Saturday, August 17, 2019

Art Quill Studio@2019 Melbourne Craft & Quilt Fair

Special Guest: Marie-Therese Wisniowski


Preamble
For your convenience I have listed other posts in this series:
That Little Art Place
Art Quill Studio@2018 Sydney Craft & Quilt Fair
ArtCloth Textiles Created by Marie-Therese Wisniowski


Introduction
Marie-Therese (M-T) Wisniowski was selected as a special guest at the 2019 Melbourne Craft & Quilt Fair at the Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre, South Wharf, July 25 - 28, 2019. This year 'Expertise Events' launched their inaugural 'Handmade Artisan Gallery' at the Quilt Fair and two of M-T's ArtCloth works were selected for the inaugural 'Handmade Artisan Gallery' exhibition.

Marie-Therese of Art Quill Studio
Marie-Therese Wisniowski of Art Quill Studio is an acclaimed international and national textiles award winner - e.g. ‘Second Place Prize’ and two ‘Honourable Mentions’ at the Quilt Surface Design Symposium Fabric Show Competition Columbus, Ohio, USA (2010, 2009, 2007). A ‘Work of Distinction’ was collected at The Americas Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Prints, The Americas Biennial Exhibition & Archive, University of Iowa, Iowa, USA (2008). Her work was ‘Highly Commended’ at the ArtCloth Swap, sponsored by Artwear Publications in conjunction with the Textile Art Festival, Brisbane Exhibition Centre (2011) and she was a ‘Finalist’ at the Inaugural 2013 Australian Craft Awards - Fashion Accessories Category - awarded by Design100 P/L (2013).

2010 QSDS Fabric Show.
Artist: Marie-Therese Wisniowski.
Title: Sunset Reflections (Full View).
Techniques/Media: Multiple silkscreen prints on silk habotai employing dyes.
Size: 2.5 yards (length) x 45 inches (width).
Available for purchase. Please email me at - Marie-Therese - for enquires about its possible purchase.

2010 QSDS Fabric Show.
Artist: Marie-Therese Wisniowski.
Title: Sunset Reflections (Detail View).

M-T’s work at Art Quill Studio produces unique, contemporary, high quality, hand dyed and hand printed ArtCloth textiles using time honored and complex surface design techniques. Her ArtCloth textiles are custom designed and made in Australia where she employs her signature printing techniques to create unique textiles. Every one of her ArtCloth textiles are original works that cannot be replicated. Her ArtCloth textiles are available as fabric lengths, fat quarters, fabric samplers and scarves and are perfect for craft, wearable art, accessories, quilting, furnishing, interior design projects and as framed artworks.

M-T's ArtCloth works have received numerous national and international awards as well as being exhibited both in Australia and internationally. They are held in major public and private collections in Australia, Canada, Dubai, England, Hong Kong, Ireland, Sweden, Thailand, The Netherlands and the USA. She is also available for workshops and lectures.

If you would like any information about her ArtCloth textiles, fabric lengths, fat quarters, fat eigths and scarves shown below, please email her at - Marie-Therese - to view and/or purchase what is currently available for sale.


Art Quill Studio@2019 Melbourne Craft & Quilt Fair
Some of M-T's fabric designs and collections seen below were especially created for this show in order to celebrate over 25 years of Expertise Events contribution to the art and craft sector.

Art Quill Studio@2019 Melbourne Craft & Quilt Fair. July 25 - 28, 2019, at the Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre, South Wharf, Melbourne, Victoria.
M-T standing next to the 2019 Melbourne Craft & Quilt Fair ‘Welcome’ sign.

A general view of the Art Quill Studio Stand No. H21 at the 2019 Melbourne Craft & Quilt Fair which featured M-T's hand dyed and hand printed ArtCloth fabric lengths, fat quarters and fabric samplers; hand dyed and hand printed ArtCloth velvet scarves, silk scarves and pashminas; hand dyed Shibori ArtCloth velvet and silk fat quarters; and one-off/limited edition digitally printed fabric lengths.

A quiet moment before the doors open on the first day of trading!
A general view of the Art Quill Studio Stand No. H21 at the 2019 Melbourne Craft & Quilt Fair which featured M-T's 'Unique, Australian, contemporary, hand dyed and hand printed ArtCloth textiles.

Another general view of the Art Quill Studio Stand No. H21 at the 2019 Melbourne Craft & Quilt Fair with M-T surrounded by her range of unique, Australian, contemporary, hand dyed and hand printed ArtCloth textiles.

M-T's fat quarters displayed on the back wall featured the following design collections as described below.
Top Left To Right: Ginkgo Love (black colorway), Garden Delights I and Ginkgo Love (purple colorway).
Bottom Left To Right: Wallflower III (warm magenta colorway), Banksia’s Floating (muted sea green and pale lemon colorway) and Spring Flurry (purple colorway).

More of M-T's new collections of hand dyed and hand printed limited edition ArtCloth fabric designs packaged as fat quarters. The designs/collections were dyed and printed on various cotton fabrics.

M-T's fabric samplers packaged as fat eighths were displayed on the back wall.
Bottom three samplers consisted of fabrics in the following hues: blue and green hues (left), olive, gold and grey hues (mid) and warm brown, cream and grey hues (right). Each sampler featured colors that were in the same/similar palette range.
The samplers featured cotton, velvet, silk, and/or linen fabrics in each parcel. Numerous techniques were included in each sampler, which varied from multi-layered complex cloth, low relief screen printing, deconstructed and breakdown screen printing, talc printing, eco printing, stamping, lino block printing and interfacing screen printing as well as numerous dyeing techniques.

More of M-T's collections of hand dyed and hand printed limited edition ArtCloth fabric designs as fat quarters (cotton), packaged fat eighth fabric samplers and multi dyed, shibori silk fat quarters.

M-T adding some more hand dyed and hand printed unique one-off ArtCloth scarves to the display rack.

A view of some of M-T's new collections and range of individually hand dyed and hand printed ArtCloth velvet, silk and pashmina scarves on display at the Art Quill Studio stand at the 2019 Melbourne Craft & Quilt Fair.

A view of some of M-T's new collections and range of individually hand dyed and hand printed limited edition ArtCloth fabric lengths and unique one-off silk ArtCloth scarves on display at the Art Quill Studio stand at the 2019 Melbourne Craft & Quilt Fair.

M-T discussing some of the processes used to create the twenty-odd surface design layers employed to produce the ArtCloth fabric length - ‘Buddha’s Breath'.

Some of M-T's new collections of hand dyed and hand printed limited edition ArtCloth fabric lengths are also on view. Various natural fibers were employed as the substrate for the new designs/collections and included various weights of silks, cottons and rayons. Numerous techniques were included which varied from M-T's signature 'Multiplex' printing, screen printing, discharge printing, multi-layered complex cloth printing, low relief screen printing, deconstructed and breakdown screen printing, talc printing, eco printing, stamping, lino block printing, wax printing, mono printing and interfacing screen printing as well as numerous multi layered dyeing/over dyeing techniques.

M-T discussing the various techniques and media she employs to create each individual ArtCloth Textile, noting that each completed multi dyed and multi layered/printed piece started off as a pure white piece of fabric before she got to it!

M-T surrounded by her multi dyed, multi layered/printed and colorful world of unique, contemporary, hand dyed and hand printed ArtCloth textiles that are designed, dyed and printed in her Art Quill Studio at Arcadia Vale in NSW.


Handmade Artisan Gallery
This year Expertise Events launched their inaugural Handmade Artisan Gallery at the 2019 Melbourne Craft & Quilt Fair and two of Marie-Therese's ArtCloth works were selected for the inaugural Handmade Artisan Gallery exhibition.

A view of some of the artworks featured in the inaugural 'Handmade Artisan Gallery'.

Artist: Marie-Therese Wisniowski.
Title: When the Rain Comes (Full View).
Technique and Media: The artist's signature MultiSperse Dye Sublimation (MSDS) technique employing disperse dyes, native flora, multiple resists and low relief items on delustered satin.
Size: 60 cm (width) x 120 cm (length).

Artist: Marie-Therese Wisniowski.
Title: Ginninderra (Full View).
Technique and Media: The artist's signature MSDS technique employing disperse dyes, native flora and low relief items on delustered satin.
Size: 60 cm (width) x 120 cm (length).

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