Preamble
For your convenience I have listed below the annual reviews that span the life of this blogspot.
It's Been An Exciting Year (2010/2011)
Another Cheer - Another Year (2011/2012)
Where Did The Year Go? (2012/2013)
The Year of the Horse (2013/2014)
Cold and Windy - But on the Dawn of Renewal (2014/2015)
A Time To Reflect - A Time To Select (2015/2016)
A Time to Remember (2016/2017)
To Be or Not to Be (2017/2018)
The Night Too Quickly Passes (2018/2019)
The Year of Living Dangerously (2019/2020)
Attempt The Impossible Since Failure Will Still Be Your Success (2020/2021)
A Year of Climate Extremes (2021/2022)
I Love A Sunburnt Country (2022/2023)
Australian Rules (2023/2024)
Introduction
"To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them?"
Hamlet Act III Scene 1 by William Shakespeare.
So why am I quoting Shakespeare's famous soliloquy that engages us to consider the struggle between life and death, when you should be expecting an annual review of this blogspot? Well, it is because so many of us bloggers have given up blogging. Why?
How many of the millions upon millions of blogs on Blogger and Wordpress alone are now really active? It is a given that if you have died then your blogspot usually dies with you. However, have people stop blogging as one critic claims because bloggers lose that buzz of excitement and enthusiasm when they start to realize that their hard work is not appreciated, because traffic to their site is low, they have few followers (most are family and friends), making a living from it is almost impossible, and growing an audience is a forlorn hope? I hope not!
Companies like Google still believe that blogging is a useful social and economic activity otherwise they would have pulled out providing this free service. Some pundits claim, that the best way to test your small business idea, is to frame it in a blog, and then monitor its progress. If it takes off (e.g. Alisa Burke) then spin it out as a company, and rake in millions. For every Alisa Burke, there are no doubt millions of unsuccessful versions of her.
Google has admitted to the European Union that they are an advertising company. I claimed this was the case in 2008, and it took Google nearly a decade to catch up with my analysis. Google I really don't have your resources so what happened?
In my early life (prior to the internet), I was a graphic designer working for some of the biggest advertising agencies in Melbourne (Australia). They created advertisements for audiences that were captured by different forms of media (e.g. newspapers, magazines, radio, cinema and television). Google went one step further: they created a successful search engine and destroyed their competition in the process (remember Excite - born in 1993; Yahoo! - born in 1994; WebCrawler – born in 1994; Lycos – born in 1994; Infoseek – born in 1994; AltaVista – born in 1995; Inktomi – born in 1996; Ask Jeeves (now Ask) – born in 1997).
In doing so Google created its own audience and to keep them, it needed interesting and diverse content on the internet in order for it to grow its revenue. How do you create internet content without paying for it yourself? Instead of hiring millions of writers, you provide a free service that allows them to write for you. Obviously your competition can access your content (e.g. DuckDuckGo) as you can access content delivered by other services (e.g. WordPress) but that is a risk you take. As a search engine provider, you now only have to hire fewer people who write algorithms in order to assess the content because in the end that is what will keep you ahead of the search engine pack. Clearly, commercial interest can come into play to decide who stars on the first page, and who is hidden on page 10 after a search engine analysis.
So why do I bother? This blog spot makes me reflect on my own art, the art of others, and provides me with a therapy of sorts. I was determined from the very beginning that its purpose was to inform, aspire and inspire others to get on with their own artwork. At the outset my commitment was simple: I would blog approximately 50 posts a year, including an annual review on the most popular post in a given year within each category.
It began on Thursday the 26th of August 2010, and by the way, I intend to keep on blogging, because this type of art therapy I enjoy! I want to thank Google for providing this service and I hope that Google will not shut down Blogger on commercial grounds, because the internet is now flooded with commercial content, and moreover, with non commercial content owned by commercial interests.
To Be Or Not To Be
The number of categories on this blog spot keeps growing. They are as follows: (i) ArtCloth; (ii) Art Essay; (iii) Art Exhibitions/Installations/Talks; (iv) Artist's Profile; (v) Art Resource; (vi) Art Review; (vii) Book Review; (viii) Fabric Lengths; (ix) Glossaries; (x) Guest Artist; (xi) Guest Editor; (xii) My Students Outputs (Workshops and Master Classes); (xiii) Opinion Pieces; (xiv) Resource Reviews; (xv) Prints On Paper; (xvi) Technical Articles; (xvii) Wearable Art.
Not all of these categories are present in any given year (e.g. Guest Artist, Technical Articles etc did not appear this year). Also judging a post by the one criterion - most amount of visitors - is not necessarily the smartest approach, since the length of stay might mitigate the former statistic. How often have you heard yourself say - oops I really didn't mean to google this hunk of a man when I searched for "loincloth"! Nevertheless, this one statistic makes matters so much easier for me and so it will be used as the final arbitrator!
ArtCloth
There was only one post on ArtCloth in 2017/2018 and that was Ode for a Washcloth - The Hymn of a Tiger. I will re-iterate here one passage from the Foreword of the book to give you an inkling of the ArtCloth work it contained.
“Ode for a Washcloth - The Hymn of a Tiger, discusses what influence textiles, that encompasses method, material and tradition, have had on the art scene today, and at the same time it also draws lines from today into textiles of the past ten decades. Our intention has not been to make a chronological presentation of Norwegian Textile Artists history. On the other hand, we have chosen to invite many voices to tell about and so delve into aspects of the textile field."
ArtCloth artist Gitte Magnus working with "I had my own box to sit on".
Photograph Courtesy of Magnus.
Art Essay
There were a large number of posts in this category. They ranged from the Clothes of the Sami to Shishu (Japanese Embroidery). However, the most popular was my Art Essay on Graffiti Versus Post Graffiti Art.
Graffiti Art came of age when artists started reproducing it on cloth and other fine art substrates. I started doing this around 1998 when I was developing not a Graffiti voice but rather a Post-Graffiti voice - hence, my ArtCloth installation "Another Brick". My university students enjoyed the difference between these two voices!
Art Exhibitions
There was only one post published in 2017/2018 in this category and that was Make Lace Not War - Part III. This was the third part of the series and the post focussed on functional items made from lace. Of all of these images, I just loved the lace boots. Highly unpractical but what a hoot waltzing with these boots covering your feet.
Artist: Waltraud Janzen.
Artist's Statement: I am fascinated by the long history of shoes all over the world; their political and social meaning. I decided to create shoes in handmade lace. For this pair of boots I used a thin brass wire in free crochet work. Unwearable as these lace shoes are, they are meant to be a homage to the history of shoes.
Item: Boots.
Description: Pair of boots: Crochet using brass wire.
Size: 240 x 110 x 270 mm.
Artist's Profile
There was only one artist who was profiled in the 2017/2018 season and that was Norma Starszakowna. Generally, the ArtCloth artists I have known, have their artcloth on numerous websites. On the other hand, Norma who is internationally renowned and has had her installations in some of the most highly prestigious exhibition venues, is scarcely visible on the internet. Hence, there is an internet appetite for her work which never seems to be sated. I love her ArtCloth, and I love the texture that she infuses into her work. Let face it, I'm a fan!
Titles from Left to Right: Rice Field; China Sunset; Red Stripe - 1999.
Techniques and Materials: Silk organza, screen-printed with heat-reactive pigment, various print media.
Size: 25 x 360 cm each.
Art Resource
Once a month an Art Resource is published on this blogspot. The Art Resources that are published just after the Annual Review are always the favourites to win, because they normally have a year to gain an audience, whereas the art resource published in the month of the review only has a fortnight. It is not surprising that the two most popular Art Resources this year were Woven Pile Fabrics and Chenille Yarn and Tufted Pile Fabrics and the winner in terms of the most audience views is the former.
Woven pile fabrics.
Art Review
There were few Art Reviews in the 2017/2018 season. Of all the categories, this category had the lowest attendance; why - is anyone's guess. All I can say is that the internet is a strange and unpredictable beast! The most popular in this category was Art Quilts - Part III.
Artist: Judith A. Weiss.
Title: Bijou Dream.
Technique and Materials: Pattern drifting, piecing, quilting; cotton and cotton blends.
Size: 49 x 49 inches.
Photograph: Calista Lawton.
Book Review
There was only one Book Review in 2017/2018 and that was a review I wrote on a book written by my dear and very special ArtCloth friends, Els van Baarle and Cherilyn Martin, whose book is titled "Interpreting Themes in Textile Art" Batsford, London (2017). ISBN: 9781849944366.
I summarised my review using the following words: "This book is special since it gives practical insights into creating complex imagery and texture using a large range of fibre material." Below is an image of each of their artworks. Their artworks are always exceptional.
"EMA", Els van Baarle.
Batik on recycled cotton towels, wood.
Courtesy of the above.
"Pages #1", Cherilyn Martin.
Fused sheets of plastic, with Spunfab, Angelina fibres and oil paint trapped in the layers and with fusible film laminated on the surface.
Courtesy of the above.
Fabric Lengths
There were a dozen posts in 2017/2018 that featured my Fabric Lengths. Art Quill Studio had a stall at the Sydney Craft and Quilt Fair in June 2018. We sold lots of handmade scarves, fabric lengths, and fat quarters etc. There will be a post in the not-too-distant future of our experiences at the Fair. It was a lot of hard work explaining to so many about all the work that went into creating these fabric lengths. Sadly I sold some of my favourite works, which I know have found good homes and are making others happy. Thanks for their support! The most popular post in this category was Garden Delights I & II. Fortunately for me, I have used the image below for my business card and so this fat quarter was not for sale!
"Garden Delights I" (detail view of fat quarter).
Technique and Materials: Over-dyed digitally printed fabric, screen-printed employing opaque and metallic pigments on linen.
Size: 50 cm (wide) x 55 cm high.
Glossaries
There was only one Glossary published in 2017/2018 and that was the Glossary of Paper, Photography, Printing, Prints and Publication Terms - Edition 3.5 It contains a large number of definitions.
For example one of the saucy ones is: Abuna-e (Japanese Woodblock Classes of Print): Risque pictures; they came into fashion in the early 1720's after a government crackdown on the more explicit images, shun-ga. They are the closest analogue in Japanese art to the nudes of Western art, and usually capture the subject in a private moment, partially undressed.
Abuna-e for a shunga series, Utamaro.
I hope you enjoy the other definitions!
Guest Editor
There was only one Guest Editor on this blogspot in 2017/2018 and that was Lisa Bendeich of "That Little Art Place" (Singleton, NSW, Australia). She works tirelessly for her community and so it is not surprising for those who know her, that she created her biggest adventure yet, the Art & Craft Expo. It showcased talented artists within her community.
Kids doing an art "shoot out" at the Art & Craft Expo. It was very busy with three sections, and 52 kids all up.
Prints on Paper
Although most of the artwork displayed on this blogspot uses cloth as a medium, there will always be some posts devoted to works on paper because I also love screen printing on paper as an art media. In 2017/2018 there were only three posts devoted to this media. The most popular by a country mile was Contemporary Aboriginal Posters (1984) - (1993).
There is something that is very unique about Aboriginal artworks. Even if they are contemporary in style there is still an undercurrent of a traditional remembrance that has a continuing presence. I just love it!
6th National Aboriginal Art Award (1989).
Image designed by Fiona Foley.
Technique: Off-set print on paper.
Size: 60 x 42 cm.
Resource Review
The idea behind the Resource Review is to introduce you to an institution (e.g. Gallery, Museum or even a street arcade e.g. Hosier Lane in Melbourne) that presents to you artworks and resources that you should engage in if opportunity presents. I love the fact that I am lucky enough that my artwork takes me to some interesting places and that I have the opportunity to immerse and indulge myself to experiencing a visual, oral, aural and tactile environment. Yes, I have experienced at one exhibition where the aroma was a significant feature. However, the carcass of a rotting animal I believe is not a work of art!
It is therefore with great pleasure to re-awaken you to two art resources I have visited and written posts about in 2017/2018 and they were: Nordiska Museet (The Nordic Museum) and Louisiana Museum of Modern Art with the former more popular than the latter.
Simple home-woven dress with silk threads from the beginning of the 1820s - part of The Nordic Museum's collection.
Wearable Art
Wearable Art encompasses such items as scarves, clothes and all items that adorn a body. If it is placed in an art setting such as in a framed work etc., the functionality of the art erodes and so it transforms into Art itself. However, once worn, the act of engagement is eroded because of the presence of the wearer and it becomes wearable art. The two posts vying for the top position were my New ‘Unique State’ Silk ArtCloth Scarves and My New Silk ArtCloth Scarves with the latter having 28 more visitors.
Technique and Media: Dyed, shibori overdyed, discharged, stamped and silk screened employing dyes, discharge media, glazes, transparent, opaque and metallic pigments on silk habotai (full view).
Size: 28.5 (wide) x 142 (length) cm.
Workshop
I love giving workshops. I just love it when one of my students learns a technique, runs with it, develops their voice using it, and then projects it into their own style. It always amazes me how creative human beings are, seeing a motif, an image, creating an idea using a technique that I introduced them to. This year's workshops were more scarce because of an injury to my hand but nevertheless I managed to give one. In Pursuit of Complex Cloth: Layered Printing Approaches - Workshop Outputs of Pauline Cosgrove 2017 Art Quill Studio Workshop Program.
This two day workshop was dedicated to exploring and mastering complex relationships on the substrate surface using complex printed layering and overprinting techniques. Using a variety of printing tools, processes and color combinations, participants were introduced to the underlying principles of color, contrast, value, scale and texture. Below is just one of Pauline's outputs.
Value/contrast study employing size, scale, hue and tone.
For your convenience I have listed below the annual reviews that span the life of this blogspot.
It's Been An Exciting Year (2010/2011)
Another Cheer - Another Year (2011/2012)
Where Did The Year Go? (2012/2013)
The Year of the Horse (2013/2014)
Cold and Windy - But on the Dawn of Renewal (2014/2015)
A Time To Reflect - A Time To Select (2015/2016)
A Time to Remember (2016/2017)
To Be or Not to Be (2017/2018)
The Night Too Quickly Passes (2018/2019)
The Year of Living Dangerously (2019/2020)
Attempt The Impossible Since Failure Will Still Be Your Success (2020/2021)
A Year of Climate Extremes (2021/2022)
I Love A Sunburnt Country (2022/2023)
Australian Rules (2023/2024)
Introduction
"To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them?"
Hamlet Act III Scene 1 by William Shakespeare.
So why am I quoting Shakespeare's famous soliloquy that engages us to consider the struggle between life and death, when you should be expecting an annual review of this blogspot? Well, it is because so many of us bloggers have given up blogging. Why?
How many of the millions upon millions of blogs on Blogger and Wordpress alone are now really active? It is a given that if you have died then your blogspot usually dies with you. However, have people stop blogging as one critic claims because bloggers lose that buzz of excitement and enthusiasm when they start to realize that their hard work is not appreciated, because traffic to their site is low, they have few followers (most are family and friends), making a living from it is almost impossible, and growing an audience is a forlorn hope? I hope not!
Companies like Google still believe that blogging is a useful social and economic activity otherwise they would have pulled out providing this free service. Some pundits claim, that the best way to test your small business idea, is to frame it in a blog, and then monitor its progress. If it takes off (e.g. Alisa Burke) then spin it out as a company, and rake in millions. For every Alisa Burke, there are no doubt millions of unsuccessful versions of her.
Google has admitted to the European Union that they are an advertising company. I claimed this was the case in 2008, and it took Google nearly a decade to catch up with my analysis. Google I really don't have your resources so what happened?
In my early life (prior to the internet), I was a graphic designer working for some of the biggest advertising agencies in Melbourne (Australia). They created advertisements for audiences that were captured by different forms of media (e.g. newspapers, magazines, radio, cinema and television). Google went one step further: they created a successful search engine and destroyed their competition in the process (remember Excite - born in 1993; Yahoo! - born in 1994; WebCrawler – born in 1994; Lycos – born in 1994; Infoseek – born in 1994; AltaVista – born in 1995; Inktomi – born in 1996; Ask Jeeves (now Ask) – born in 1997).
In doing so Google created its own audience and to keep them, it needed interesting and diverse content on the internet in order for it to grow its revenue. How do you create internet content without paying for it yourself? Instead of hiring millions of writers, you provide a free service that allows them to write for you. Obviously your competition can access your content (e.g. DuckDuckGo) as you can access content delivered by other services (e.g. WordPress) but that is a risk you take. As a search engine provider, you now only have to hire fewer people who write algorithms in order to assess the content because in the end that is what will keep you ahead of the search engine pack. Clearly, commercial interest can come into play to decide who stars on the first page, and who is hidden on page 10 after a search engine analysis.
So why do I bother? This blog spot makes me reflect on my own art, the art of others, and provides me with a therapy of sorts. I was determined from the very beginning that its purpose was to inform, aspire and inspire others to get on with their own artwork. At the outset my commitment was simple: I would blog approximately 50 posts a year, including an annual review on the most popular post in a given year within each category.
It began on Thursday the 26th of August 2010, and by the way, I intend to keep on blogging, because this type of art therapy I enjoy! I want to thank Google for providing this service and I hope that Google will not shut down Blogger on commercial grounds, because the internet is now flooded with commercial content, and moreover, with non commercial content owned by commercial interests.
To Be Or Not To Be
The number of categories on this blog spot keeps growing. They are as follows: (i) ArtCloth; (ii) Art Essay; (iii) Art Exhibitions/Installations/Talks; (iv) Artist's Profile; (v) Art Resource; (vi) Art Review; (vii) Book Review; (viii) Fabric Lengths; (ix) Glossaries; (x) Guest Artist; (xi) Guest Editor; (xii) My Students Outputs (Workshops and Master Classes); (xiii) Opinion Pieces; (xiv) Resource Reviews; (xv) Prints On Paper; (xvi) Technical Articles; (xvii) Wearable Art.
Not all of these categories are present in any given year (e.g. Guest Artist, Technical Articles etc did not appear this year). Also judging a post by the one criterion - most amount of visitors - is not necessarily the smartest approach, since the length of stay might mitigate the former statistic. How often have you heard yourself say - oops I really didn't mean to google this hunk of a man when I searched for "loincloth"! Nevertheless, this one statistic makes matters so much easier for me and so it will be used as the final arbitrator!
ArtCloth
There was only one post on ArtCloth in 2017/2018 and that was Ode for a Washcloth - The Hymn of a Tiger. I will re-iterate here one passage from the Foreword of the book to give you an inkling of the ArtCloth work it contained.
“Ode for a Washcloth - The Hymn of a Tiger, discusses what influence textiles, that encompasses method, material and tradition, have had on the art scene today, and at the same time it also draws lines from today into textiles of the past ten decades. Our intention has not been to make a chronological presentation of Norwegian Textile Artists history. On the other hand, we have chosen to invite many voices to tell about and so delve into aspects of the textile field."
Photograph Courtesy of Magnus.
Art Essay
There were a large number of posts in this category. They ranged from the Clothes of the Sami to Shishu (Japanese Embroidery). However, the most popular was my Art Essay on Graffiti Versus Post Graffiti Art.
Graffiti Art came of age when artists started reproducing it on cloth and other fine art substrates. I started doing this around 1998 when I was developing not a Graffiti voice but rather a Post-Graffiti voice - hence, my ArtCloth installation "Another Brick". My university students enjoyed the difference between these two voices!
Art Exhibitions
There was only one post published in 2017/2018 in this category and that was Make Lace Not War - Part III. This was the third part of the series and the post focussed on functional items made from lace. Of all of these images, I just loved the lace boots. Highly unpractical but what a hoot waltzing with these boots covering your feet.
Artist's Statement: I am fascinated by the long history of shoes all over the world; their political and social meaning. I decided to create shoes in handmade lace. For this pair of boots I used a thin brass wire in free crochet work. Unwearable as these lace shoes are, they are meant to be a homage to the history of shoes.
Item: Boots.
Description: Pair of boots: Crochet using brass wire.
Size: 240 x 110 x 270 mm.
Artist's Profile
There was only one artist who was profiled in the 2017/2018 season and that was Norma Starszakowna. Generally, the ArtCloth artists I have known, have their artcloth on numerous websites. On the other hand, Norma who is internationally renowned and has had her installations in some of the most highly prestigious exhibition venues, is scarcely visible on the internet. Hence, there is an internet appetite for her work which never seems to be sated. I love her ArtCloth, and I love the texture that she infuses into her work. Let face it, I'm a fan!
Techniques and Materials: Silk organza, screen-printed with heat-reactive pigment, various print media.
Size: 25 x 360 cm each.
Art Resource
Once a month an Art Resource is published on this blogspot. The Art Resources that are published just after the Annual Review are always the favourites to win, because they normally have a year to gain an audience, whereas the art resource published in the month of the review only has a fortnight. It is not surprising that the two most popular Art Resources this year were Woven Pile Fabrics and Chenille Yarn and Tufted Pile Fabrics and the winner in terms of the most audience views is the former.
Art Review
There were few Art Reviews in the 2017/2018 season. Of all the categories, this category had the lowest attendance; why - is anyone's guess. All I can say is that the internet is a strange and unpredictable beast! The most popular in this category was Art Quilts - Part III.
Title: Bijou Dream.
Technique and Materials: Pattern drifting, piecing, quilting; cotton and cotton blends.
Size: 49 x 49 inches.
Photograph: Calista Lawton.
Book Review
There was only one Book Review in 2017/2018 and that was a review I wrote on a book written by my dear and very special ArtCloth friends, Els van Baarle and Cherilyn Martin, whose book is titled "Interpreting Themes in Textile Art" Batsford, London (2017). ISBN: 9781849944366.
I summarised my review using the following words: "This book is special since it gives practical insights into creating complex imagery and texture using a large range of fibre material." Below is an image of each of their artworks. Their artworks are always exceptional.
Batik on recycled cotton towels, wood.
Courtesy of the above.
Fused sheets of plastic, with Spunfab, Angelina fibres and oil paint trapped in the layers and with fusible film laminated on the surface.
Courtesy of the above.
Fabric Lengths
There were a dozen posts in 2017/2018 that featured my Fabric Lengths. Art Quill Studio had a stall at the Sydney Craft and Quilt Fair in June 2018. We sold lots of handmade scarves, fabric lengths, and fat quarters etc. There will be a post in the not-too-distant future of our experiences at the Fair. It was a lot of hard work explaining to so many about all the work that went into creating these fabric lengths. Sadly I sold some of my favourite works, which I know have found good homes and are making others happy. Thanks for their support! The most popular post in this category was Garden Delights I & II. Fortunately for me, I have used the image below for my business card and so this fat quarter was not for sale!
Technique and Materials: Over-dyed digitally printed fabric, screen-printed employing opaque and metallic pigments on linen.
Size: 50 cm (wide) x 55 cm high.
Glossaries
There was only one Glossary published in 2017/2018 and that was the Glossary of Paper, Photography, Printing, Prints and Publication Terms - Edition 3.5 It contains a large number of definitions.
For example one of the saucy ones is: Abuna-e (Japanese Woodblock Classes of Print): Risque pictures; they came into fashion in the early 1720's after a government crackdown on the more explicit images, shun-ga. They are the closest analogue in Japanese art to the nudes of Western art, and usually capture the subject in a private moment, partially undressed.
I hope you enjoy the other definitions!
Guest Editor
There was only one Guest Editor on this blogspot in 2017/2018 and that was Lisa Bendeich of "That Little Art Place" (Singleton, NSW, Australia). She works tirelessly for her community and so it is not surprising for those who know her, that she created her biggest adventure yet, the Art & Craft Expo. It showcased talented artists within her community.
Prints on Paper
Although most of the artwork displayed on this blogspot uses cloth as a medium, there will always be some posts devoted to works on paper because I also love screen printing on paper as an art media. In 2017/2018 there were only three posts devoted to this media. The most popular by a country mile was Contemporary Aboriginal Posters (1984) - (1993).
There is something that is very unique about Aboriginal artworks. Even if they are contemporary in style there is still an undercurrent of a traditional remembrance that has a continuing presence. I just love it!
Image designed by Fiona Foley.
Technique: Off-set print on paper.
Size: 60 x 42 cm.
Resource Review
The idea behind the Resource Review is to introduce you to an institution (e.g. Gallery, Museum or even a street arcade e.g. Hosier Lane in Melbourne) that presents to you artworks and resources that you should engage in if opportunity presents. I love the fact that I am lucky enough that my artwork takes me to some interesting places and that I have the opportunity to immerse and indulge myself to experiencing a visual, oral, aural and tactile environment. Yes, I have experienced at one exhibition where the aroma was a significant feature. However, the carcass of a rotting animal I believe is not a work of art!
It is therefore with great pleasure to re-awaken you to two art resources I have visited and written posts about in 2017/2018 and they were: Nordiska Museet (The Nordic Museum) and Louisiana Museum of Modern Art with the former more popular than the latter.
Wearable Art
Wearable Art encompasses such items as scarves, clothes and all items that adorn a body. If it is placed in an art setting such as in a framed work etc., the functionality of the art erodes and so it transforms into Art itself. However, once worn, the act of engagement is eroded because of the presence of the wearer and it becomes wearable art. The two posts vying for the top position were my New ‘Unique State’ Silk ArtCloth Scarves and My New Silk ArtCloth Scarves with the latter having 28 more visitors.
Size: 28.5 (wide) x 142 (length) cm.
Workshop
I love giving workshops. I just love it when one of my students learns a technique, runs with it, develops their voice using it, and then projects it into their own style. It always amazes me how creative human beings are, seeing a motif, an image, creating an idea using a technique that I introduced them to. This year's workshops were more scarce because of an injury to my hand but nevertheless I managed to give one. In Pursuit of Complex Cloth: Layered Printing Approaches - Workshop Outputs of Pauline Cosgrove 2017 Art Quill Studio Workshop Program.
This two day workshop was dedicated to exploring and mastering complex relationships on the substrate surface using complex printed layering and overprinting techniques. Using a variety of printing tools, processes and color combinations, participants were introduced to the underlying principles of color, contrast, value, scale and texture. Below is just one of Pauline's outputs.
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