Still Waters Exhibition opening invitation

Still Waters Opening
Thursday 5 December 2019, 6pm
Tuggeranong Arts Centre

All Welcome

Sharon Peoples Website

Still Waters at Tuggeranong Arts Centre 

Monique van Nieuwland - Work in Progress

Monique van Nieuwland, Wasted 2019

Monique van Nieuwland, Wasted 2019

UTOPIA EXHIBITION - TEXTILE WORKS GALLERY

TWO DAYS ONLY

CANBERRA REGION FELTMAKERS

 AND

 CANBERRA SPINNERS AND WEAVERS

FRI 15 NOV 2019: 10:00 – 15:00 

SAT 16 NOV 2019: 10:00 – 15:00

Members responded to the idea of Utopia, the theme of Design Canberra Festival 2019. Exhibitors explored and translated their vision of Utopia using various and varied textile forms. 

Works are for sale through silent auction - You are invited for nibbles and drinks at 15.00 on Saturday

Quality textiles gift ware is for sale on both days

Textile Works - 70 Maclaurin Crescent, Chifley ACT, Australia

Sharon Peoples - Still Waters exhibition

Still Waters

5 December 2019 - 13 January 2020

Tuggeranong Arts Centre 

In January 2019, SharonPeoples spent four weeks as artist in residence at the Tuggeranong Arts Centre. The residency was a springboard for thinking and in subsequent months a new body of work was assembled to create the exhibition, Still Waters.

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Jean Littlejohn interview -Textileartist.org

A very interesting interview with Textile artist Jean Littlejohn on Textileartist.org on her new exhibition Taepa's Portal 

Jean Littlejohn: Taplow Court Sketchbook

The notion of ‘a layered history’ takes on a whole new meaning in textile artist Jean Littlejohn’s hands. Her work ‘Taepa’s Portal’ literally captures hundreds of years of period designs in a single piece through fabric layers and varied stitching techniques. And now you can learn how it all came together with this very generous insider’s look from Jean herself.

Pay special attention to her use of an embellishing machine, which she thinks is often underestimated. It’s incredible how she uses it for mark-making by stitching on both sides of her fabric layers. 

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Katherine White - Work in Progress

Katherine White, 2019. Plant Life, Charcoal Drawings

Ola Robertson - Work in Progress

Ola Robertson 2019 
Vines - using recycled materials-old charger and electrical cords plus packaging kraft paper. 

Ola Robertson 2019
Vines - using recycled materials-old charger and electrical cords plus packaging kraft paper.

Deb Faeyrglenn - Work in Progress

Deb Faeyrglenn Underground Forest: sharing water, sharing danger. raffia, recycled cloth, silk and cotton thread, found bird and insect charms. 270cm x 300cm x 150cm 

Deb Faeyrglenn Underground Forest: sharing water, sharing danger. raffia, recycled cloth, silk and cotton thread, found bird and insect charms. 270cm x 300cm x 150cm 

Deb Faeyrglenn Underground Forest: sharing water, sharing danger. raffia, recycled cloth, silk and cotton thread, found bird and insect charms. 270cm x 300cm x 150cm 

Artist Statement 

Science is revealing what indigenous communities and poets have long known: trees are connected and communicating via vast underground symbiotic networks of tree-root and fungal thread (mycelium). Trees share water, sugars and chemical information about threat of disease or insect invasion with nearby trees of same species and even with other species of trees. Older ‘hub’ trees have memory of chemical they can use to repel threatening insects and diseases. Sharing helps the trees survive tough times but the sharing web can also pass on deadly new diseases. 

By Installing a tree-root and mycelium web from the gallery ceiling I am tipping our above-ground perception of trees upside down – revealing the underworld of trees. 

Coiling, Stitching and knitting are processes that mirror the slow-time of tree-life. This artwork took two years to weave, stitch and knit.               

Jenny Manning - Work in progress

Jenny Manning 

Jenny Manning  Seed Pod 2018,Copper wire, 75cm wide x 100 cm 

Jenny Manning  Kurrajong 2019, 

 Pen and Ink on paper  h 57cm x w 75cm  unframed  67cm x 85 cm approx framed

Artist Statement - Jenny Manning 

Every tree begins with a seed

A seed contains all the genetic information to create the most complex and important growing plant in the world.

My wall piece is made from a number of crocheted seed pod shapes using fine copper wire. They are connected together to form an oval form 75cm wide by 100 cm tall.

In am interested in the patterns and the shadows that these crocheted seed pods cast on the wall as well as the way repetition of a small form can create a larger form of identical

 shape--- a structural system often found in botany.

I am also interested in interpreting this imagery in two dimensions. This large black and white pen and ink drawing explores the complex botanical structure of the Kurrajong tree.

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Conversations - Belinda Jessup

Work in progress for Networking with the Wood Wide Web. Conversations machine stitched on water soluble fabric. This series of works are conversations written to trees and are not meant to be read, but contemplate on what was said.

Conversation with Trees 2019, Belinda Jessup, rayon on water soluble fabric.
Conversation Written by Sharon Peoples

Conversation with Trees 2019, Belinda Jessup, rayon water soluble fabric
Conversation Written by Sharon Peoples
Pinned ready to wash out.

Conversation with Trees 2019, Belinda Jessup, rayon,  free machine embroidery.
Conversation Written by Sharon Peoples

Conversation with Trees 2019, Belinda Jessup, rayon,  free machine embroidery.

Conversation Written by Sharon Peoples