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Our Story
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In Sydney 2004, a founding member was looking for a unique gift for a friend who was living overseas. He came across an overseas website offering a gift of message in a bottle. It caught his attention and imagination but was unable to find a local supplier in Australia. Fast forward to 2006, He decided to build his own message in a bottle. Putting his thoughts into action, Message Bottle came into existence.
The product has to be exclusive and of high quality, a message delivered in the elegance of glass with art. We intend to keep it exclusive by offering each series of designs for a limited time or limit the numbers released. We offer a custom design service, send us your idea for your one-off gift and we will endeavor to deliver.
Most successful projects are completed by more than one person. A quality product requires a team of enthusiastic and motivated people to build. A team was built up in an incredible short space of time. This virtual team of talented people put in their heart and mind to bring you a quality product.
After many months of hard work encountering false starts and overcoming disappointments, we are proud to offer you our first fruits in January 2007.
Message Bottle offers message in a bottle suitable for birthdays, Valentine's Day, anniversaries, invitations, proposals, Mother's Day, Father's Day, and in fact any day ! We try to cater for various budgets and offer numerous add-ons to the basic message-in-a-bottle.
May you enjoy the opportunity to give and may the recipient delight in the thought encapsulated in the gift.
We are always keen to talk to established and budding artists and craftspeople who are interested to take part in this project.
The vision is to have Message bottles produced all over our beautiful world. Bottles with a message of love and hope.
We are however not a charitable organisation but we can work with charitable organisations on a project basis.
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Our Designers
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We have the pleasure to introduce to you the talented artist, Slavka Terlova from the land of Bohemian crystal.
Slavka was born in the Czech Republic and studied glass and porcelain design at the Ceramic Business College. Before applying her talents at Message Bottle in Australia, she worked as an illustrator in a print agency in Germany. During her stint in Germany, Slavka worked in projects ranging from book illustrations to artistic production.
Slavka was involved in the initial creative set up of the project.
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Osnat operates out of her own studio a stone’s throw from Maroubra Beach, Sydney. After graduating with a diploma in fine arts in 1993, she undertook a broad range of artistic pursuits ranging from oil paintings, murals, make up artist and body art, art workshop facilitations for corporate events, and exhibited her many works.
After relocating from Israel to Australia, Osnat started her bachelor degree in fine arts at the National Art School(NAS) in Sydney where she graduated in 2006.
Besides getting her hands and mind busy with works of art, Osnat holds art classes also. If you have a design in mind that you like on or with a bottle, please contact us to bring your idea to life.
Make sure you visit our website often as we will bring you and for your lucky recipient various works of art from Osnat and other talented artists and craftspeople. |
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Amy Ha has always loved doing artistic things - painting, sewing, mosaic, making greeting cards & handmade paper. When she by chance discovered beading 6 years ago, it was "destiny". The colourful world of beads has given her an amazing creative outlet!
Beading started off only as a hobby for Amy. But as time went on, the demand for individually crafted jewellery increased and she quit her engineering career to launch her label "Amya 7" in January 2006.
All Amya 7 products are made with love & care from Amy's studio in Sydney, using high quality glass, crystal & semi-precious beads.
Amy also enjoys doing custom-designs and participating in beading competitions. The challenge gives her the chance to improve her skills & boost her creativity. On top of all that, she runs regular workshops to introduce people to the wonderful world of beading & handcrafted jewellery. |
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Kerrie started her arts at aged 19.
She had travelled around Australia for 8 years, and during
her travels discovered the world of art is an open book!
She has been a sculptor for over 29 years. She restarted her art work on canvas in 2005.
Kerrie has exhibited her works in many exhibitions during the past 9 years.
She was also invited to exhibit at a gallery in Hunter's Hill, Sydney.
Her works have been purchased by people even from far away places(from Australia) as such as Canada, USA, and Iceland.
In 2007, Kerrie has become a team member of the Message bottle project.
She has an "Outside the square" out look in art, and has an incredibly varied style...diverse, use of colors, and designs, themes....
Kerrie can also take your idea and wrap it around a bottle in paint and other materials.
Let us know if you have something in mind and she can cater to that idea taking it from canvas to bottles.
We don't know what Kerrie will come up with next after these collections are
completed, her head is spinning with a fountain of ideas.
She will also be painting unique bottles that will be one offs. You will love her
work, look out for more of her work.
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Stefan von Reiche is a contemporary artist, photographer and writer with a Bachelor of
Arts in Sociology from the University of Auckland New Zealand. Past exhibitions include,
the Ward Nasse Gallery, Soho New York and The Archetype Gallery, Sydney. Other
exhibitions have been held in Samoa, American Samoa and New Zealand. A former
co-ordinator of a group workshop for Contemporary Indigenous Artists at the 7th South
Pacific Festival of Arts, at the MADD Gallery, Samoa. He has represented Samoa, in a
group forum/workshop for Contemporary Indigenous Artists of Oceania & the Pacific,
Rotorua, New Zealand. As a writer, Stefan has a published article in the 1997 edition of
Art Asia Pacific, -titled 'Back to Basics'.
Stefan works in all mediums fusing contemporary with his traditional roots. He is the co-founder of The Archetype Gallery
and is the Director of the Ata Photography studio.
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