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I have worked out of a home studio, and live near one of the cleanest of urban beaches. Much inspiration arises from daily walks, from marine themes and its littoral zone. The seas have a huge influence over our entire planet, not the least the urban patch I called home.
Finding some abandoned silks from a 1986 exhibition, the theme of the Antikythera Device has been revisited. The mysteries of this elaborate piece of sophistocated technology from around 80BC have finally been revealed, but who can guess what is yet to be found?
And as yet in progress, new works about ‘urban infill’ are being developed.Blocks with 40 year old homes and huge trees are totally cleared, to make way for multiple dwellings with, sadly, absolutely no room for green things, and no trees.
The beaches on the south coast, part of the Coorong National Park are another developing focus for a new collection.
Aegean Story 1
Retail Price: POA
Dimensions: 89x52cm(H x W)
Statement: Unused preparatory silks from a1986 show are overdyed, then completed with applique and machine embroidery. One imagines a new intelligence laying claim to the shards of lost cultures, including aritfacts of our own. Cephalopods may yet rise to be most intelligent life-forms left on our ever-changing planet.
Photographer: M Kluvanek
Aegean Story 2
Retail Price: POA
Dimensions: 87.5x104cm(H x W)
Statement: Today concerns grow over climate change so much that we forget about what has already been lost. Antikythera revisited: beneath the rising seas of the Aegean, among ancient shards, we have but one example of advanced engineering left from that era.The Nautilus exemplifies the golden ratio, discovered by the Greeks
Photographer: M Kluvanek
Isabel Bennett
Retail Price: POA
Dimensions: 44x44cm(H x W)
Statement: A portrait of reef scientist ‘Issi” Bennett,with the coral Oulophylia bennettae named for he r: a much loved mentor ot afgeneration of GBR researchers. Her 1971 publication ‘The Great Barrier Reef’ completely changed public pereption of our natural wonder.
Exhibitions: Solo Exhibition, Mrs Harris’ Shop Dec 2018
Reef Sea Serpent
Retail Price: A$1000
Dimensions: 120 x 60cm (H x W)
Statement: Whilst the Reef is frequently understood as a magical underwater garden, it is far more like a jungle full of myriad organisms struggling to gain a home and a living. Predators abound, and our ses-serpents are all very clever, very venomous hunters.
Exhibitions: Solo Exhibiton Mrs Harris’ Shop
Charlie’s Enchantment
Retail Price: A$400
Dimensions: 41 x 41cm (H x W)
Statement: Charlie “Grandfather of the Reef”has devoted a life-time to the Reef, and he is shown here with the gorgeous Montipora Capricornis he discovered a named on Llewellyn Reef 1985. Behind this lovely thing a tiny fragment of bleached white lace is an indicator of problems brewing. dyes, applicque, digital embroidery.
Exhibitions: Solo Exhibiton Mrs Harris’ Shop
Emma Camp’s Babies
Retail Price: A$400
Dimensions: 41 x 41cm (H x W)
Statement: Dr Emma Camp is a reef scientist, breeding “Super-corals”: the rare survivors of coral bleaching. These ‘Babies’ are monitored in incubation pots, nestled at one stage within a marble -bath on a super-yatch. Background print was derived from a William Saville-Kent watercolour of 1893.
Exhibitions: Solo Exhibiton Mrs Harris’ Shop
