Releasing My New - ‘Unique State’ ArtCloth ScarvesWearable ArtMarie-Therese Wisniowski

Preamble
On this blog spot there are posts that center on my “Wearable Art” (e.g. scarves, digital or analogue created fabric lengths etc.) For your convenience I have listed these posts below.
A Selection of My Scarves
Leaves Transformed: A New Collection of My Digitally Designed Fabrics
My New Silk Rayon Velvet Scarves@Purple Noon Art And Sculpture Gallery
My Fabric Lengths@QSDS
My Fabric Collection:"Oh, Oh Marilyn and Mona!"@Spoonflower
2013 Australian Craft Awards – Finalist
My Scarves@2014 Scarf Festival: "Urban Artscape" Pashminas
My New Scarves and Fabric Lengths
New Range of Silk Neckties - Karma and Akash
AIVA: My New Hand Dyed and Hand Printed Fabric Design
New Colorways For My 'Cultural Graffiti' Fabrics
Byzantine Glow: A New Collection of My Digitally Designed Fabrics
Wall Flower: A New Collection of My Digitally Designed Fabrics
Ink Fern - A New Collection of My Digitally Designed Fabrics
Celebratory Fireworks
My New Silk ArtCloth Scarves
New ‘Unique State’ Silk ArtCloth Scarves
UBIRR - My New Hand Dyed & Printed Fabric Design
Renaissance Man - My New Hand Dyed & Printed Fabric Design
Banksia - My New Hand Dyed and Hand Printed Fabric Design
Ginkgo Love - My New Hand Dyed and Hand Printed Fabric Design
Garden Delights I & II - My New Hand Dyed and Hand Printed Fabric Design
Wallflower III - My New Hand Dyed and Hand Printed Fabric Design
Rainforest Beauty - Collection My New Hand Dyed and Hand Printed Fabric Design
Spring & Autumn Flurry Collection - My New Hand Dyed and Hand Printed Fabric Design
La Volute Collection - My New Hand Dyed and Hand Printed Fabric Design
Urban Butterfly - My New Hand Printed Fabric Design
Acanthus Dream - My New Hand Printed Fabric Design
“Cascading Acanthus” - My New Hand Dyed and Hand Printed Fabric Design
My New Hand Dyed and Hand Printed 'Rainforest Beauty' Pashmina Wraps Collection
My ArtCloth Tea Towels: A New Collection of Digitally Designed Products
Through the Land it Roared . . . ArtCloth Shawl
My New Hand Dyed and Hand Printed ‘Urban Codes - Series 1’ Collection
Urban Moonlight - My Post Graffiti Doily
My New Hand Printed Fabric Design - "Morocco" ArtCloth
‘Vine Glow’
“Bush Banksia’s” Collection"
Releasing My New - ‘Unique State’ ArtCloth Scarves
‘LRSP’ A New Collection of Digitally Designed ArtCloth Textiles

If you like any of my artworks in the above links, please email me at - Marie-Therese - for pricing and for any other enquiries.

Introduction
There are three basic ingredients (as opposed to definitions) that all artworks possess: (i) they need to be “engaged”; (ii) they are non-functional; (iii) they are aesthetic. Wearable Art is “Art” when placed in an art context, but when it is not placed in an art context, its functionality obscures the act of engagement. My ArtCloth scarves are wearable art. My scarves have been created using a range of fabrics and various hand dyeing and hand printing techniques. I am particularly fond of silk due to its ability to impart rich, luscious, intense colors, and yet retain its lustre and luxurious handle when dyed and printed using various media. My scarves are a unique creation, never to be repeated in color, tone or overall design. Some of the design elements may re-appear in other scarves, but the overall colors, printing/overprinting and design features is what ensures their uniqueness as a one-off specialty wearable art item to covet.

My ArtCloth scarves are unique, are imbued with color, texture and multiple layers. They are comfortable to wear and are thoughtfully designed, dyed, printed and finished. Special care instructions are included with each scarf. Each scarf is also individually signed by me.

My scarves are available in various galleries and art & craft outlets throughout Australia. For example, in the Hunter Valley (Australia) they are available from Cessnock Regional Art Gallery. They are also available via specialty artisan galleries such as, Lighthouse Arts in Newcastle and via my Art Quill Studio. Please email me at - Marie-Therese - for further information.

Inspiration/Method
The first Prime Minister of India, Nehru, said to his daughter Indira Gandhi: “Be Brave, the rest will to follow!" Underlying all of my work is this drive to take risks - to create bold, edgy, contemporary designs and so let my adrenaline drive my artwork. Nonetheless, discarding mainstream design elements is not in itself inspirational, but rather it is an important part of my inner core - to drive my work to create edgy design elements. Urban and landscape environments inform my images and works. My contemporary urban landscape themes include my interpretation of post-graffiti work. I operate my artistic skill set on these thoughts to project rich and vibrant landscapes on the cloth medium. The ArtCloth scarves I create rely heavily on researching design elements consistent with my worldview to create images from the “utten welt” and/or from life-forms threatened with respect to survival. I employ various surface design techniques to create the imagery for my scarves. These techniques include the initial image/mark making processes of drawing and designing which are followed by dyeing, discharging, hand painting, stencilling, stamping, screen printing, foiling and other processes on natural fibres. I have been honoured to receive numerous international awards for my printed ArtCloth textiles.

Releasing My New - ‘Unique State’ ArtCloth Scarves
Note: All photographs below are courtesy of Marie-Therese Wisniowski.

Technique and Media: Dyed, shibori overdyed, mono printed, and silk screened, employing dyes, opaque and metallic pigments, and gold foil on rayon (Full View).
Size: 50 cm (wide) x 177 cm (length).

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Technique and Media: Dyed, shibori overdyed, multiple discharge, sponged, hand painted, stencilled, and silk screened, employing dyes, discharge media, and transparent pigments on silk habotai (Full View).
Size: 72 cm wide x 75 cm length.

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Technique and Media: Hand painted dye colorwashes, and stencilled, employing dyes, glazes, transparent and opaque pigments on silk satin (Full View).
Size: 22 cm wide x 173 cm length.

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Technique and Media: Dyed, discharged, overdyed, over discharged, overdyed, hand painted, stencilled, silkscreened, lino blocked, and stamped, employing dyes, discharge media, glazes, transparent and metallic pigments on silk habotai (Full View).
Size: 25 cm wide x 195 cm length.

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Technique and Media: Eco dyed, silk screened, and stamped, employing natural dyes, transparent and metallic pigments on silk (Full View).
Size: 24 cm wide x 130 cm length.

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Technique and Media: Dyed, discharged, overdyed, over discharged, shibori overdyed, hand painted, stencilled, silkscreened, and stamped, employing dyes, discharge media, glazes, transparent and metallic pigments on silk habotai (Full View).
Size: 25 cm wide x 190 cm length.

Detail View.

Technique and Media: Multi dyed, shibori overdyed, mono printed, and silk screened, employing dyes and transparent pigments on silk habotai (Full View).
Size: 23 cm wide x 195 cm length.

Detail View.

Technique and Media: Dyed, shibori overdyed, and stencilled, employing dyes, and transparent pigment on silk habotai (Full View).
Size: 23 cm wide x 199 cm length.

Detail View.