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Fancywork
Fancywork presented embroidery in a new context, layering the familiar imagery of European domestic culture over the “wild” natural environment of south west Australia, invoking the feelings of dislocation and strangeness experienced when negotiating arrival in an unknown place. The series of human-scale embroideries, worked over photographic images of landscapes, lead the viewer to reflect…
From Within – Jane Whiteley Works in Cloth
From Within presented works from Fremantle based artist Jane Whiteley made over the years 1989-1999. During this time she had emerged as one of the leading practitioners in contemporary textiles in Western Australia, with her intense and meditative works that spoke of the humanity of cloth, its universal language and its’ everyday associations with the…