26 Feb 2010 (All day) - 28 Mar 2010 (All day)
Van Wonderland
is an exhibition of work by contemporary crafts practitioners exploring a mysterious world of not-quite-real objects and creatures, based upon historic western perceptions of Tasmania (‘Van Diemen’s Land’) as a distant and little-known island at the far reaches of the globe. This ‘new world’, full of strange and exotic flora and fauna, could be by turns beautiful and sinister – just as the strange Wonderland explored so famously...
5 Feb 2010 - 4:43pm - 7 Feb 2010 - 4:43pm
Artist walk:
Title: Revealing
Materials: Natural dyed raw silk (using acacia, eucalyptus, leptospermum), cotton thread.
Annotated sketch (shows the base of a eucalypt in the process of shedding strips of bark that are still attached at one end to the tree):
- Each piece of bark is lined with dyed fabric, covering what was the hidden inside surface of the bark that is now exposed and facing out from the tree.
- Fabric colours are natural dyes...
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