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New rust series
I’ve nearly finished four small pieces which will be wrapped around 30cm canvases for hanging in the MELD exhibition (Hidden Revealed Transformed see http://meldarts.wordpress.com) Can’t show them here because they’ll need to be kept unpublished but here’s a detail….
Displacement activity
My last post was headed “Panic sets in”. So did you think that this next post would be a focussed presentation of a work for the MELD exhibition? How naive! I’m a member of a Perth-based group called Designing Women. … Continue reading
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Another cushion
While I was on a roll, I took a framed embroidery by my mother apart. The embroidered birds on linen cried out for a new life. So I made another cushion!!
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Cushions
My mother was unhappy with the standard of her piece of Jacobean embroidery so I took it from its inevitable demise into the bin. Using fabric left over from my curtains (my curtain maker, Metro Curtains in Morley, knows … Continue reading
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Post Exhibition me
The WAFTA exhibition, Mysterium, opened last night. I was so relieved that it went superbly well. I should not have worried. The exhibition committee headed by Di Binns had it all under control and I only heard good feedback on both … Continue reading
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Notan notes
My fellow MELD member Liz alerted me to the idea of Notan exercises and their value in learning more about composition. Then another MELD member, Julie, gave us all a pad of black art paper. There were no more excuses … Continue reading
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Collateral damage
Only one more day to finish my Mysterium piece and these were my fingers last night!
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Contemporary Fashion 2
Yesterday I went to the third lecture of the Contemporary Fashion course at ECU. I’ve blogged at http://meldarts.wordpress.com Parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus : The mountain laboured and gave birth to a ridiculous mouse (Horace, 65-8BC)
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Trudi and Helena Pollard organised with Rose from Gwendoline Grace and Gatsby at http://www.ggghats.com.au/profile.php to present a workshop on making stiffened silk fabric roses today. We all had a ball. Thanks Trudi and Helena!! I’ll do better next time….but in the … Continue reading
AnsweRED
The penultimate red piece, AnsweRED, is a variation of traditional log cabin piecing with a central question and peripheral (in more ways than one) answers.
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Horace 