Some of you may know that recently I have been making handmade paper and experimenting with adding lots of different inclusions to the basic paper pulp. I have been really happy with the results I’ve been achieving, and have had good responses from people to whom I have shown the completed papers. So when, a few months ago, an invitation for Expressions of Interest was put out for a local public art gallery where I live I submitted a proposal based on my handmade papers. The exhibition space is made up of several wall mounted perspex boxes, which I thought perfect to display the papers.
The gallery is in a laneway in Ballarat, and is part of council’s public art program. The laneway walls are fitted with the boxes which are locked and lit for 24/7 display – a great way to enliven otherwise dank laneways.
I was lucky enough to be successful in my proposal, and the exhibition was installed and opened on 7th November. This being a reasonably new medium for me I was really happy with the way the exhibition looked, and even sold a work on opening night! Hopefully that is an omen for the remainder of the exhibition.
SOLD – Textured Landscape: Eucalyptus Pulp and Jute
Even though this is a new medium it does tie in with the underlying environmental and organic themes of most of my work – so I am excited to be exploring a new way to communicate these ideas to a potentially wider audience.
The photos for this post were difficult to take given the narrowness of the laneway and the reflective surface of the perspex. So when the works are uninstalled – in six weeks – time, I will rephotograph the works when the perspex is removed, and put them in a new blog post.
So without further ado, here are some images of the installation of the show and the finished exhibition 🙂
These things are like fossils, artificial fossils. Really beautiful.
Posted by nannus | November 9, 2013, 7:06 pmthanks Nannus… glad you like them 🙂
Posted by Dawn Whitehand | November 9, 2013, 11:38 pmDawn how long is the exhibition on for? My friends and I are planning a trip to Ballarat area on Monday 25 Nov – will it still be in place? Very interesting..
Posted by Lynne McHutchison | November 10, 2013, 8:56 amHi Lynne… yes the exhibition goes for 6 weeks, so will still be up on the 25th Nov.
I hope you enjoy it 🙂
Posted by Dawn Whitehand | November 10, 2013, 2:06 pmBeautiful. I’m wondering how you mounted the pieces?
Leslie Wentzell
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Posted by Leslie Wentzell | November 11, 2013, 1:15 pmHi Leslie… they are mounted with dressmaking pins and pulled forward to the top of the pin so that there is space between the wall and the paper so that the installation has more depth… 🙂
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