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
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.
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
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.
This is the light shade in my bedroom. What was once an ordinary white shade has been revamped with a length of ribbon with hanging coloured glass beads. Just a bit of PVA glue , some clamps and voila beaute. The beaded ribbon was in a bag of lacey scraps from a fellow Broadstroker , Ali. The ribbon was exactly the right length to go around, truely, nothing leftover and all the way around.
I made this pocket called ‘Lucy Locket’s Pocket’ inspired by reading The Pocket : A Hidden History of Women’s Lives by Barbara Burman and Ariana Fennetaux. Then synchronicity occurred as Tara Axford and Australian artist posted a picture on Instagram of a pocket she had made, also inspired by this book. She called for textile artists to do the same and post a picture of the finished pocket. There have been many beautiful ones posted with the Instagram tag #pocketsofcreation.
It is made from a collaged front on canvas using inks, paper, cutouts and stitch. The ties are perfect and they match the theme well with the image of Little Bo Peep searching for her sheep. This piece was all I had in my haberdashery stash so used up something , or rather converted a found piece into textile art. I thought Lucy Locket would have a wee dolly in her pocket made by her grandma.
These two are not complete yet. Need to take more of the whiteness of the transfer off. Also I am not sure of the cut outs and the line in the square one needs softening, maybe more tree and branch lines
