23 NOVEMBER – 27 NOVEMBER 2016

Richard Randall Art Studio

Brisbane Botanical Gardens, Mt Coot-tha

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This exhibition marks 25 years since I graduated as a visual arts major. Focusing on surface design, I have taken a fluid approach to media and techniques, experimenting according to my needs. A creative block left me wondering whether my inspiration had evaporated. The Argentum exhibition rejuvenated my practice – an elemental free-flow of ideas took on botanical qualities, as tendrils reached out to new forms of expression while roots burrowed deeper into my own history than ever before.

Argentum : Latin for silver, celebrates 25 years of “cross-pollination”  …  a silver jubilee of sorts.

METAMORPHOSIS   detail         

75cm x 75cm

one transforms to another and another and another

individually hand cut (with a scalpel knife) artist papers, applique pins

SEEDS and PODS   detail 

51cm x 78cm

hand dyed cotton homespun & silk organza (acid dye), bark cloth, silk, mesh, hand stitched with stranded thread, burnt

PICK of the CROP    detail         

75cm x 40cm

only the best are selected …

layered & hand stitched, hand dyed cotton homespun & silk organza (natural indigo shibori resist & acid dyes), machine wrapped with rayon thread

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Wall Quilt

2002

80cm x 120cm

From the series: Landscape – Desert Forest Reef; the work was inspired by the colours and textures of the Australian landscape; dried rings of salt – viewed from the air.

Discharge dyed cotton fabric, dye-sublimination printed on synthetic fabric; layered, cutback, machine stitched

Exhibited: Queensland Quilt Show, Craft Fair 2002, Brisbane; Sturt Gallery, Mittagong NSW 2005; Sydney Quilt Show 2007 (invitational display)

Published: Down Under Quilts Magazine 2006

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Wall Quilt

2002

100cm x 145cm

The printed image of the interior of the Guggenheim Museum, New York was manipulated using Photoshop, then dye-sublimation printed (transfer process, printing with dye on paper which is then transferred to fabric with heat and pressure) to synthetic fabric.

Photographic image, synthetic fabric, dye-sublimation print; free machine stitched

Exhibited: Queensland Quilt Show, 2002, 2003; WA Quilt Show 2009 (invitational guest judge); Sydney Quilt Show 2007 (invitational display)

Published: Fibreline Magazine, Australian Textile Arts & Surface Design Association, 2006; Down Under Quilts Magazine 2006

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25cm x 12cm
1996
Unframed Collage

Handmade fibre papers, gesso, linen scrim, rayon thread, machine stitching

Exhibited: Red Hot Fibre, Mt Coot-tha Botanical Gardens, Brisbane

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37cm x 44cm
1997
Mounted Collage

Dyed and printed silk organza, cotton fabric, handmade fibre papers, paint, graphite, gesso, plant fibres, machine stitching

Exhibited:

• 5 x 5, Fusions Gallery, Brisbane
• Merging Identities (solo exhibition), Robert Hughes Gallery, Brisbane

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40cm x 60cm
1999
Unframed Collage

Handmade fibre papers, gesso, linen scrim, rayon thread, machine stitching

Exhibited: Interwoven Vision, Cooloola Regional Gallery, Qld
Acquired: Private Collection

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