Transform: shirts reimagined
October 6 - October 22
What can be done with a shirt – any old shirt, a white shirt, a discarded, coloured or patterned; a large or small shirt; worn, torn or damaged shirt; plain, frilly or lightweight or heavy.
Whatever the shirt was to begin with, these artists have repurposed, transformed, manipulated or recreated a shirt, or a couple of shirts into a new piece, a functional object, recreating a new wearable shirt or predominantly, transforming a shirt into a unique artwork.
Artists have also brought their own interests to the project with concerns or references to sustainability, wellbeing, repurposing, making do and remaking to reimagining an outcome, creating a diverse range of new outcomes.
Artists: Vita Cochran, Michele Elliott, Liz Gemmell, Cecilia Heffer, Christina Newberry, Emma Peters, Barbara Rogers, Jane Theau, Liz Williamson and Melinda Young.
Friday 6 October – Sunday 22 October, Wednesdays – Sundays 11 am -5 pm
Exhibition launch and artist talks Saturday 7 October 3 – 6 pm;
Craft Up Late Wednesday 11 October 5 to 8 pm.
Images
1. Vita Cochran. Assorted used for small squares 2023
2. Christina Newberry. Pleats Play 2023
3. Liz Williamson Woven from Shirts 2023
4. Michele Elliot The Lovers – potter 2023
5. Jane Theau White Collar 2023