(R) display today at the Oatlands Supreme Court Museum as part of the town’s eleventh Spring Festival.
Rowena McDougall the Manager of the Museum and Christina Henri greeted the Premier and Rowena welcomed all the guests on behalf of the Southern Midlands Council. Those attending included...
September 2011
12 posts
CONVICT WOMEN WHO SPENT TIME IN OATLANDS
Bonnet tributes are being made as part of Roses from the Heart(R) for all convict women Transported to Australia. Amongst the 25,566 convict women this Memorial remembers are convict women who spent time in Oatlands, Van Diemen’s Land, now Tasmania.
It you know of any convict women who spent time at Oatlands, or if you are related to any convict women who spent time in Oatlands, please...
Winnipeg Embroiderers Guild members are creating...
Members of the Winnipeg Embroiderers Guild have committed to making cloth bonnet tributes to Australia’s convict women. They have taken their participation to heart and have researched as much as they could about convicts online. They have set the convict women’s names chronologically with whatever data found. Although they haven’t found a lot about each individual woman they...
August 2011
65 posts
