{"id":361,"date":"2023-06-04T12:28:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-04T02:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/?p=361"},"modified":"2025-03-14T13:45:30","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T02:45:30","slug":"fabric-of-life-the-fibre-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/fabric-of-life-the-fibre-show\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fibre Show 2023 – \u201cFabric of Life\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The afternoon Opening event for\u00a0\u201cFabric of Life” the annual Fibre Show<\/em>\u00a0was well attended and it was great to see the young Fibre Artists come along to see their work in the Gallery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"plastic
plastic is the new ocean by River Moore<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Wall
Wall Hanging – Shawl by Robyn Stewart<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Odd
Odd Balls knits II by Peter Aland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

As always the excitement and conversation between the artists, when seeing other works and techniques, makes a great atmosphere. The next generation of felt-makers and fibre artists were able to meet and talk to some of the felt\/fibre artists who came before them who were intrinsic to the start of the felting movement in Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Felt
Felt Wrap with Weft Felt features by Sachiko Kotaka<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Cotton
Cotton Coiled Basket by Mandy Lees<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Momotarou
Momotarou (Peach Boy) by Masu Kotaka<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Sachiko Kotaka\u2019s \u201cFelt Wrap\u201d<\/em>, and one of the next generation of artists, Courtney Heffernan\u2019s \u201cFungus Head\u201d<\/em>  felted hat, were a talking point. They are stunning examples of the ability for felt to be both delicate and strong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Sunflowers
Sunflowers (Latch Hook) by Jane Foundling<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Totoro
Totoro by Milly de Zwart<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Fungus
Fungus Head by Courtney Heffernan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

River Moore\u2019s piece \u201cplastic is the new ocean\u201d<\/em> shows once again that mixed fibres and crochet can make a powerful statement about the destruction and pollution of the environment. There is a huge variety of work, with Craig Walton\u2019s sculptured Bangalow Palm piece, beautiful and masterful weaving by Robyn Stewart and Wendy Cartwright and much, much more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a feast of fabric and fibre and one of the best Fibre Shows in recent years for its colourful and imaginative works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhibition will run until Saturday 22nd July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We embroider, sew, felt, sculpt and weave. We transform fibre into the practical and take what nature gives us and turn that into items that keep our bodies\u2019 warm or cool. We transform fibre into the practical and take it into the creative realms of art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17,33],"class_list":["post-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exhibitions","tag-17","tag-fibre"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1370,"href":"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions\/1370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}