Laced
Sheffer Gallery, Sydney 2006
LACED was a solo exhibition of contemporary lace works funded by the Australian Visual Arts/Craft Board supporting New Emerging Artists. Inspiration was based on the Lace collection at the Powerhouse Museum Sydney, and was informed by a mentorship with lace historian Rosemary Shepherd.
The work explored the integration of traditional textiles with emerging new technologies. This research is significant because it redefines the complexity of traditional lace structures and looks at alternatives for future lace as an openwork surface. By deconstructing the original meaning of lace, new lace structures have been explored that are outside the original lace constructions of weave, knit, and embroidery. Alternative processes of machine stitching onto a soluble base with laser-cut silk fabric motifs were created.
The work is unique. Rather than replicating the lace, it arrives at a new creation of lace. It is significant in that it stands alone in its field and is more relevant to our age of production and technology.
Dimensions: vary, approx 300 cm x 80 cm
Materials: silk dupion and organza, silk screen and digital printing, machine stitching on a soluble base, gold foiling.
Photo Credit: Paul Pavlou
