Storytime with Rachel Burke | Fancy Long Legs

Next date: Sunday, 27 July 2025 | 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM

Fancy Long Legs is the story of Fancy, a spider who loves to create but struggles to stay focused on her creative task of web-building. With the support of her spiderling friends, Fancy goes on a beautiful journey of self-discovery to find her own style and make something no one else can. 

Join Brisbane based author and artist Rachel Burke for this very special pop-up reading at RMOA. 

All welcome!

Reading by Rachel Burke, scribble activities and lots of sparkle!

Meet Rachel Burke |

Photo: Nat McComas.

Rachel Burke is a practising multidisciplinary artist, designer, and author based in Brisbane, Australia. Known for her vibrant, tactile wearable artworks and iconic tinsel creations, her work is inspired by a love of naive craft materials and transforming the mundane into the magical. Burke has exhibited her work in many galleries across Australia including Side Gallery, The Museum of Brisbane, Walker Street Gallery, Saint Cloche Gallery, and The Australian Centre of the Moving Image.

She has also published six books: Make It Up (March, 2025), Fancy Long Legs (2024), Craft Roach (2023), Pla Pla: Gather, Make, Play. (2023), Be Dazzling (2018), and Daphne & Daisy (2017).

 

 

 

 

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