the baskets are not empty
materials
upcycled wire / wild city fibres: dragon tree, new zealand flax, chasmanthe, watsonia, palm inflorescence / jan’s-used-coffee-grind natural-dye on a stella mccartney second-hand silk shirt
exhibits
2017 entwined, group exhibition, sala (south australian living artists festival), stump hill gallery, mclaren vale, australia
2017 from now until future, two-person exhibition, sala, urban ecology australia gallery, adelaide, australia
2017 nomination ‘outsider arts award’, sala, australia
“the baskets are not empty. they are full of makers, their stories, their thoughts while making.
the baskets are never empty. all of the thoughts jump out of the baskets into all of us.”
verna nichols
wire. to convey the japanese idea of ‘sabi’ which means to ‘rust’ or ‘to decline’.
appreciating the natural process of growth and decay in nature reminds us of the beauty of weathering, ageing and the passage of time.
