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Thursday, April 14, 2016

FERAL SELF-PORTRAIT

I have decided to stick with this font, its sparseness means I can write very little whilst appearing to have written much.

I pulled out an old tapestry weaving that had been banished to the cupboard of shame for five years or more. Her re-appearance was the result of a conversation I had with a "kiwi" visiting home on annual leave from working on Christmas Island.

Kangaroo Paw, pencil on trace paper.

Christmas Island is used by the Australian Govt. as an off-shore indefinite holding facility for ex-criminals, refugees and other undesirables.

I was finally able to make use of the shell casing covers I managed to aquire some time ago. Cut outs of stylised Kangaroo Paw flowers were used to soften the main weaving with a border of flowers.

They are used as a strong symbolic statement for the end work. The juxtaposition of stylised flowers, the cropping of the self-portrait through use of framing defines and contains the woman, the darkness surrounding the face creating a veil like quality. All these combine to present a surface layer of ambiguous meaning from a distance.

"Ramadhan On Christmas Island"

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Tapestry Weavings By Stephenie Collin

DAY CLASSES & 2 DAY WORKSHOPS

1 DAY WORKSHOPS

The Paua Shell Loom

Miniature Tapestries on a Hand Held Loom.

Tapestry Weaving-Beginners

Make a Miniature Tapestry Rug

Free-Form Tapestry Weaving- All levels

Off-loom tapestry weaving using a free-form frame to form a multi panel wall hanging

Paper Making for Beginners
Learning the basics of how to make paper sheets and putting them together to display in a tricky little hand-made sampler book.

Tapestry By Design

A Design workshop for Tapestry Weavers

For more details on the list above, please feel free to e.mail me at warpedartanddesign@gmail.com

Classes run for 5 hours and cost $60 per hour. Suitable for 2-8 students. Class sizes set according to your needs, get a group together to share costs.

Travel can be arranged for an additional fee, and classes can be run in your own home or group rooms.

*N.Z. and AUSTRALIAN National Guilds/Spinners and Weavers groups are entitled to the greatly reduced hourly tutors rate. To book a class contact me directly through the above e.mail address

or through the Creative Fibre N.Z website Tutors List at...... www.creativefibre.org.nz

Training and Artists Background

I have been weaving since 1987. That was the year I began a full time study in an 18 month long class in fibre design and construction. Our training was under part of the Takitimu Trust creative arts and music umbrella. The course included weaving flax, percentage dying, classing and spinning wool and of course on-loom weaving.

During the 1990's I was living in Coromandel, and it was during this time that I was well involved with the very strongly supported local performing and visual arts movement. This was when I also completed my Certificate in Adult Teaching.

In 2000 I moved to Auckland and opened a Workshop & Gallery, where I set up my loom.

I now live on the Awhitu Peninsula which is situated on the south-west side of the Manukau Harbour.

Alliances

I have been an active member of the N.Z. Tapestry Network participating in several Travelling Suitcase Exhibitions. I have been a member of the N.Z. Professional Weavers Network since 2009, and am a National Tutor for Creative Fibre NZ, offering classes in design, paper-making and tapestry weaving. I have had work shown in the N.Z. Creative Fibre Magazine and the Australian Textile Fibre Magazine. I also gained my Certificate In Adult Teaching in 1999 which was run by well known tutor Penny Brownlee.

I like to show my work bi-annually at community exhibition venues, and have been an invited guest of several group exhibitions and accepted at National Exhibitions many times over the years.

Thursday, April 14, 2016

FERAL SELF-PORTRAIT

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Tapestry Weavings By Stephenie Collin

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