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Limited edition machine embroidery
There is a point in repetition where a leaf stops behaving like a leaf.
That moment has interested me for a long time.
While researching Walter Hill and the early Brisbane Botanic Gardens, I discovered that women regularly visited the Gardens in the late nineteenth century, drawing inspiration from the plants around them for their floral embroideries.
It created a beautiful connection between place, observation and making.
For these works, I chose the Caladium. Its enormous heart-shaped leaves offered a form that was immediately recognisable but simple enough to repeat, rotate and reorganise.
CP3 is one of three intimate embroideries that emerged from that process.
Here, the Caladium leaves connect across the linen to create a larger geometric structure. Look closely and the individual leaves remain visible. Allow your eye to move across the whole work and they begin to disappear into pattern.
Machine embroidered in black mercerised yarn onto pure white linen, the work moves between botanical drawing, textile and abstraction.
A plant becomes a leaf.
A leaf becomes a line.
And through repetition, the line becomes something we have not quite seen before.
The Edition
Released in an edition of just five, CP3 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
There is a point in repetition where a leaf stops behaving like a leaf.
That moment has interested me for a long time.
While researching Walter Hill and the early Brisbane Botanic Gardens, I discovered that women regularly visited the Gardens in the late nineteenth century, drawing inspiration from the plants around them for their floral embroideries.
It created a beautiful connection between place, observation and making.
For these works, I chose the Caladium. Its enormous heart-shaped leaves offered a form that was immediately recognisable but simple enough to repeat, rotate and reorganise.
CP3 is one of three intimate embroideries that emerged from that process.
Here, the Caladium leaves connect across the linen to create a larger geometric structure. Look closely and the individual leaves remain visible. Allow your eye to move across the whole work and they begin to disappear into pattern.
Machine embroidered in black mercerised yarn onto pure white linen, the work moves between botanical drawing, textile and abstraction.
A plant becomes a leaf.
A leaf becomes a line.
And through repetition, the line becomes something we have not quite seen before.
The Edition
Released in an edition of just five, CP3 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