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