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Limited edition machine embroidery
A stitch can carry a story across generations.
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.
I was fascinated by the thought of them looking.
A leaf encountered during a walk might be remembered, drawn or carried home as an idea. Observation could become pattern; pattern could become stitch.
The giant heart-shaped leaf of the Caladium became my own starting point.
CP2 is one of three intimate embroideries in which I took that single botanical form and explored what repetition might allow it to become. Here, the leaves turn towards one another, joining into small circular forms that repeat across the linen.
The botanical source is still visible, but something else begins to appear between the leaves.
Machine embroidered in black mercerised yarn onto pure white linen, the work connects contemporary digital pattern-making with a form of making practised by women more than a century ago.
The tools have changed.
The impulse to look closely, rearrange what we see and make something from it has not.
The Edition
Released in an edition of just five, CP2 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
A stitch can carry a story across generations.
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.
I was fascinated by the thought of them looking.
A leaf encountered during a walk might be remembered, drawn or carried home as an idea. Observation could become pattern; pattern could become stitch.
The giant heart-shaped leaf of the Caladium became my own starting point.
CP2 is one of three intimate embroideries in which I took that single botanical form and explored what repetition might allow it to become. Here, the leaves turn towards one another, joining into small circular forms that repeat across the linen.
The botanical source is still visible, but something else begins to appear between the leaves.
Machine embroidered in black mercerised yarn onto pure white linen, the work connects contemporary digital pattern-making with a form of making practised by women more than a century ago.
The tools have changed.
The impulse to look closely, rearrange what we see and make something from it has not.
The Edition
Released in an edition of just five, CP2 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