Anne Kelly chats about Articles of Ancestry 2019
Heritage inspires Australian exhibition for acclaimed UK artist
Award-winning textile artist Anne Kelly present her first solo exhibition in Australia, Articles of Ancestry, which opens at Newcastle’s Timeless Textiles Gallery in April.
This exhibition explores issues and identity of family, past and present, with particular reference to international links.
“I was inspired by a vintage dress to make the piece ‘12 Dresses’,” she said. “It is about the women in my father’s family, some of whom perished in the Holocaust.”
Kelly likes to use ephemera and found objects in her practice. Recent work includes a series using wooden objects and dolls’ houses to look at themes of travel and migration. Her heavily embroidered fabric collages are reminiscent of tapestry work. She applies her signature stitching technique to a variety of surfaces. Kelly uses mixed media and print to further embellish her work.
Kelly is an artist, author and tutor. While based in the UK, she is exhibiting and teaching internationally. She has written three books that profile her project and collaborative work. Her work is represented in private and public collections in the UK and abroad.
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Go Your Own Way Eira Chidgey May 2019
Textile artist Eira Chidgey celebrates domestic life in a series of stunning large canvases in the Go Your Own Way exhibition, opening 16 May - 9 June 2019 at Newcastle’s Timeless Textiles Gallery.
The exhibition brings together work from 2007 – at the start of Chidgey’s creative career – and more recent works, produced over the last 12 months. It captures the artist’s journey, from her home in England to Australia, where she moved, with her husband, five years ago. They settled in Newcastle in 2014.
“Now in my 30s and living on the other side of the world with two small children, this exhibition is a celebration of the confidence you grow on the journey through life,” Chidgey says. “That confidence provides the liberation to just go your own way.”
The large-scale canvases in the Go Your Own Way exhibition are Chidgey’s artistic reaction to her world.
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Kerr Grabowski chats about her current exhibition Flora & Fauna Mississippi to Australia Oct 2017
Internationally acclaimed artist to exhibit in Newcastle
American-born fibre artist Kerr Grabowski will present her second Australian exhibition at Timeless Textiles gallery in October 2017.
Known for innovative approaches to dyeing and screening processes, Kerr’s love of colour and mark-making, and her spontaneity, combine to create the diverse pieces in the exhibition. They include one-of-a-kind silk fabrics used to create art wear and wall art, silk organza clothing and wall pieces made of printed, dyed and stitched teabag papers.
“I have always sewn, so it seemed perfectly logical to turn my drawings into clothing,” Kerr said. “Art school in Mississippi in the 70s was about art, not craft, so for a while, I pretended that this ‘clothing’ I was creating was merely a means to an end, a way to support my daughter and myself. After a while I admitted my love of making art that others could literally wrap themselves up in. I am still at it after 38 years.”
She says her Flora and Fauna from Mississippi to Australia exhibition begins as narrative, staying true to the rich oral history of her Mississippi roots.
“My muse is the thread that connects the life cycle of the garden, interactions between friends and lovers, and mysterious items washing up on the beach” Kerr explains. “I spend hours watching the flora and fauna in my garden, monarch eggs on milkweed, tiny caterpillars eating and creeping through the grass to that special spot to morph into a chrysalis, then emerging to begin again.”
The techniques used to create the exhibition include collage incorporating teabags and papers, which are laminated to organza. Kerr says the results have the delicacy of aging petals. While the origin of some of the pieces are obvious, most are textures and forms taken from flora and fauna but abstracted.
“Although I am inspired primarily by banksia, magnolia, okra and roaches, the imagery is more imaginary. The delicacy of tender new petals, and of very old ones, inspires the organza clothing pieces with soft colours and gentle marks.”
The Flora and Fauna from Mississippi to Australia exhibition will be opened by Judy Hooworth from 6- 8 pm on 12 October and runs until 5 November 2017.
Julie Ryder chats about her current exhibition 'Chromophilia' Sept 2016
Chromophilia (the love of colour) is Julie Ryder's second exhibition at Timeless Textiles Gallery, Newcastle Australia. Julie chats about the influence her scientific training has on her textile art, and her passion for design; pattern and colours.
Meredith Woolnough chats about her exhibition The Embroidered Thread
The Embroidered Thread: Interpretations from Australia and America, presents Meredith Woolnough and Jennifer Cranshaw's work together for the first time. While each artist approaches the medium in different ways, there is a comfortable familiarity in the works.
Celebrated local artist Meredith Woolnough has exhibited work at Timeless Textiles several times over the last five years. Her elegant embroidered traceries capture the beauty and fragility of nature in knotted embroidery threads. Through a delicate system of tiny stitches she creates intricate and complex openwork compositions. They are pinned like preserved specimens in shadow boxes.
American artist, Jennifer Crenshaw, says her work with free motion embroidery began with the desire to create multiple motifs and shapes using metallic threads. She wanted to create free forms that are not attached to a substrate. Now showing at Timeless Textiles gallery Newcastle Australia until August 2019.
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Anne Kempton’s talk to HWSGNSW on her fibre passions and Timeless Textiles Gallery (August 2019)
Anne Kempton and Wilma Simmons talk about the only commercial textile gallery in Australia, in Newcastle, New South Wales
Sue Hotchkis chats about her exhibition Fragments
Thought-provoking British textile artist Susan Hotchkis chats about her first solo show FRAGMENTS in Australia at Newcastle’s Timeless Textiles Gallery The vivid and visceral works are informed by Susan’s recent travels to Cuba, Scilly, Boston, New York and within the UK.
The stunning, lightweight works are saturated with colour and stitch. Dense layering of surfaces and textures both obscure and reveal in these
Melinda Heal Dyeing the Liminal exhibition March 2019
Textile artist Melinda Heal brings a contemporary Australian approach to traditional Japanese dyeing techniques to create a remarkable exhibition currently on show at Newcastle’s Timeless Textiles Gallery.
Heal’s work takes a contemporary approach to the traditional Japanese resist-dyeing techniques of katazome and yuzen. These methods are steeped in Japanese culture, with their history tied to the kimono industry.
“I am applying them to uniquely Australian scenery, flora and fauna,” Heal explains. “My pieces depart from tradition, utilising semi-transparent fabrics to create a sense of depth, space and movement.”
The resulting works, in the Dyeing the Liminal exhibition, inhabit a space between two visual cultures. Complex edges, overlaps and intentional empty spaces depict the liminality of the natural world.
View Dyeing the Liminal here
Nicola Henley chats about her exhibition Spirits in the Sky
Irish based fibre artist Nicola Henley drews inspiration for the soaring images in her Spirits of the Sky exhibition from studying birds and their flight, with particular reference to the sky, air currents and changing light in different locations.
Nicola chats about her time spent at an artists’ retreat, Cill Rialaig in County Kerry, Ireland - where sky and sea meet.
Spirits in the Sky is on show at Timeless Textiles Gallery, Newcastle Australia between 15 February until 12 March, 2017 view exhibition
Lorna Crane chats about her exhibition Lexiconical (2018) at Timeless Textiles gallery
South-coast artist Lorna Crane’s foray into creating hand-made brushes opened a deep vein of creativity that is on display in a new exhibition opening at Newcastle’s Timeless Textiles Gallery in March.
The Lexiconical exhibition will include a variety of Crane’s handmade brushes and objects, as well as works on cloth and paper. The works sprang from the artist’s obsession with making her own brushes.
“For more than two years I have been sourcing a variety of materials from my natural environment including native plant fibres, organic fibres and found objects, including ocean and marine debris,” she said. “As I bound the materials onto pre-loved brush handles, twigs, driftwood and bamboo, it became apparent that each brush held its own story. They tell of the places I have been and the landscape where I live.”
With a collection of brushes in a variety of mediums, in all shapes and sizes, Crane pushed her mark-making to create a more personalised approach to her visual lexicon.
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Meredith Woolnough chats about her recent exhibition Akin @ TimelessTextiles Gallery
Fibre Artist Meredith and her mother Rae Woolnough are showcasing their joint work at Akin exhibition. May 2014
Lanny Bergner Life in the Universe exhibition
Lanny Bergner talks of his Life in the Universe exhibition currently at Timeless Textiles gallery, Newcastle NSW, Australia. Lanny speaks of the ways he keeps his work dancing whilst creating art from wire mesh.
Pam Hovel chats about Echoes: Organic Forms in Felt
In her Echoes – Organic Forms in Felt exhibition, Pam chats about the echoes the beauty of the natural world in 3D forms in felt. Coaxing and moulding wool fibre into the abstract forms of hidden, inconspicuous forms in nature, Hovel explores the possibilities of three-dimensional and relief techniques.
Natural-coloured wool fibre is used to create underwater creatures, pods, wall art and vessels. The colours sit well with felt, one of the most natural of materials.
Chatting with Anne Kempton, Timeless Textiles Gallery Dec 2018
Lois Evans chats about her current exhibition Nature's Abstraction June 2019
Journey to abstraction leads to exhibition
Minute details in the natural world have inspired a fascinating exhibition by textile artist Lois Parish Evans, opening at Newcastle’s Timeless Textiles Gallery in June. In the Nature’s Extraction exhibition, Parish Evans’ work uses nature as the starting point for her journey into abstraction.
“The minutiae of nature have long been a source of interest and inspiration,” she said. “ The shape of a leaf, the vibrant colour of a flower, an autumn leaf, or the textural foam on a wave. All these and so much more inspire my creativity.”
The artist is constantly seeking to find the extraordinary within the ordinary.
“Shape, colour, line, texture have all piqued my interest,” she says. “The ordinary things, which are often fleeting and missed if not quickly captured.”
Over time Parish Evans has moved through stylisation of what she sees in the natural world to become more abstracted. While the initial element that has inspired the artist is often still recognisable, it has been through a process of abstraction. The image is deconstructed to its essence and then expanded out again in a process of reconstruction, which sometimes adds a touch of mystery. Is it a flower, a chrysallis? Is it viewed through a microscope? Or perhaps it is an entirely new world, species or cosmos?
“My process is a personal response to the possibility of something new and different, a shift in the process of thinking and creating,” Parish Evans explains.
This exhibition records her personal journey to abstraction. It records her unique response to the natural world. Moving towards abstraction has brought creative freedom for this artist.
“It allows me to let go of control and to trust internal cues, which come from years of working with the elements of design,” she explains. “The process becomes a dialogue between creation and creator. It is the result of responsive interaction with the unfolding story of the work.”
Nature’s Extraction exhibition runs from 12 June to 7 July 2019 @ Timeless Textiles Gallery, Newcastle Australia
Dionne Swift chats about her exhibition Momentum
Renowned international textile artist, Dionne Swift, demonstrates her mastery in Momentum, a new exhibition on show at Newcastle’s Timeless Textiles Gallery in September.
Momentum comprises stitched and painted textile artworks inspired by the artist’s travels and celebrating her 50thyear. Many of the works originated as drawn responses to Swift’s travels through Europe and Morocco.
“I draw with haste and energy aiming to capture a moment in time, the atmosphere I experience, the light and quality of air that I acknowledge,” she explains. “The vitality in the process of drawing fills me with energy and excitement.”
This energy is heightened when Swift’s drawn marks are elevated by stitching. Texture, changing weights of thread, colour mixes, varied movement of stitches, and composition of the thread, all add to the life and enhance the viewer’s interaction with the work.
see all of Dionne's exhibition Momentum on show at Timeless Textiles gallery
Two frightened mice - poetry recitation to commemorate lost girls in Australia's dark colonial pa
Poem by Anne Casey in response to the astonishing artwork of Australian artist, Jane Theau. The poem, Two frightened mice is recited by the artist, Jane Theau, against the backdrop of her installation thread & shadow artwork entitled 'Falling'.
The art & poetry installation are on show as part of the Stitched Up exhibition with 24 renowned international artists at The Lock Up & Timeless Textiles Gallery in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia from 23 June to 6 August 2017.
The brainchild of art curators, Anne Kempton and Wilma Simmons, The Stitched Up exhibition exhibition marks 150 years since the opening of Newcastle Industrial School for Girls. The girls' life stories are breathtakingly brutal. Jane Theau and Anne Casey have collaborated to bring these girls' stories to life.
Swinburne University has published a collection including 20 pieces of Anne's writing and images of Jane's artworks, together with the voiceover from the exhibition. Read and view here:
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What's in a name? poetry recitation to commemorate lost girls in Australia's dark colonial past
Poem by Anne Casey in response to the astonishing artwork of Australian artist, Jane Theau. The poem, What's in a name? is recited by the artist, Jane Theau, against the backdrop of her installation thread & shadow artwork entitled 'Falling'.
The art & poetry installation are on show as part of the Stitched Up exhibition with 24 renowned international artists at The Lock Up & Timeless Textiles Gallery in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia from 23 June to 6 August 2017.
The brainchild of art curators, Anne Kempton and Wilma Simmons, The Stitched Up exhibition exhibition marks 150 years since the opening of Newcastle Industrial School for Girls. The girls' life stories are breathtakingly brutal. Jane Theau and Anne Casey have collaborated to bring these girls' stories to life.
Swinburne University has published a collection including 20 pieces of Anne's writing and images of Jane's artworks, together with the voiceover from the exhibition. Read and view here:
See also: and
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Follow the photographer Markus Gebauer ( MGness) on a journey of timeless Beauty. Discover the hidden Glamour of decay and the morbid charme of bygone eras in Europe. The effects of time gnawing mercilessly on These places, wich seem forgotten; merging the past with the now. In his book “timeless” he depicts nature impressively conquering, what man once created.
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How Does Liquid Rubber Handle Hot Sunshine
So the question of how well does Liquid Rubber do in the heat or the cold has come up many times in the various comments since I first posted those videos. Here is a video where we take a look at both the Liquid Rubber coated plank that was in my SWC aquaponic garden and the cardboard box that I decided to try waterproofing.
The plank was removed from the SWC bed withing the last two weeks. The heat from the sun since then has caused the wood itself some damage but for the most part the Liquid Rubber coating seems to be okay.
The cardboard box has been sitting in the greenhouse empty since its water evaporated quite some time ago. That little polytunnel can get temperatures over 50C so this little box has seen some pretty intense heat. There are a few places where the duct tape that I used to keep the flaps down has pulled in the heat and created gaps but for the most part, the Liquid Rubber seems intact. If I had used something other than the duct tape, I suspect the box would still be intact.
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