Second Look: remade and reimagined textiles

 

Brenda Livermore, Ground Lines 2021-2022: photographer Ruby Livermore

Second Look: remade and reimagined textiles

Barometer Gallery 

Wednesday 26 October to 13 November 2022
Open: Wednesday to Sunday, 11am to 5pm each day.
Opening event: Saturday 29 October, 3 to 6pm.
Artist talks with Emma Peters, Melinda Young and Michele Elliot at the opening.

Second Look: remade and reimagined textiles exhibition reflects on how handmade textiles are made, archived, used and re used by makers. Exhibitors have saved, stored and archived pieces they have made in the past and reworked them into ‘new’ artworks or have collected interesting textiles to repurpose them into ‘new’ artworks. Second Look: remade and reimagined textiles incudes stitched, pieced, collaged, recoloured and re woven textiles and exhibitors have used whatever technique they think appropriate to re-contextualising their textiles into new works. Both approaches create pieces full of memory with traces of use, history and a past life. All exhibitors value their materials, the hand made and in this exhibition are giving textiles a new life, a Second Look.

Artists: Jane Bodnaruk, Mary Burgess, Vita Cochran, Ro Cook, Michele Elliot, Nicole Ellis, Vivien Haley, Beth Hatton, Wendy Holland, Chris Hutch, Brenda Livermore, Christina Newberry, John Parkes, Emma Peters, Julia Raath, Sylvia Riley, Barbara Rogers, Julie Ryder, Liz Williamson and Melinda Young.