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SELWYN TIMES Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />
Wednesday <strong>May</strong> 9 <strong>2018</strong> 9<br />
across NZ with wearable art<br />
Do you have a favourite<br />
fashion designer/artist?<br />
I love David Lloyd’s work.<br />
He works a lot with copper<br />
and different metals. I love it,<br />
it is cool, quirky. He lives in<br />
Southbridge and his partner<br />
Blanche Fryer who works a<br />
lot with clay and ceramic. She<br />
makes awesome stuff as well,<br />
they are such a talented couple.<br />
They are on the committee at the<br />
Lakeside Gallery.<br />
Do you have any significant<br />
childhood memories that<br />
inspired you to go down an<br />
artistic line of work?<br />
I have always been creative<br />
right from a young age. Luckily,<br />
I worked at Ashford Handicrafts<br />
Ltd for about 13 years. Having<br />
worked there for 13 years, I<br />
learned to spin, weave, felt<br />
everything textile. I started<br />
there after school when I was<br />
13. I went full-time when I left<br />
school. I would be going to work<br />
everyday to learn the product<br />
because obviously they make<br />
spinning wheels and weaving<br />
looms to send all around the<br />
world.<br />
What happened in your<br />
career between the time you<br />
were working at Ashford<br />
Handicrafts Ltd and setting up<br />
your business Dreaded Yarn?<br />
RETRO: Loretta Sloan’s garments, which she made from 2169 bottle tops, were showcased in<br />
the World of Wearable Art show.<br />
PHOTO: WORLD OF WEARABLE ART<br />
I had a bar and restaurant<br />
in Leeston. I used to have<br />
Armadillo’s Bar & Restaurant.<br />
Hillyers is now in the building<br />
there. Now I have got two<br />
children and we own a business<br />
in Leeston – Ellesmere Motor<br />
Bodies, which is a panel and<br />
paint business. I help out with<br />
the administration. I used to<br />
teach a lot when I was younger.<br />
That is my ultimate goal – to<br />
teach workshops, share the<br />
knowledge and do more<br />
exhibitions and commissioned<br />
work. I do exhibits, I do sell<br />
some of my work, but I really<br />
enjoy teaching people and<br />
doing workshops and getting<br />
other people to feel what I<br />
feel when I am creating. I<br />
think it is important to share<br />
information with others. You<br />
get some people who don’t want<br />
to share knowledge. I think it<br />
is important to give others the<br />
opportunity to learn something<br />
new.<br />
Is there a growing interest<br />
in <strong>Selwyn</strong> to learn more about<br />
wearable arts?<br />
It is growing. Kim Strange<br />
started the Art Couture NZ’s<br />
wearable arts competition show<br />
in Tai Tapu last year. I was one<br />
of the judges there. It went really<br />
well. It was good for the area and<br />
it gives people the opportunity to<br />
get involved and be creative. I am<br />
there as a judge again this year.<br />
If I have a garment back in time,<br />
I will have last year’s garment on<br />
display at the competition.<br />
•Dreaded Yarn workshops<br />
will run from July onwards.<br />
For more information,<br />
call 021 138 9300, or<br />
go to Dreaded Yarn’s<br />
Facebook page at https://<br />
www.facebook.com/<br />
dreadedyarn/?ref=br_rs<br />
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