straw into gold speaks to a seemingly impossible test: trying to buy a nest in contemporary Australia
Lovingly hand-crafted, straw into gold is both a statement on the current real estate market and a poetic charm for those trying to emerge into home ownership; the work requires a wall upon which to hang.
The work in progress …
Playing with opulence. One has prepared a blank canvas:
art making collides with ‘life with bird log’:
Stitching the final touches. Thinking I like the back almost as much as the front:
materials: reclaimed silk and upholstery fabric, vintage and gifted threads, woven metal, one of the artist’s dearly discarded wrist threads with metal charms, a broken shift key
medium: mixed-media
dimensions: H 11cm, W 9cm, D 2cm
exhibited:
Emergence Exhibition
Vintage Festival Art Prize 2021
Barossa Regional Gallery
Tanunda South Australia
Exhibition dates: 10 April – 7 June 2021
‘A long-standing Barossa Vintage Festival tradition, this celebrated exhibition comprises of over 75 new works from local and SA artists inspired by the theme of EMERGENCE: the process of becoming visible after being concealed – into existence. Originating from the latin word ‘emergere’ meaning bring to light, emergence straddles the edge of becoming, it is the unforeseen.’
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