Immerse yourself in the enchanting world of botanical cyanotype printing. Capture the beauty of local flowers and unleash your creativity in this inspiring hands-on experience.

Katie Alleva is a practicing artist and highly qualified educator living in the Byron Shire. Katie currently teaches printmaking at drawing at TAFE, Murwillumbah. She has exhibited widely across regional Australia and has been the recipient of numerous awards. Her love of cyanotype stems from her early exposure to pinhole photography at age fourteen. Katie loves the immediacy of solar printing. She describes the technique as 'nature's magic,' using the sun's UV rays to expose an impression on paper. Washing the print also holds significance to her, she calls it a 'washing within,' like a cleansing of the spirit. The use of botanicals is influenced by her love of flowers and working as a florist in her early twenties.

www.katiealleva.com.au
www.solarprint.com.au

A moonshine cabaret style theatre & dance. Lady Renee & Melanie Moon come out to play after dark to explore light and shadows in the Art Noir Laneway.

Moving with timeless grace & elegance, The Gatekeepers inspire & uplift as they engage with the space and all who witness their dance…

Relax in velvet chairs of our Art Noir laneway salon and let henna’s magic weave around you. A fresh-made paste from an age-old recipe is bringing the live art experience of henna drawing to our quirky little lanes. While celebrating the diversity and creativity here, take a moment, make a statement - come alone or bring a friend, rest awhile and be adorned.

Founded in 1999 by Oriel Paterson (BA Art History & Anthropology), who leads a team of henna artists at corporate and cultural events. A journey to Morocco in 1996 set her path of henna fascination, but her childhood in East Africa and U.A.E initiated an appreciation of culturally diverse aesthetics and a deep intrigue in our human connection. Oriel’s relationship with the, quite frankly, ritual use of this plant includes, specialising in fresh-mixed, non-toxic henna paste, traditional application and hand-drawn design.