Going, gone
Barometer 13 Gurner Street, Paddington, NSW, AustraliaPhotographs by Catherine Rogers
Tasmania's old growth forests of the Styx Valley and Upper Florentine marked for logging (2003-2008). Some ten years later these magnificent and complex ancient forests have been laid waste, this vital landscape destroyed.
Fragments, tears and lace
Barometer 13 Gurner Street, Paddington, NSW, AustraliaFragments, tears and lace by Sharon Peoples is an exhibition of lace-like textiles that explores aspects of the construction, meanings and uses of lace. The lace handkerchief was crafted primarily for its aesthetic qualities and its social references. It was largely impractical, but the lace handkerchief developed into a practical, woven textile which also signified the development of manners in a rapidly changing world.
Passaggio
Barometer 13 Gurner Street, Paddington, NSW, AustraliaThis series by Catherine Cloran was made in Spring 2016 during a three-month sojourn in rural Italy. I had planned to walk through the countryside taking photos, however, a broken foot meant that I was confined to the passenger seat of a car instead. In an effort to make the most of an unfortunate […]
The Square
Barometer 13 Gurner Street, Paddington, NSW, AustraliaWorking 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.
Lost in Space
Barometer 13 Gurner Street, Paddington, NSW, AustraliaMore images from outer space - that place which is not here, but which lies somewhere between Heaven and Earth.
Diary of a Landscape
Barometer 13 Gurner Street, Paddington, NSW, AustraliaMy 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.
In Reverse
Barometer 13 Gurner Street, Paddington, NSW, AustraliaTextiles by Barbara Rogers
Photographic images by Catherine Rogers
Shells
Barometer 13 Gurner Street, Paddington, NSW, AustraliaKathleen 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.
Flow
Barometer 13 Gurner Street, Paddington, NSW, Australiaflow: 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.
The Secret Life of Colour
Barometer 13 Gurner Street, Paddington, NSW, AustraliaExploring the unpredictable world of natural dyes. Dipping, dyeing, printing and weaving poetic magic into textiles.