A journal where I share my adventures developing a food forest based on permaculture principles. I also share my love of knitting here. For my life as a textile artist follow me at lesleyturnerart.com
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Saturday, April 20, 2013
Steam Punk in New Zealand
'Steampunk is a sub-genre of science fiction, fantasy, alternate history, and speculative fiction that came into prominence during the 1980s and early 1990s.'
If you are ever in New Zealand I would recommend planning to spend a day in Oamaru, on the east coast of the South Island. One of the many attractions in the city is all of the steampunk action, including this museum.
Monday, April 15, 2013
Synesthesia #1 Yellow
Synesthesia is a condition where one mixes up the senses eg seeing a sound as a shape or tasting a colour.
I don't have synesthesia but I do see each colour as having a certain energy or movement.
Starting with yellow - the chameleon with rays of energy - I sorted fabrics and threads.
Thread painting by machine.
I had wanted to mount the work over a deep stretched canvas frame but ran into difficulty trying to fold the thick, stiff ground around the corners. I compromised and mounted the work in a thin black frame. I still think the stretched canvas would have been more dynamic for this series. Oh well.
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Articulated Materials: Bridging Waters Exhibition by Articulation and Material Girls
The 1st showing in Canada of the Articulated Materials: Bridging Waters exhibition opens in a month, at the Cre8ery Gallery in Winnipeg.
The name of the exhibition explains how the it came about and also it's content.
Articulated Materials - Articulation, a Canadian group of fibre artists teamed up with a similar group called Material Girls, based in London, UK, to produce separate bodies of work to be shown together.
Bridging Waters: Each group chose an iconic waterway in their respective country to research. Articulation chose the Bay of Fundy and Material Girls chose the River Thames.
The resulting bodies of work are both contemporary, personal responses to the water ways and they tell stories of the long history of human interaction with the physical environment.
The 'bridging' part happens when Articulation's work was sent to London and toured galleries over 2012, then was sent back to Canada with the Material Girls' work for a 3-gallery tour across Canada over 2014.
The 'bridging' also happens when the viewer makes connections between the two bodies of work.
Donna Clement designed the poster using an image of Ingrid Lincoln's work.
Both are Articulation members.
Monday, April 8, 2013
More Art Deco In Ranfurly?
Saturday, April 6, 2013
Art Deco in Ranfurly, New Zealand
Monday, April 1, 2013
Art Insitu
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