workshop 3
Posted: Tuesday, 18 September 2007 |
I have been meaning to write this up for a couple of weeks, when I went to Festival of Quilts I attended 2 workshops, the first was with Sarah Fincken, Dreamtime, it was connected to Aboriginal Art, Sarah had made a quilt in this style I had not seen her quilt when I booked the class infact I could not find out much about her and there was no supply list for the course after I had booked it so I started to have reservations, well I tried some discharge (bleaching) which I have read a lot about but never done before (well not intentionally),
Sarah had lots of enthusiasm but lacked organisation and what made it not good was she insisted we work on a 36 inch square of fabric, you cannot do a work this large in a few hours, especially if you had not even got a design idea before hand, I ended up reading and making notes and sketches from a book Sarah had of Contempory Aboriginal Art, I was interested as I had seen an exhibition many years ago and found it fascinating, I would like to develop it further but for now some photos,
Sarah’s Quilt, The Road to…., and a detail,
another detail,
work I saw at the exhibition in 1995,
Emu Dreaming at Boundary Bore 111 by Kuddtji Kngwarreye
Awelye – Women’s Ceremony by Rosemary Petyarre
Sand Patterns by Maree Puruntatmeri
Tiwi Turtle by Sheila Puruntatmeri
my little bit of discharge work,
Sarah had lots of enthusiasm but lacked organisation and what made it not good was she insisted we work on a 36 inch square of fabric, you cannot do a work this large in a few hours, especially if you had not even got a design idea before hand, I ended up reading and making notes and sketches from a book Sarah had of Contempory Aboriginal Art, I was interested as I had seen an exhibition many years ago and found it fascinating, I would like to develop it further but for now some photos,
Sarah’s Quilt, The Road to…., and a detail,
another detail,
work I saw at the exhibition in 1995,
Emu Dreaming at Boundary Bore 111 by Kuddtji Kngwarreye
Awelye – Women’s Ceremony by Rosemary Petyarre
Sand Patterns by Maree Puruntatmeri
Tiwi Turtle by Sheila Puruntatmeri
my little bit of discharge work,
Comments
The Aboriginal art really lends itself to fabric work, doesn't it? It's a style I've always liked myself, probably because of the shapes with distinct outlines (I think it must be psychological!). I like the dot paintings too, I see the top picture uses buttons for the dots.
Jill from EK
Wow and double wow! What a feast for the eyes!
Michelle Therese from Things Go Moo...and Baah too!
Jill the top 2 pictures are of a quilt and yes buttons, the next 4 photos are of Art by Aboriginal Artists who live and work in OZ, their style of painting is due to their originally painting with their fingers (I do not know if Contempory Artists use brushed), thanks Michelle Therese,
island threads from lewis
I've seen Aboriginal artists making the dots by using the end of a piece of dowel dipped in paint, rather than a brush.
Jill from EK
interesting Jill, I suppose the dowel gives a similar effect as a finger,
island threads from lewis
I think the original dowel was a bit of stick with a flat-cut end. I didn't know it was done with fingers as well. There is some sort of a story to every one, so when non aboriginal artists do it, the tie-in with the ancestors and the dreamtime is lost.
Flying Cat from once upon a time in Victoria
Textile Artists Notebook, 
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