gooseflesh

Hemp and Driftwood

My driftwood collection is enormous and it's been expanding for the last 20 years. One day I knew I would know what to do with it ........ and so recently I started to embellish bits of driftwood with crochet in a beautiful hemp yarn from a local shop.

These pieces will be on exhibition and for sale in the studio in July. I plan to have my first exhibition in the studio with my friend and very talented painter, Phil Barron. 

Photographed in the late afternoon sun.

The post, Beach Detritus, has some photos of the driftwood collections.

 

Tangential Tinkerings

Busily working away at items for the Entropy Collection, however, as expected I veer off on tangents to try new things......

 

Driftwood and bones with hemp crocheted details. Two sculptures by Jade Pegler in the middle.

One of my first wonky baskets and a couple of driftwood/crochet pieces.

The Diatom Collection has expanded.

 

 

Focus on the Entropy Collection

The sun is back, then it's gone and it's still very wet. I guess that's why it's called the rainy season!

In the studio:

A little 10 x 10 cm embroidery of nodules.

I've been working on the "Entropy collection". An expanded version will be exhibited at the Tweed River Regional Art Gallery at the end of the year. It will be exhibited as an installation pinned to the wall, approximately 4 x 1.5m in size. This exhibition has now expanded into a full solo exhibition and I'm trying to bring various pieces together to form a cohesive whole. A public program, as part of the exhibition, is also being organized.

In the studio today

Woops!! I've been tinkering with the banner up above and background colours etc. Bear with me for a little while until I get it all looking fresh and smart.

Other tinkerings:

a small plastic bag vessel with chubby thighs.

its innards

a beautiful and delicate visitor

a small empty space on my table...... a rare event

A busy day today.

Bright-eyed and Bushy-tailed

Hope you all had a wonderful holiday and feel bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, ready for 2012. I'm back in the studio this week after a visit to Sydney, Christmas celebrations and visitors to my little red house. Feels good.

 some doodly fun

with thread

a petri dish doodle

and a slime mould experiment. Not really!

abundance from the garden

my first banana crop.

Good news: The ' Entropy Collection' will be exhibited in the Tweed River Regional Gallery this November. I'll be scaling it up to approx. 5.0 x 1.5m.

 

Helen Frankenthaler

December 12, 1928 – December 27, 2011

Corals and Prints in m(art), Brisbane

Last week I drove into Brisbane to deliver my prints, corals and greeting cards to m(art), the retail face of Craft Queensland. This has meant spending many hours crocheting and felting corals and printing linoprints. I've had the weekend to rest..... aaahhhh!!

The felting process...... friction, hot water and dishwashing liquid. Preferably done wearing pyjamas and accompanied by many cups of tea.

Rejuvenation

It's been three months............. 

There were so many things to do I had to focus my attention on the real world.

Now to catch up:

 

A small collection of twenty explorative sculptures currently being shown in a group exhibition at mister jones until May 20.

More to come in the next few days. Hope you are all well and happy.

Explorative crochet

Little white experimental pieces are coming off the hook. They are part of an exploration exercise in form and texture. The hard-wired organic shapes dominate. What would they be like if I was crocheting in another world with non-carbon based life and different physical laws?  

.........and a group shot on the beach.

 
I have reopened my Etsy shop and listed some pieces of Generation II Softwear. The community attached to Etsy is fabulous and inspiring and I've missed it. Consequently, the Big Cartel shop is closing.

An example from the Gooseflesh Lab.

The Border Art Prize 2010

My entrant in the Border Art Prize was accepted and has been part of the exhibition since late last year. It feels good to be part of a very big diverse group of artists who live in this area. I managed to get down to the gallery today to take a photo of it as the exhibition finishes tomorrow. The exhibition in its entirety looked good and I think the gallery staff have done very well to put together the 250+ pieces, in many different media, into a cohesive whole.

The Retail Reef, 2010

Discarded plastic bags.

 

Border Art Prize, 2010, Tweed River Art Gallery, Murwillumbah, NSW.

Here it is sharing a podium with a very cheery giraffe.

Last night I was crocheting whilst watching the Australian Open Tennis Tournament on TV. This was the result:

The Lichen Necklace made from two plastic bags and I still have some left over.