Monique van Nieuwland

Monique van Nieuwland ~ Contemporary weaving

Sturt Gallery - from 7 June to 19 July 2015

Exhibition Opening Sunday 7 June at 11am
To be opened by Meredith Hinchliffe, curator and writer 'Sound Vignettes' by Madeleine Cocolas FLOOR TALK by the artist at 2pm in the gallery

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"Sea monsters show the world on the edge

‘Ocean Forest’ is a new exhibition of contemporary weaving by Monique van Nieuwland, featuring sound vignettes by Madeleine Cocolas, designed to challenge our thinking about the beauty of our ocean flora and the threats to this fragile environment created by the modern world.

References to mid 18 hundreds of Australian marine flora are used to create an ocean forest installation, consisting of damask woven panels suspended in mid space.  On the walls is a series of smaller Jacquard woven images. Some of these interpret the 1850-60’s W. H. Harvey  botanic drawings of marine flora and some reinterpret depictions of sea monsters from early world maps.

These monsters represent vortexes in the world’s oceans where much of the world’s plastic waste has been discovered to converge, forming large, menacing floating masses, submerged below the surface."