Data base re-build

In a few days we wind down the art glass program and start on one of our most important projects for the year, the reconstruction of the data base for the collection. In late 2008 the hard files we had in the 90's had become an excel spreadsheet - great, now time to make something good again. We are working with Carbon Data Solutions (who will also be doing our web design later this year) and have a customised cross referenced system that can be extended and modified as we go along - where we can add sound or HD video, etc. There will be a lot for us to do over a six week period a nd we probably won't get everything finished (but when do you really finish a project like this?) - but the most important thing will be the unprecedented access to the collection for Ngaanyatjarra people. We are planning to take all the paintings currently in the Warburton Collection across to the Tjulyurru Exhibition Space and work our filing there, and for the first time in twenty years it will all be there, laid out for people to see. Visitors will be most welcome and we hope to make a social space as well as a working one; a catalogue of the event will also be produced. All this is exciting for us.

More information on this as it happens (there are lots of details) but for now we are all quietly excited by this project coming up, especially now that we have almost run out of glass stocks and every firing was excellent. The new upgrades on the kiln room have made it light and airy and a nice place to work. It really has never looked so good in there.

Best to all.

gaz.