Preamble
For your convenience I have listed another two posts in this series on this blogspot:
2018 CrossXpollinatioN "Journeys" Exhibition
‘Timelines: An Environmental Journey’
For you convenience I have also listed below posts on this blogspot that featured Museums and Galleries.
When Rainforests Ruled
Some Textiles@The Powerhouse Museum
Textile Museum in Tilburg (The Netherlands)
Eden Gardens
Maschen (Mesh) Museum@Tailfingen
Museum Lace Factory@Horst(The Netherlands)
Expressing Australia – Art in Parliament House
TextielLab & TextielMuseum – 2013
The Last Exhibition @ Galerie ’t Haentje te Paart
Paste Modernism 4 @ aMBUSH Gallery & The Living Mal
El Anatsui – Five Decades@Carriageworks
The Australian Museum of Clothing and Textiles
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
Nordiska Museet (The Nordic Museum)
Tarndwarncoort (Tarndie)
Egyptian Museum Cairo - Part I
Egyptian Museum Cairo - Part II
Masterpieces of the Israel Museum
Introduction
In September 2017, Hal Martin, the then Manager of the Colac Otway Performing Arts & Cultural Centre (COPACC), Colac (Victoria, Australia) invited me to be a Feature Artist at the "2018 CrossXpollinatioN" exhibition titled "Journeys" at the COPACC Civic Hall between 7th - 29th, July, 2018.
One of the exhibition awards was the Tarndie Fibre Art Award - $1500 - which was awarded to Alison McIntosh for her entry - "Passage" - which was fabricated from linen, felt, wood and wire construction. The work drew upon the concept of "Passage" being about human diaspora. The traffic of people, refugees, forced migrations, across the globe. The donkey has always appeared in religious stories and other narratives. It has been the humble but resilient companion associated with finding refuge or sanctuary. The birds seek safe passage with hope of a new life.
Tarndie Fibre Art Award being presented to recipient Alison McIntosh by Tarndie’s Tom Dennis.
Photo Courtesy: CrossXpollinatioN.
Facebook Website: https://m.facebook.com/CrossxpollinatioN/
Tarndie Fibre Art Award: 3D textile art winner Alison McIntosh.
Title: "Passage".
Media: Linen, felt, wood, wire construction.
Size: 120 x 100 cm.
As I was in the vicinity and because by nature I am a curious person, I decided to visit the Tarndie heritage sheep farm at 37 Roseneath Road, Warncoort. I was surprised that it was far more than a sheep farm, housing a museum, yarn store, woolen mill as well as accommodation for visitors to experience farm stays.
I was delighted to visit their "Cider House Gallery", which is open from Friday to Monday between 9am to 4pm. There I experienced Andrew Delaney's exhibition - Lincoln: Truth and Fabrications. It was a dark Gothic style presentation that reflected turbulent times in America's Civil War history. The installation consisted of objects and artefacts employing vintage and unwanted fabrics and in doing so, it parallels a psychological modern churn in America that the world is currently witnessing - The Trump era.
Tarndie's publicity flyer show casing the exhibition.
One of the installation artworks - a frayed and faded flag.
Photography by Andrew Delaney.
Photo Courtesy: http://annodominihome.blogspot.com/p/american-ci.html
I hope that this small post will remind you of a place you should visit to explore an Australian experience. Remember that in the early 1950s the Australian export of wool was 40% of the world's exports, resulting in the common adage that "Australia rode on the sheep’s back."
Polwarth Sheep on Tarndie Heritage Sheep Farm.
Photo Courtesy: https://www.facebook.com/pg/tarndie/posts.
Tarndie Story - One Family One Flock Since 1840 [1]
The Tarndie story centres on the arrival of the Dennis family from the Penzance region of Cornwall which is in the southwest region of England. Their history goes back to the 1600s, where they grew rotations of root-crops and cereals along side cattle, poultry, pigs and fruit orchards.
Penzance shown within Cornwall.
They ran Trewidden Farm and a mill at Trembath and in the 1830s the sons of Richard and Patience Dennis decided to seek new opportunities in the south of Australia.
The Mill at Trembath.
In 1840 three of Richard's sons, Alexander, William and John Dennis had arrived at Williamstown in Port Philip bay on the ship John Bull. All three brothers had pooled £1,000 each in order to purchase stock, the leasehold of aboriginal land and every thing else they needed. They travelled to Tasmania and purchased 615 merinos, horses and bullocks, which they landed at Point Henry near Geelong and then shepherded the flock westward to Lake Colac, the land of the Gulidjan people.
The John Bull Steam and Sail vessel.
Within two months they purchased the leasehold to Tandwarncoort. The property name is derived from the Gulidjan language meaning "up and down like a bandicoot running". This references the profile of the hills that Tarndwarncoort encompasses.
A view of 65 Collyers Road, Warncoort (Australia) shows a glimpse of the rolling hills.
Initially Tarndwarncoort stocked Merino flock, but because of the higher rainfalls in the region it despoiled the quality of the produced wool. Hence in 1880 Richard V. Dennis began a 25 year breeding program to improve the quality of the wool that better fitted the climate. Finally a breed was produced which was originally named, "Dennis Comeback" which created meat and wool that assisted local farmers to create a maximum return per acre in the cold and wet climate of the region. in 1919 the breed was named "Polwarth" after the name of the local electorate, thereby recognising that Tarnwarncoort had created the first flock of this breed.
Polwarth Sheep Characteristics: The Polwarth sheep is a medium-sized animal with a very beautiful appearance. It has both polled and horned varieties, with the polled types predominating. These animals are large framed, robust and produce a high yielding, soft-handling fleece of 22-25 micron fiber diameter.
The Tarndwarncoort wool shop.
A partial view of the coffee shop/wool shop/gallery complex.
Some of the delicious cakes that are available at the coffee shop.
Reference:
[1] Booklet: One Family One Flock, Tarndwarncoort.
For your convenience I have listed another two posts in this series on this blogspot:
2018 CrossXpollinatioN "Journeys" Exhibition
‘Timelines: An Environmental Journey’
For you convenience I have also listed below posts on this blogspot that featured Museums and Galleries.
When Rainforests Ruled
Some Textiles@The Powerhouse Museum
Textile Museum in Tilburg (The Netherlands)
Eden Gardens
Maschen (Mesh) Museum@Tailfingen
Museum Lace Factory@Horst(The Netherlands)
Expressing Australia – Art in Parliament House
TextielLab & TextielMuseum – 2013
The Last Exhibition @ Galerie ’t Haentje te Paart
Paste Modernism 4 @ aMBUSH Gallery & The Living Mal
El Anatsui – Five Decades@Carriageworks
The Australian Museum of Clothing and Textiles
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
Nordiska Museet (The Nordic Museum)
Tarndwarncoort (Tarndie)
Egyptian Museum Cairo - Part I
Egyptian Museum Cairo - Part II
Masterpieces of the Israel Museum
Introduction
In September 2017, Hal Martin, the then Manager of the Colac Otway Performing Arts & Cultural Centre (COPACC), Colac (Victoria, Australia) invited me to be a Feature Artist at the "2018 CrossXpollinatioN" exhibition titled "Journeys" at the COPACC Civic Hall between 7th - 29th, July, 2018.
One of the exhibition awards was the Tarndie Fibre Art Award - $1500 - which was awarded to Alison McIntosh for her entry - "Passage" - which was fabricated from linen, felt, wood and wire construction. The work drew upon the concept of "Passage" being about human diaspora. The traffic of people, refugees, forced migrations, across the globe. The donkey has always appeared in religious stories and other narratives. It has been the humble but resilient companion associated with finding refuge or sanctuary. The birds seek safe passage with hope of a new life.
Photo Courtesy: CrossXpollinatioN.
Facebook Website: https://m.facebook.com/CrossxpollinatioN/
Title: "Passage".
Media: Linen, felt, wood, wire construction.
Size: 120 x 100 cm.
As I was in the vicinity and because by nature I am a curious person, I decided to visit the Tarndie heritage sheep farm at 37 Roseneath Road, Warncoort. I was surprised that it was far more than a sheep farm, housing a museum, yarn store, woolen mill as well as accommodation for visitors to experience farm stays.
I was delighted to visit their "Cider House Gallery", which is open from Friday to Monday between 9am to 4pm. There I experienced Andrew Delaney's exhibition - Lincoln: Truth and Fabrications. It was a dark Gothic style presentation that reflected turbulent times in America's Civil War history. The installation consisted of objects and artefacts employing vintage and unwanted fabrics and in doing so, it parallels a psychological modern churn in America that the world is currently witnessing - The Trump era.
Photography by Andrew Delaney.
Photo Courtesy: http://annodominihome.blogspot.com/p/american-ci.html
I hope that this small post will remind you of a place you should visit to explore an Australian experience. Remember that in the early 1950s the Australian export of wool was 40% of the world's exports, resulting in the common adage that "Australia rode on the sheep’s back."
Photo Courtesy: https://www.facebook.com/pg/tarndie/posts.
Tarndie Story - One Family One Flock Since 1840 [1]
The Tarndie story centres on the arrival of the Dennis family from the Penzance region of Cornwall which is in the southwest region of England. Their history goes back to the 1600s, where they grew rotations of root-crops and cereals along side cattle, poultry, pigs and fruit orchards.
They ran Trewidden Farm and a mill at Trembath and in the 1830s the sons of Richard and Patience Dennis decided to seek new opportunities in the south of Australia.
In 1840 three of Richard's sons, Alexander, William and John Dennis had arrived at Williamstown in Port Philip bay on the ship John Bull. All three brothers had pooled £1,000 each in order to purchase stock, the leasehold of aboriginal land and every thing else they needed. They travelled to Tasmania and purchased 615 merinos, horses and bullocks, which they landed at Point Henry near Geelong and then shepherded the flock westward to Lake Colac, the land of the Gulidjan people.
Within two months they purchased the leasehold to Tandwarncoort. The property name is derived from the Gulidjan language meaning "up and down like a bandicoot running". This references the profile of the hills that Tarndwarncoort encompasses.
Initially Tarndwarncoort stocked Merino flock, but because of the higher rainfalls in the region it despoiled the quality of the produced wool. Hence in 1880 Richard V. Dennis began a 25 year breeding program to improve the quality of the wool that better fitted the climate. Finally a breed was produced which was originally named, "Dennis Comeback" which created meat and wool that assisted local farmers to create a maximum return per acre in the cold and wet climate of the region. in 1919 the breed was named "Polwarth" after the name of the local electorate, thereby recognising that Tarnwarncoort had created the first flock of this breed.
Reference:
[1] Booklet: One Family One Flock, Tarndwarncoort.
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