Timeless TexStyle Spring Parade
Timeless TexStyle Spring Parade was launched on Saturday 9th November- and what an afternoon it was..filled with much colour, style and excitement.
16 fibre artists from around Australia and the Netherlands presented their own unique wearable art style.
Timeless TexStyle Tribe (TTT) is about finding ourselves through creativity..making and wearing unique clothing and accessories. Secondly, it is about sustainability and living on this beautiful planet as lightly as possible.
The Spring Parade is the launching of TTT, which is be followed up with workshops next year..learning to re design your own clothing or scraps of your much loved fabrics. making marks and printing on fabrics plus much more.
Introducing the fibre artists:
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Barbara Nashe; a local Newcastle environmentalist and sculptor who creates extraordinary jewellery.
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Charity van de Meer, from the Netherlands creates these beautiful felted dresses inspired by nature with the use of durable and ecological products
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Brisbane based fibre artist Sylvia Watt creates wearable art with two admirable intentions. Her garments like this dress do not follow a particular fashion trend and reuse what is around us.
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Myf Stirling's (Nimbin) passion is the total process of making and designing individual wearables from start to finish- embellishing by topstitching these felt tunics.
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Susan Doherty's (Karunda) accessory collection reflects her long history of collecting and delighting in the joy of adornments, then extending this into making sculptural pieces by re-purposing found objects
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Anne Leon (Mullumbimby) creates fusion art cloth into exquisite clothing. She used screen - and - block prints and dyes on textiles and paper.
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Local felt maker Petra Hilsen has been exploring the versatility and wonder of felt, creating a range of wearable art.
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Newcastle based artist Svetlana Kchevetskaia was raised in the Soviet Union where there was a deficit of just about everything. This has inspired her creativity in producing from a range of repurposed recycled fabrics.
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Pam de Groot (Blue Mountains ) works with wool, silk and other natural fibres, combining methods of felting, embroidery and dyeing to create artworks, garments and accessories.
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Local artist, Pearl Moon's approach is one of comfort, practical ease of movement through innovative cut, embellishment, detailing, colour, pattern and design.
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Fringe Dweller clothing by Gina Ermer are designed for comfort, quality and fit and is influenced by a Japanese aesthetic in its simplicity and attention to detail
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Canberra based Hanny D Designs has been a re-cycler for most of her life and loves the joys of op-shopping. She recycles and upcycles all she finds into creatively designed clothing.
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Gina Mastio has been enamoured with trees and bark, loving the organic shapes and designs. She masterfully transfers these designs into her felt/silk artworks.
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Local artist Leesa Colgan is a plant dyer with a difference- she has been exploring a range of underused regenerated fabrics: waste plant material after food harvesting such as orange peel and milk wastes to name a few.
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High Tea with Mrs Woo is the design collaboration of three creative sisters who create eloquent women's clothing and accessories with natural fibre fabrics.
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Barbara Rogers is a textile designer and artist who has gained international acclaim for her innovative shibori techniques - she binds, stitches, folds, dyes and then over dyes predominantly on silk producing highly complex textiles
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Thank you to all of these designers and fibre artists who happily created this beautiful Parade
Thank you also to the 14 models as well as Skipee Wilcox, local dancer performer. A HUGE thank you to Lyn Stoker, Fay Bruce and Wilma Simmons as well.
Now you can watch the parade..in two parts..so depending on the time of day grab a cuppa or a wine and enjoy.
Part One
Part Two
All of the workshops will commence next year, as well as a Timeless TexStyle Winter parade in May....so keep your eye on the website and follow us on Facebook to be notified of our next event.
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Please note the opening for Cosmic Dreaming is Thursday 2nd January 2020 6-8pm
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