Baltic Miniatures

I went to the Redland Art Gallery for a floor talk and to see the Baltic Miniatures exhibition.

These are a few of my favourites .

Metal roofs and slightly stuffed houses.

By Sue Stone

To weave or not to weave.

I love the presentation on this piece. Wrapped around a piece of pine

Monogami

 This is a piece that is using some of the monogami paper made at ATASDA Qld earlier in the month. I ran the mini workshop and it was so rewarding as everyone was enthusiastically scrunching their papers with hopefully some thoughts of what they could do with the papers and extending the techniques further into their own arts practise.

Papers on a piece of ecodyed cotton with a piece of dyed tea bag and some monoprinting. 

Folk embroidery

 I designed this wee wallaby to stitch for the textileartist.org workshop with Saima Kaur , inspired by Indian folkloric textiles. Bright, bright and more brights.

I am going to add a tree and a pathway or maybe a snake leading to a house or maybe a rock. I have a wall hanging I purchased in India in 1983. It has a camel next to a tree with a pathway leading to a house. So this piece will be inspired by that. An Australian version. Will he have some friends or a big bright Aussie sun? I used 6 strands of thread so the stitching filled in quite quickly. Should have damp stretched the background .

and some more added

I have added a shisha mirror in the sun three wee noisy mynah birds and actually turned the snake shape into a snake. 

Once not so very long ago a wallaby, a snake and three noisy mynah birds headed off to explore what was beyond . 

Blue and White

 This dress started life in France. It is a vintage night gown I think as the fabric in the top half is a little like a flannel on the inside, furry. The bottom half has a beautiful weave. While it was originally white I felt like a hospital patient in it. So some shibori style stitching in squares or rectangles and into the indigo pot. Perfection. 

And the sky today. The elephant parade across the sky.