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NINE x FIVES, 2024
In 2024, I began experiments with dyeing and painting botanical colours on small squares of mordanted linen. I was reminded how well linen hangs on the diagonal when I pinned completed images to the studio wall, and they progressively settled into a diagonal formation.
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The Nine x Fives wall installation was made with botanical dyes and pigments distilled from extracts and dried plant matter, including Madder, Indigo, Cochineal, Lac, Weld, Fustic and Buckthorn, with guar gum as a binder. The title, Nine x Fives, refers to their pentagonal imagery in a nine-part formation likened to previous acrylic paintings on board.
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The installation was shown in a curated exhibition of seven women artists at the Canberra Contemporary Art Space lakeside. Titled: Pattern Recognition, the exhibition was a part of Regenerate, the 2024 Craft + Design Canberra Festival.
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Nine x Fives
2024, botanical pigments & dyes on mordanted linen squares. Nine squares, each 40 x 40 cm, pinned wall installation. Dimensions: ca. 2 x 2 metres.
Nine x Fives
2024, botanical pigments & dyes on mordanted linen squares. Nine squares, each 40 x 40 cm, pinned wall installation. Dimensions: ca. 2 x 2 metres.
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