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 on themes of gender, identity and colonisation. The combination of the intimate world of the fancywork embroiderers with the “truth” of photographic imagery was both unsettling and evocative.