Preamble
Art Quilts have featured on this blogspot and so for your convenience I have listed below previous posts in this series:
Art Quilts - Part I
Art Quilts - Part II
Art Quilts - Part III
Art Quilts - Part IV
Art Quilts - Part V
Art Quilts - Part VI
Art Quilts - Part VII
Art Quilters of the Netherlands - Part I
Art Quilters of the Netherlands - Part II
Art Quilters of the Netherlands - Part III
Four Selected European Art Quilters - Part I
Four Selected European Art Quilters - Part II
Four Selected European Art Quilters - Part III
Art Quilts of Jane Sassaman
Art Quilts of Michael A. Cummings
Introduction by Antonius Nijssen Breda - The Netherlands [1]
It is a pleasure to be part of the jury for European Art Quilts. A great variety of works were shown to me during the show. As a juror, I saw some very interesting and intriguing artworks.
I was surprised by this great variety of work, ranging from pictorial to the very abstract. It was interesting to me that not only standard textile materials and techniques were used, but also very different materials such as plastics and recycled items. I looked for works with a strong visual impact, but which also showed a great deal of serenity, and found these among the subimssions.
It's great to see that the quilt is breaking free from applied art forms to free textile creations.
Four Selected European Art Quilters - Part II [1]
Quilter: Anco Brouwers-Branderhorst (Apleldoorn, the Netherlands) [1].
Full View
Title: Elements VI, "All in one II" (2013).
Materials: Marimekko cotton fabric, cotton threads, cotton batting, template plastic sheet, perspex, and nylon thread.
Technique: Hand and machine sewn, machine quilted, machine embroidered.
Size: 70 cm (wide) x 130 cm (length).
Comment [1]: Achieving the largest effect with as few materials as possible was the goal of this three-dimensional object.
Detailed View 1
Detailed View 2
Quilter: Hanne Capel (Den Haag, The Netherlands) [1].
Full View
Title: Messages from Prague 1 (2014).
Materials: Textile printing on polyester.
Technique: Printing on fabric, machine stitched.
Size: 180 cm (wide) x 80 cm (length).
Comment [1]: A wall in Prague with torn posters; beauty comes into being where the different layers make connection with each other yielding a nostalgic chaos.
Detailed View 1
Detailed View 2
Quilter: Maya Chaiimovich (Ramat Gan - Israel) [1].
Full View
Title: Forgotten Games (2014).
Materials: A range of different recycled fabrics; cotton, silk, velvet, laces etc.
Technique: Small pieces on fusible interfacing. Free motion machine quilted.
Size: 180 cm (wide) x 80 cm (length).
Comment [1]: When I was a child, we didn't have many toys. Instead, we played with simple objects like pen and paper, sticks and stones, chalk and fruit seeds. As with life, which used to be so simple and has become more complex, so have these games been long forgotten and replaced by modern toys.
Detailed View 1
Detailed View 2
Quilter: Christine Chestor (Eastbourne - United Kingdom) [1].
Full View
Title: Layer of Silence (2014).
Materials: Cottons, sheers, rust, acrylic media, paper, and newspaper.
Technique: A collage of gesso laminations, and rust prints, laminated, painted and stitched by machine and by hand.
Size: 96 cm (wide) x 95 cm (length).
Comment [1]: With dementia, memories fragment with time, but are also confused with previous and subsequent events - appearing and disappearing - creating a palimpsest of a person. This leaves loved ones small traces of the person that they knew, revealed less and less often. Shared memories become one sided, and memories of memories, told on long winter evenings, become simply stories. Like Chinese whispers, they change and are meaningless without the validation of the narrator - eventually becoming silent.
Detailed View 1
Detailed View 2
Reference:
[1] European Art Quilt Foundation, Molenschat, Netherlands (2014).
Art Quilts have featured on this blogspot and so for your convenience I have listed below previous posts in this series:
Art Quilts - Part I
Art Quilts - Part II
Art Quilts - Part III
Art Quilts - Part IV
Art Quilts - Part V
Art Quilts - Part VI
Art Quilts - Part VII
Art Quilters of the Netherlands - Part I
Art Quilters of the Netherlands - Part II
Art Quilters of the Netherlands - Part III
Four Selected European Art Quilters - Part I
Four Selected European Art Quilters - Part II
Four Selected European Art Quilters - Part III
Art Quilts of Jane Sassaman
Art Quilts of Michael A. Cummings
Introduction by Antonius Nijssen Breda - The Netherlands [1]
It is a pleasure to be part of the jury for European Art Quilts. A great variety of works were shown to me during the show. As a juror, I saw some very interesting and intriguing artworks.
I was surprised by this great variety of work, ranging from pictorial to the very abstract. It was interesting to me that not only standard textile materials and techniques were used, but also very different materials such as plastics and recycled items. I looked for works with a strong visual impact, but which also showed a great deal of serenity, and found these among the subimssions.
It's great to see that the quilt is breaking free from applied art forms to free textile creations.
Four Selected European Art Quilters - Part II [1]
Quilter: Anco Brouwers-Branderhorst (Apleldoorn, the Netherlands) [1].
Title: Elements VI, "All in one II" (2013).
Materials: Marimekko cotton fabric, cotton threads, cotton batting, template plastic sheet, perspex, and nylon thread.
Technique: Hand and machine sewn, machine quilted, machine embroidered.
Size: 70 cm (wide) x 130 cm (length).
Comment [1]: Achieving the largest effect with as few materials as possible was the goal of this three-dimensional object.
Quilter: Hanne Capel (Den Haag, The Netherlands) [1].
Title: Messages from Prague 1 (2014).
Materials: Textile printing on polyester.
Technique: Printing on fabric, machine stitched.
Size: 180 cm (wide) x 80 cm (length).
Comment [1]: A wall in Prague with torn posters; beauty comes into being where the different layers make connection with each other yielding a nostalgic chaos.
Quilter: Maya Chaiimovich (Ramat Gan - Israel) [1].
Title: Forgotten Games (2014).
Materials: A range of different recycled fabrics; cotton, silk, velvet, laces etc.
Technique: Small pieces on fusible interfacing. Free motion machine quilted.
Size: 180 cm (wide) x 80 cm (length).
Comment [1]: When I was a child, we didn't have many toys. Instead, we played with simple objects like pen and paper, sticks and stones, chalk and fruit seeds. As with life, which used to be so simple and has become more complex, so have these games been long forgotten and replaced by modern toys.
Quilter: Christine Chestor (Eastbourne - United Kingdom) [1].
Title: Layer of Silence (2014).
Materials: Cottons, sheers, rust, acrylic media, paper, and newspaper.
Technique: A collage of gesso laminations, and rust prints, laminated, painted and stitched by machine and by hand.
Size: 96 cm (wide) x 95 cm (length).
Comment [1]: With dementia, memories fragment with time, but are also confused with previous and subsequent events - appearing and disappearing - creating a palimpsest of a person. This leaves loved ones small traces of the person that they knew, revealed less and less often. Shared memories become one sided, and memories of memories, told on long winter evenings, become simply stories. Like Chinese whispers, they change and are meaningless without the validation of the narrator - eventually becoming silent.
Reference:
[1] European Art Quilt Foundation, Molenschat, Netherlands (2014).
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