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Deborah Weir, Palos Verdes, California

Website: www.FiberFly.blogspot.com
E-mail: FiberFly@icloud.com

Though entirely contemporary, my artwork references traditional “women’s work.” I use a needle and traditional materials plus edgier ones: Tyvek, metals and upcycled household plastics. My work is detailed, often with detailed, reflective surfaces.

I love the process of making, but my work is always idea driven. I work in series so that I can pursue themes such as the 40,000-15,000 year-old cave paintings of Europe and Australia. Pomegranates, which represent fecundity and come in the most amazing colors, are another. Industrial detritus: rusty metal, bits of plastics and random “junk” sparkle and seduce when repurposed into art and comprise yet another. Language, including early human mark-making, is an ever-present theme.

I continue to probe the nature of our planet. My series Fierce Winds explores the excitement and terror of searing winds which have been exacerbated by sudden climate change. Recently, I began to consider aspects of water: its beauty, scarcity and impact, how the constant quest for usable water controls the lives of countless people. Haida Waters comes from this series. Additionally, I’ve done work about the Garbage Patches (gyres) in our oceans. The objective of my artwork is to awaken the mind of the viewer by means of visual seduction.

Held Harmless #7

Retail Price: NFS
Dimensions: 70 x 55cm (H x W)
Statement: Part of my Pandemic series on the political leadership in the US.

Triangulation

Retail Price: NFS
Dimensions: 80x 40 x 60cm (H x W)
Statement: Connection of disparate elements with stitch was the goal

Tumult

Retail Price: NFS
Dimensions: 120x80cm (H x W)
Statement: Based upon a paper collage, wild images and colors clash and bounce.

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Anna Brown’s design inspiration comes from a deep-seated connection to nature and her immediate environment. Her pattern making results from a study of the eucalypt canopies near her home. She works directly with her materials, preferably natural fabrics, cotton, linen and silk, cutting and layering intuitively. Hand quilting introduces texture and depth to her work and is an important link to traditional roots in quilt making.

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Suzanne Gummow trained as a Visual Arts Educator lecturing in both secondary and tertiary education. She has been a dedicated teacher for over 50 years and has taught at many different high schools in South Australia during her career, she is now retired. She also teaches private workshops in textiles, quilt making and art throughout Australia.

The need to explore my thoughts in textiles is a passionate driving force. Playing with strong colours, painting in rich thread bringing together tactile surfaces in my textiles constantly gives me an amazing sense of excitement each time I create a new piece.

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Born in the UK, Lynne Hargreaves worked as a graphic designer moving into design training in 1978. 20yrs in vocational and tertiary education followed. Joining the cultural sector and arts management in 1998 she retired to Tasmania in 2017 from the position of Director of Exhibitions & Collections at the Art Gallery of WA. She has worked in partnership with institutions such as the Louvre, Tate, V&A, St Petersburg State Theatre, and most recently the MoMA, NY to present renowned artworks in Perth. Entering a new chapter of her career she now has a focus on her own textile practice.

She is currently working with the broader linear qualities of the landscape. The Apple Isles Series takes inspiration from her home in Tasmania’s Tamar Valley. Simplifying and abstracting elements she explores drawing with stitch and surface texturing. The work displayed features experiments with hand-dyed fabric. The differing hues are layered and pieced together and then overworked with double-needle and free-motion machine stitching. Linear patterning is worked in machine and hand embroidery and is a colour study for a large work.

“An early start, listening to garden guru Tino Carnevale on the car radio I was enchanted by the morning, the brilliance of colour belying the cold of the frozen fields which the sun had yet to touch. The work is a miniature study of ideas and impressions from that morning.”

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