“If all art is a narrative of some kind, then the one I share with my daughter is, I have been told, an obvious one” (Libby Hobbs).
The desire to explore a lifestyle suitable for a young family led Nettie Sumner to move from London to Australia where she found creative inspiration in the Australian landscape. This landscape became the narrative for her wire and ceramic sculptures.
The bond between family and nature inspired Nettie to delve into Biogenesis and the concept of ‘like producing like’. Nettie uses wire and clay to create works around this theme. The wire elements are hand knitted using various tools and techniques. Natural elements like rain, sea and fire are used to create patinas and texture in her work. Nettie’s daughter Mercy Sumner creates assemblages using porcelain, hand crocheted silver plated wire and detailed hand painted surface decoration.
Dimity Kidstone has created a collection of tapestries contained within a variety of vintage containers, inspired by collections of objects that she would admire at her grandmother’s house as a child. Her dressing table was covered in jewellery boxes filled with exotic treasures. Dimity’s mother Libby Hobbs sees her art as a kind of ‘dance’ between imagination, dreaming and life and has created woven dolls with porcelain faces combining a lifelong love of fabrics and ceramics both of which have been passed on to her daughter Dimity.
The exhibition will open on Sunday 5 April 11am with special guest Dr Pamela James, Adjunct Fellow, School of Creative Arts, Western Sydney University.
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Sturt Gallery, Mittagong NSW, Australia
P. 0248 602083
Sturt Gallery, Mittagong NSW, Australia
P. 0248 602083
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