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Limited edition machine embroidery
Sometimes the way a plant was seen in the past becomes part of how I choose to make with it in the present.
While researching Walter Hill and the early Brisbane Botanic Gardens, I discovered that women regularly visited the Gardens in the late nineteenth century, finding inspiration among the plants for their own floral embroideries.
That small detail stayed with me.
Among the plants cultivated in the Gardens was Caladium, with its enormous heart-shaped leaves. I had already been drawn to the form of the leaf, but the history of women looking at plants and translating what they saw into stitch opened another way of working with it.
CP1 is one of three intimate embroideries that grew from that connection.
I reduced the Caladium leaf to line, repeated it and arranged the forms into a precise pattern. Machine embroidered in black mercerised yarn onto pure white linen, the work brings together a contemporary method of drawing with the much older language of needle and thread.
There is something I love about that continuity.
More than a century ago, women walked through the Brisbane Botanic Gardens, looked closely at plants and carried those observations home to embroider.
I looked at the same history.
And found myself stitching too.
The Edition
Released in an edition of just five, CP1 is machine embroidered onto 100% pure white linen using rich black mercerised yarn.
Each embroidery is signed, titled and individually numbered on the back of the archival mount and presented in a pristine white frame. It is accompanied by information detailing the artwork, the Collected Patterns series and its place within the edition.
The work is sold framed and ships worldwide securely wrapped in a heavy-duty protective box.
Edition: 5
Material: 100% pure white linen
Embroidery: Black mercerised yarn
Process: Machine embroidery
Framed size: 247 × 203 mm
Signed: Signed, titled and numbered on back of archival mount
Framing: Framed as pictured
Shipping: Worldwide
Limited edition machine embroidery
Sometimes the way a plant was seen in the past becomes part of how I choose to make with it in the present.
While researching Walter Hill and the early Brisbane Botanic Gardens, I discovered that women regularly visited the Gardens in the late nineteenth century, finding inspiration among the plants for their own floral embroideries.
That small detail stayed with me.
Among the plants cultivated in the Gardens was Caladium, with its enormous heart-shaped leaves. I had already been drawn to the form of the leaf, but the history of women looking at plants and translating what they saw into stitch opened another way of working with it.
CP1 is one of three intimate embroideries that grew from that connection.
I reduced the Caladium leaf to line, repeated it and arranged the forms into a precise pattern. Machine embroidered in black mercerised yarn onto pure white linen, the work brings together a contemporary method of drawing with the much older language of needle and thread.
There is something I love about that continuity.
More than a century ago, women walked through the Brisbane Botanic Gardens, looked closely at plants and carried those observations home to embroider.
I looked at the same history.
And found myself stitching too.
The Edition
Released in an edition of just five, CP1 is machine embroidered onto 100% pure white linen using rich black mercerised yarn.
Each embroidery is signed, titled and individually numbered on the back of the archival mount and presented in a pristine white frame. It is accompanied by information detailing the artwork, the Collected Patterns series and its place within the edition.
The work is sold framed and ships worldwide securely wrapped in a heavy-duty protective box.
Edition: 5
Material: 100% pure white linen
Embroidery: Black mercerised yarn
Process: Machine embroidery
Framed size: 247 × 203 mm
Signed: Signed, titled and numbered on back of archival mount
Framing: Framed as pictured
Shipping: Worldwide