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Title: 'An Hallelujah in Time of Pandemic' (2021). Size: 44cm x 106cm. Price: $750
In Leonard Cohen's famous song, 'Hallelujah', the baffled and wounded King David lifts up to God a 'cold and broken Hallelujah'. The song is a prayer-like incantation, perhaps offering us hope and perseverance in the face of a cruel, (currently COVID pandemic-stricken) world.
Cotton, silk synthetic and hand-dyed fabrics; machine-pieced and hand-quilted; cotton batting and backing.
In Leonard Cohen's famous song, 'Hallelujah', the baffled and wounded King David lifts up to God a 'cold and broken Hallelujah'. The song is a prayer-like incantation, perhaps offering us hope and perseverance in the face of a cruel, (currently COVID pandemic-stricken) world.
Cotton, silk synthetic and hand-dyed fabrics; machine-pieced and hand-quilted; cotton batting and backing.
Title: 'An Hallelujah in Time of Pandemic' (2021) (detail)
"Songs are thoughts, sung with the breath when people are moved by great forces and ordinary speech no longer suffices."
(Orpingalik)
(Orpingalik)
Title: '2020: Everything Disrupted' (2021). Size: 114cm x 132cm Price: $785
The COVID-19 pandemic made a seismic shift to all plans for 2020. This piece uses visual disruption echo the sense od frustration and disappointment which so many of us experienced. Yet... we pulled together as a society to hold and protect the larger picture.
Cotton, silk linen and synthetic fabrics and threads with wool/cotton batting and backing, using hand-dyeing, machine-piecing and hand-quilting.
The COVID-19 pandemic made a seismic shift to all plans for 2020. This piece uses visual disruption echo the sense od frustration and disappointment which so many of us experienced. Yet... we pulled together as a society to hold and protect the larger picture.
Cotton, silk linen and synthetic fabrics and threads with wool/cotton batting and backing, using hand-dyeing, machine-piecing and hand-quilting.
Title: '2020: Everything Disrupted' (2021) (Detail)
"We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey."
Kenji Miyazawa
Kenji Miyazawa
Title: 'When the World Spun Off its Axis' (2020) Size: 101cm x 69cm NFS
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the world reeled daily at the latest news. In this work, a random dish-mash of appliquéd strips (which carry the names of smitten countries and cities, conveys the chances connections which have spread the virus. The appliquéd strips, which twist and turn, are backed with words which convey feelings of fear, frustration and loss as well as admiration for the bravery and endurance of health workers and other heroes.
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the world reeled daily at the latest news. In this work, a random dish-mash of appliquéd strips (which carry the names of smitten countries and cities, conveys the chances connections which have spread the virus. The appliquéd strips, which twist and turn, are backed with words which convey feelings of fear, frustration and loss as well as admiration for the bravery and endurance of health workers and other heroes.
Title: 'When the World Spun Off its Axis' (2020). (Detail)
"All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life."
M C Richards
M C Richards
Title: "This is Not A Dress" Size: 76cm x 120cm POA
Silks, antique Japanese and Indian silks, threads and beads; Machine-pieced, machine and hand-quilted, embellished
Silks, antique Japanese and Indian silks, threads and beads; Machine-pieced, machine and hand-quilted, embellished
Title: "This s not a Dress" (Detail)
Title: "Summer" (2019) Size: 60cm x 84cm. SOLD
Hand-dyed and commercial cottons, silks and synthetics, machine-pieced and hand quilted
Hand-dyed and commercial cottons, silks and synthetics, machine-pieced and hand quilted
Title: "Summer" (Detail)
Title: Blue Diagonal Quilt Size: 60" x 60". NFS
Cottons, machine-pieced and machine-quilted
Cottons, machine-pieced and machine-quilted
Title: “Extrovert / Introvert” (2017) Size: 82cm x 59cm Price: $475
Celebrating the rich, inner landscape of the ‘introvert’ personality, symbolised by the deep colours and jewelled embellishments of the word “Introvert”; a complement to the more colourful “Extrovert”. Hand-dyed, machine stitched, appliqué and beads.
"Know thyself." Inscription at Delphi
“Extrovert / Introvert” (Detail)
Title: “Space Time Warp” Scarf 100cm x 150cm. SOLD
For "GALAXIES" Exhibition at National Wool Museum - silk Shibori scarf, patterned after the Space-Time ’grid’,which we are told characterises the Universe.
“Kyoto: Blossom Floating on a Stream " Size:37cm x 106cm SOLD
"No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place." Zen saying
“Kyoto: Blossom Floating on a Stream” (Detail)
Title: "Blackburn South, Melbourne" (2017) Size: 118 cm x 118cm NFS
This piece put my new home at the centre of a symbolic map of the streets and abundant native vegetation near Blackburn Lake and Gardiner’s Creek.
Hand-dyed fabrics, machine-pieced, hand-quilted and embellished.
Hand-dyed fabrics, machine-pieced, hand-quilted and embellished.
“Blackburn South, Melbourne” (Detail)
Title: “Gemini” Scarf" (2016) SOLD
A ’two-faced’ (double-sided) scarf, consisting of two hand-dyed silk scarfs closely quilted together. Like twins, Back and Front are related, yet different.
Liturgical Stole for Uniting Church minister (Detail)
16 Liturgical Banners for Habitat Uniting Church, Melbourne
Green Banners
Four sets of four Banners in red, green, white and purple for the Liturgical Seasons, in hand-dyed fabrics, machine-pieced, appliquéd
Purple Banner. The Double Helix pattern linked with the Uniting Church flaming Dove represents the creator presence.
Red Banner (Detail)
"Art evokes the mystery, without which the work would not exist."
Magritte
Magritte
