OTHER PROJECTS

COMPASSIONATE VOICES. 2015
Curator 'Voiceless' at Koskela. 

HERE AND NOW. 2013
Curator. ‘In 2013 Carriageworks presents HERE AND NOW, a series of three projects curated by Liane Rossler. HERE AND NOW offers new commissions and limited edition works by Australian artists and designers. The spirit of HERE AND NOW is artist-driven and experimental. Each of the projects engage a wide variety of artists, designers and materials, and are presented in the three concepts USEFUL, TOTES and LUCKY. 

ART MONTH SYDNEY. 2011 TO 2014
Creative Director, Artistic Director Mentor and panel speaker 2011 to 2014.
Artistic Director Mentor 2013.
Panel speaker 2012 and 2013 and 2014.
Creative Director of The Art Month Art Adventure. 2011.

‘Running for the month of March 2011, Art Month Sydney is hosted by more than 80 participating galleries and venues throughout Sydney, and featured more than 120 exhibitions. Art Month Sydney made contemporary art a family affair with The Art Adventure: a family and children’s guide to Art Month, featuring drawing and observational activities designed by 20 leading artists’.

HAPPY TALK. 2011
‘The Happy Talk project was launched by Liane Rossler and Heidi Dokulil at Art & About, Sydney. Happy Talk is an initiative to open up conversations between the creative industry and the wider community in Australia and beyond. Through exhibitions, workshops, talks, publishing and small, collaborative, grass roots projects, Happy Talk is about bringing people and ideas together to create a platform for inspiring, resourceful, ecological, self-sufficient and transformative design’.

During the Happy Talk project for Art & About, a pavilion was built in Hyde Park, made from local and recycled materials. Workshops and talks were held over the month, inspired by resourcefulness and Pacific Island traditional techniques with contemporary materials and uses.

In 2014, the Happy Talk commissioned work made by the Goroka Bilum Weavers was exhibited at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

GREENUPS. 2009 TO 2013
Co-founder and organizer.
‘GreenUps is an informal monthly drinks night that helps support the creative, inspired and lively community of people who are already immersed in or curious about sustainability. ‘Our aim is to help take sustainability to the mainstream by providing a free, fun and informal space for ideas, connections and inspiration. Green drinking for inspired green thinking’. Themes have included film, design, art, cycling, food, travel, and business. GreenUps is part of Green Drinks International, which happens in more than 45 countries and 448 cities around the world’. 

KNITTY GRITTY LOOPY. 2009 TO 2011
Co-founder and collaborator.
‘We art and craft...knit, crochet, weave, felt and make all sorts of things to try and help make the world a nicer place’.
Knitty Gritty Loopy meet up regularly to share knitting/weaving/crafting skills, working on different art projects as they pop up. Projects include the Knitta Please Project at The National Gallery of Canberra, where the facade of the building was covered in knitting. To highlight the possibility and recycling of plastic, they started making ‘plarn’ (plastic yarn) baskets from plastic bags for the 350 International Day of Climate Action in Sydney. A series of workshops for the public ensued, and people came along to plarn, knit, weave and crochet recycled containers for an exhibition held at The Sydney Opera House’.

WE CRAFT THIS CITY. OBJECT GALLERY. 2010
Exhibition of works with Knitty Gritty & Loopy and a week of workshops. “Object Gallery will become a live workshop and making space occupied by creative individuals and collectives. We Craft This City is a celebration of DIY culture, weaving together craft process and social commentary’.

CRAFTERNOON
With Object Gallery and Art and About Sydney, a Knitty Gritty Loopy Crafternoon in Hyde Park.
Sydney Design: Transformation exhibition and workshops.
‘Knitty Gritty Loopy presents a series of workshops that use design to transform everyday waste items into by-products of love. Instead of ending up as landfill, ‘unwanted’ material is re-invented as a giant fabric mandala, fans, jewellery and baskets. If you can imagine it, then Knitty Gritty Loopy can probably show you how to make it. The workshops also function as an ongoing installation to encourage waste awareness by telling the story of where things come from and where they go. Discover what’s involved in the creation of everyday items such as paper, magazines, eggshells, plastic containers and bags. Then find out what happens to them when they are discarded as waste. By inspiring and educating while instilling positivity through action, Knitty Gritty Loopy increase your fun levels by reducing your carbon footprint. The series of workshops will eventuate into an exhibition at the Hill Street Precinct where a large woven cane house will be used as the central storytelling feature of the project’.

CARRIAGEWORKS CRAFTERNOON
Knitty Gritty Loopy workshop at Carriageworks, teaching and skill sharing.

SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE 350. 2009
Series of public workshops and exhibition at the Sydney Opera House for 350.

DESIGN EMERGENCY. VIVID AND OBJECT GALLERY 2012
Designer. ‘Presented at Vivid Ideas Exchange at Vivid Sydney, Design Emergency is a learning program developed by Object: Australian Centre for Design that connects designers with students and teachers, and uses ‘design thinking’ to generate opportunities for positive change. Design is not only about making things: it can change the way people behave. By approaching situations in their world through design thinking, students learn to identify issues and take action towards solving them and in doing so, create visions for a better future.’

THE CLIMATE PROJECT. 2007 TO PRESENT
‘Originally trained by Al Gore in 2007 and again at the Climate Project Asia Pacific Summit in 2009. Liane has been a Climate Project Ambassador specializing in giving talks to the art, design and architecture community, informing people about climate change and what they can do to make a difference. The Climate Project is an Al Gore and Australian Conservation Foundation initiative’.

DINOSAUR DESIGNS. 1985 TO 2010
Co-founder of the company in 1985, and designer and director for 25 years. Established stand alone stores in Sydney, Melbourne and New York and sold through stores worldwide. Works exhibited in numerous galleries and museums throughout Australia and internationally.