Title: Textile Palette Exhibition - - A time for stitch
Venue: Esmond Gallery at The Warehouse Clunes Victoria
Date: April 1st - 28th 2023
Website: TEXTILE PALETTE EXHIBITION
The theme for the 2023 exhibition is Time for Stitch. Navigating the changes to our lifestyle due to restrictions placed on us by the COVID pandemic, enduring long periods of isolation and separation, artists are invited to explore how the quiet times affected them. For many stitching became a lifeline to maintaining a sense of ‘normality’, generating a meaningful focus whilst in lockdown and keeping our motivation to create alive.
With this theme in mind, artists can choose to work on ideas connected to their experience during COVID restrictions, socio, political or economic themes that arose during this time or a project that was worked on highlighting the progressive art form of textile art and/or the sheer enjoyment of stitching.
Visually attracted to the play that light, and shade offers, in particular, the rich hues of a dark and moody still life, during the lockdown restrictions throughout the COVID pandemic I spent a lot of quiet time in my studio experimenting with still life subjects using fabric as my colour palette.
House bound, I loved the challenge of ‘making do’ with what threads I had and what was ‘at hand’ in my scrap baskets.
This artwork ‘Autumn Pickings’ is a still life theme I dabbled with throughout that period, playing, testing and experimenting with pieces of fabric bought together, like paint on a brush, to create depth, mood and composition.