‘Domestic Bliss Series’ These are postcard images of another BA(Hons) Julia Caprara School of Textile Arts 2011 graduate – Sass Tetzlaff. Sass told me the images are taken directly from ‘pin-up girl’ posters. She thread painted the images by machine than appliqued them onto pieced backgrounds. The backgrounds are all used men’s shirts and she also incorporated men’s suits […]
Read More...In my degree studies I am exploring the connection between red cells in human blood and chlorophyll in plants.I dyed many different household linens in greens and reds: pillow cases with embroidery, tea towels, bed sheets, napkins, table cloths.I used a Val Campbell-Harding method to randomly strip-piece the different cloths. After one cut and sewing […]
Read More...Once I had dried the cloth and sealed it with a workable fixative, I pinned it to a frame and waited for a windy day. When the wind came I raced outside with a bottle of brown ink and tried dipping Douglas-fir needles then holding up the framed cloth for the inked needles to draw […]
Read More...Another of my projects where I am getting very little interaction is this one where I put a length of unbleached cotton in the pond. It has submerged and moved around a bit, probably been moved by the Canada geese that have returned and use this spot to waddle in and out of the pond. […]
Read More...This semester with my BA (Hons) studies I am taking the Personal Specialism module, which is all about learning how to write a proposal for an art project, 2 of them actually and to show how the art work would change to suit the different sites. My first proposal is for my work to be […]
Read More...When I got back from the UK some work I had produced for my BA(Hons) studies with JC School of Textile Arts, I put it out in the garden. It is a paper version of a men’s suit jacket. Much like the paper possessions sold in Chinese funeral stores, I made a paper suit to […]
Read More...Here is an image of my design wall at an early stage of my Art Deco study. I grouped images according to influences on the movement, illustrations of why it was known as a ‘total’ style, design features, materials and colours. These are some of the influences on the movement. One of the predominant design […]
Read More...One of the unique aspects of the Art Deco Movement is it ‘moved’ all around the world. Here in Victoria, where I live, I found some fine examples of well preserved Art Deco architecture.In 1931 Imperial Oil built a 3 tiered garage on the waterfront inner harbour area of the city and topped it with […]
Read More...A box full of a semester’s worth of Art Deco Movement research has been sent to England to be assessed. Phew! I am looking forward to a month’s break but I thought you might like to see some more highly innovative fashion from the period, courtesy of Richard Martin’s book. This pink silk satin dress […]
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