Portfolio Vol 1: Jilly Edwards (England)

Melanie Cook and Lene Bragger (Visual Arts Officer, Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal)


A Jilly Edwards tapestry is like a piece of music: you cannot see or hear the whole piece in an instant. Parts are waiting to be discovered – the more you look the more you see. Much of Jilly’s inspiration comes from the landscape – colour, shape and form are the three areas that dominate her thoughts at work. Her tapestries are beautifully composed, often using ancient standing stones and monuments as inspiration.
see also Art Textiles of the World: Great Britain volume 3 (2007) for a chapter on Jilly Edwards.
www.jillyedwards.co.uk

ISBN: 1 902015 20 7 (softback only)
English, Dutch and Japanese edition. 48 pages, 22cm x 22cm, 24 colour photos.

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Portfolio Vol 2: Marian Bijlenga (The Netherlands) - out of print

Gert Staal and Jack Lenor Larsen


A chapter with 7 photos and 8 pages about Marian Bijlenga's work appears also in another Telos book: Art Textiles of the World: the Netherlands.
Winner of the Excellence award from the 1999 International Textile Competition, Kyoto, Bijlenga is a world-class artist based in Amsterdam working in horse hair.

ISBN: 1 902015 21 5 (softback only)

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Portfolio Vol 3: Caroline Broadhead (England)

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].

ISBN: 1 902015 23 1 (softback only) 31 colour photos, 22cm x 22cm, 48 pages


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Portfolio Vol 4: Chika Ohgi (Japan)

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.

ISBN: ISBN 1 902015 25 8 (softback only)
Bilingual edition, Japanese and English. 38 colour photos, 7 b&w photos; 22cm x 22cm, 48 pages

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Portfolio Vol 5: Anne Marie Power (Australia)

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

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Portfolio Vol 6: Anne Wilson (USA)

Tim Porges and Hattie Gordon, Elizabeth A.T.Smith


out of print

Foreword by Elizabeth A.T.Smith (James W.Alsdorf Chief Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago).
Essay: Postminimal and After, by Tim Porges (writer and critic, former Editor, White Walls magazine)
Essay: Feast by Hattie Gordon (Marjorie Susman Curatorial Fellow (2000) and curator of Anne Wilson: Anatomy of Wear at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago).

Anne Wilson is a Chicago based visual artist who creates sculpture, drawings, Internet projects, and DVD stop motion animations that explore themes of time, loss, private and social rituals. She uses found materials (table linen, bed sheets, human hair, thread, and lace) that are familiar and rich with cultural meanings. She has shown extensively — Wilson’s work was part of the 2005-06 “Alternative Paradise” exhibition at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, Japan. The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston hosted a major solo exhibition of Wilson’s work in 2004, and she was included in the “2002 Biennial” at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.

http://annewilsonartist.com/hair_inquiry/

ISBN: 1 902015 22 3 (softback only)

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Portfolio Vol 8: Helen Lancaster (Australia)

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

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Portfolio Vol 9: Kay Lawrence (Australia)

Dr Diana Wood Conroy, Foreword by Christopher Mentz


!Forthcoming show at South Australian School of Art Gallery Feb to March 2008! Book contains essay entitled "Kay Lawrence: land, self, loss" by Dr Diana Wood Conroy is Associate Professor, Faculty of Creative Arts, University of Wollongong, NSW
Christopher Mentz is Senior Curator, Decorative Arts, National Gallery of Victoria, NSW, Australia
Underpinning Kay Lawrence's work is an insistence on negotiating between the traditional techniques of Gobelin tapestry - so beautiful, laborious and persuasive - and the emergence of non traditional and sometime ssubversive approaches to the history of Australian settlement, in the positioning of women, Aborigines and the environment. [Dr Diana Wood Conroy]

ISBN: 1 902015 28 2 (softback)
30 colour photos, 48 pages, 22cm square

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Portfolio Vol 10: Joan Livingstone (USA)

Gerry Craig, introduction by James Elkin, Foreword by James Yood


Essay: The Tyranny of Matter, by Gerry Craig (artist, writer and art historian; Assistant Director for Academic Programs at Cranbrook Academy of Art).

Joan Livingstone embraces the physical and material in sculptural objects, installations, prints and collages. Her abstracted forms reference the human organism and bodily experience, questioning contemporary issues of intimacy, sexuality, and desire. Both hard and soft, whole and fragmented, Livingstone’s provocative works contain, leak, posture, and droop, asking us to re-consider our knowledge of self and body in relation to time, nature and culture. Pliable surfaces of cloth and skin, examined through a cultural history of textile, at once expose and obscure, respond to touch, movement and gravity, and become metaphors for the complexities of human identity. Utilizing membranes of wool, felt, rubber, leather and cloth––intensively pieced, stitched, and frequently in conjunction with resins and thermoplastic substances––Livingstone develops relationships of forms that evoke somatic memory and psychological tension, underscoring the persistence of the erotic. Aligned with the work of Louise Bourgeois, Kiki Smith and Doris Salcedo, Livingstone’s practice extends a dialog confronting our notions of human experience.

Livingstone's work has been exhibited internationally and is included in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, The Detroit Institute of Art in Michigan and the Boise Museum of Art in Idaho among others...

http://www.joanlivingstone.com/

ISBN: 1 902015 27 4 (softback)
29 colour photos, 22cm square, 48 pages

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