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Posts Tagged ‘textiles’
JOY SMITH : Cubed Landscape
Wool and cotton; woven tapestry (on cardboard cube)
Mostly my tapestries are small, flat and framed — but I could not remove the word ‘cube’ from the theme CITY|COUNTRY. So I have ended up combining both in this piece.
CITY|COUNTRY is a very familiar theme to me; I am often making comparisons as both places have desirable qualities. I am no different to most other people; enjoying the space, calmness and beauty of the country, I also find I need the convenience, stimulation and ‘vibe’ of city life.
Having spent my first 20 years in the country before I moved to the city, I feel I have a foot in both spaces, and each year I have 5 or 6 trips from the city to the country and back. This contrasting vista has influenced me so much that last year I exhibited 35 woven tapestries on this theme.
TIM GRESHAM : Maquette IX
Wool, cotton; woven tapestry
Weaving a tapestry is marking time. My work is about time and rhythm; the designs are inspired by rhythms in architecture, nature, music and sound, and the routine and rhythm of daily life. These rhythms are expressed through the passage of time, which is marked in the progress of the tapestry from the bottom to the top. This is the essence of why I make tapestries - it takes time.
While my designs are largely influenced by architectural patterns and urban living, the subtle use of colour is drawn from natural hues such as those of grasses, lichen and eucalyptus trunks. Although precisely woven, the designs are loosely drawn and along with the natural colour, soften the visual harshness of the city.
Tim Gresham is represented by Gallery 101.
PETA CARLIN : Urban Fabric : Swatch
Bound and boxed photographic swatch printed on cotton rag paper
In the images that compose Urban Fabric lay dormant webs of Harris Tweed in the midst of façades of Melbourne’s mid-twentieth century corporate architecture, recalling architecture’s purported textile origins. Through the photographic capturing of the buildings’ likenesses, and removal from their streetscapes and surrounds, their physiognomic features gain prominence and the patternation of their weave becomes distinguishable, summoning the Hebridean check to the light; each, the building type and the tweed renowned for their endless variation and its repetition.
Photographic images, mobile surface renditions, interweave between city and country, between the Outer Hebrides and Melbourne, as we ourselves routinely weave through the city streets we inhabit; collecting its traces like threads, its fabric both clothing us and enclosing us, latent images revealing amidst the everyday, the unplumbed richness of place through surface association and connection.
Presented here as a tailor’s swatch, Urban Fabric: Swatch exists as a maquette for a forthcoming project – the labels’ fields pertain to textiles while their measures are architectural. Shifts between scales, movements between locales, translations between media, variation in application, weaving in between, all the while dressing.
JENNIFER BARTHOLOMEW : Goat Sketch ‘Stella’
Cotton and silk thread on cotton work glove
A number of threads run through my practice – work in ceramics, textiles, with found objects, and sculptural installation. I also work between spaces: a city house and studio, a place in the country, and on the road.
The strand most clearly reflecting this creative mobility within my practice has been the reworking of found or gifted gloves. Here, I’ve recently focused on the glove as a support for embroidery, constructing a narrative moment from the intersection of stitched image and the worn fabric of the glove.
This work uses gloves saved from a neighbour’s farm, which now carry embroidered portraits of their goats. In this context I see the work of embroidery in a similar way to sketching, aiming for an immediacy of image and stitch, rather than formal regularity – a kind of field work. It’s work which emphasises the honest variability of a craft approach to making – like the goat’s cheese made on the farm.
As I travel up and down the Calder Freeway, stitching away in the passenger seat, the delicate produce from the ‘Holy Goats’ travels the same road into the city to the ever popular farmers markets, where city briefly meets country on Saturday mornings.
SATELLITE EXHIBITIONS: Melbourne
Anita Cummins’ Pompoms
Bio-accessory by Brittany Veitch and Ben Landau
PANTONE POMPOM
by Anita Cummins
Dates: Tuesday 30 June – Saturday 22 August
Venue: Mailbox 141, Entrance 141-143 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
Explores the relationship between colour, landscape and urban topography.
Anita Cummins is a Melbourne based textile artist. She graduated from the University of Melbourne in 2006 with a Bachelor of Arts and a Diploma of Creative Arts. Having exhibited in a number of group shows, Anita is making her debut as an independent artist with her installation Pantone PomPom. Anita is an obsessive knitter and maker of pom-poms and has recently launched a commercial range of handmade scarves under her own name.
BIO-ACCESSORIES
by Brittany Veitch and Ben Landau
Dates: Sunday 2 – Sunday 30 August
Artist talk: Saturday 8 August, 2pm @ City Library Seminar Room
Venue: City Library Niches, 253 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
Living in the city isolates us from the natural world. Built environments are barriers to greenery, fresh air, sea breezes and sunlight. Skyscrapers soar above us instead of trees, while laneway stench emanates from the city grid. Bio-accessories is a series of wearable couture pieces which mask the unpleasant sights, sounds and scents of the city in an attempt to bring some of the natural world back into civil living.
Each work in Bio-accessories incorporates a living organism to accompany the wearer throughout their day, creating a symbiotic relationship. The human tends to the animal or plant, which reciprocates by bringing fresh air, light, greenery, privacy or birdsong to the wearer. The pieces are representative of mobile natural environments, framed within a fashionable alternative the couture accessory. With a trend towards boutique individuality, Bio-accessories provide an unusual take on the wearable garment.
Bio-accessories is an experimental speculation of responsive, functional, fashionable and emotional craft within a city living context.
Ben Landau recently graduated from Industrial Design at RMIT, where his focus was on interactive, exhibition, experience and theatre design. He is currently a freelance designer, working at Melbourne Museums MV studios and tutoring at RMIT. Bens interests stem from speculative and experimental designs which examine the way people interact with each other and their environment. Ben hopes to travel, learn every day, design valuable experiences for users/audiences and continue to work with creative companies of various disciplines, in Australia and abroad.
Brittany Veitch is a Melbourne based felt and soft sculpture artist. In late 2007, Brittany created The Vibrant City to incubate ideas and give a home to an ever-increasing collection of hand-sewn curios. Brittany makes designer hand-sewn toys and soft sculpture, influenced by macabre and kooky humour using handmade felt and vintage fabrics. A self-taught textile enthusiast, Brittanys interest in working with natural fibres stems from her family’s Alpaca farm. As a trained Industrial Designer (BA Design, Industrial Design, RMIT University, 2007), Brittany is a Toymaker at heart, with a love for all things fabric, the tragically cute and Cribbage.
SATELLITE EXHIBITIONS: Castlemaine
Cascade Print Workshop
Printing at the Cascade Print Workshop
Vintage Rings by Gretchen Hillhouse
BETWEEN THE PAGES
by Rhyll Plant, David Frazer, Jeff Gardner, Jane Rusden, Lydia Poljak, Diana Orinda Burns, and John Pollard.
Dates: Saturday 1 August – Saturday 17 October
Times: Fri-Sat 10am-6pm and by appointment
Venue: Cascade Print Workshop, 482 Bendigo Road, Porcupine Flat/Maldon
Workshop bookings: 03 5475 1085
This is a rare opportunity to see the mechanics of a print studio come to life with the artists at work. In the making there will be limited edition Artists Books and prints in production by Jane Rusden and Jeff Gardner. Rhyll Plant will be working with students creating Ex Libris bookplates and wood engraved bookmarks. There will be other Artist made books, prints and bookplates on display including the plates and wood blocks.
Cascade Print Workshop special events:
MEET THE ARTISTS AND PRINTMAKING DEMONSTRATION
Date: Saturday 1 August, 2-5pm
A souvenir CPW wood engraving will be designed by Rhyll Plant and printed and given away free on the day.
Cost: Free
BEGINNERS PRINT WORKSHOP: DRY POINT/ETCHING
with Jeff Gardner
Date: Wednesday 5 August
Cost: $140 materials included
TWO COLOUR PLATE PRINT WORKSHOP: DRY POINT/ETCHING
with Jeff Gardner
Dates: Saturday 8 – Sunday 9 August
Cost: $280 materials included
EX LIBRIS – AN INTRODUCTION TO RELIEF PRINTMAKING TECHNIQUES
with Rhyll Plant
Dates: Thursday 13 August or Saturday 15 August
Cost: $140 material included
THE DRESSMAKER’S QUILT
by Georgina Duckett
Dates: Saturday 1 August – Sunday 30 August
Times: Wed-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 10.30am-4pm
Venue: 74 Mostyn Street, Castlemaine
Contemporary art works which refashion the craft of the quilt and the tradition of dressmaking.
THE ENLIGHTENMENT NEVER HAPPENED
by Kerry Cannon, Noah Grosz and Craig McDonald
Dates: Saturday 1 August – Sunday 30 August
Times: Mon-Fri 10am-5pm, weekends 12-5pm
Venue: Castlemaine Art Gallery, 14 Lyttleton Street, Castlemaine.
Cost: $4 / $3 Concession
Draws on ideas from the Age of Reason and asks, “What happened to…” Featuring bronze sculpture with some drawings and paintings.
Special event: Garage Art Foundry tour with Craig McDonald
Date: Saturday 8 August, 1-2pm
Venue: 7 Wright Street, Elphinstone
An artisan’s view on the alchemy of metal casting. See inside a Central Victorian foundry that specialises in casting and fabricating Bronze sculpture.
LISTEN WITH YOUR EYES
by Ashley Mariani
Dates: Wednesday 5 – Wednesday 26 August
Times: Mon-Wed 10-6pm, Thu 10-7pm, Fri 10-6pm, Sat 9.30am-12.30pm
Venue: Phee Broadway Theatre Foyer, Mechanics Lane, Castlemaine
A series of cross stitches exploring music and memory.
A SENSE OF PLACE
Dates: Monday 3 August – Sunday 30 August
Times: Daily 9am-5pm, with ‘Artists @ Work’ each weekend
Venue: Market Building, Mostyn Street, Castlemaine
Dates: Weekends 15 – 16 August and 22 – 23 August
Times: Sat-Sun 10am-4pm
Venue: Lot 19 Gallery, Langslow Street, Castlemaine
Held across two venues, this group exhibition is by practitioners whose sense of place within Central Victoria is an important element in their work.
SOPHISTRY
by Gretchen Hillhouse
Dates: Wednesday 12 August – Saturday 12 September
Times: Wed-Sat 12-5pm, Sun 10-5pm
Venue: Buda Historic Home and Garden, 42 Hunter Street, Castlemaine
Sophistry: the art of clever and subtle but misleading reasoning is teasingly explored in this new body of contemporary jewellery featuring finely crafted porcelain, the signature material of this award-winning design practice. Playing with concepts of scale, illusion and artifice the work continues an investigation into representations of the contemporary feminine in all its guises and examines the subtle interplay of the urban and the organic.
OPEN STUDIOS: Plant Craft Cottage
Dates: Wednesdays 5 August and 2 September, 11.30am-2.30pm
Venue: Plant Craft Cottage, Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne. Enter from H Gate, Alexandra Avenue, proceed about 20 metres then turn right, up driveway.
Watch demonstrations by the Natural Dye Group, including a Eucalyptus time series.
I’LL SHOW YOU MY CRAFT IF YOU SHOW ME YOURS
Dylan Martorell and Sunday Morning Designs
Ellie Mücke and John Hall
Acollaborative series of projects designed to bring together people from different crafts to share processes, materials, and ideas.
Dates: Monday 27 July – Saturday 22 August
Venue: Craft Victoria, enCOUNTER and Gallery 3, 31 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
A prototype of a multipurpose portable shelter made in response to Melbourne’s housing shortages and skyrocketing rents.
Plans for the shelter include; an exhibition/performance space, a children’s playhouse and a pop-up shop. Artist Dylan Martorell will build a sonic garden inside the shelter consisting of fungi, water plants and field recordings. Sunday Morning Designs have created a multipurpose waterproof textile that will function as a canopy for the structure. The textile, made up of patchworked re-used market bags and tarpaulins, will also be used to create different domestic products inside the space such as lamps and cushions, providing a further sense of comfort and protection from the outside elements.
Dates: Monday 24 August – Saturday 12 September
Venue: Craft Victoria, enCOUNTER and Gallery 3, 31 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
Objects, garments and accessories made exclusively of things gleaned from the kitchen’s mouldy corners and dusty fourth drawer.
Clothing designer Ellie Mücke creates with a focus on more inclusive systems, whose highly considered approach often results in outcomes that stimulate discussion and encourage creative thinking. Metalsmith John Hall’s formal training in jewellery and years working in the manual crafts, whilst maintaining his own creative pursuits, have given him a vast multidisciplinary technical understanding. Together, these two makers with contrasting material knowledge have found common ground in the kitchen, exploring ways to transform the everyday object.
CRAFT TO CONSUMER
Rose Street Artists Market
Georgie Love website
Date: Monday 31 August, 6-7.30pm
Venue: Craft Victoria library, 31 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
Bookings: 03 9650 7775
Cost: $20 / $10 Craft Victoria Members
An information session outlining the basics of selling your work at a market, through a retailer and online.
Speakers include:
Adam Ferrante Project Director, Rose Street Artists Market
Rebecca Jobson Retail and Sector Development Manager, Craft Victoria
Sally Morrigan Director, Georgie Love
