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About Cloth

08.16

Frankston Art Centre

 

“Female Ancestry – A life of the cloth”, symbolically interprets and addresses questions of identity, capturing the dynamic interaction of body, dress and woven fabrics, acknowledging the embodied nature of craft and creating an individual vision of the self. A cloth as a cultural artefact and aesthetic code is here to dress an identity.

 

Fabrics and women’s handcrafts are a working library where patterns and threading are visual metaphors imbuing a process to reveal the image we hold about ourselves. They are also tools for developing a plot for a story and for narratives of identity. Meanings are not necessarily fixed or shared with the link between the intention of the weaver and the interpretations of the observer; meanings are far from straightforward.

 

On Weaving

February 2015, art@wintergarden gallery

 

“On weaving”, the exhibition explores a rich variety of recycled materials and found objects, merging the dualities of craft and abstraction, domestic and high art, the traditional, and the contemporary, through painting and mixed media.

 

This artwork is a tribute to richness, variety, and significant underlying concepts of female artists who have concisely utilised domestic handcrafts."

Knowing and Belonging

November 2013, art@wintergarden gallery

 

“Many migrant journeys are relatable but also diverse. The resemblance is in what we leave behind and how we struggle to begin anew. The variation is how we carry on our lives based on “the known”. Everyone chooses how and where to “belong”. It is a thread that we weave through our “memories” and “the knowing” of where we have come from, that assists us in making a new beginning.

 

The exhibition explores the visual form of the body as a language of emotions and experiences that come and go and shape an identity, ranging from joy to sadness, from gain to loss.

Somewhere between; the identity transformation

Feb 2012, art@wintergarden gallery

 

Somewhere between; the identity transformation, inspired by landscapes from Echuca. The artwork considers the pursuit for identity as an endless inward and outward creative process. The landscape is a vehicle for discussing identity and identity transformation.

Why Some Birds Sing and Some Do Not...

May 2012, art@wintergarden gallery

 

There are birds that laugh, birds that talk,

birds that are quiet and

there are birds that listen and wait.

The most beautiful birds are the ones that roam

because wandering inspires hope.

 

The collection of work was inspired by artists with disabilities. This artwork reveals the possibilities how to reverse power relations and how imagination and silent connections are built.

Jan-feb 2011

Fresh: Emerging Artists

Metropolis Gallery, Geelong

 

May 2011

Convent Chillout Show

The Convent, Daylesford

 

A series of evocative paintings portray the profound connection between nature and female: The tall and beautiful tree is a metaphor for the female form. From here emerges the common fate – the tree, rock, hill or mountain and women evoke counterparts in each other – what happens to one, happens to the other.