Continuing with the third afternoon tea party, Powder Room by R4D hosted Rully from Rumantra and his Botanical Line Drawing workshop. An afternoon full of botanical fun and channeling love for plants on paper.
The afternoon tea was paired with teas by Chon Tea, including a Yabukita aracha sencha harvested this spring, blended beautifully with sakura petals that are grown surrounding the tea plantation.
A list of exhibitions and events from our favorite artists and galleries across the island. We will keep updating so the most recent event posters will be at the top so you can check what’s happening right now. For details we suggest heading to the Instagrams of each artist and venue.
Arta Derau’s new art space
Art Moments Bali with DEvFto printmaking institute
The students of Made Griyawan and studio gelombang as part of Ubud Food Festival
Purga ArtSpace (curated by Wicitra Pradnyaratih)
A collaboration between desa and non frasa
ArtNiluh by Niluh Pangestu’s recent workshop at Powder Room by Room4Dessert was an afternoon of creativity and good food.
We’ve been so happy to work with Niluh for many years now, collaborating on Elami boxes, a project for an Uluwatu hotel, and for Toko Elami with her beautiful scarves. She’s an amazing Balinese creative and we can’t wait to see what the future holds for her.
Niluh’s work often delves into the world of Balinese women and mythology and you can easily get lost in the details of her pieces.
A linocut is a relief print produced in a manner similar to a woodcut but that uses linoleum as the surface into which the design is cut and printed from.
She led the 12 people through the process of creating and carving their own linocut pieces and then printing them at Powder Room, a new candy shop by Room4Dessert in Ubud.
The Elami and Co team headed into the far north of Gianyar to visit the brand new Arta Derau Prints. Co-founders and established artists Sekarputi and Agugn have created the space to be an artist’s residency, exhibition gallery, print-making studio and all round creative compound. Such an unusual and much needed vision for the arts in Ubud. Thank you to the team for having us visit! Can’t wait to see what beautiful things start to happen at Arta Derau Prints over the first year.
About the founders
Sekarputi Sidhiawati is a visual artist who focuses on stories about the empowerment of women to give them and herself the drive to continue working. She mainly works with ceramic, a material that represents domesticity and women in general.
She was born in Jakarta in 1986 and completed her formal education at the Faculty of Art and Design ITB-Ceramic Art studio. She is now known as the founder of the studio Arta Derau, while consistently working in the art world. After working in Bandung, in 2018 she moved to Bali to expand her ceramic studio business. With a focus on women-related issues, Puti is a finalist of several fine art awards such as the Soemardja Art Award (2010) and the Bandung Contemporary Art Award 2013. She has joined several prestigious exhibitions include Jakarta Contemporary Ceramic Biennale, National Gallery of Indonesia (2014); Temperature Affect, Museum of Fine Arts and Ceramics Jakarta (2017); Manifesto, National Gallery of Indonesia (2017); Termasuk, Darren Knight Gallery Australia (2018); Southern Constellations: The Poetics of the Non-Aligned, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljublana-Slovenia (2019).
Agugn is a graphic artist who experiments with traditional printing techniques like linocut and woodcut. Since his debut exhibit in 2013, his works have been showcased globally, including NY, Paris, and Tokyo.
Rumantra is hard to introduce, a person with many deep loves and multiple projects always going on. People’s eyes tend to get very big once you introduce him and run through the scope of his activities. We asked our favorite multipotentialite some hard-hitting questions….
Creative Director & Owner at Rumantra, Plant Hoarder at Thousands Bloom, Loyal Servant of Toean Moeda Kanda, Teacher & Founder at Melajah Mandiri (Free Creative Entrepreneurship School for Balinese), Production & Curator at Elami & Co
Musa ‘Little Prince’, the tiniest banana tree in the world!
OMG, it's a species of Pitcher plant (Nephentes rajah). It is a carnivorous plant that is able to eat not only insects, but also lizards, small mammals, and even bats! BUT BUT BUT that's not the craziest part, the craziest part is it has this (allegedly) mutual symbiosis with tree shrew, so this plant produces some sort of nectar and attracts tree shrews and when the shrew consumes it it works as a laxative that forces the shrew to poop right into the pitcher. This plant then digests it, just like a multivitamin. Nonbotanist people named this plant the toilet plant.
Biologist! Go on an adventure to the Amazon rainforest, finding new species, studying plants and animals, maybe finding Eldorado?
I was the weirdo in art class back in school, never getting a good grade because my teacher said it was too weird. Then as my interest in biology developed, I got more and more interested in scientific illustration.
It's a mix of etching, line art and decorative with a drop or two of art nouveau/deco.
Animals, music, cultures & tradition, weird geeky stuff, street food and Beyonce.
I mean there are no crazy new age shitty people here so that's good.
Elami just reeks of creativity which I love, so much room to experiment in creativity like for example decorating a restaurant with moss, live crickets, fish nets, lost flip flops from the beach and LIVE SNAKES!
This office also provides great snacks!
One of our favorite details from Ubud Open Studios was this collaboration between our sponsor RSV Helmets and three studios joining the event.
A different RSV Helmets model was given to Aswino Aji of Sika Gallery, Sekarputi of Arta Derau and Bagus Ari Maruta of Purga Art Space, each with their wildly unique and distinctive styles. They took two weeks to paint the helmets and the final results were amazing. You could even say traffic stopping…
Room4Dessert is ready to launch its newest family member, Powder Room.
Powder Room is the neighborhood candy store, re-imagined. Filled with artisanal candies and sweet treats that bring nostalgia made from local ingredients, healthy alternative sugars and zero added preservatives or ingredients we all can't ever pronounce.
We’re excited to be working with the R4D team again to create a series of afternoon teas featuring Ubud artists, incredible food, and a chance to gather around the long table in the beautiful space that is Powder Room.
The first event is with the creatrix of Arta Derau, Sekarputi.
Spend your Saturday afternoon with us, let your creativity flow drawing the perfect cup design together with Sekarputi from Arta Derau. Powder Room by R4D will be taking care of you afterwards, serving our new lines of best sweets to be paired with the great tisanes from Made Tea.
The 2023 Ubud Open Studios was an incredible honor to put together—70 studios over three days joined to participate in the Studio Showcase at Titik Dua; an Artist Forum including discussions ranging from what it means to be classically trained vs self-taught, to the future of digital art; and two days of studio visits by eager attendees soaking up talks, workshops, and demonstrations.
Our vision for this event was to help revitalize Ubud’s identity as a thriving community of artists, map the incredible creativity taking place in the area and strengthen ties between artists. We hope we succeeded in making that happen. Thank you to all our supporters, partners, and sponsors for helping us produce this event and bring it to life.
“I feel so incredibly fortunate to have been all over Ubud in the past 3 days visiting some amazing artists for the second annual Ubud Open Studios. Not just for the ceramics, painting, sculpture and textiles but also for the wonderful people we met along the way as we weaved through rice paddies and tiny overgrown lanes, discovering places you would never usually gain an insight into... and always welcomed with big beautiful smiles. Thank you Ubud Open Studios - see you next year!”
“It was amazing. You are all rock stars. This felt like a much-needed & exceptionally well-enjoyed event. People should fly in for this. All the art one misses from being in a metropolis exists here but it's behind closed doors, and y'all opened the floodgates. I wish I got to visit more new studios. The ones I enjoyed the most are the ones I've never visited before, a good note to self for next year! Try new things :)”
And our work here is done... Keep an eye on the Ubud Open Studios Instagram for more beautiful shots. Huge thanks to official photographers Arley Mardo, Herry Santosa (photos below), Suki Zoe, and Ade Ardhana.
Ubud is such a vessel for amazing creatives and artists. This year we have over SEVENTY studios joining, up from 52 last year. We can’t wait for the doors to open. See the full lineup with links to each Instagram at Ubud Open Studios.
We’re very happy to be back in the throes of planning the second Ubud Open Studios! This time we have 70+ studios joining the event!
We will also have a special event hub at Titik Dua Hotel where we will also have a Studio Showcase, an opportunity for you to physically walk through the studio directory. Each studio will be represented by a piece so you will be able to see which studios you’d most like to visit. We have our dear friend Summa Durie lending her curatorial skills to the showcase.
This edition we’ve created one day passes and two day passes, as well as a a community sponsor if you’d like to support the event as a whole. If you’d like a printed catalog, please add that to your ticket before you check out.
Threads of Life’s Natural Dye Studio hold regular classes and special workshops by visiting artists. Aboubakar Fofana is an indigo dyer, artist, textile designer, calligrapher and teacher. He is best known for his sublime indigo and mineral mud-dyed textiles. Aboubakar is back for his third time in the Threads of Life Studio and is leading three workshops.
We created the artwork for the 3 classes based on the beautiful colors of the natural dyes, especially the incredible blues of the natural indigo.
Will leave you with some very wise words on the true cost of fashion from Aboubakar Fofana:
In our work with the incredible Uluwatu Surf Villas, we produced different merchandise as part of their Artist Series, collaborations with illustrators and artists from Indonesia and abroad.
The first artist we worked with to transform their artwork from digital to screen-printed fabric was the talented Christina Budi, an Indonesian batik illustrator based in Amsterdam. Christina is known for her modern batik print designs.
Christina received a list of Uluwatu Surf Villa icons like the kingfisher birds, monkeys, local fishing boats, Balinese offerings and temple gates, and the fish that patrol the waves. She also received a color palette of classic batik shades of blue and brown. She then created an incredible design and pattern. We took it from there to create a pattern and make it screen print ready for production.
The second artist we had the honor of working with was Niluh Pangestu, a Balinese artist working with linocut and digital illustration. Niluh offered up icons from several of her recent works to be turned into a series of cards, t-shirts, notebooks and tote bags for the property.
Through the eyes of our talented photographers.
Thank you to Arley Mardo, Herry Santosa, Neyna Rahmadani, Shayna Pitch and Brandon Nadeau of Studio Suka.
Gallery by Arley Mardo:
Galley by Suka Studio:
Gallery by Neyna Rahmadani
Gallery by Herry Santosa:
Ubud Open Studio participants received a printed catalog, a tote bag and a wrist band.
For the printed catalog we were so happy to be supported by the team at Fedrigoni Paper Indonesia. Fedrigoni is a 134-year-old specialty paper company from Italy. We were so happy to be able to incorporate their papers into the printed catalog. The covers were printed with a holographic foil.
For the tote bags, we worked with the team at Pithecanthropus to incorporate different pieces of batik into the tote bags.
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