Past Events

Employing surrealism, the purpose is to disrupt ways of seeing and lend a hyperreality to the image.

Exploring the unpredictable world of natural dyes. Dipping, dyeing, printing and weaving poetic magic into textiles.

flow: a mental state in which a person performing an activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and enjoyment in the process of the activity. Flow is characterized by complete absorption in what one does.

Kathleen Berney, Liz Gemmell, Beth Hatton, Irene Manion and Barbara Rogers celebrate the beauty and diversity of shells. Using textile processes they re-imagine shell structures and markings, revealing the inner dynamic of patterns of growth - multiplication, repetition and variety, division and all-embracing unity.

Textiles by Barbara Rogers
Photographic images by Catherine Rogers

My work explores the effects of engaging with a particular landscape or place, and concepts of time. The fossils of Bow Wow Gorge were laid down in the Permian period about 230 million years ago, when Australia was part of the great continent Gondwana.

More images from outer space - that place which is not here, but which lies somewhere between Heaven and Earth.

Working with the traditional textile technique of shibori, I have broken down, dissected and/or dismantled my pieces, transforming the familiar into the unfamiliar. I have also dismantled the structure of the square to re-create it anew, at the same time exploring patterns, using stitching and overstitching, dyeing or discharging at each step.