Dobell Festival Lanterns

Next date: Saturday, 01 June 2024 | 12:00 AM to Sunday, 30 June 2024 | 11:59 PM

Solar-powered lanterns on display at the Dobell Festival were created by The Beautiful and Useful Studio. Maurice Goldberg and Michael Aberline from The Beautiful and Useful Studio worked with the local community to create these colourful lanterns that illuminate key festival venues.

They look great at Museum of Art and Culture, yapang (MAC yapang) and can also be seen at the Multi-Arts Pavilion, mima (MAP mima) in Speers Point Park, Dobell House, Wangi Creative Hub & Library and Warners Bay Theatre, baramayiba.

Aberline designed the lanterns, combining imagery produced by local participants during a Creative Flow Workshop at MAC yapang in 2022. During the workshop, Goldberg encouraged participants to shake loose their critical judgment and 'dance' into expressive mark marking.

Workshop participants included Hanneke B, Mary Fitzpatrick, Debby Gill, Helen Graham, Cathy Heaton, Zoe Hirschbichler, Sandra Irons, Jess Kellar, Mary Kromodikoro, Cathie and Chris Marsh, Beth Mcintosh, Anne Michael, Martina Mrongovius, Lyne Neilson and David and Nicole Slee.

Goldberg and Aberline are best known for their huge and colourful inflatable installations that featured at MAP mima as part of the Press Play festival, and have wowed audiences all around Australia and internationally, including in New York, London and Copenhagen.

This event is part of the Lake Macquarie Dobell Festival. For a full list of festival event please visit Lake Macquarie Dobell Festival

This project is supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW and has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body. 

For more information on The Beautiful and Useful Studio visit www.thebeautifulandusefulstudio.com.au

Image bottom: Creative Flow workshop participants at MAC yapang.

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Various locations around the lake