No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.
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Cat Evans grew up in Canberra and has recently returned there from living in Melbourne to study art. She is frustrated with the current Australian Government’s lack of empathy towards people who need our help. The #UDHRquilt Project is her first craftivist project and she hopes to be involved in many more.
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.
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Ashley Catharine Smith is a New York-based artist working in photography, video and fibres. Through the combination of these mediums she creates melodramatic depictions of relationships, sex and gender. Her work is driven by her desire to understand how rules about feelings and gender roles affect our interpersonal relationships and sense of self. Ashley explores the complexity of relationships by depicting intimate moments with an additional element of fibres seemingly growing from the surface of the photograph.
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.
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I love the brightness of luminous tones; I refer to them as ‘mashangane colours’. Associations of bright colours as well as embroidery are related to Shangaan people, which is inherent in my own ancestry.
Some of my other works have been inspired by Vilakazi Street in Soweto, where I live. In one project, text was embroidered onto a 30-metre piece of purple and yellow ribbon, which reads like a narrative of Vilakazi Street, chaptering different points of interest along the street. Visitors were invited to embroider symbols, thus including the illiterate.
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.
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Rachel Edler is a textile artist currently residing in Bristol, England. She uses the free-motion embroidery technique in her work, using vintage fabrics and patterns to contrast with her embroidered illustrations. This is her first time participating in a craftivist project, although she is keen to do more.