Preamble
For your convenience I have listed below posts on this blogspot that featured the artistic output of Helen Lancaster (my dear friend who passed away on the 11th February 2020).
Cane Toad Narrative (Exhibition - ArtCloth: Engaging New Visions)
Transformation. An Exhibition of Contemporary Textiles Curator: Helen Lancaster
Floating: Art Exhibition @ Purple Noon Art And Sculpture Gallery
Celebration
The Barrier Reef Corporate Wall [1]: Art Cloth Panels
Helen Lancaster's - The Great Barrier Reef
Introduction [1]
"Soft touch environment" is how Helen Lancaster describes her own work using textiles as her art medium. Helen, having a career as a educator in TAFE, and then in textile forums, sees her role to educate the viewer of her artworks about the fragility of the environment. That is making her audience aware of endangered species, such as birds and fish, whose species are threatened due to climate change. To emphasize this message she uses the Great Barrier Reef as her medium to get her message across to the onlooker about climate change and the threat that it brings to flora,fauna and marine life.
Helen Lancaster, surrounded by her artwork in 2002.
Photograph of fish in the Great Barrier Reef, Queensland (Australia).
Celebration [1 ]: Art Cloth Panels by Helen Lancaster
'Celebration' consists of four panels of crocheted artworks. Vibrant colors and beautiful abstract shapes reveal the distinctive eyes of the Barrier Reef's creatures - among them the coral grouper, soldier fish, moray eel and blue devil. A myriad of dots surrounding the eyes simulate the Olympiad fireworks that sits above the ocean floor.
Spider Shell with Shrimp Crab - detail from Celebration, 1999.
Garibaldi - a small bright orange marine fish found off California, 1999.
Detail from Celebration.
Blue Devil - detail from Celebration, 1999.
Coral Groper - detail from Celebration, 1999.
The panels below compose the installation "Celebration". Each panel was crocheted and measure 244 (length) x 61 (width) x 15 cm (thickness).
Reference:
[1] H. Lancaster, Portfolio Collection, Telos Art Publishing, Winchester, England (2002).
For your convenience I have listed below posts on this blogspot that featured the artistic output of Helen Lancaster (my dear friend who passed away on the 11th February 2020).
Cane Toad Narrative (Exhibition - ArtCloth: Engaging New Visions)
Transformation. An Exhibition of Contemporary Textiles Curator: Helen Lancaster
Floating: Art Exhibition @ Purple Noon Art And Sculpture Gallery
Celebration
The Barrier Reef Corporate Wall [1]: Art Cloth Panels
Helen Lancaster's - The Great Barrier Reef
Introduction [1]
"Soft touch environment" is how Helen Lancaster describes her own work using textiles as her art medium. Helen, having a career as a educator in TAFE, and then in textile forums, sees her role to educate the viewer of her artworks about the fragility of the environment. That is making her audience aware of endangered species, such as birds and fish, whose species are threatened due to climate change. To emphasize this message she uses the Great Barrier Reef as her medium to get her message across to the onlooker about climate change and the threat that it brings to flora,fauna and marine life.
Celebration [1 ]: Art Cloth Panels by Helen Lancaster
'Celebration' consists of four panels of crocheted artworks. Vibrant colors and beautiful abstract shapes reveal the distinctive eyes of the Barrier Reef's creatures - among them the coral grouper, soldier fish, moray eel and blue devil. A myriad of dots surrounding the eyes simulate the Olympiad fireworks that sits above the ocean floor.
Detail from Celebration.
The panels below compose the installation "Celebration". Each panel was crocheted and measure 244 (length) x 61 (width) x 15 cm (thickness).
Reference:
[1] H. Lancaster, Portfolio Collection, Telos Art Publishing, Winchester, England (2002).
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