Open session for ‘Gardens of the Heart’ at WINDOWSPACE-BEEAC during internationally recognized South Australian INDIA FLINT ‘landmarks’ exhibition
h.Art, together with India, invites stitchers, writers and dreamers around the world to join hands
in a gentle project involving words, cloth and thread.
For some time now, India
has been sharing with her students a method of creating poems that are formed
by three lines. Each participant is given a number between 1 and 3, and a long
narrow piece of paper. Those with ‘1’ write the first line, those with ‘2’ the
second or middle line, those with ‘3’ write a closing line. None of the writers
know what the others are writing about, there is no common theme decided...but
invariably when the lines are placed together,
beauty unfolds. There is
something deeply enriching about creating poetry together in this way.
For ‘Gardens of the Heart’ India is inviting people to stitch a phrase or sentence
on a piece of cloth and
send it to be included in the exhibition at the Onkaparinga Woollen Mill
Artspace in Lobethal, South Australia.
Linking with CrossXpollinatioN annual festival of textile and fibre art a local stitch chapter
for ‘Gardens of the Heart’ will be held at
WINDOWSPACE-BEEAC 79 Main Street, Beeac, from 2-4pm on Saturday 14 July.
You do not need to be an
expert embroiderer to join in, those who follow India’s writings know she is a
great exponent of what she calls ‘rebel stitching’. There is a beautiful
section of rebel stitching on ‘landmarks’, July’s featured artwork.
India
Flint landmarks (detail) 2017
India
Flint Alchemist’s Apron - work in progress
India
has used several different stitches on this beautiful apron and all convey the
words, so you can chose whatever combination you’d like.
When
you attend the stitch session you will be given a mark indicating whether you
are to compose a first line, a middle line or a last line. Please stitch that
mark on your work (at the beginning of your line of poetry), followed by your
words.
Instructions
- Please choose (or cut to size) a piece of cloth 450mm wide x 150mm high.
- You may like to use cloth that has special significance of some kind. The cloth need not be hemmed, frayed edges are acceptable.
- Stitch your mark on the cloth (at the left hand side), then your words.
- We suggest at least three and a maximum of nine words per line.
- When the work is done, please send it together with your completed entry form to ::
‘gardens of the heart’
PO Box 196,
Lobethal 5241
South Australia
When the stitched lines of
text are delivered to h.ART they will be gathered together to form “three -
line poems” and running-stitched to a calico backing cloth (by India together
with fellow volunteers). The resulting three-line poems will be installed
(pegged on a series of “washing” lines) in an exhibition at the
Onkaparinga Woollen Mill
Artspace, around a cloud of individual fresh flowers that will be suspended
from threads attached to the ceiling of the space. We envisage the blooms will
dry slowly over the period of the exhibition, releasing their fragrance into
the air in a poem of their own.
At the opening event,
volunteers will be positioned around the room, ready to take turns to read some
of the poems aloud. Members of the public will be invited to join in also. At
the conclusion of the exhibition, India will edit a publication that will
include all of the poems, together with images from the
installation. Whether this
will take the form of unlimited ‘print on demand’ or
limited edition with order
by pre-purchase is yet to be determined.
The ‘gardens of the heart’
collection will be kept together for possible regional touring at a later date.
Dates
- December 22, 2018 last date to send completed pieces to PO Box 196, Lobethal 5241
- March 1, 2019 ‘gardens of the heart’ opens
- March 30 , 2019 exhibition concludes
- April – July, 2019 design and production of associated publication.
Participate
Bring your fabric, embroidery threads and sewing kit if you have one, otherwise share ours. Dress warmly, and bring your keep-cup for a cuppa by the woodfire.
WINDOWSPACE-BEEAC 79 Main Street, Beeac, from 2-4pm on Saturday 14 July.Free,
pre-booking required.
Enquiries
0412 337 001 or windowspacebeeac@gmail.com
Interest
India is known
for several seminal texts that changed the practice of natural dyeing. The
distinctive eco-print, developed in the course of research for a Master of
Visual Arts at the University of South Australia, has become a defining feature
of her textile practice.
Eco Colour -
where it all began: botanical alchemy for beautiful
textiles using leaves, roots, bark and flowers to colour cloth.
Second Skin
- a book about the provenance and prospects of the
textiles in our lives (with a chapter devoted to bundle-dyeing and the
ecoprint).
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