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Artist's Statement

My background is in contemporary visual art and design, over time moving across various mediums glass, paint, basketry, papier maché, and finally returning to the craft of stitch.

First learnt as a child at my mothers knee, these many years later, it has become my passion.

My images draw on the past and the present, across cultures, personal visual and spiritual experiences and thoughts.

The very intense sense of place one experiences when standing in solitude and silence in the vast expanse of the Australian outback, the landscape engulfing you …

I use predominantly natural fibres (silk and cotton) as my base fabrics, hand dyeing and painting the blank cloth to create a background on which to work.

The cloth is then enriched with extensive hand stitching, traditional and expressive, (often using hand dyed threads) to create an image with texture, movement, subtle changes in colour and discreet areas of detail for the eye to pause and investigate.

Email: finewoo@bigpond.net.au | Website: www.pamelajtextiles.com

EXHIBITIONS

Juried Exhibitions:

2005 Textile Biennial Townsville Qld“Beyond The Border� Yarrawonga Vic

2004 A Stitch Through Time Hastings & Port Macquarie Regional Art Gallery

“Masqueradeâ€� Darling Downs Quilters   Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery Group

Exhibitions:

I have participated in numerous group exhibitions in NSW since 1996, in particular,

2006     Fibre Artist Network  Mid North Coast (annually since 2001)

2006     The Australian Craft Show (annually since 1996)

2006     Australian Designers & Creators 

Canberra

2005/6  Lovedale Limited Edition (selected artists)

2004     Cotton Fibre Expo (Highly Commended)

September        "Phiz" -Fibre Artist Network  Gladstone NSW

October    Limited Edition  Lovedale

Forthcoming exhibitions in 2006

November     Exclusively Yours (Australian Designers & Creators) Selected Artists Randwick NSW

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