📅 Saturday 15 August 2026
🕒 12:00pm – 2:00pm
📍 Whale Tail Gallery - 19 Mooloomba Road, Point Lookout
💲 $125
👥 Bookings are essential - places are strictly limited to 5 participants
Held in Blue - an exclusive Straddie Arts Trail experience
Create your own beautiful cyanotype tote bag using botanical materials inspired by the flora of Minjerribah, and discover the magic of printing with sunlight. Guided by artists Renata Buziak and Elisa Jane Carmichael, you'll explore the historic sun-printing process using botanical materials while learning creative techniques, composition, and the stories behind our collaborative exhibition, Held in Blue.
Workshop highlights
Create and take home your own large cyanotype tote bag
Learn the historic sun-printing process of cyanotype
Guided by exhibiting artists Renata Buziak and Elisa Jane Carmichael
All materials and equipment supplied
Small group experience – maximum 5 participants
Suitable for beginners (15+) - no experience necessary
Meet the Artists
Renata Buziak - biochrome artist
Renata Buziak is a biochrome artist, researcher, and educator working at the intersection of art and science with a focus on plant life. Her biochrome process merges her passions for nature and photography by blending traditional photographic techniques with organic matter, producing striking visual pieces that enhance well-being.
Renata holds a PhD in Visual Art from Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, where she has also taught. Her doctoral research explored Minjerriba’s healing plants with the Quandamooka community. Recently, she was the inaugural artist-in-residence at Binna Burra Cultural Landscape, focusing on Gondwanan lineage plants.
Renata’s biochromes have been showcased nationally and internationally, received awards, featured on ABC TV Gardening Australia, and are in public and private collections.
Elisa Jane Carmichael - cyanotype artist
Elisa Jane Carmichael is a Ngugi woman belonging to the Quandamooka people (Moreton Island / Mulgumpin and North Stradbroke Island / Minjerribah, Queensland). Her practice draws on Ancestral knowledge, matrilineal connections, memories of place and relationships with Country. She is passionate about shining a light on the cultural brilliance of her Ancestors so that these stories can be kept alive for future generations.
Elisa has a Bachelor of Fine Arts, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, and a Master of Fine Arts, Queensland University of Technology. Her work is held in private and public collections across Australia and internationally.
Location
Whale Tail Gallery - 19 Mooloomba Road, Point Lookout