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Kathryn Clark

website@moadoph.gov.au — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 02:44:19 +0000

Kathryn Clark website@moadop… Mon, 10/15/2018 - 13:44

For the past six years, Kathryn Clark has been making art about geopolitical narratives using the traditional medium of quilts and embroidery. Presenting these subjects through the use of the aesthetically pleasing textile offers a viewer a more approachable relationship with narratives that are often conveniently ignored. What at first seems beautiful, upon further investigation reveals a darker tale. The medium of textiles is a familiar one to Kathryn: her mother was a textile artist and growing up in the deep south of the United States, quilts were commonly used as storytelling tools. Each of Kathryn’s series involves copious research into maps, government data, and journalism.

In 2011, Kathryn translated neighbourhood blocks into quilt blocks: her Foreclosure Quilts mapped out foreclosures happening all across the United States, thereby sneaking the factual data into an object of beauty.

After the Foreclosure Quilts, Kathryn continued to be intrigued by uneasy or easily dismissed subjects that could be presented in an intriguing way. In 2016, Kathryn documented the Syrian refugee crisis in a series of embroideries called Refugee Stories. The hand-embroidered panels document the journey through maps and imagery of the refugees as they flee Syria and move into Europe. The series acts as a time-stamp from which future generations can learn.

Kathryn is currently creating The Russia Project, which documents the history of Russia’s rise using an embroidered infographic timeline as a narrative tool.

Kathryn Clark

English

United States of America

American

In light of recent events across the world, especially within my own country, I fear now more than ever for equality and human rights. I make work that speaks for the people who have been left behind.

With the recent fears that Russia interfered with our election, I chose to focus my latest body of work on learning about Russia and why it acts as it does today. Article 10 is routinely violated in Russia, and trials are fabricated and used against their own innocent people to attain more power within the Kremlin.

I think of every innocent person not given a fair trial in Russia and around the world when I stitch these words.

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Red quilt

Nadine Jones

website@moadoph.gov.au — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 04:33:53 +0000

Nadine Jones website@moadop… Mon, 10/15/2018 - 15:33

Nadine Jones is currently an undergraduate at the University of the West of England, studying fine art. Nadine recently completed an Erasmus exchange at Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, where she further developed her interest in textile art and gender politics. She is interested in pushing the boundaries of contemporary textile art, from working with embroidery, hand-weaving and knitting into forms that express the experiences of the female body.

Nadine Jones

Welsh

Wales, United Kingdom

Welsh

I found this project an exciting opportunity to talk to other artists who use embroidery as a form of painting. I regularly use red tones in my work as it’s a very emotive language that symbolises blood. For this project, I used red thread for another reason: it is a traditional Welsh colour; the colour of the dragon on our flag. I also used yellow because this is the colour of our national flower, the daffodil, which blooms in its thousands in spring. I bought the cotton material in the Brecon Beacons of mid-Wales.

I sewed the Article in my home language, Welsh, because although I no longer live in Wales I still feel a huge connection to my homeland and the people who live there. Welsh is a beautiful old Celtic language that is slowly being used less and less in Wales. It’s important to keep the language known and used.

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Green quilt

Jyoti Chand

website@moadoph.gov.au — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 05:26:06 +0000

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I’ve been knitting and cross-stitching since my early teens and know I can’t rest unless I’ve stitched something each day! I’ve recently been using my love for cross-stitch and embroidery to help spread key political messages to promote equality.

Jyoti Chand

English

United Kingdom

Indian

I wished to take part in this project as I have always believed sustaining human rights laws is imperative, and sadly a continuous struggle for societies across the globe. Some people may not be aware of what our human rights laws outline, or even that some people are denied these basic rights.

This project is paramount in spreading the message globally. I hope it will encourage many others to join the fight to keep our human rights laws across the world and to promote a fairer, equal global community where everyone is treated humanely.

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Blue quilt

Kristen Franyutti

website@moadoph.gov.au — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 05:47:52 +0000

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Kristen Franyutti is an American artist working in mixed media and fibre arts. She has won various awards including the 2017 John and Susan Berding Family Endowment Master of Fine Arts Prize, the Varg-Sullivan Graduate Award in Arts and Letters, Special College Research Abroad Money (SCRAM) to travel to Tokyo, Graduate School Dissertation Completion Fellowship Award, and three Research/Professional Development Fellowship Awards to travel to London, Paris and Quebec.

Her work is in the Michigan State University (MSU) Library’s permanent collection. Furthermore, she has exhibited in various international and national shows and galleries, including the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, (SCENE) Metrospace, and Kresge Art Center (MSU), East Lansing; A.I.R Gallery, New York; Main and Station Gallery, Montreal; In-situ Installation Residency at Moon Rain Centre for Textile Arts, Quebec; the Kelso Art Center, San Antonio; and the Ford Gallery at Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti.

Kristen received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Fashion Design from the University of North Texas, and received her Master of Fine Arts from MSU, graduating summa cum laude. Prior to working as a full-time artist, Kristen worked as a technical designer for a large fashion house in New York and she also worked for several years as an assistant professor at MSU. Kristen currently lives and works in south-eastern Michigan.

Kristen Franyutti

English

United States of America

After reading this Article, I thought of Lady Justice. She wears a symbolic blindfold, while carrying a set of scales in one hand and a sword in the other.

I depicted the scales to represent the idea that all humans should be judged as equals. Our race, colour, ethnic origin, gender, sexual orientation or religion should never tip the balance of the judicial scale. And despite our individual differences, we are all made of the same basic cell structures. To portray this, I embroidered the image of human skin cells and the rhythm of the human heart, as one would see on a heartbeat monitor.

Earth is home to all, and we should never be prisoners to one location. I stitched abstracted lines to depict geological mapping of coastlines. Even if we find ourselves in a new foreign location, we have the right to be judged fairly. More importantly, we must treat others the same way.

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Yellow quilt