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Tapestry 2008: The Fine Art of Weaving
By Debbie Herd (con't)
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Kay Lawrence, a pioneer in Australian community tapestry, gave a presentation of the many tapestries completed in South Australia. . . . Two large tapestries to celebrate the "Centenary of Women's Suffrage" in South Australia were discussed in detail. They now hang in the House of Assembly chamber of South Australian Parliament. . . . http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/women_and_politics/mr17.htm
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Below: Centenary of Women's Suffrage tapestry designed by Kay Lawrence (in South Australia). Thousands of South Australian women took the opportunity to "make a pass into history" by weaving a few stitches in the commemorative tapestries to celebrate the "Centenary of Women's Suffrage" in South Australia Photo reproduced from a postcard.
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As I Saw It: Exhibitions in Canberra
By Marilyn Rea-Menzies
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[At the] talk by the artists at the exhibition "The Fine Art of Tapestry Weaving." Jasuko Fujino stood in front of her large "Harmas de J.H.Fabre" . . . Her work is strongly influenced by . . . the works of the French scientist/naturalist J.H.Fabre, best known for his series of texts on insects and arachnids collectively termed the Souvenirs Entomologiques. . . .
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Below: Jasuko Fujino, Harmas de J.H. Farbre, 79" x 156" (200cm x 400 cm)
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The modular "Memoire" . . . by Finnish weaver Aino Kajaniemi. . . . 20 almost monochromatic small tapestries hung as one work, making a strong statement. . . . enhanced by the different textures resulting from the variety of fibres within a unit. She is able to find free forms through eccentric wefting, and through a flexibility of line that wanders here and there throughout the work.
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Below: Aino Kajaniemi, Memoire 57" x 95"(144cm x 242cm)
Aino Kajaniemi, Memoire detail
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In the evening we went to the . . . talk by Cresside Collette about her exhibition "A Month at Bundanon." Cresside had spent a month as artist in residence there. . . . The small tapestry "Singleman’s and Grass" is . . . broken up into three sections and focus[es] on the green grass in the foreground.
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Below: Cresside Collette, Singleman's and Grass
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The tapestry exhibitions at "Tapestry 2008" in Canberra show that tapestry is alive and well around the world, that tapestry weavers everywhere are producing innovative and interesting work . . .
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Below: FINE ART OF TAPESTRY EXHIBIT. Jane Kidd's work, Imprint, Impact 3 is in the foreground. The modular work on the wall behind the lady is Susan Mowatt's, probably Spill Jasuko Fujino's Harmas de J.H. Farbre on the far back and Aino Kajaneimi's Memoire on nearer back wall. The long blue piece is Fiona Rutherord's Past Present
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Reinventing Landscape
By Katherine Perkins and Lynn Mayne
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. . . “Reinventing Landscape,” sponsored by the American Tapestry Alliance, was held at [Convergence] in June 2008. The workshop instructor, Joan Baxter of Brora, Sutherland, Scotland, (See Tapestry Topics Winter 2006 p.13) . . . directed our class into approaching the idea of landscape in some new ways. . . . looking beyond the visual . . . Students had been asked to bring resource material for landscape designs. . . useful resources would include . . . memories, dreams, music, stories, thoughts, as well as drawings, photographs and diary extracts. As Lynn describes the task: the landscape was to have significance to the individual and could be real or imaginary, rural or urban.
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Below: Becky Stevens at work on a design assignment
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Below: Joan Baxter samples
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