SKRI:N
1 June – 11 August 2019
Wangaratta Contemporary Textile Award 2019, Wangaratta Regional Gallery, Victoria
SKRI:N was exhibited at Wangaratta Regional gallery as part of the Wangaratta Contemporary textile Award 2019. The award is an biennial acquisitive award and exhibition celebrating the diversity and strength of Australia’s textile artistry.
SKRI:N is an textile artwork that explores the intersection between image, surface, and screen. The work, constitutes a hybrid form of visual, tactile and bodily representation.
Through an expanded approach to drawing the work explores the abstraction of an photographic image using embroidery to create a visually and sensorially tactile surface.
The imagery depicted on the textile surface/screen was created by exploring how embroidery can be seen as a process of gestural drawing to create multidimensional surfaces similar to an ethereal and abstract landscape. SKRI:N opens up an opportunity for experiencing the interpretive and indefinable image/surface in a state of constant flux between imaginative emergence and disappearance.