These shoes began as an exercise in a Drawing class whilst studying for my Diploma of Visual Art. We'd looked at text in art and had to incorporate text or image into a created container. I created a pair of shoes (they are a container of sorts!) and had a stamp that said "If the shoe fits, buy one in every colour" I stitched the stamped verse into the first pair of shoes...And so began a whole collection!!
Brooms Head Rockpool, Mixed Media.
Brooms Head Basket, $60.
"Reception of the Land" Mixed Media and Basket. The concept for this series of work came from a strong connection I feel for the land . Each mixed media piece in the exhibition was an aerial landscape of a different aspect of place. I then created a basket which was a sculpturall connection to this place. Some baskets even had incorporated materials from the location painted. This Mixed Media piece and basket explored people's interaction with the Australian landscape. Although it is often a destructive interaction, the land just keeps receiving and accomodating people's structures and creations.
Some images from "Beyond.." the Southbank Instiute of Technology Graduation exhibition, June 2010.
Rudderless was created remembering a time in my life when that was how I felt! I remember doing the sketches for it and showing my husband. He said 'You don't lie down in a boat'! Well that was the whole point of the work! When you feel rudderless it can be positive or negative depending on your point of view!
Created after a flight to Broken Hill last year. Inspired by the incredible lines, colours and patterns of the land from the air. 
Stitched Xannthorea leaves onto a pit-fired clay base with found rusted metal stitched onto the rim. (The metal was collected on site at Silverton ,NSW.) 
