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| The Travellers, 2014. Image by Christina Arsenault |
I chose to submit my recent work The Travellers, made from antique kitchen strainers, combined with brass and copper patina-ed wire, machine embroidery and resin.
The Travellers was inspired by immigrants
from the United Kingdom who left their homes to seek fortune and
opportunities in foreign and often hostile lands when Britain was
establishing new colonies in Australia and North America. Passages of
writing by early British immigrants, who experienced the
inconveniences of first settlement and the destruction of their
precious personal items that travelled the rough bush roads to their
new dwellings inspired my work. Despite adverse conditions their pioneering spirits
never faltered, allowing them to follow their dreams and create
better lives.
More information about The Travellers creation can be found here.
Participating artists include Jacqueline Bradley, Hamilton Darroch, Melinda Le Guay, Stephanie Jones, Waratah Lahy, Birte Larsen, Nongirrnga Marawili, Ellie Mucke, Alison Munro, Mylyn Nguyen, Susan O’Doherty, Rachael Roxburgh, Niomi Sands, Kate Ward, David Watt, Anthony Whyte and various knitters.
Kitchenalia runs from 28 August to 11 October 2014 at the Goulburn Regional Art Gallery.
