indigo, shibori, sunprints, clamping, twisting folding, usings stencils and resists, silk painting, gutta resists, batik and plant dyes, lots of brews and bubbles…. next workshop Brisbane Institute of Art autumn program 2013.
Contact me nancybrown@bigpond.com or Brisbane Institute of Art http://brisart2.org/ enquiries@brisart.org
for details.
Here is a slideshow of some of the bigger screenprints that I’ve been doing. Some are from the Woodford folk Festival, where we create decor for the various festivals, and some are with Upatree Puppetry for their giant puppets, who grace events with their presence…. There are also a few pictures of materials in the process of creation around the state….
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The work evolved with a layering up of imagery on long canvasses, the printed patterns connecting the different panels. The studio was the great outdoors and during the exhibition I kept finding tiny poinciana leaves among the paint, The paintings are an interpretation of the Tapestry of the unicorn ‘a mon seul desir’. What does my soul desire? Each panel depicts a different sense, and the unicorn, believed to be real at the time of Marco Polo’s journey was reported by him to be a mud wallowing Rhinoceros unlikely to lay its head gently in the lap of a gentle maiden. Much of life is about clinging to the perilous gaps between pre conceived and sensed reality.
Nancy Brown
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I made these quilts from screenprinted material left over from my community textile project to welcome some babies I know into the world! Hollie had suggested a sewing day. She made a flaming tree skirt, while I made the bears….
I painted this section of the mural at the tunnel at Bundamba station for Queensland Rail
This is a section of the Bundamba underpass that I painted. I was happy to have the task of putting the Koalas in, because promoting urban Koala welfare in Redlands has been my mission for the past year (see Koala Arts posting). Lloyd Hornsby from Yuinart was the designer, and the Koala sections were designed by his students during school workshops.
a baby queenslander by the tracks Wooloowin
20/20 project finishes
This was a baby Queenslander that I painted on Wooloowin Station from composites of photos that I had taken of houses around the area. Our team leader Rob Clark suggested we photograph houses and shops in the middle of the day to create the street scene. We all arrived with our photographs, and the tall tale of the history of this painted street began, and Charmayne, Francis, Keith, Carmen, Janet, Narelle, Cat, Lisa, Therese, Nadine, Sarah, Mace and Mark became very interesting and colourful neigbours on the block, helping each other out with fences, gardens and construction.
piecows, going dotty and the Infinity Zone
We all had rocks in our heads by the end of the muralling at Woodridge station. Here is a fetching look in neon safety wear modelled by lovely Charmaine. We were getting very adept at erecting the big scaffolding in the tunnel. Arguments broke out among the murallists about who rocked most…I can’t confirm at this stage whose stones were balanced the best, though certain folk set me a wobble when I was high on that scaffolding let me tell you. Fortunately none of them tumbled before the antigraff went on.
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