Gladstone Regional Art Gallery and Museum

27 April -15 June, 2024

Textile-based works are often associated with women’s work, heritage, and domesticity.

This exhibition challenges stereotypes by offering a variation on traditional embroidery techniques using unexpected industrial, and non-textile materials to create unique sculptural forms.

Artwork Included

always hopes, 2021, Gutter guard and soft plastic garden tie, 2500 x 1600 x 190 mm. 

Denature, 2019, Gutter guard and soft plastic garden tie, 1580 x 930 mm.Float, 2021, Galvanised wire, wire mesh, aluminium bars and steel brackets, 960 x 390 x 320 mm.

Gezellig, 2023, Aluminium fly screen, 0.7 mm fishing line, 0.7 black coated wire, crane swivels, eyelets, baitholder hooks and white 25 mm flyscreen frame, Two windows, each 730 x 900 mm.

Isolated Cadence, 2022, Gutter guard and soft plastic garden tie, 550 x 1250 mm.

Legato, 2022, Gutter guard and soft plastic garden tie, 1850 x 1850 mm.

Maintaining Order, 2018, Gutter guard and soft plastic garden tie, 2620 x 920 mm.

My mother’s hands I & II, 2023, Hand-drawn animations, Pico projector, clamp, lamp-shade and concrete pavers, 30 and 32 s duration.

Proportionate Response (series), 2022-2024, Aluminium fly screen, 0.7 mm fishing line, and crane swivels, various sizes, seven pieces.

Protection, 2018, Galvanised wire and wire mesh, 730 x 550 x 350 mm.

Reflection, 2016, single channel video projection, 12.20 mins.

to Hold, 2019, Gutter guard and soft plastic garden tie, 570 x 560 x 420 mm.

Transposition, 2016, galvanised wire mesh, 0.7 mm wire, various sizes.

Vault, 2021, Aluminium, plastic gutter guard, soft garden tie and wire, 2500 x 900 x 1350 mm.