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Introduction by Robyn Daw. Edited by Matthew Koumis with Beth Smith and Rosie Tatham
"Thirteen outstanding Australian textile artists are included. This is a unique series, with magnificent images, biographical details and a very readable introduction by Robyn Daw." Textile Fibre Forum. 142 colour photographs, 120 pages 286 x 242mm softback only. Available from: Britain: Contemporary Applied Arts, London, Embroiderers’ Guild; USA http://www.textilemuseum.org/ Australia: http://www.ggcreations.com.au/tafta/ http://www.artisan.com.au/ or from the featured artists Featured artists: Anne Farren, Pamela Fitzsimons, Beth Hatton, Greg Leong, Sara Lindsay, Zoe MacDonell, Jeannie Mooney, Rosemary O'Rourke, Julie Ryder, Nalda Searles, Ilka White, Jane Whiteley, Liz Williamson
Edited with an introduction by Professor Janis Jefferies
Textile Transitions by Janis Jefferies (UK); Textile Art - Who are you? by Sarat Maharaj (UK); The Thread of Passage: Giorgia Volpe, by Mariette Bouillet (Canada); The Dress; Bodies and Boundaries, by Renée Baert (Canada); Bodies, Clothes, Skins, by Giorgia Volpe & Mariette Bouillet (Canada); Forbidden Touch: Anne Wilson's Cloth, by Alison Ferris (USA); The Sewing Desire Machine, by Peter Hobbs (Canada); Voyage: Home is Where we Start From, by Kay Lawrence (Australia) & Lindsay Obermeyer (USA); Migrant Textiles: Burdens, Bundles and Baggage, by Barbara Layne (Canada); Re-constructing Chinese, by Greg Kwok Keung Leong (Australia); Remembering Toba Tek Singh: A Video Installation by Nalini Malani, by Victoria Lynn (Australia); Embroidering the Motherland: The Fabric of Palestinian National Identity, by Tina Sherwell (Israel); Kim Sooja's Bottari and Her Journey, by Sun Jung Kim (South Korea); Nordic Textile Traditions and Visions, by Lisbeth Tolstrup (Denmark)
Essay: Where Light Passes Through, by Jeremy Theophilus
"This book, examining her work from 1998 to the present, represents a fluid slippage between contemporary textiles, jewellery, performance and installation based practices."
Object, Australia. This beautifully illustrated book includes a chapter entitled 'Inspirations: Windows and Shadows' containing photographs by the artist. Materials used include tulle, scorched silk, elastane, scorched cotton, linen, photography. Born in 1950, Broadhead trained at the Central School of Art and Design, London. Public collections that hold examples of her work include the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; the Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. She was the winner of the Jerwood Prize for Applied Arts: Textiles in 1997.
Caroline Broadhead is a featured artist in Art Textiles of the World: Great Britain volume 2.
[http://www.bmgallery.co.uk/broadhead/broadhead.htm].
31 colour photos, 22cm x 22cm, 48 pages
Martina Margetts and Ryoko Kuroda
Kumai’s improvisatory wire sculptures probe the strength and fragility of nature through an intriguing dialogue with new technologies. "Drawing on observation and on childhood memories of nature's elements - wind, fire, air, earth - Kyoko Kumai enables us to participate directly in her lived experience. While some works are small and intimate, her formidable reputation rests on her vast works which suggest growth in nature, spreading across walls and floors, atmospherically enveloping space and light and suggesting a cyclical rather than linear shape of time. Pattern, colour, form, as well as monumentality and lightness (permanence and transience), are all derived from the patient and repeptitive manipulation of stainless-steel fimalment; but while the economy of material and process suggests a minimalist approach, it belies a lingering emotional charge." [from a Foreword by Martina Margetts, RCA, London]
Bilingual edition, Japanese and English.
Edited with an essay by Dery Timmer
A lavishly illustrated book of ten profiles of leading exponents of textile art from Holland aka the Netherlands. Edited with an essay by Dery Timmer 'Textile - A Bird's Eye View - Thoughts on textile in Netherlands'
96pp · 52 col. illus, 10 b&w illus. · 286 x 242mm
Edited with an introduction by Matthew Koumis
Essay by artist and writer Ilze Aviks: 'The Art Textile, a conversation in progress'.
The featured artists, all of whom introduce their work to the book reader, mostly work in unique ways which are difficult to categorise!
Artists: Kyoung Ae Cho (pine needles and burn marks, hair), Virginia Davis (handwoven ikat linen canvas, double weave), Deborah Fisher (found objects, velvet, linen, satin), Ann Hamilton (sculptural installations), Linda Hutchins (woven tapestry), Jane Lackey (acrylic, ink, cork, birch, ink, dictionaries), Susan Lordi Marker (text and cloth, devore, cloque), Charlene Nemec-Kessel (double or triple weave pick up, embroidery), Jason Pollen (silk, fiber reactive dyes, vat dye discharge), Jane Sauer (soft sculpture, knotted waxed linen threads)
ISBN: 0 9526267 1 3 (softback only)
94pp · 61 col. illus, 10 b&w illus. · 286 x 242mm ·
Price: £12.50
Carolynne Skinner
The perilous fragility of nature, beautifully depicted by an outstanding conceptual environmentalist. This volume is lavishly illustrated with photographs of her art: drawings, crochet, embroidery and fabric manipulation, all equally beautiful. Frequently inspired by the Great Barrier reef, Lancaster's work delicately raises the alarm: our world is in danger.
ISBN: 1 902015 29 0
40 colour photos, 22cm square, 48 pages
Price: £7.25
Dr Jennifer Harris and Judith Duffey Harding
www.paulineburbidge-quilts.com "Pauline Burbidge is recognized internationally as the premier UK artist working in large scale quilted wall hangings. Her extensive exhibiting and teaching in the US throughout her 30 year career makes her a leader in the American art quilt movement as well. Museums purchasing her work include the V&A museum, London; the Museum of Costume and Textiles, Nottingham; the National Museums of Scotland; Glasgow Museums; Ulster Folk Museum, belfast; and the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester." From an introduction by Penny McMorris. "Anyone familiar with the impact of her vibrantly graphic style might be astonished to discover her newest body of work. Dramatic changes in outlook and execution have given the work a very different character. The dazzling primary contrasts have vanished, making way for complex and subtly evocative arrangements in black, white and grey. Far more restrained, contemplative in mood and almost sculptural, their newly irregular surfaces begin to disrupt the pictorial flatness of solid fabric... a textural painterly treatment." Adapted from the essay by Judith Duffey Harding
Ed Mi-Kyoung Lee
Featured artists: Kea-Nam Cha, So-Lim Cha, Kyung-Yeun Chung, Shin-Ja Lee, Young-Soon Kim, Ja-Hong Ku, Sung-Soon Lee, Soo-Chul Park, Burn-Soo Song, Kyung-Ae Wang.
112pages 286mm x 242mm
Laurel Reuter; Foreword by Takeo Uchiyama
New reprint now available
Professor of Textiles at Kyoto Seika University, Agano is a poet who explores the patterns of nature using materials such as fishing nets, bamboo, organza, soil and manila hemp. "Machiko Agano uses various materials for her work, but she never forces them to obey her intentions. She uses the characteristics and inherent nature of each material. They can be described as the fruits of her free heart. Because of her sensitivity to nature, Machiko Agano accepts its whispering voices and does not fail to notice their subtle changes of expression. [From a Foreword by Takeo Uchiyama, Director, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto].
Bilingual edition, Japanese and English.
Janet Koplos; Foreword by James Melchert
Only in her earliest works did she regularly plait, weave, twine or use any other technique of fine basketry. Instead she has made a partice of simply gathering together somewhat stiff materials and fusing them in overlapping relationships sufficient to suggest a container form...Laky's favoured basketry material is the prunings that she obtains from public and private sources such as park or street trees and orchards....to these materials she adds unusual complements, such as screws and telephone wire...'Industrial prunings is a term she has frequently used, paired with 'orchard prunings'. It's a clever way of expressing availability and selection from the modern world, without restriction. [extracts from the essay by Janet Koplos]
ISBN: 1 902015 39 8 (softback)
Price: £7.25
Edited with an introduction by Professor Sue Rowley
Published with the support of Southern Arts.
Now reprinted, 2nd impression November 2004.
Craft, Creativity and Critical Practice, by Professor Sue Rowley (Australia); "All ornaments are useful to scale facades, by Julian Ruesga Bono (Spain); Why is there no textile art in Hong Kong? by Hazel Clark (Hong Kong); Australian Weavers in Relation to Ancient Artefacts from Cyprus, by Diana Wood Conroy (Australia); A deeper Examination by Wlodzimierz Cygan (Poland; Yinka Shonibare: Dressing Down Textiles in a Victorian Philanthropist's Parlour, by Janis Jefferies (UK): Australian Indigenous Textiles: Facilitating Radical Exchange, by Doreen Mellor (Australia): Textiles as Viewfinder: Susie Brandt + Quotidian + Cloth, by Margo Mensing (USA); Kapda, by Nima Poovaya Smith (UK)
see also Portfolio Collection Vol 32 on Susie Brandt
168pp · 15 col. illus, 10 b&w illus. · 230 x 160mm ·
Kathleen Whitney, Jane Adlin, David McFadden
Norma Minkowitz has taken textile art to new heights. Her shellac-stiffened and painted crochet sculptures emerge as unique and brilliant forms. All of Minkowitz's sculptures are remarkable for their ability to evoke what are seemingly opposing visual sensations. The psychological complexities of her work, the observation of human behaviour, and the metaphorical containment, fuse into the beautiful forms she creates, making some of the most important sculptures of our time (excerpt from the introduction by Jane Adlin, Assistant Curator, Dept. of 19th Century Painting, Modern and Contemporary Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art)
ISBN: 1 902015 91 6
Price: £8.95
H. L Hix; foreword by Patricia Malarcher
Jason Pollen's work trusts the transcendent to assert itself in silk and color, as it does in dance and music, those other means, in Yeats's words, "of conversing with eternity" [H. L Hix] "When I first saw Jason Pollen's textiles at a New York Gallery in the early 90s, my attention was immediately riveted. In each work, layers of brilliantly dyed silk particles were invisibly fused to a transparent surface. the pieces of silk were like brush strokes detached from a canvas, or molecules suspended in a solution". [Patricia Malarcher]
ISBN: 1 902015 738 (softback)
Price: £7.25
Jenni Sorkin, Meredith Tromble and Melissa Leventon
Book contains three different texts in addition to Artist's Biography: Rapt in Memory: The Art of Lia Cook by Meredith Tromble.
Weaving Possession by Jenni Sorkin, winner of 2004 Art Journal Award
foreword by Melissa Leventon
32 colour photos, 22cm x 22cm, 48 pages
Foreword by Gerhardt Knodel; Essay by H. L. Hix; Remeniscences by the Artist
"The work of Kyoung Ae Cho is informed by two disparate worlds: a richly nuanced biological world with accessible evolving patterns of growth, and a complex, diverse realm of digital information that continues to expand progressively. For the artist, each of these two contrasting realms has its own allure. For Kyoung Ae Cho, the place between is a platform for reaction that is vibrant with contemporary potential."
from the Foreword by Gerhardt Knodel.
ISBN: 1 902015 49 5 (softback)
Korean and English text. 48 pages, 22cm x22cm, 27 colour photos
Price: £7.25
Editor Matthew Koumis
Artists featured: Agneta Hobin, Maija Lavonen, Silja Puranen (Finland); Nina Hart, Kirsten Nissen, Grethe Wittrock (Denmark); Bente Saetrang, Ingunn Skogholt (Norway); Monica Nilsson (Sweden); Gudrun Gunnarsdottir (Iceland).
July 2005 100 colour photos 112 pages
Laurel Reuter; Foreword by Carrie Lederer
"Davis uses the loom to create works of enormous visual appeal that are enriched by illusionistic effects and subversive conceptual complexity. Confronting the historic distinction between craft and fine art, Davis deliberately blurs the boundaries between weaving and painting. Using a fine linen thread, she weaves a cloth that closely resembles the most expensive painter's canvas. She may also paint the threads with acrylic pigment prior to weaving so that she not only weaves a cloth that is a painter's canvas, she actually weaves a painting into it... Davis is undoubtedly one of the finest weavers at work today." Carrie Lederer, Curator, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, California
ISBN: 1 902015 40 1 (softback)
Price: £7.25
Suzanne Baizerman and Melissa Leventon, poetry extracts from Elizabeth Robinson
"Emily DuBois is part of a long tradition of artists whose subject is nature. For DuBois, it is elemental patterns revealing motion or growth - ripples in water or sand, cloud formations, the ikat-like feather variegations and shell patterns - that fascinate her and inspire the seemingly abstract compositions of weaving after weaving. DuBois' art is informed by her philosphy of life, which is strongly influenced by her practice of Tai Chi Chuan...Later DuBois also used some of her Jacquard-woven textiles as material for actual collage; Stills 10, for example, is constructed from sections of Jacquard- and Dobby-woven fabric that she has cut up, pieced together, and embelllished with surface stitching and painting...Her barkcloths currently resemble her recent collaged textiles quite closely, but, given her revived interest in painting, they may evolve into something quite different." [from the essay by Melissa Leventon]
ISBN: 1 902015 38 X (softback)
Price: £7.25
Jack Lenor Larsen & Yoshiko Wada; Foreword by Kenneth R. Trapp, Curator-in-Charge, Smithsonian
The publication of Telos's Portfolio Collection: Kay Sekimachi is a most welcomed monograph in a series that encourages the study of contemporary fiber as an art form. Sekimachi's art is the essence of purity. Studied, thoughtful, contemplative, deliberate, assured, quiet and calm, her art expands our restricted world to embrace fibers as wondrous materials for creative expression. When I behold Kay Sekimachi's boxes, hanging or standing sculptures, and her woven structures, I am reminded of this: her art has the strength of a spider's web and the fragility of bedrock in an earthquake zone... [from the Foreword by Kenneth R. Trapp, Curator-in-Charge, Smithsonian Art Museum]
Sarah Quinton & Cheryl Simon
"Textiles are not the cargo that is transported in our personal baggage but a vehicle in which to become more fully engaged in the experience of being. We can become mesmerized in the folds, hold conversations in the web, and find complications in the texture. They tell the stories of a vintage Dior in a pile of unsorted thrift-store clothing, of being rooted in a wool plaid, flirting along the bouncy hem of a flared skirt, or admiring the brilliant red algodon that is the reslilience of the Maya." [Barbara Layne]. "Layne has contributed to the larger subject of contemporary art and research through the lens of many different modes and materials that, significantly, include cyber spatial encounters that are enlivened through her international network of collaborators. Layne has expanded the limits of accessibility, wherein she (re)distributes textiles via the internet in a deliberate - yet unpredictable - program of exchange. She circulates digitized information about textile artifacts (both text and image) and creates suprisingly new contexts for them. Her creative project might best be described as a mechanism for the creation of 'democratic wonder' - conversant, challenging and amusing." [from the Foreword by Sarah Quinton, Contemporary Curator, Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto]
ISBN: 1 902015 75 4 (softback)
Price: £7.25
Marsha Miro
"Gerhardt Knodel's work with fiber has ranged from installations, theatre and architectural commissions to the pictorial potential of weaving. He was a major participant in the expansive fiber art movement of the 1970s, which exploited the medium's sculptural applications as a pliable and versatile, yet humanizing, manipulator of space. Among the first to recognize fabric's potential for encompassing vast interior spaces, Knodel initiated the genre of modular suspended fabric environments, which played on cloth's flexibility, its movability and its sensitivity to light. Knodel's lifelong interest in ancient and traditional uses of textile has inclined his philosophy towards a holistic, almost pantheistic, expression and the canon that art (or craft) has the responsibility to be nurturing to our spirit. his works take up that challenge."
from the introduction by Cheryl White
Gerhardt Knodel is Director of Cranbrook Academy of Art and Vice President of Cranbrook Educational Community. His architectural projects include a woven wall-curtain for a project designed by Boston architect Michael McKinnell in Reading, Pennsylvania; a stairwell project for Siemen’s Corporation, Minoru Yamasaki Associates, architects; a woven screen spanning the full height and length of a four-story atrium at Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, Michigan; a series of woven “scrolls” surrounding the sanctuary of a synagogue; and a stained glass and fabric oculus that forms the visual center of a project designed by Kenneth Neumann, architect.
ISBN: 1 902015 47 9
28 colour photos, 48 pages, 22cm x 22cm, soft cover
Price: £7.25
Elissa Auther, Adam Lerner & Debra Rubino
Annet Couwenberg makes elegantly obsessive objects which subtly entwine the private and the social, the monumental and the familiar. Couwenberg works with materials generally associated with the domestic, such as cloth, lace, feathers and flocking. Her pieces, which require weeks of painstaking and meticulous handwork, can be read as a celebration of the hand and of female labour, as well as an exploration of patience, time and devotion. Her work involves the intense precision of sewing, tucking, pleating and embroidering, reminding us that a narrowing to detail and an insistence on small, intimate gestures have traditionally been the creative work space of women. For Couwenberg, that space is enlarged to include guardianship of family and family history, and the culture of her Dutch origins. [Laura Burns].
Marianne Erikson and Uchiyama Takeo
"The nature of indigo synchronises with my nature. My sense are developed through the process of indigo dyeing. Indigo allows me to interact with nature". Materials include indigo dye, shibori, hemp, Turfan cotton, gold leaf, Japanese paper, abaca, linen
Bilingual edition, Japanese and English.
Christa C. Thurman and Joan Simon
Cynthia Schira is one of the contemporary textile world’s most influential figures. She has been using computerized Jacquard looms since 1983 to create complex woven textile structures and was one of the first fiber artists to fully appreciate the potential of computerization for the handweaver. Schira's work is always referential, mostly recalling the ebb and flow of nature, weather, seasons, times of day, or geological changes, hoping to convey less analysis and more feeling about life and its many cycles. Her connection to the land has been described as very American and is thought to have been influenced by time spent in the open plains of Kansas. Schira says she values textiles because of their relations to daily life and humble things. Textiles are a part of us from the moment we are born, when we are wrapped in cloth, until the time we die, when we are again wrapped in cloth.
Cynthia Schira received the Gold Medal from the College of Fellows of the American Craft Council in 2000, in recognition of her lifetime of achievement, and an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from RISD in 1989. Her work can be found in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Chicago Art Institute, and many others. She currently lives and works in Westport, NY.
ISBN: 1 902015 63 0 (softback)
for information about a forthcoming major exhibition in New York please visit http://www.lakegeorgearts.org/2007%20exhibitions.htm
Price: £7.25
Alison Ferris and Ann Wiens
Darrel Morris' poignant miniature needleworks pack a punch. Using cast-off cloth upon which he appliques and embroiders, Morris addresses matters such as masculinity, shame and humiliation, melancholy and mourning, and the abuse of power as they are experienced everyday. Despite the somber topics, however, Morris's elaborately and colourfully embroidered images of men and boys - rendered like characters in a comic strips - result in narratives which are powerful and humorous... [adapted from a Foreword by Alison Ferris]
Polly Ullrich, Foreword by Susan Aurinko
Joan Truckenbrod is one of a small international cadre of artists who pioneered the dawn of digital art in the 1960s and 70s. Her artistic reach is far-flung, marshalling textiles, sound, video and sculpture as well as digital imagery into installations which interweave the intensity of physical reality with the resonance of invisible worlds. "... Professor of Art & Technology at Chicago, Truckenbrod's multi-media installations include painterly layering of computer-manipulated projections onto fiber, conveying mesmerizing meditations on life and death.
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ISBN: 1 902015 93 2
Price: £7.25
Mary Schoeser, with a foreword by Christopher Breward, V&A Museum, London
Drawing on the urban environment and issues of identity, Starszakowna, formerly a designer for Issey Miyake, uses virtuoso print experiment to probe the tensions between real and virtual surface. The artist has played a central role in important revolutions in printing and dyeing techniques, the reception and understanding of craft as a profoundly politicising endeavour, and the transformation of art and design into a key driver of the contemporary cultural economy.
by Keiko Kawashima, foreword by Laurel Reuter
"The beauty of the book’s design is rooted in simplicity, which would please the artist" Embroidery
Chika Ohgi creates three-dimensional installations from silk threads and paper that she makes herself. A crucial aspect of her work is the relation between the objects she has constructed, the space they occupy and the physical presence of the viewer. The indistinct edges of her paper structures, the continually shifting perspective of the viewer, the effect of flows of air created by the wind or by movement are all fundamental elements to experiencing her work. ‘The gaps between the objects and the external space (and) the outlines of the objects (are) the borders between existence and non-existence.’ Chika Ohgi uses traditional and non-traditional Japanese papermaking techniques with threads as a construction element to create contemporary three-dimensional artworks. Her work often takes the form of an installation, for, as her statement above suggests, the significance of her constructions lie in their dramatic encounter with the space which they come to inhabit. Both elements take on equal value, space and work becoming valued as an integrated whole. Such an effect is heightened by the use of hand-made paper that the artist makes herself. [Text by Diana Yeh http://www.culturebase.net/artist.php?952] Other materials used include bamboo, kozo, cypress wood, Japanese paper, water, silver leaf, pulp, ganpi, algae paper, sunlight and mirror, silk thread, ...
Chika Ohgi is also featured in another Telos book, Art Textiles of the World: Japan volume 2, edited by Keiko Kawashima.
Bilingual edition, Japanese and English. 38 colour photos, 7 b&w photos; 22cm x 22cm, 48 pages
Dr Juliette Peers, historian and writer (RMIT University, Melbourne)
Textile artist, papermaker and sculptor, Power plays upon the issues of cultural trafficking and influences between continent and continent. "This volume is an essential purchase for anyone with a taste for eclectic assemblage."
Embroidery.
"Anne Marie Power is a charismatic artist whose work defies categorization. Her mixed-media installations incorporates such diverse elements as natural fibres, embroidery, photography, music and coloured lights with a recent emphasis on handmade paper. Her subject matter has often been the exploration and assimilation of a European Roman Catholic heritage into Australian contemporary culture wit the fascinating addition of Buddhist elements. Power is not just a riotously joyful decorative artist in her own right but her work is also a prime example of a transcultural, ecumenical, global vision of art.
Artist info:www.womensartregister.org/star-power.htm
Author info: www.geocities.com/jumeau_overflow/jpcv.htm
ISBN: 1 902015 26 6 (softback only)
32 colour photos, 48 pages, 22cm x 22cm, 32 colour photos
Price: £7.25
Perhaps our best book yet! 192 pages, over 250 colour photos Introductory essays by Alan Elder, Sandra Alfoldy, PhD, JR Carpenter, Lisa Vinebaum, foreword by the Editor. Featured artists: Jennifer Angus, Ingrid Bachmann, Louise Lemieux Berube, Sandra Brownlee, Dorothy Caldwell, Lyn Carter, Kai Chan, Barbara Hunt, Barbara Layne, Marcel Marois, Mindy Yan Miller, Lesley Richmond, Ruth Scheuing, Joanne Soroka, Joanna Staniszkis, Patrick Traer, Barbara Todd, Laura Vickerson, Yvonne Wakabayashi, Susan Warner Keene,
slightly damaged book, second