Posts by Dawne Rudman
Artist Interview 47: Jodi Colella
Tell us about your work? I create 3D abstractions of natural forms. My organic objects reflect on life and its systems. I explore the characteristics of material and transform it into unexpected biomorphic shapes that both attract and repel. My approach often begins with traditional handwork techniques that I adapt to fit the medium and…
Read MoreArtist Interview 46: Anastasia Azure
Tell us about your work? Essentially, my work is woven dimensional fabric. I weave and integrate structural form into fabric and I also shape the fabric afterwards. I feel that my weavings truly breathe life when they exist in the third-dimension. I am inspired by adornment, ritual and the elegance of geometry. To evoke emotional…
Read MoreArtist Interview 45: Marjolein Dallinga
Tell us about your work? As a young girl I loved to make things with anything that came to hand, boxes of fabric, baskets of ribbons, threads and buttons. Millenary stores and second hand clothing stalls were my favourite sources for all the things I wanted to play with. My grandmother was a seamstress who…
Read MoreArtist Interview 44: Libby Hague
Tell us about your work? I do print-based installations with paper. Thematically they deal with disaster and hope, with the idea of the precariousness of everything of consequence in the world. It seems to me that paper is the perfect medium to express this because it is both beautiful and fragile. It’s also a pleasure…
Read MoreArtist Interview 43: Rita Dijkstra
Tell us about your work? I am a quilter and I make contemporary/art quilts. After a short period of making traditional quilts, in which I learned a lot about the technique, I wanted more freedom. Making traditional quilts is not challenging enough for me, because you have to make many blocks that look the same.…
Read MoreArtist Interview 42: Leanne Shea Rhem
Tell us about your work? My work explores what it means to be a woman and to be hindered and motivated by societal expectations in addition to our own. Unconventional and conventional fibre based materials and processes are used throughout my work in order to best represent the various layers of narrative. My work also…
Read MoreArtist Interview 41: Lizz Aston
Tell us about your work? In my work, I am interested in examining our relationships and the residual connections we feel to domestic textile practices and objects of the past. Focusing on traditional women’s work, I take reference from practices including spinning, knotting, papermaking, embroidery and crochet to explore these forms of textile construction within…
Read MoreArtist Interview 40: Sandra Gregson
Tell us about your work? My work evolves from a visual art background: drawing, sculpture, printmaking, painting; and from a Western visual art history. I like working with materials and using specific materials to correspond with and explore ideas. My work includes drawing, sculpture, installation, and video. Art is a way of engaging the world…
Read MoreArtist Interview 39: Kai Chan
Tell us about your work? My work is textile based. They are 3-dimensional and most of them are hung on the wall. They could be site-specific installations to very small-scale objects. Artist Kai Chan Where do you get your inspiration? Everyday life. Red Flood, 2009, 118 x 128 x 3 cm, cotton thread, tin foil,…
Read MoreArtist Interview 38: Edith Meusnier
Tell us about your work? My work consists of designing ephemeral and artificial Installations within nature, in order to let the sun and rain increase the transparency effects and illusions. Successively, traps or offerings, screens or windows, my structures are never frozen; they vibrate between shadow and light, they move with the wind, in a…
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