Stories of Giants

06/06/2025

I hope you can come next week to our Thank a First Responder evening! I'm hosting a workshop for first responders and their families from 4-6pm, and inviting the community to come afterwards for a light supper, to re-connect and say thanks.
I will be bringing all the artwork blocks I still have (I have a lot!), so if you haven't collected yours yet, please come so you can take it home! Thursday 12 June at Olinda Community House.

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17/05/2025

Today is the last day to see Stories of Giants at the Cardinia Cultural Centre! It's an amazing space with a lovely cafe by the lake in Pakenham. This may be the last time the portraits are all shown together so don't miss it! Thank you to everyone who let us display their artwork again, and to those came along and made new work. Thanks Rob Curlew for these photos.

06/05/2025

These faces! Two more weeks of my residency at the helping visitors make their own artwork on Wednesdays 10-2. We're having a celebration event on Sunday 11 May 1pm. All welcome! Cardinia Cultural Centre, 40 Lakeside Blvd, Pakenham. Thank you and

01/05/2025

If you missed our opening celebration last year at the Yarra Ranges Regional Museum, and you'd like to re-connect with community and friends, please come along to our Celebration Event at the Cardinia Cultural Centre on Sunday May 11, 1-3pm. I am there every Wednesday as artist in residence, sharing our amazing project with visitors, making paint (a mess!) with soil and charcoal. Come and say hi!

26/03/2025

Stories of Giants goes on tour! Hi everyone, our project is going into the Cardinia Cultural Centre where I will be artist in residence from April 5 to May 18. This is a wonderful opportunity to share the benefits of being creative after a natural disaster like the storm we all experienced in 2021. There was another extreme storm in 2024 that impacted Emerald, and other Cardinia residents have experienced multiple bushfires and floods over recent years.

I would like to use this as a hub for sharing our experiences with other impacted residents, first responders and emergency management teams from other local government areas.

I still have about 20 works that haven’t been collected yet, so please let me know if you would not like your work to be displayed. If you have yours at home and would like to be involved please bring it in to Emma Jennings Gallery in Olinda - I would love to have as many as possible!

Remember the gallery has moved - I'm just around the corner next to Dudley’s restaurant, opposite the police station.

You can come any day between now and next Tuesday between 10am and 4pm. If I’m not there Justine from Mountain Ash Yarnery next door has kindly offered to be a collection point. I’m not actually open this week but I’ll be in and out of the studio doing last minute preparation for next week’s installation!

Stay tuned for details of a gathering at the Cardinia Cultural Centre to celebrate the project and our wonderful community.

18/12/2024

Hi everyone, I still have a lot of lovely artwork to be collected. You might like to have it on display at home for Christmas! I will keep it safe until you can come and collect, but I'm open every day now until Christmas, and late this Friday until 7pm which might help. Also a reminder the gallery has moved around the corner next to Dudleys's Restaurant!

24/09/2024

It's been lovely to see everyone again as they come to collect their artworks.

We are doing the big move on Friday and Saturday so if you're free to pop in to collect your work that would be great (fewer things to move into the new gallery!). If you have 10 minutes to carry a box around the corner into the new space that would be even more amazing! Lots of people have offered to help me move so if I'm doing what I don't normally do and saying yes please!

If you can't make it this week I'll take care of your work until I see you again. Emma

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14/09/2024

Collection of community artworks! Today and tomorrow 2-4pm at Emma Jennings Gallery Olinda.

13/09/2024

Thank you for being part of our Stories of Giants creative recovery project! All 150 community works are back at Emma Jennings Gallery in Olinda, ready to be collected. You can visit this Saturday or Sunday 2-4pm or midweek (times TBC). There's no hurry, they will be safe there until you can make it.