Category Archives: environment

‘Earth Repair’ – 3 Years Later

2014 3 years 3 months after the emergency while living outside wrapped around the Indian plum I brought the 3 afternoon tea cloths inside.  They were carefully washed, dried and ironed. I was hoping the laundering had stopped the decay processes. There is much staining and decay and large holes had appeared. How to preserve this […]

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Body of Work: ‘Succession’

‘Succession‘ 96″h x 60″w x 36″d / 244 cm h x 152 cm w x 92 cm d. Materials: cotton, wool, polyester, nylon, wood. Techniques: strip piecing, couching, knitting. Photographer: Tony Bounsall. ‘Succession‘, detail. Photographer: Tony Bounsall. The well-being of an ecosystem depends on an unbroken cycle of organic processes. This work is knit with […]

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Back to Spring Cleaning

The last bit of machine sewing resulted in a satisfying number of empty spools. I do enjoy using my stash of resources. I sent a swatch sample to the SDA Swatch Collection. It is a piece of bed-sheet that was wrapped around a maple tree for over a year. I stitched it with the colours […]

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2013 SDA Conference

Naiomi Wanjiku Gakunga standing in front of her work in the Russell Hill Rogers Gallery on the Navarro Campus, after giving a moving presentation about her life as an artist and the importance of storytelling in her culture and her work. In the same gallery Michael James had a solo exhibition,’Organising Nature`.This work is titled […]

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Joshua Creek Heritage Art Centre

The Joshua Creek Gallery housed the World of Threads Festival exhibition De rerum natura ( On The Nature of Things). The festival curator, Gareth Bate, looked at all of the work submitted then decided on groupings and themes. He “observed that environmental work is the most dominant theme in contemporary fibre art.”These are some of […]

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