Continuum: Marilyn Hall & Judy Martin

 

 

Marilyn modified her graduation installation to enable her to take it to Canada.
She focused on 2 more simplified corset structures and presented them on covered plinths.

 

Judy was able to modify her hanging device to allow her large cloth again to be suspended in front of light.

 

One of the modules of work we all studied was to learn how to change or modify the installation of a work to suit a different location. We didn't know we would put into practice what we had learnt, so soon after graduating.

Contiuum: Val Cross

Val Cross, a BA(Hons) Embroidered Textiles graduate from Westbury, Wiltshire, UK, exhibited in Contiuum during the World of Threads Festival.
Her work is about displaying treasured collections.

Like Ingrid, she put her work in a glass display case which I wasn't able to photograph very well.

The acrylic covered plinths worked well for her work in that they referenced  traditional museum display methods.

 

 

Ingrid Lincoln, 'Continuum' in Oakville

 

An important element of Ingrid's work is light. She had a challenge installing her work on a dark brick wall and chose to mount the resin encased silk fabric on black.

The work was dramatically changed. 

The 3D resin cubes had to be stacked in a display case some distance from the wall piece.

The added reflective surface of the display case glass pushed the graphic silk elements further back into the cubes. It made the viewer look closely and search.

'Home' Installed With 'Continuum' in Oakville

With this 2nd installation of my graduation work 'Home' I was unable to suspend the frame from the ceiling. I had to modify the work to fit the challenging space in the Oakville Town Hall.

I used 2 of the 4 sheets to make a bed.

And added a plain pillow with a treat.

This installation was also different in that the stitching on both sheets is complete. One year of each tree's biological processes has been recorded chromatically on cloth.

I put the book documenting the process on a chair beside the bed.

Two different installations of the same work responding to two different spaces.

Continuum Installed in Oakville Town hall

Denise Jones installing her work with Rena, the Oakville public art installer looking on. 

Monika Brueckner installing her work, with a World of Threads Festival volunteer, June, looking on.

Judy and Ned Martin installing Judy's large work.

The beginning of my installation. 

Continuum at World of Threads Festival, Oakville

8 of 10 BA(Hons) Embroidered Textiles graduates installed 'Contiuum', their graduation work, in the Oakville Town Hall.
Ingrid Lincoln installs her work.

Val Cross cleans glass before installing her work.

Marilyn Hall assembling her sculptures.

Vikki Jenkins has her sister, Helen, as an assistant.

Stitching Completed on the Tree Cloths

I have stitched the last band on each of the 4 tree cloths.

Each cloth documents the growth of the tree over one year.

The cloth is a chromatic record of biological processes.

The colours and their sequence are different on each cloth.

New Moon Tree colour Studies

Arbutus - the deer love the berries

Falling Cedar branches

Changing colours of the Maple. 

Lichen on Douglas-fir branches 

September Tree Colour Studies

With September's new moon I did colour studies of  the same 4 trees I have been studying for over a year.
The red arbutus bark is peeling again to show a bright green under layer.

The cedar continues to produces a mid-yellow green ...

...and the Douglas-fir a deeper yellow green.

The withdrawal of chlorophyll is happening more rapidly in the maple tree this month.
Now I need to find these colours in thread and stitch a band of running stitch on each tree cloth.
The work is due to be exhibited again, this time in the Oakville town hall during the World of Threads.
It will look different with 4 more bands of colour added to each sheet.