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15. 16. 17. Eliza-Jane Gilchrist , One Thing Leads Another, 2019 cardboard, gumstrip, ink 2000 x 1250 x 2160mm $5400 Eliza-Jane Gilchrist, Three-sided Capsule, 2023 cardboard, ink, gumstrip, glue 840 x 600 x 500mm $1100 Eliza-Jane Gilchrist, Helianthus, 2023 cardboard, ink, gumstrip, glue 1280 x 550 x 550mm $1900
Exuberance Leonie Andrews | Nichole O’Loughlin | Robby Wright | Nicole Kemp | Di Ellis | Dijanna Cevaal | Philomena Hali | Susie Vickery | Belinda Jessup | Liz Payne | Cathy Jack Coupland | Carolyn Sullivan | Wilma Simmons | Makeda Duong | Liam Benson | Amy Jones | Joy Denise Scott | Aimee Estcourt | Carol Cooke | Sharon Peoples 6 July - 26 August Exuberance Exuberant: 1. Lively, high-spirited. 2. (of a plant) prolific; growing copiously. 3. (of feelings etc) abounding, lavish, effusive. (The Australian concise Oxford Dictionary.) The original concept of this exhibition, Exuberance, was to explore exuberance through colour and how colour is expressed in contemporary hand-stitched artworks. This exhibition brings together a group of 20 Australian embroiderers/stitchers chosen for their exuberant use of hand stitch. The goal was to work independently from a common springboard for highly individualist artwork. There were several prompts by the curators Sharon Peoples and Carol Cooke, from which the artists could begin their long stitching projects. These included colour as an expression of exuberance, exuberant growth of plants and exuberance as a psychological state or emotion. Many artists took up readings based on Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, one of the first influential books to galvanise global environmental movements. This is evidenced in many works by the exhibiting artists and the way in which they carefully balanced the potentially negative with emotional exuberance. Why hand stitching? During the Covid Lockdowns there was a world-wide upsurge in hand crafts made at home. Many online courses sprang up with interest in hand made textiles, and in particular hand embroidery. Capturing what was happening in Australia at the time interested the curators, Carol Cooke and Sharon Peoples. The artists were presented with a number of formal colour exercises, based on the colour wheel. Some artists rejected this notion, yet their reasons were very interesting, and this aspect is explored further in the book, Exuberance; A Stitcher’s Perspective. This book gives a deep understanding of artists’ processes as they worked towards producing final exhibition pieces. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Carol Cooked, Imagine, 2022 Hand embroidery, mixed media, textiles, 950 mm diam, $1500 Carol Cooked, A Little Piece of Me, 2022, Hand embroidery, mixed media, textiles 500 mm diam, $ 700 Carol Cooked, Mourning for Peace, 2023 Hand embroidery, mixed media, textiles, 250 mm diam, $600 Leonie Andrews, My Summer Garden, 2023 Hand embroidery, mixed media, textiles 1025 x 380mm $3000 Amy Jones, Langour, 2023 Hand embroidery, mixed media, textiles, 330 X 300mm NFS Amy Jones, The Path to the Light Through Darkness, 2023 Hand embroidery, mixed media, textiles 330 x 330mm $2000 Amy Jones, Distintegration, 2023 Hand embroidery, mixed media, textiles 280 x 280mm $2000
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