The whipup 2009 calendar features 13 artists/makers/designers whose work has been featured on whipup. This year I hand picked the participants but next year I hope to open it up for everyone. Over the next 13 days I will be featuring each of the participants – so you can get to know them (if you don’t already) a little better.
May artist is Australian crochet sculpture artist Helle Jorgensen: www.hellejorgensen.typepad.com. Helle makes the most extraordinary crochet sculptures and jewelry (among other things). Her rubbish vortex was part of the crochet reef at the institute for figuring.
Post Chrysalis at Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, 7 – 26 October 2009.
Post Chrysalis, a reference to the emergence from the cocoon, describes this exhibition of six remarkable emerging artists
working in various mediums, from crocheting, weaving, meccano construction, to painting. Three of the artists include:
Annie Aitken: uses plastic fruit and vegetable nets to ‘draw’ delicate vessels through stitching.
Helle Jorgensen: uses plastic bag yarn and crochet to make an ecological statement while celebrating nature’s marine beauty and commenting on its fragility.
Edward Waring: uses discarded meccano pieces in is sculptures which relate to docklands and the primary colours and graphics on the weatherworn hulls of ships.
Image caption: Helle Jorgensen Sagarita (2008) discarded plastic bag yarn, variable size – approx 8 x 16cm
