If you are in Canberra, come along next week to the opening of the country show – should be heaps of fun. Poster design by Ampersand Duck.
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They flock together – patterns across the wall: a collection of objects cast from the empty spaces left behind in plastic packaging. Sourced from the tool box, the toy box and the domestic environment, the original moulds are the wallpaper of our daily lives – ever present but barely noticed.
Images: Julie Shiels, Masked, 2008 (detail), flocked plaster casts, 2 x 3.6m. Photo: John BrashJulie Shiels. On at Ararat Regional Art Gallery, Victoria, Thursday, 21 May to Sunday, 21 June 2009.
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Gallery hanahou presents Forget Me-Not: embroidered love from the new craft movement
On from February 6 to 27 – Opening reception: February 6th, 6-8 pm at gallery hanahou / 611 Broadway, Suite 730, NYC /
For generations, women have expressed love of family through the painstaking art of embroidery … a new generation of embroidery artists using needle and thread to depict love in broader terms, whether idealized and simple or brutal and complicated. Curated by Kristen Rask from Schmancy.
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Installations by Merinda Kelly at Über Gallery, 52 Fitzroy St, St Kilda Victoria. 05 – 30 December
A series of assemblages made from everyday and precious objects. Placed within framed boxes and behind glass, the assemblages are reminiscent of traditional museum exhibition. Kelly’s works allude to issues of mass production, globalisation and materialism, in addition to perceptions of aesthetics and value.
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Printed hankies by Chris De Rosa is on at artroom5, Adelaide (Australia) 19 to 26 November
Image: Chris De Rosa, hankies – found and printed on, 2008, Photo: Michal Kluvanek
At some stage in my past I became aware of a handicraft practised by my aunties whereby they would add decorative flourishes to already existing hankies as a means of both learning handicrafts (needlework, embroidery etc.) and personalising and adding value to an otherwise impersonal item. My printed additions were my own contemporary version of this practice, a means of carrying on the tradition and paying a kind of tribute to those hand crafting practices and the women and girls who pursued them.
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