Viki Jenkins BA(Hons) Embroidered Textiles

 

 

 

Marilyn Hall BA(Hons) Embroidered Textiles

 

 

 

 

Monika Bruckner BA(Hons) Embroidered Textiles

 

 

 

Val Cross BA(Hons) Embroidered Textiles

 

 

 

 

Jean Kirk BA(hons) Embroidered Textiles

 

 

 

 

 

Ingrid Lincoln BA(Hons) Stitched Textiles

 

 

 

 

 

Celebrations

When Ingrid and I returned to the flat after nerve wracking Viva Voces, our assistants produced champagne to toast our achievement.

Next day, during a group meeting, before the Private View, we toasted ourselves with champagne. What we had achieved was beginning to sink in.
The paper cups had to do because the caterers hadn't arrived with the glasses.

We went walk-about, visiting each installation while each artist talked about her work.
It was a moving and emotional time - a release.

'Seeing' Things

Maple Cloth 

Cedar Cloth

Arbutus Cloth

Douglas-fir Cloth
An idea i explored with this work is seeing as a gendered issue and a cultural issue.
I placed small elements from each tree under its cloth to lure the male inside the structure, knowing he focuses on details from long distance. The female eye is rewarded with the details of these elements once she is inside the structure.
The western viewer has had it ingrained in them to not touch art and to accept it's right place within a frame, behind glass, behind a barrier, or across a space. This work challenges the viewer to go inside the work for a more sensory experience, enticed into the structure by the familiarity of having been between sheets for hours most days of their lives.

"Home" is Installed

The 4 bed sheets are hung from a wooden frame suspended from a trapeze.  

On the nearby wall is the book of posts from my blog documenting  the process I went through to produce this work. My artist statement and business cards are beside it.

I laid out all of my research on the floor below this wall. Tomorrow the assessment panel will go through it all in the morning.

In the afternoon I go to the gallery to orally defend my work. This is called the Viva Voce - the telling of my life.

The Hanging Happens

The shipping box is opened. All looks good. The suitcase is full of the back-up research. 

My intrepid assistant springs into action assembling the frame.

He consults with another artist's assistant (Judy Martin's husband Ned) on the workings of the trapezes we are hanging our work from.

The bed sheets are slid on the frame before it is fully assembled.

The frame is pulled to the side to get the installation in the right place.

Done

Yes!