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Behind the scenes in Renew studios & offices [22.09.2011]

Renew Newcastle is currently supporting 28 creative projects in 21 properties across the city. Evidence of our flourishing cultural life is easy to see and experience through the activities and events in spaces which are open to the public, like shops and galleries.

But behind the scenes in artist studios and commercial office spaces these creative professionals are developing thriving arts practises and testing creative enterprises in their Renew Newcastle properties. Here’s a snapshot of what they are up to:

Hunter Sustainable Designers + Consultants were profiled in this week’s Living Green section of The Newcastle Herald. Spring has sprung at HSDC, and under a branch of fresh blooming yellow wattle they’ve just opened the doors to their shared office space. Visit at Suite 76, Level 2, Commercial Centre, Market Square, above the Food Court, Hunter St Mall.

Congratulations to the team behind the recently completed stop-motion animation The Cartographer. Renew studio artist Jane Shadbolt (design/direction) and Bill McGuire (visual FX) were each awarded this week at the Australian Production Design Guild Awards. Jane is thrilled with this industry recognition of their 12 minute creation!

Stuart McBratney has filed from Ukraine where he has just completed filming for a new MCBrat TV series he is producing. Back in the Soviet Bloc examines life, food and culture in post-soviet Russia and Ukraine, documenting Newcastle’s Julia Nalivaiko as she revisits the motherland.

Illustrator and printmaker David Hampton is working on more public commissions: a series of artworks to brighten up the underground tunnels at Broadmeadow Railway Station, and a little reverse graffiti design that will be water blasted onto the former railway embankment along King street between Darby Street and the cinema. Keep your eyes peeled for these in the coming months, or you can get interactive with some of David’s distinctive illustration at the Newcastle Museum.