Saturday, April 30, 2022

Propagate - Sharon Peoples and Nellie Peoples


Sharon Peoples, Gardening Trowels, 2021. Mixed media, machine embroidery, photographer Brenton McGeachie.

Sharon Peoples, Garden Shovel: White Hakea, 2021. Mixed media, machine embroidery, 94 x 22 x 4 cm, photographer Brenton McGeachie.


M16: Gallery 1 a

Nellie Peoples and Sharon Peoples

Friday 6 May - Sunday 22 May 2022


Propagate examines the everydayness, the labour and social relationships of gardens, through small works relating to the body and drawings. Sharon and Nellie Peoples each begin with dialogues between local landscapes and the practices as a maker. There are many complex processes that can be employed to increase the number of plants, as there are in these artists’ individual making practices. Propagate reflects the building of conversations within individual work, as well as each another. The artists exchange ideas as they would cuttings, seeds and root divisions from their gardens, as well as planting ideas into each another’s design thinking.

M16 Website

Thursday, April 28, 2022

Networks Australia Respond to Rusten House


Valerie Kirk, Rusten House Red Cross, fabric collage.


Craft / “Site Specific – artists respond to Rusten House”, Rusten House Arts Centre, Queanbeyan, until April 30. Reviewed by Meredith Hinchliffe. 

NETWORKS Australia, a group of practising visual artists based all over Australia, was invited to respond to Rusten House – its history, its architecture, the surrounding heritage garden, uses of the building and relationship to the community. 

Read Full review by Meredith Hinchliffe

Rusten House website

Brooching the Subject - Rozalie Sherwood

Rozalie Sherwood, Spring, 6.5cm x 6 cm Linen, ink, thread, beads, acrylic sheet, free machine embroidery
Photographer 
Fiona Bowring-Greer

Congratulations to group member Rozalie Sherwood on winning 2nd prize in Brooching the Subject exhibition.

Artists from all over Australia and the world are vying for prize-money and selling their creative wares in the sixth Brooching the Subject exhibition, to be held at Newcastle’s Timeless Textiles, Australia’s only commercial textile gallery.

Timeless Textiles Gallery