Covet at Barometer Gallery

Marli Popple, Come to the Edge

Covet at Barometer

Monique Van Nieuwland,  Everyone, Everywhere

Covet at Barometer Gallery

Ann McMahon, Gorgeous Borgeous. Photo Wendy Dodd

Covet at Barometer Gallery

Sharon Peoples, Golden Lungs; Valerie Kirk, Coveting Time; Nancy Tingey, With Apologies to Arthur Boyd. Photo Wendy Dodd

Covet at Barometer Gallery

Lynne Johnson "The Fashion is what you are wearing"

Lynne Johnson The Fashion is what you are wearin. Photo Wendy Dodd

Covet at Barometer Gallery

Belinda Jessup, Mooculta '46 11 (hanging), Rachel Devlin Sweet Dough (on Plinth)

Covet at Barometer Gallery

Mary Douglas, Stitch by Stitch. Photo Wendy Dodd.

Wendy Dodd, Hair Totems.
Photo Wendy Dodd.

Covet at Barometer Gallery

Marli Popple, Come to the Edge (on Plinth); Janet Meany, An Absurdist View (foreground); Katherine White, Pools of Life (5 pieces on wall);  Beverley Thomas, The Living Desert (Natural dyed wall piece). Photo Wendy Dodd.

Rachel Bickovsky, Keep on Walkin. Photo Wendy Dodd.

Textile Studio tours

TEXTILES STUDIO TOUR | 5 NOV

SATURDAY, 5 NOVEMBER 2016 @ 11:30AM - 2PM | MEETING AT HOTEL HOTEL

Canberra textiles practitioner and academic Sharon Peoples will lead a bus tour of the
Textiles Open Studios being held on Saturday 5 November.

The tour will begin at Hotel Hotel and tour to the working spaces of acclaimed Canberra
artists including Annie Trevillian, Monique Van Nieuwland, Ruby Berry and others.
The tour will conclude back at Hotel Hotel where tourists will be invited to enjoy a drink
and review the day.

Cost: $25
Booking and inquiries at peoples@grapevine.com.au
Studio Tours Link 

Covet at Barometer Gallery

 COVET

Join us for opening drinks on Saturday 29th October 2016 at 2pm 

at Barometer Gallery, Paddington NSW

13 Gurner Street,
Paddington NSW 2021
Ph 02 93584968
Open Wednesday to Saturday 12 - 6pm, Sunday 12 - 4pm. 
Website

To Monique

NETWORKS Australia Meeting at Nancy’s

To Monique and Monique's mum

To Monique and Monique's mum

Canberra Weekly review

https://issuu.com/canberraweekly/docs/cwm20160512_issuu

Page 41

Opening of Covet 2

Page 15 in City News

http://citynews.com.au/2016/digital-edition-12-may/

Factory

Fix and Make
A fully operational factory production line will be set up at Hotel Hotel. The textile-making factory will produce a pencil case. The assembly line will open up the various steps at different stages of production from pattern making, to cutting, sewing and labeling, to quality control, pressing and packaging. It highlights the multiple inputs of the production line process – where no one person is responsible for the item being made – and contrasts this to the designer maker’s process where one person is directly involved in each aspect of the making. Visitors are invited to join the workers from ANU at their individual stations and contribute to the production of the item being made.

All Fix and Make program attendees get 15% off their stay at Hotel Hotel. Book via hotel-hotel.com.au using the booking code HHFIXANDMAKE. Fine print – subject to availability and not available on some Saturdays or parliamentary sitting dates.
When 21/05/2016 : 10AM to 12PM and 1PM to 3PM
Where Hotel Hotel, Acton ACT
Cost: Free
More information 

NOTE, Valerie is collecting jeans for this project. Any clean jeans, any colour, size and style.

COVET 2, ANU SCHOOL OF ART, speaking notes

I’d like to acknowledge the Ngunnawal and Ngambri people who are the traditional custodians of this land on which we are meeting, and pay respect to the Elders of the Ngunnawal and Ngambri both past and present. I extend this respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in attendance today.

As Covet 1 tours Europe, I am honoured to open the next instalment, Covet 2, by the Networks Australia group of mainly Canberra-based professional artists.

The Networks group was developed by Nancy Tingey while making nets in her studio. This concept was then taken up by Valerie Kirk here at the ANU, who collaborated with other staff and artists to create an international project of exchange and interaction. Networks has grown to include many artists who mainly work in textiles, demonstrating the power of a great idea, and the potential of collaborative creative endeavours.

The notion of Covet has provoked responses embodying the potent and the delicate, the challenging and the beautiful. To covet is to desire something that you cannot have because it is beyond your reach, belongs to someone else, is too expensive or simply not available.
In Covet 2, twenty talented artists suggest to us how they dream of lives not their own, how they long for stillness and simplicity, or a secure and healthy environment, or how they remember loved ones and lost but not forgotten opportunities.

Personally, I covet the creative inner and outer world of an artist – their ability to imagine, to interpret, to make. The energy and care they invest to produce unique objects and works of art. And the physical and intellectual effort they apply to explore the infinite possibilities of materials and processes.

In my new role as CEO for Craft ACT, I hope to build on our association’s 40 year history and reputation for excellence and innovation, to expand opportunities for artists and designers – and especially our members - to practice their craft, access new business opportunities, raise their profile, and forge connections with local, regional, national and international communities.

Today’s launch coincides with Textiles Week and to celebrate, we are also presenting a series of textile exhibitions on display in the Craft ACT gallery including the stunning Group Exchange: Tamworth Textiles Tri-ennial and work from our annual Artist-in-Residence program, now in its 10th year. Canberra artists are featured in both of these exhibitions, and our retail outlet, Agency, in Braddon, has many beautiful textile pieces for sale by local and national artists.

I congratulate all the artists involved in Covet 2 and thank the ANU School of Art for hosting the exhibition and inviting me here today. I wish you all a very happy, inspiring and thought-provoking Textiles Week 2016 and I am sure many of you will covet the work you see tonight. Thank you.

Textile Week

TEXTILE WEEK

1-7 MAY 2016, CANBERRA

See shows, engage in conversations, join a workshop, hear an artist talk, come to the symposium and exhibition openings.

Ailan Buumer and Ghostnets +Drawing and Design Workshop, Erub Arts; Covet 2, Networks Australia; Here and There, Julie Ryder, Sharon Peoples and Barbara Rogers; Remember When....Canberra Region Feltmakers; Connect with Your Nature, Ruth Hingston and Jodie Hatcher; 2nd Tamworth Textile Triennale and Symposium; Alchemy, Tara Bromham and Emilie Patteson; Cardif Collective; Department of the Exterior; Agency; Assemblage Project, fashion……..and much more.

Join our Facebook page to see more details and information about events:
 https://www.facebook.com/anutextilesworkshop/

AILAN BUUMER

Erub Arts  

Exhibition 6 - 28 May 2016

Reception 6pm Thursday 5 May

Location Main Gallery, ANU School of Art

To be opened by Dr Mathew Trinca, Director of the National Museum of Australia

An exhibition of drawings, design, fabric and fashion by artists from Erub Arts, Erub (Darnley Island) Torres Strait.

Maryann Bourne

Ethel Charlie

Rachel Emma Gela

Florence Gutchen

Kapua George Gutchen (Snr)

Lavinia Ketchell

Lorenzo Ketchell

Nancy Kiwat

Racy Oui-Pitt

Ellarose Savage

Jimmy Kenny Thaiday

Online catalogue 

Workshop: 10-12 noon and 2-3pm Friday 6 May in SOA Gallery. Engage with the artists, Florence Gutchen and Jimmy Kenny Thaiday, in drawing, design and ghostnet activities. Free – no booking required.

Artforum: Floortalk in the SOA Gallery 1-2pm Friday 6 May.

Covet by Jeanne Klovdahl

Covet

According to the definition given in the Macquarie Dictionary the word 'covet' is 'to desire wrongfully,' or 'to wish for, esp.  eagerly.' From my perspective it is a longing for that which we believe we want. It is usually beyond our grasp and we know we can't, or shouldn't, have it. We think if only…then our lives would be complete - maybe even perfect. While striving for this illusive quarry we might develop an attachment to:

Winning a prize/medal/award through which we receive approval from others, including wide acclaim. If we long for material accoutrements to impress others our emphasis could be placed on outward appearances, thus enhancing our self image. We may admire another person to such an extent that we dream if we could have what they have or do what they can do we might become more like that person, i.e., a person we seek to emulate.

The irony of actually fulfilling our desire is that we might find ourselves asking, "well, what's next?" and then realising that maybe nothing's next, except possibly more striving. How do we know when we've 'arrived?' Everything in life has an upside and a downside: everything.

My main experience in coveting was when I actually took something I desired but felt I couldn't earn. Then I had to hide it away, and eventually admit to what I had done, sheepishly return it and humbly apologise. To make matters worse I kept running into that person, bringing the memory of my treacherous deed right back again!


Jeanne Klovdahl

17th April 2016

Covet by Jill Sutton

Why do you think a group called ‘Networks’ would choose to mount an exhibition called ‘Covet’? 

Are its members all longing to have houses like their neighbours or even lusting after their neighbours’ partners? My only experience of the word ‘covet’ comes from the Ten Commandments which I learned as a child. At that time I knew it was a bad thing to ‘covet’ but I didn’t know about jealousy or lust. These days I am deeply familiar with the potential of these powerful emotions but have rarely revisited the word ‘covet’ when recalling their role in my story.

With many of us only connecting the word with ancient Hebrew scriptures, perhaps ‘Networks’ is seeking to stir something archaic, even elemental. Perhaps it is urging us to explore that deep internal longing for things we should not have. But why would they do this? 

All we can do is to hazard a guess, but sometimes it is a luxury to be allowed to guess. So let’s take up the challenge and think a little more about a group of artists who have called themselves ‘Networks’. It’s easy to see how such a title might appeal to the international group of fibre artists which it has attracted. The very basis of their work must be their delight in the capacity of their sinuous materials to make links between otherwise separated points. A ‘network’ must often be the outcome of the work of a fibre artist and indeed I recall a beautiful piece by Nancy Tingey which comprised what looked like a big fishing net. Nancy was one of the group’s original members and that piece made me glad because I too have loved such nets. Having being partnered by a woman with deep connections to Castellorizo, a Greek fishing island, I learned of the islanders’ dependence on nets and their care. Fishing nets in the sun are one of my lasting memories of a visit to that island. Their intricate patterns suggest a timeless poetry and a resilience which is both cleansing and reassuring. 

But networks are, when you start to think about them, ubiquitous. They have been evoked to describe neurological systems, transport systems, electrical systems, social systems and even solar systems. And that’s it, isn’t it? They describe the way the parts of a whole can connect or interact… they hold the whole show together, whatever the system! 

And this is where the idea of ‘covet’ is a clever challenge to an organisation called ‘Networks’, because, if you covet something, a neighbour’s house or partner or even just an extra chocolate which doesn’t belong to you, you threaten the system! You reach outside the network. You might even break its delicate structure. 

Nevertheless, I still find the act of coveting to be inevitably part of our emotional lives, and I think that it is healthy and stimulating to think about where our coveting takes us. This is what Networks’ ‘Covet’ exhibition does. Artists suggest to us how they dream of lives not their own, how they long for something they can recall having seen through a flywire screen, across a large ocean, a better life for poor refugees, a more secure religious belief… and so the list goes on. 

Recently, after a visit to Coogee beach, I was moved to become aware of my own longings… I wrote:

Like honey on a sore throat
Waves are soothing the rocks of Coogee
Letting go to gather strength
They sigh and lunge
With our longings for the world. 

I suspect that we cannot be totally described by our networks. Our longings give shading and depth to the landscapes we work in. I am glad ‘Networks’ decided to explore their impulses to covet in this exhibition.
Jill Sutton, 2016

Exhibition Opportunity

 Exhibition Opportunity   

Call for Submissions now Open 

From Friday, April 1, 2016.

DEADLINE: Saturday, April 30, 2016 at 12:00 Midnight.

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Three Options for Submitting

Body of Work – Maximum 10 pieces + details.
Individual Pieces – Maximum 10 pieces + details.
Installations – Maximum 10 pieces + details and renderings.

Link for more information

Covet 2

Covet 2
Opening reception  6 pm 5 May 
3 - 14 May 2016 
SOA Foyer Gallery
Website 

Gabriella Hegyes

Gabriella Hegyes

Gabriella Hegyes, Covert 2015-16 The Promise 2015

Text on tulle

‘There is a lesson in each flower, A story in each stream and bower, In every herb on which you tread Are written words, which rightly read Will lead you from earth’s fragrant sod, To hope, to holiness, and God.’

Poem by Thomas Osborne Davis

1814-45

Gabriella Hegyes, Covet 2015-16 The Promise 2015

Scroll H:30cm x W: 30cm X D:30cm on a plinth – length variable

Materials: Tulle, fabric, thread

The promise

Religion has played a major aspect in my life through my grandmother’s catholic

beliefs. As I was brought up by her I envied her belief - to me the religious text

became a jumble of words coiled up in an unintelligible way and apart from my

excitement about nature I never made the connection with her beliefs.

Gabriella Hegyes, TCovet 2015-16 he Promise 2015

The Flowers and Fruits of the Bible

Publishers: Webb &Bower UK 1982

John Chancellor

Illustrated by William Mc Cheane

ISBN 0-906671-53-1

Covet 1 Catalouge

Opening Covet 1

http://belconnenartscentre.com.au/exhibitions/covet.html

Covet Exhibition

Covet
Belconnen Arts Centre
4 - 28 March 2016
Belconnen Arts Centre