Where to begin?
After many hours work by many people, our gallery is full of the most eye popping array of crafted textile and paper objects. FloriART and The Great Gallery Garden opened last thursday night, with a very appreciative audience and plenty of the participants who spent their time looking carefully at the installations to see exactly where their contributions were placed!
It was easier for some than others!
Anna-Maria and Kaya with their contributions!
Obviously many people couldn't attend due to distance (NT, NSW, SA), so I'd like to list everyone who has participated in all aspects of the project here!
Alex Asch
Carla Papas
Emma Papas
Francisca del Castillo
Inta and Frank Burden
Joseph Garufi
Kaet Lovell
Kathryn Shen
Louise Shen
Malinda Dickins
Maria Luiasa Garufi
Mariana del Castillo
Matthew Shen
Messengers students
Timothy Phelps
Wendy Papas
Atrium Gallery
Jo Hollier
Julie Bradley
Naomi Crowther
Alexandra Davey
AMC²
Anna - Maria Sviatko
Belinda Allison
Cate Aichroy
Cerri McLean
Donovan Hannis
Emily Haesler
Gaylene Bourne
Inta and Frank Burden
Jan Hatch
JeanetteTrumbly
Kate Mills
Kaya Aichroy-Wutts
Macarthur Textile Network
Malinda Dickins
Margaret Wilson
Margaret Hammond
Mary Argall
Narelle Phillips
Pamela
Rhonda Pitson
Rosalin Duncan
Sonia van den Berg
Sue Marks
Thelma Caruana
Wendy Papas
I really hope I haven't overlooked anyone, because I am so grateful that so many people were inspired by the initial concept, and were dedicated enough to keep making, and patient enough to trust me for the final results! The response to the outdoor artworks, Atrium space exhibition and the Great Gallery Garden has been so positive. We have had cameras, media and lots of very appreciative comments in our visitors book. Here are some of them -
"a gorgeous synthesis of Art and Spring!"
"very uplifting"
"an impressive showing"
There are plenty more comments on our facebook page too, check in and leave some of your own if you like!
By way of curating the exhibition, I stuck pretty firmly to the belief that all of the disparate elements would be united by planes of colour. I treated the gallery space in quite a conventional way - a series of wall pieces and the remaining objects grouped atop very large plinths. Most of the separate installations had elements of real branches in them, which gives a sense of continuity through the whole exhibition.
Although the makers hands are visible in lots of areas in the gallery, I tried to keep the garden restricted quite formally to the plinth tops to give it all a bit of structure and some boundaries.
Occasionally some rogue vines and tendrils break loose though, and next time perhaps we will go unashamedly for the wild, untamed secret garden look. That means of course, that there will be a LOT more knitting, crochet and felting required!
Following are lots and lots of pictures of everything that has made up FloriART at Tuggeranong Arts Centre.
Beginning with some quirky and colourful works outside on our lake front lawns...
a collaborative installation "Frida's Garden" by community members and Messengers tutors and students
And inside the gallery...
collaborative installations and a "floral canopy" by Sydney artist AMC²
collaborative installations and "Elements - Nature" by the Macarthur Knitters Guild, NSW.
above left, crocheted flowers by Helen Tiernan (Canberra) and right, by Donovan Hannis (Alice Springs). Below, paper flowers and origami by Cerri McLean and Thelma Caruana (Canberra).
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