Friday 5th – Sunday 21st
October, 2018
Opening: Friday 5th October
6-8pm
In conversation: Sunday 21st October – 2pm
Artist and Articulate co-director Margaret Roberts in conversation
with the artists, Rox De Luca, Michele Elliot and Laurie Paine
Open hours: Friday - Sunday 11am to 5pm
Making :
memory came about through exchanges between the
artists that focus on collecting and accumulation, gesture and process. This
body of work presented by De Luca, Elliot and Paine coheres in material
conversations around the life of textiles and objects. The artists
incorporate once-used and familiar objects, re-imagined and transformed through
weaving, stitching and assemblage.
About the artists:
Rox De Luca lives in Bondi, New South Wales. De Luca’s practice reflects her interest in the serious
global issue of waste, specifically plastic waste that our species generates daily.
De Luca uses weather-worn plastics sourced from her local beach and one of
our nation’s
most popular, Bondi Beach. Sometimes
plastics are accessed from elsewhere for example, aviation seals or the
thread-like remnants left by the drilling process of the plastics.
The resulting sculptural garlands and tangled constructions are
reflections of her coastal home and the greater human landscape of waste. For
this project, Rox would like to incorporate found and reclaimed textile
materials in her sculptural pieces.
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Rox De Luca Mama’s dress with green garland, 2018, clothing, found plastic, wire detail |
Michele
Elliot
is a visual artist and occasional writer based in the Illawarra, NSW. Her work
encompasses sculpture, installation, textiles and drawing and comes out a
material practice. Whether in large scale installations using thread and fabric
constructed in the space of the gallery, or with her more intimate objects,
Elliot’s focus on connectivity, mapping and the body often results in a strange
balance between restraint and excess. Her survey exhibition, some kind of longing :
textile works is on display at the Tamworth Regional Art Gallery in
Sept-Oct. It includes works that span more than two decades. Currently, Elliot
is Artist-in-Residence at Tender Funerals in Port Kembla NSW, through funding
from Create NSW.
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| Michele Elliot green floral (detail), 2017, gifted clothing, cotton thread |
Laurie Paine is an artist living in Hurstbridge, Victoria.
Paine’s practice is concerned with the inherent language of cloth and its
influence on our lives. Dating from her own discovery of the relevance of
designs to her Palestinian cultural heritage and subsequent investigation, this
theme has continued through the work. Further, Laurie has explored these
notions of language in cloth through travels; Africa, Central America, and most
recently, East Timor and Laos, where women have strived to maintain their
cultural heritage through the ever fluent metaphor of hand woven cloth.
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| Laurie Paine Rose, (detail), 2010, linen, rose, thread, 6 x 7 cm |
