If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased. - Katherine Hepburn
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ARTCLOTH: Engaging New Visions
Curated: MARIE-THERESE WISNIOWSKI
Opened at the Fairfield City Museum and Gallery in August 2009 and is currently traveling in Australia with venues in the planning stages for the United States and the UK
The ArtCloth movement is gaining significant momentum in England, Europe, Asia, New Zealand, Australia and North America. This inaugural international ArtCloth exhibition featuring print and mixed media works introduced leading practitioners in this new artistic movement to Australian art practitioners, academics, art critics and the wider arts audience.
Director's Introduction, Curator's Talk, Opening Address
The exhibition includes:
Laura Beehler, USA * Claire Benn, Englan * Regina Benson, USA * Jane Dunnewold, USA * Susan Fell-McLean, Australia * Claudia Helmer, Germany * Cas Holmes, England * Ken Kagajo, Japan * Helen Lancaster, Australia Jurate Petruskeviciene, Lithuania * Jeanne Raffer Beck, USA * Julie Ryder, Australia * Joan Schulze, USA Tjariya (Nungalka) Stanley, Australia * Norma Starszakowna, England * Tjunkaya Tapaya, Australia * Annie Trevillian, Australia * Joan Truckenbrod, USA * Jurate Urbiene, Lithuania * Els van Baarle, The Netherlands Marie-Therese Wisniowski, Australia
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Laura Ann Beehler Under Pressure Deconstructed silk screen, painting with thickened dyes, dye wash, mark making with pen, burning, gold leafing on silk broadcloth |
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Claire Benn Breathe Deeply Dry brushing, screen printing, hand printing, scraping employing fiber-reactive MX dye paints and water-based screen inks on silk broadcloth, backed with fusible interfacing |
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Regina Benson lo Rising II Black rayon discharged on snow with soy wax resist and burned |
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Susan Fell Shroud of Ancient Itajime shibori on wool, using clamps, stitched resists and iron scrim. Dyed with leaves of Eucalyptus Melliodora (Yellow Box) |
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Claudia Helmer Die Gedanken Sind Frei 3 Paperlamination from own photographs on polyester, silkscreen, thermofax, matt medium, fabric paint |
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Ken Kagjo Discharge- Discharge using paste, hydrosulfite on velveteen
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Joan Schulze Catch the Light 1 & 2 Photography, digital printing, collage, painting, piecing and stitching on cotton, silk organza |
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Jeanne Raffer Beck Etruscan Relic Silkscreened, monoprinted, hand painted with dyes and textile paints on silk broadcloth |
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Norma Starszakowna Razing/Raising Walls, Warsaw Screen printed pigments, embossed, heat-reactive, applied glaze and patinations on two sections of part digitally printed silk organza substrate
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Jurate Urbiene Quite Alone Oasis... Painted, drawn, discharged, iron stamped crepe-de-chine using natural dyes, cold wax resist and mordants
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Marie-Therese Wisniowski Sequestration of CO2 Handprinted multiple resist and overprinting techniques employing dye sublimation on delustered satin |
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Annie Trevillian Treescape Digital printe with reactive dyes on cotton. Drawing, painting and screenprinting on cardboard |
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Cas Holmes Black Birds Print, paint, dye and stitch. Layering with past. Cold water dyes, acrylics, conservation paper, assorted muslin and cotton fabrics. Wax rubbings, ink on found fabrics and papers |
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Els Van Baarle Nothing is the Same I and II Batik, dyed, silkscreened, discharged, stitch on cotton velvet |
