‘Dualities’ is the brainchild of Ingrid Lincoln. She invited three other artists to join her in expressing this concept: Laura Feeleus, Louise Lamb and me. The four of us are exploring two very different geographical locations – the vast expanse of the Canadian prairies with its continental climate of extremes and native plant cover of […]
Read More...Tony Bounsall – Tony Bounsall Photo Design came to the Green Shed for a photo shoot. Tony has been photographing my work for years because he really knows how to capture textiles. Here he is setting up to photograph Barbara McCaffrey’s large work. I thought this work would be a challenge because it is solid buttons that […]
Read More...Sherley Gordon Edey has invited 7 other artists working in different media to exhibit their work with her photography while exploring the many layers of meaning in the statement ‘Know Your Place’ Sherley presents her work in a wide variety of formats, including video and keeps the viewer looking for the story. Often several different stories […]
Read More...With just a few more things to do in the studio I started the serious cleaning up of construction dust. Mike is preparing the base for the design wall – fibre board and cork… …with a layer of blackout curtain material added on top. The rubberised coating does an excellent job holding the pins. I steamed […]
Read More...The 1st festival exhibition Articulation attended was an independent solo show in Ristorante Julia. Toronto artist, Mafalda Silva, showed Tangled Memories, a body of work about having life changing experiences while staying essentially the same person. She shows this change by observing the natural world. Mafalda stitched small amounts of colour into black and white photographs.
Read More...Day 2 at MISSA in Tony Bounsall’s Altered Imagery class was spent doing terrible things to photographs, beginning with soaking them in water to loosen up the emulsion. Then we scratched, sanded, scribbled, brushed, waxed, sprayed and bleached them.The above image is from day 3 when we were shown how to do gum bichromate printing. […]
Read More...Day 3 at MISSA I started another course. Photographer/designer/artist, Tony Bounsall, offered an irresistible course, ‘Altered Imagery’.Within the 1st hour he had us up on the photocopier rolling our faces over the glass after he had explained it was actually a slit camera. You can imagine the laughter coming form the copier room as 7 […]
Read More...That’s what I call him any way. Tony actually has many skills and talents but I call him a textile photographer because he did such an excellent job making digital images of my work. I had to hunt all over Victoria carrying my work with me visiting a number of different photographer’s studios before I […]
Read More...Here are some close up images of the other half of the dip-tych. This part is called Regression. It just needs the finishing touches and it will be finished. I am now in the process of hunting down a photographer to get professional quality images of the work I have done this past year. I […]
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