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Catalogue: Volume 31-40
Portfolio Vol 31: Kumai Kyoko (Japan)
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 filament; 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]
ISBN: 1 902015 65 7 (softback)
Bilingual edition, Japanese and English.
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Portfolio Vol 32: Susie Brandt (USA) (last copies)
Julie Courtney and Sid Sachs
"Using the most unlikely materials, Susie Brandt tweaks our expectations, prods our perceptions and makes works of art that are gorgeous, witty and even hilarious. A great collector of textiles of all sorts, from pantyhose to cheap lace to old hankies, she alters the original material to create masterpieces from art history; the cheap lace becomes stained -glasss-like when hung on church walls; the varying flesh tones of pantyhose are woven pot-holder style, to recreate the intricate patterns of Anni Albers. The first piece I ever saw was a hankie made of pearl buttons and telephone wire. I was smitten. It was so pretty and so un-utilitarian, breaking the rules set by the crafts world. I loved her ironic touch. Susie Brandt is a wonder. I can't wait to see what she does next. " from the introduction by Julie Courtney
A chapter by Margo Mensing about the work of Susie Brandt is also published by Telos in Reinventing Textiles volume 1.
ISBN: 1 902015 67 3
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Portfolio Vol 33: Darrel Morris (USA)
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]
ISBN: 1 902015 69 X (softback)
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Portfolio Vol 34: Pauline Burbidge (England)
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
ISBN: 1 902015 71 1 (softback)
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Portfolio Vol 35 Norma Minkowitz (USA)
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
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Portfolio Vol 36: Merle Temkin (USA)
Dominique Nahas, foreword by Lois Martin
"Merle Temkin's paintings are intensely focused on the particular, and her scrutiny is so extreme that she forces the viewer into a perceptional leap - where scale changes, and something tiny grows huge. Her subject matter is the whorls of prints from her own skin, most often her left index finger. Greatly enlarged, the ridges form spots and stripes. Like a camera lens zooming from extreme close up to infinity, they alternately suggest the markings on an animal's coat, or a vast view of a swirling solar system. Temkin has said: "The work has to do with my identity. Fingerprints are the most personal signature. they are uniquely my own and at the same time completely anonymous and universal." "
ISBN: 1 902015 924
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Portfolio Vol 37: Joan Truckenbrod (USA)
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
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Portfolio Vol 38: Norma Starszakowna (Scotland/England)
Mary Schoeser, with a foreword by Christopher Breward, V&A Museum, London
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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.
ISBN: 1 902015 959
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Portfolio Vol 39: Aino Kajaniemi (Finland)
[now in stock] by Elina Puranen and Hannu Castrén. check out this link: http://belindaschneider.wordpress.com/2007/11/01/aino-kajaniemi/
"A line serves many functions in the
picture: it outlines figures, specifies details, creates vibrant dynamics
and finishes the state of mind contained in the picture. In other
words, everything begins with sketching. And everything also culminates
in it. In Kajaniemi’s tapestries a line dominates the whole. The line is not, however, a visual authority but a sensitive plot-weaver and a tireless sentimentalist." From the introduction by Hannu Castren
ISBN: 9781902015989
October 2007. Bilingual English / Finnish edition of prize winning figurative tapestry weaver.
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Portfolio Vol 40: Lesley Richmond
Sheila Martineau
[hardback only in limited edition, numbered out of one hundred]. Prize winning artist from Vancouver, Canada. Lesley Richmond creates textiles that suggest organic surfaces. Distressing techniques and chemical processes allow her to alter the surface structure of
the fibre in to an illusion of organic decay.
ISBN: 9781902015972
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