Preamble
My artwork has appeared in a number of exhibitions which has been featured on this blog spot. For your convenience I have listed these posts below.
ArtCloth: Engaging New Visions (Marie-Therese Wisniowski - Curator's Talk)
Sequestration of CO2 (Engaging New Visions) M-T. Wisniowski
Codes – Lost Voices (ArtCloth Installation) M-T. Wisniowski
Unleashed: The Rise of Australian Street Art (Art Exhibition) Various Artists
Merge and Flow (SDA Members Exhibition) M-T. Wisniowski
The Journey (Megalo Studio) M-T. Wisniowski
Another Brick (Post Graffiti ArtCloth Installation) M-T. Wisniowski
ArtCloth Swap & Exhibition
My Fifteen Year Contribution to the '9 x 5' Exhibition
When Rainforests Ruled (Purple Noon Art & Sculpture Gallery) M-T. Wisniowski
When Rainforests Glowed (Eden Gardens Gallery) M-T. Wisniowski
My Southern Land (Galerie 't Haentje te Paart, Netherlands) M-T. Wisniowski
The Last Exhibition @ Galerie ’t Haentje the Paart
Mark Making on Urban Walls @ Palm House (Post Graffiti Art Work)
Fleeting - My ArtCloth Work Exhibited @ Art Systems Wickham Art Gallery
Timelines: An Environmental Journey
My Contribution to Lake Macquarie's Water Exhibition
The Effects of Global Warming - ArtCloth Exhibition@Rathmines Heritage Centre’s Boiler Room
ATASDA's ‘A Touch of Gold’ 50th Anniversary Exhibition - Part I
ATASDA’s ‘A Touch of Gold’ 50th Anniversary Exhibition - Part II
ATASDA's 'A Touch of Gold’ 50th Anniversary Exhibition - Part III
Introduction
My art practice explores contemporary environmental, post-graffiti and socio-political issues. Specializing in printmaking, I have developed signature printing techniques to create complex, multi-layered artworks. My world view is through the eyes of the forgotten, the discarded, the marginalized or the misrepresented and so sits conceptually on socio-political boundaries. I operate my artistic skill set on these thoughts to project conceptual landscapes on fibre surfaces. A passion for the natural world has led to creating bodies of work examining anthropogenic climate change and the human designed environments we inhabit.
In 2021, my solo ArtCloth exhibition installation proposal, ‘The Effects of Global Warming’ was selected to participate in the month-long inaugural ‘Lake Macquarie Dobell Festival of Art 2021’, an initiative of the Arts, Culture and Tourism Division of Lake Macquarie City Council, New South Wales. The installation was exhibited at the Rathmines Heritage Centre’s Boiler Room, 19th - 20th June 2021. My proposal included my Installation Synopsis, Signature Technique Outlines and Schematic Diagrams which were constructed in order to assist in the curation of my installation.
This exhibition installation was composed of two-dimensional ArtCloth works. During the act of engagement, visitors had a three-dimensional experience. To add to the three-dimensional experience, it was important that my large two-dimensional ArtCloth works dominated the volume of the exhibition space. Hence, they were hung from ceiling rafters in the central area of the building.
These 1.5m wide x 3m in height ArtCloth works dominated the size of the viewer and so the viewer had to look up at them and in doing so feel dominated by the artwork. As these large artworks were hung in the volume of the exhibition space the viewer, during acts of engagement, had to negotiate a pathway around each exhibited ArtCloth work in order to see the other hung works in the venue, giving the whole exhibition a three-dimensional rather than a two-dimensional experience.
During the act of engagement, the viewer experienced the effects of anthropogenic climate change on the flora/landscape. It is hoped that with the explanatory statement, which was presented with each ArtCloth work, the viewer was moved to be more consciously proactive in protecting our existing flora and fauna.
Artist Statement – Exhibition Synopsis
The interaction between man and the environment is of growing concern as the human population is accelerating towards 9 billion. Our existential need for food, clothing, shelter, minerals and energy has placed enormous pressure on the biosphere via de-forestation and de-habitation on a grand scale, thereby destroying the natural carbon sinks (such as flora) and at the same time, creating greenhouse gas sources, causing an unprecedented anthropogenic change of the Earth’s atmosphere.
The philosophy underlying Marie-Therese’s ‘Environmental Art’ strives to prick the viewer’s consciousness to garner support for sustainability. The ArtCloth works in this exhibition, ‘The Effects of Global Warming’, rest on the premise that native plant species are fragile in the modern world and are a threatened biological resource.
The ArtCloth installation pieces have been created using her signature printing technique MultiSperse Dye Sublimation (MSDS) which employs disperse dyes and numerous other media and techniques.
Additional Note
Due to this exhibition, the editor of the Print Council of Australia’s ‘Imprint’ magazine, Andrew Stephens, invited me to write an article about the exhibition. The article, which is featured on the Print Council of Australia’s blog site, features some of the installation artworks and the exhibition rationale giving a national and international exposure of my exhibition installation at the Rathmines Heritage Centre’s Boiler Room - click on Print Council.
In-situ Images of ‘The Effects of Global Warming’
ArtCloth installation at the Rathmines Heritage Centre’s Boiler Room
The Boiler Room at Rathmines Heritage Centre on the shores of Lake Macquarie, NSW, prior to the exhibition installation.
Jessica Dowdell and some of the team from Arts, Culture and Tourism, Lake Macquarie City Council, installing the large ArtCloth lengths from the Boiler Room rafters.
View of the exhibition approaching the Boiler Room entrance doors.
Exhibition information poster at the Boiler Room entrance Door.
View of the exhibition upon entering the Boiler Room.
Explanatory statements were presented with each ArtCloth work. Each statement pondered holistically on the creation of the images based on research and how they engaged my conceptual awakening to the viewer.
View of the exhibited ArtCloth works to the left of the Boiler Room entrance.
View of the exhibited ArtCloth works to the right of the Boiler Room entrance.
Comment: Facing the large ArtCloth panel, 'Summer Bolt' to the left of the Boiler Room entrance.
Size: 144 cm wide x 300 cm in height.
Technique and Media: Hand painted and heat transferred using disperse dyes and thickened paste on synthetic satin.
Comment: Facing the large ArtCloth panel, ‘Autumn Bolt’, to the right of the Boiler Room entrance.
Size: 144 cm wide x 300 cm in height.
Technique and Media: Hand painted and heat transferred using disperse dyes and thickened paste on synthetic satin.
Comment: View of the exhibited foreground ArtCloth works (left to right): ‘Gondwana Retraced I’, and ‘Sequestration of CO2' (Part A).
The artworks were hung from the centre rafters to the left of the Boiler Room.
Title: Gondwana Retraced I.
Size: 60 cm wide x 146 cm in height.
Title: Sequestration of CO2 (Part A).
Size: 60 cm wide x 300 cm in height.
Technique and Media: The artists signature MultiSperse Dye Sublimation (MSDS) technique employing disperse dyes, native flora and low relief items on delustered satin.
Comment: View of the exhibited foreground ArtCloth works (left to right): ‘Sequestration of CO2' (Part B) and ‘Gondwana Retraced II’.
The artworks were hung from the centre rafters to the right of the Boiler Room.
Title:: Sequestration of CO2 (Part B).
Size: 60 cm wide x 300 cm in height.
Title: Gondwana Retraced II.
Size: 60 cm wide x 146 cm in height.
Technique and Media: The artists signature MultiSperse Dye Sublimation (MSDS) technique employing disperse dyes, native flora and low relief items on delustered satin.
Comment: View of the exhibited ArtCloth works on the side wall (left to right): ‘Black Saturday’ and ‘Regrowth’ to the left of the Boiler Room entrance area.
Size: 60 cm wide x 120 cm in height.
Technique and Media: The artists signature MultiSperse Dye Sublimation (MSDS) technique employing disperse dyes, native flora and low relief items on delustered satin.
Comment: View of the exhibited ArtCloth works (left to right): ‘No Autumn’, ‘Flames Unfurling’ and ‘Life Returning’ on the back walls to the left of the Boiler Room.
Size: 60 cm wide x 120 cm in height.
Technique and Media: The artists signature MultiSperse Dye Sublimation (MSDS) technique employing disperse dyes, native flora and low relief items on delustered satin.
Comment: View of the exhibited ArtCloth works (left to right): ‘Tropical Heat’, ‘Tropical Jewels’ and ‘When the Rain Comes’ on the back walls to the right of the Boiler Room.
Size: 60 cm wide x 120 cm in height.
Technique and Media:: The artists signature MultiSperse Dye Sublimation (MSDS) technique employing disperse dyes, native flora, resists, and low relief items on delustered satin.
Comment: View of the exhibited ArtCloth works on the side wall (left to right): ‘Malyala’ and ‘Ginninderra’ to the right of the Boiler Room entrance area.
Size: 60 cm wide x 120 cm in height.
Technique and Media: The artists signature MultiSperse Dye Sublimation (MSDS) technique employing disperse dyes, native flora, resists, and low relief items on delustered satin.
Marie-Therese standing in front of 'Summer Bolt.'
Marie-Therese standing in front of 'Autumn Bolt.'
My artwork has appeared in a number of exhibitions which has been featured on this blog spot. For your convenience I have listed these posts below.
ArtCloth: Engaging New Visions (Marie-Therese Wisniowski - Curator's Talk)
Sequestration of CO2 (Engaging New Visions) M-T. Wisniowski
Codes – Lost Voices (ArtCloth Installation) M-T. Wisniowski
Unleashed: The Rise of Australian Street Art (Art Exhibition) Various Artists
Merge and Flow (SDA Members Exhibition) M-T. Wisniowski
The Journey (Megalo Studio) M-T. Wisniowski
Another Brick (Post Graffiti ArtCloth Installation) M-T. Wisniowski
ArtCloth Swap & Exhibition
My Fifteen Year Contribution to the '9 x 5' Exhibition
When Rainforests Ruled (Purple Noon Art & Sculpture Gallery) M-T. Wisniowski
When Rainforests Glowed (Eden Gardens Gallery) M-T. Wisniowski
My Southern Land (Galerie 't Haentje te Paart, Netherlands) M-T. Wisniowski
The Last Exhibition @ Galerie ’t Haentje the Paart
Mark Making on Urban Walls @ Palm House (Post Graffiti Art Work)
Fleeting - My ArtCloth Work Exhibited @ Art Systems Wickham Art Gallery
Timelines: An Environmental Journey
My Contribution to Lake Macquarie's Water Exhibition
The Effects of Global Warming - ArtCloth Exhibition@Rathmines Heritage Centre’s Boiler Room
ATASDA's ‘A Touch of Gold’ 50th Anniversary Exhibition - Part I
ATASDA’s ‘A Touch of Gold’ 50th Anniversary Exhibition - Part II
ATASDA's 'A Touch of Gold’ 50th Anniversary Exhibition - Part III
Introduction
My art practice explores contemporary environmental, post-graffiti and socio-political issues. Specializing in printmaking, I have developed signature printing techniques to create complex, multi-layered artworks. My world view is through the eyes of the forgotten, the discarded, the marginalized or the misrepresented and so sits conceptually on socio-political boundaries. I operate my artistic skill set on these thoughts to project conceptual landscapes on fibre surfaces. A passion for the natural world has led to creating bodies of work examining anthropogenic climate change and the human designed environments we inhabit.
In 2021, my solo ArtCloth exhibition installation proposal, ‘The Effects of Global Warming’ was selected to participate in the month-long inaugural ‘Lake Macquarie Dobell Festival of Art 2021’, an initiative of the Arts, Culture and Tourism Division of Lake Macquarie City Council, New South Wales. The installation was exhibited at the Rathmines Heritage Centre’s Boiler Room, 19th - 20th June 2021. My proposal included my Installation Synopsis, Signature Technique Outlines and Schematic Diagrams which were constructed in order to assist in the curation of my installation.
This exhibition installation was composed of two-dimensional ArtCloth works. During the act of engagement, visitors had a three-dimensional experience. To add to the three-dimensional experience, it was important that my large two-dimensional ArtCloth works dominated the volume of the exhibition space. Hence, they were hung from ceiling rafters in the central area of the building.
These 1.5m wide x 3m in height ArtCloth works dominated the size of the viewer and so the viewer had to look up at them and in doing so feel dominated by the artwork. As these large artworks were hung in the volume of the exhibition space the viewer, during acts of engagement, had to negotiate a pathway around each exhibited ArtCloth work in order to see the other hung works in the venue, giving the whole exhibition a three-dimensional rather than a two-dimensional experience.
During the act of engagement, the viewer experienced the effects of anthropogenic climate change on the flora/landscape. It is hoped that with the explanatory statement, which was presented with each ArtCloth work, the viewer was moved to be more consciously proactive in protecting our existing flora and fauna.
Artist Statement – Exhibition Synopsis
The interaction between man and the environment is of growing concern as the human population is accelerating towards 9 billion. Our existential need for food, clothing, shelter, minerals and energy has placed enormous pressure on the biosphere via de-forestation and de-habitation on a grand scale, thereby destroying the natural carbon sinks (such as flora) and at the same time, creating greenhouse gas sources, causing an unprecedented anthropogenic change of the Earth’s atmosphere.
The philosophy underlying Marie-Therese’s ‘Environmental Art’ strives to prick the viewer’s consciousness to garner support for sustainability. The ArtCloth works in this exhibition, ‘The Effects of Global Warming’, rest on the premise that native plant species are fragile in the modern world and are a threatened biological resource.
The ArtCloth installation pieces have been created using her signature printing technique MultiSperse Dye Sublimation (MSDS) which employs disperse dyes and numerous other media and techniques.
Additional Note
Due to this exhibition, the editor of the Print Council of Australia’s ‘Imprint’ magazine, Andrew Stephens, invited me to write an article about the exhibition. The article, which is featured on the Print Council of Australia’s blog site, features some of the installation artworks and the exhibition rationale giving a national and international exposure of my exhibition installation at the Rathmines Heritage Centre’s Boiler Room - click on Print Council.
In-situ Images of ‘The Effects of Global Warming’
ArtCloth installation at the Rathmines Heritage Centre’s Boiler Room
Size: 144 cm wide x 300 cm in height.
Technique and Media: Hand painted and heat transferred using disperse dyes and thickened paste on synthetic satin.
Size: 144 cm wide x 300 cm in height.
Technique and Media: Hand painted and heat transferred using disperse dyes and thickened paste on synthetic satin.
The artworks were hung from the centre rafters to the left of the Boiler Room.
Title: Gondwana Retraced I.
Size: 60 cm wide x 146 cm in height.
Title: Sequestration of CO2 (Part A).
Size: 60 cm wide x 300 cm in height.
Technique and Media: The artists signature MultiSperse Dye Sublimation (MSDS) technique employing disperse dyes, native flora and low relief items on delustered satin.
The artworks were hung from the centre rafters to the right of the Boiler Room.
Title:: Sequestration of CO2 (Part B).
Size: 60 cm wide x 300 cm in height.
Title: Gondwana Retraced II.
Size: 60 cm wide x 146 cm in height.
Technique and Media: The artists signature MultiSperse Dye Sublimation (MSDS) technique employing disperse dyes, native flora and low relief items on delustered satin.
Size: 60 cm wide x 120 cm in height.
Technique and Media: The artists signature MultiSperse Dye Sublimation (MSDS) technique employing disperse dyes, native flora and low relief items on delustered satin.
Size: 60 cm wide x 120 cm in height.
Technique and Media: The artists signature MultiSperse Dye Sublimation (MSDS) technique employing disperse dyes, native flora and low relief items on delustered satin.
Size: 60 cm wide x 120 cm in height.
Technique and Media:: The artists signature MultiSperse Dye Sublimation (MSDS) technique employing disperse dyes, native flora, resists, and low relief items on delustered satin.
Size: 60 cm wide x 120 cm in height.
Technique and Media: The artists signature MultiSperse Dye Sublimation (MSDS) technique employing disperse dyes, native flora, resists, and low relief items on delustered satin.
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