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Meredith Butz

website@moadoph.gov.au — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 03:27:51 +0000

Meredith Butz website@moadop… Mon, 10/15/2018 - 14:27

Meredith Butz is an illustrator and fibre artist from California currently based in Seattle, Washington. Her body of work includes embroidery, knitting, sewing, watercolour, crochet, and linoleum-block printing. She has participated in several artist fairs and group shows and has had her work featured by Planned Parenthood and Bitch Media.

Meredith Butz

English

United States of America

American

My work focuses on the de-stigmatisation of both social justice and traditionally ‘feminine’ domestic crafts. Using natural elements, especially botany, mycology and herbalism, to inform my design, media and tools has allowed me to forge a deeper connection with local flora.

My work with fibre art began two years ago, with an acrylic-knit beanie. It has evolved into a body of work including traditional exhibition art and utilitarian pieces, and incorporates embroidery, knitting, sewing, illustration and painting.

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Andrea Standridge

website@moadoph.gov.au — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 05:17:22 +0000

Andrea Standridge website@moadop… Mon, 10/15/2018 - 16:17

I started stitching as an outlet for my need to create and a mostly questionable sense of humour with loud opinions. It’s turned into a wonderful hobby that generates a lot of personalised presents and uneasy stares at craft fairs. I was raised by a single mother who taught me to speak up for what I believe, stand up for myself and others, and to be my own person first. I am lucky to have three amazing sisters who have given me four spitfire nieces. I want to leave them a better world, one where their gender does not define their opportunities.

Andrea Standridge

English

United States of America

Native American, German, Irish

I was honoured to participate in this project. I began cross-stitching as an outlet; a way to keep my hands and mind busy. I also found it gave me a voice to a larger audience that could be both fun and often political as a feminist. My three sisters and I were raised by a single mother who taught us to speak up for ourselves and for those who can’t.

To me, Article 28 speaks loudly. Everyone is entitled to these rights: the same rights that their neighbour, their best friend, their enemy is entitled to. What a beautiful world we would live in if this was realised. I chose to depict my Article as a beautiful world, a world of flowers. I hope we are able to work towards this world with everything we have.

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Georgia Wigmore

website@moadoph.gov.au — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 05:41:40 +0000

Georgia Wigmore website@moadop… Mon, 10/15/2018 - 16:41

From the small town of Stamford in England, but currently living in Hawke’s Bay in New Zealand, Georgia Wigmore has a bit of an adventurous side to her. After working in events for five years in the United Kingdom, she decided to quit her job and explore the world. With an interest in sustainable development, on her travels she has joined NGOs in Borneo and Guatemala to take part in international development projects.

As a continuation of the work she did in Guatemala, Georgia decided to create her own community project, ‘Craftivism—the patch-up’. The aim was to create a quilt, each individual patch sewn by a member of the community, highlighting the UN Global Goals and spreading the word about how we can help reach them. The end product was displayed at One World Week at the Stamford Arts Centre and then at the local primary school.

Georgia would like to be a catalyst for change for the future and is looking to study sustainable development at university level in the next year or so. And of course, she has an eye on potential craftivist projects to be involved with around the world.

Georgia Wigmore

English

New Zealand

British

Article 28 has, for me, two stand-out words: rights and freedoms. I wanted to make sure these keywords were emphasised and illustrated on my block. To encompass both, I used a feather. For ‘rights’, a feather symbolises a quill, a way of formalising the declaration of rights by a written word. For ‘freedoms’, a feather is from a wing, which enables flight and therefore freedom.

I think the main reason people take part in craftivism is because we are creating something together, something good and constructive, rather than destructive. There is an underlying feeling of positivity with this form of activism.

As technology continues to expand and globalisation is at the forefront of society, it is vital that all human beings can co-exist. Re-issuing the UDHR in the form of craftivism is a reminder of this need: a message I am proud to be part of.

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Blue quilt

Olisa Corcoran

website@moadoph.gov.au — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 05:54:43 +0000

Olisa Corcoran website@moadop… Mon, 10/15/2018 - 16:54

Olisa Corcoran is an artist based in Durham, North Carolina. She is a third-generation ‘Nuyorican’ (member of the Puerto Rican diaspora from New York City). Working primarily with embroidery and painting, her art focuses on self-portraiture, women and texture.

Olisa Corcoran

English

United States of America

I call myself ‘Nuyorican’: a product of the large, rich and vibrant culture of Puerto Ricans living in New York City

I struggle with rage as I witness the even greater deterioration of the concept of human rights than I believed possible. I am unsure that making a painted, embroidered quilt block is a reasonable response to nativism and anti-refugee horrors. As a textile artist, I can’t help but translate this rage into something with colour and thread. But, to be blunt, I feel sheepish about the privilege of the act.

I’m from a nation built on a genocide of Native Americans and the capture, enslavement and labour of Africans. Many of us are refugees or the children of refugees, but so many have amnesia about our roots. We have wilfully fallen asleep.

Article 28 states we are entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms included in the UDHR can be fully realised. Yes. Yes. How can we make this happen? We must shake the sleepers. We must wake up.

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