E-mail: athena.harrisingall@unswalumni.com
I come from a family of makers and made my first quilt at age 8 years. I was permanently changed when at age seven, my grandfather showed me the beautiful prints achieved by leaving a pair of discarded leather riding gaiters and a canvas water bag covered with eucalyptus leaves under old steel and water pipes under a tree near the old homestead. I now use eco-printing and botanical dying techniques and often incorporates shibori techniques into my pieces. My quilt art practice is focused on creating textile memoryscapes – pieces that recall and preserve memories of an environment, a place, a feeling, an idea or a person.
Glimmers of Warmth and Wonder
Retail Price: A$1000
Dimensions: 150 x 57 cm (H x W)
Statement: This textile memoryscape quilt was made to recall and preserve memories of the seemingly never-ending impact of acts of kindness on people. Transformative traces of these glimmers are reflected in the marks and circle of life on the work and representations of nature, nurture and home
Photographer: James Rhodes
