Brooching the Subject #3
Local Fibre artist, Jen Florey kindly judged Brooching the Subject #3 for Timeless Textiles gallery this week
Jen is as an art educator, artist and writer. Over 40 years of teaching experience which has been married with stitching and making tradition learnt from her mother and grandmothers, from drawing and printmaking skills acquired at Art school here in Newcastle with the desire to grow an individual art practice.
Jen used the following criteria:
- They must be less than 10 x 10cms and must be able to be worn art techniques on the body. Additionally, they are to be made using fibre material or fibre art techniques.
- Looked at works that are art objects for the body, small pieces that go beyond the decorative and lead the viewer into examining the way the small work not only attract the eye but invites a closer inspection, stirring a visual excitement and intellectual connection.
Jen approached the exhibition with these thoughts in mind, looking for small works that had a lot to say. Of the exhibition Jen says
I found the standard of works to be very high and the whole process of selecting works quite challenging. I made a conscious effort not to look at the names of the artist but to only engage with the works themselves. I looked for innovative concepts and clever uses of materials. Each work needed to be artistically resolved and aesthetically refined and well as engage me, the viewer.
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