When Shani Nottingham noticed how much bread packaging her family was throwing out, she decided to put them to use. When Australian visual artist and teacher Shani Nottingham noticed how much bread packaging her family was throwing out, she decided to put them to use in her work, to create awareness of the environment and…
Recently I presented a talk to a Regional Arts Organisation, Orana Arts, the topic being… How might mental attitude towards your practice might impact on what professional and creative opportunities you pursue, and how to push through the doubts that all artists have at some point…? Have you seen the thing about the creative process…
During all the Covid lockdowns, the art sector was hit really hard, something that I feel strange complaining about, knowing others had it so much worse than me – I have not wanted to whinge and whine, but just tried to make the best of it. I have never been happier to live in rural…
A funny thing happens to me, often, that leaves me quizzically bemused and pondering. It feels like whenever I start to feel a bit BLEUERGH about what I am doing, creatively, questioning myself, my work, my process, my stuff, the universe sends me a little kicker message, a little positive thing . It is like it…
Part of having a little business means that I sometimes you need to ask for advice or guidance. But I am surrounded by wage earners- not really business people – who have no experience to pass on or firm advice. Compounding this, I live in rural NSW, in relative isolation with a brain that is…
WOOOHOOO!!!!! Look at me Blogging again! Who woulda thunk it!? So here I am, sun outside, a cup of tea by my side, chill music on, family occupied elsewhere, and lockdown happening. It feels good to be bashing out words on the keyboard again, I have missed it LOTS. A bit like exercise or eating…
Jacqui Kidman & Lisa Whiston This week we share an interview with Shani Nottingham, the founder of The Breadtag Project. Shani took a simple everyday item and decided to make art with it. But in a bid to discover more, she found opportunities to do better in education, awareness building, campaigning, activism and closing the…
Shani Nottingham plans to change the world – one bread tag at a time. The collector, teacher, artist, blogger and influencer from the central west NSW town of Cowra is, above everything else, an environmentalist. For her, collecting and the environment go together, mainly, she says, because they have to. Four years ago, after suffering…
The Bread Tag Project started when Shani Nottingham’s boys were hungry and devouring tonnes of bread a week and leaving the bread tags all over the kitchen. Shani’s creative mind naturally took over – and she decided this was going to be her point of difference as an artist. That was almost four years ago…